Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Lovecraft Country; $150K "Magic" grants; Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords; Hospital CEOs make millions amid cuts; Wired workers have unionized; & more!
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Inside: Lovecraft Country; $150K "Magic" grants; Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords; Hospital CEOs make millions amid cuts; Wired workers have unionized; & more!
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Lovecraft Country: Jordan Peele's official trailer for his adaptation of Matt Ruff's book.
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$150,000 "Magic" grants: For people to pursue their passions.
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Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords: Kara Swisher on pandemic profiteering.
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Hospital CEOs making millions amid cuts: Nurses and docs vs execs.
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Wired workers have unionized: Just in time for rumored Conde Nast cuts.
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The failure of software licensing: The right to hire a lawyer is not software freedom.
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XML inventor quits Amazon over whistleblower firings: Tim Bray is no longer an Amazon VP and Distinguished Engineer.
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#15yrsago Neil Gaiman's Nebula toastmaster speech journal.neilgaiman.com/2005/04/speech…
#10yrsago Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company theguardian.com/technology/blo…
#10yrsago Six reasons to hate Facebook's new anti-privacy system, "Connections" eff.org/deeplinks/2010…
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#10yrsago Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company theguardian.com/technology/blo…
#10yrsago Six reasons to hate Facebook's new anti-privacy system, "Connections" eff.org/deeplinks/2010…
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#10yrsago Satellite photos catch Greek tax-evaders nytimes.com/2010/05/02/wor…
#10yrsago Student cover for Little Brother issuu.com/jeannieharrell…
#10yrsago Rupert Murdoch dabbles in Socialist Realism flickr.com/photos/doctoro…
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#10yrsago Student cover for Little Brother issuu.com/jeannieharrell…
#10yrsago Rupert Murdoch dabbles in Socialist Realism flickr.com/photos/doctoro…
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#5yrsago The microbes on your phone are different from those on your shoes web.archive.org/web/2014111020…
#5yrsago UK bigotry party hates Time Lords, too independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
#1yrago New CC search engine out of beta, with more than 300 million images! search.creativecommons.org
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#5yrsago UK bigotry party hates Time Lords, too independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
#1yrago New CC search engine out of beta, with more than 300 million images! search.creativecommons.org
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Yesterday's threads: Cyberpunk conference call for papers; Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency; The Making of Prince of Persia; and more!
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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
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Today's top sources: Fipi Lele, Slashdot (slashdot.org), Ari (yiff.life/@ari), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Beyond the Beyond (wired.com/category/beyon…), Simon Phipps (twitter.com/webmink/).
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