Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Understanding Qanon; Devo Emergency Dome; Covid Seuss parodies; Self-cooling sweaty solar panels; Google's GDPR reckoning; A people's vaccine;and more!
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Inside: Understanding Qanon; Devo Emergency Dome; Covid Seuss parodies; Self-cooling sweaty solar panels; Google's GDPR reckoning; A people's vaccine;and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…
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Understanding Qanon: Big Tech hasn't invented a mind-control ray.
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Devo Emergency Dome: Are we not men?
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Covid Seuss parodies: Sosumi.
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Self-cooling sweaty solar panels: Material science ftw.
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Google's GDPR reckoning: Max Schrems to the max.
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A people's vaccine: Can't pay won't pay.
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Whistleblower warns of massive mortgage fraud: 2008, again.
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Tear gas ice-cream: It feels difficult to breathe at first, and it’s really pungent and irritating.
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Lockdown Haunted Mansion theme: Dapperdans@home.
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A Furiosa movie: No Max in the next Mad Max.
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#15yrsago Jargon: Treeware -- a dead-tree book scalzi.com/whatever/003538
#10yrsago Will 3D plans for bongs become illegal, too? fabbaloo.com/blog/2010/5/14…
#5yrsago MAME going open-source
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#10yrsago Will 3D plans for bongs become illegal, too? fabbaloo.com/blog/2010/5/14…
#5yrsago MAME going open-source
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#5yrsago The Subprimes: a novel of the Piketty/Klein apocalypse hbr.org/2015/05/greenf…
#5yrsago Stephen Harper extended music copyright to please US record industry lobbyist michaelgeist.ca/2015/05/harper…
#5yrsago BB King, RIP nytimes.com/2015/05/16/art…
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#5yrsago Stephen Harper extended music copyright to please US record industry lobbyist michaelgeist.ca/2015/05/harper…
#5yrsago BB King, RIP nytimes.com/2015/05/16/art…
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#1yrago Discovering whether your Iphone has been hacked is nearly impossible thanks to Apple's walled garden vice.com/en_us/article/…
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#1yrago After retaliation against Googler Uprising organizers, a company-wide memo warns employees they can be fired for accessing "need to know" data buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
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#1yrago Axon makes false statements to town that bought its police bodycams, threatens to tase their credit-rating if they cancel the contract muckrock.com/news/archives/…
#1yrago Naked Capitalism reviews Radicalized nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/who-sa…
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#1yrago Naked Capitalism reviews Radicalized nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/who-sa…
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#1yrago European telcos want the right to perform "deep packet inspection" on our data media.boingboing.net/wp-content/upl…
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#1yrago Foxconn promised it would do something with the empty buildings it bought in Wisconsin, but they're still empty (still no factory, either) theverge.com/2019/5/13/1856…
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Yesterday's threads: Restaurants won't let gig drivers pee; Facebook's "backfire effect" junk science; Learn magic; Pythonesque small claims; Modern monetary theory's moment has arrived; Pandemics shatter AI's intrinsic conservativism; 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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