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17 Dec, 5 tweets, 5 min read
When the Dutch build a social-media-ready museum, they don't fuck around. Seriously, tho, #Rotterdam's @boijmans Depot is a brilliant way to display a museum's archives. Thanks, @MarietjeSchaake for the tip! ImageImageImageImage
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20 Dec
@rectangleboy @beka_valentine @SpakFish Yup.

I once went to a DRM standardization meeting where they were seeking to define "the family," so that they could enable "share with your family."

The obvious problems with a group of rich, white, US-EU corporate executives defining "family" were on display from the start.
@rectangleboy @beka_valentine @SpakFish They had use-cases for "families" with a summer house in France, a luxury SUV with seat-back video, and a yacht.

The didn't support the use-case of "Mom is a nurse in Tokyo, Dad lives in Manila, Srother is a construction worker in Saudi and Sister is an au-pair in France."
@rectangleboy @beka_valentine @SpakFish One use-case they wrestled with: Mom and Dad divorce and start new households, but have joint custody over daughter, 12. She changes households once/week, resigning from one "family" and joining another 52 times/year.
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19 Dec
Today I did our family's charitable giving and I was (once again) dismayed by the number of charities that fuck up the 'now tweet about your donation please' button at the end of the process.
Many had no social buttons. Some had Facebook but not Twitter. Some had prewritten tweets that didn't include a link to the charity's donation page. Many had terrible, generic 'I donated to X' tweets.
It's dismaying to me as someone who supports the charities' work, who works for a charity, and who donates to many charities. It's such a wasted opportunity. Honestly, just spend a couple hours brainstorming some tweet templates and then ask a few donors how they feel about 'em.
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9 Dec
In *Electrify*, the MacArthur prizewinning engineer @GriffithSaul offers a detailed, optimistic and urgent roadmap for a climate-respecting energy transition that we can actually accomplish in 10-15 years.

1/ The cover of Electrify.
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There are a lot of popular science books out there, but the world really needs more popular *engineering* books.

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8 Dec
365 Movies Challenge #136; They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter: wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/670025828…
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8 Dec
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2021; Broken Promises; How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req…

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I'm heading on a work trip that dovetails into a Xmas holiday and then, in turn, to a hip replacement. I may not put out another Pluralistic edition until Feb (though I might squeak another edition in before then, who can say?). Get vaxed, stay safe and I'll see you in '22!

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All the books I reviewed in 2021: Plus one I published!



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8 Dec
When you hear that a billionaire has bought a horse or a newspaper or a sports team, you might think it's just dilletantish dabbling by a member of the parasite class with nothing better to do with their time - a way to make the idle rich slightly more vigorous.

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But as @propublica documents in the latest installment of its #IRSLeaks reporting - drawing on never-seen tax filings of the ultra-rich - hobbies are a way to pile up gigantic tax write-offs that can be applied to passive income (money you earn for doing nothing).

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