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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Blackberry was the bomb. Secure comms. Ugly keyboard designed for Sasquatch fingers. Removable battery. Touch as a brick. RIP Blackberry.
The Blackberry was actually thought out, with engineering ergos trumping fashion design. As the designers won out the phone just got crappier and crappier. pocket-lint.com/phones/news/13…
I rocked an ugly blue Blackberry in the field and wrote books on them in gun infested shitholes. Locals thought this guy must be a spy. Back home I was just a nerd as I explained the peer to peer function. Then they became "Crackberries" and our world would never be the same.
I drifted to Nextel and other systems but ended up on Apple. When I painfully typed in interviews using my giant thumbs my subjects would get mad and ask who I was texting. Now it's my go to 4K video camera, note pad and flashlight. cnet.com/tech/mobile/pr…

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6 Jan
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Let the acridness of the scabrous image sink in. Then ask why Mr "I Wanted to Train Young Boys in a Italian Convent to be Crusaders" Bannon is mad at Donnie for not putting some PSI in his media outrage penis pump. rawstory.com/steve-bannon-d…
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"Hannity's texts to Mark Meadows... illustrate for the umpteenth time a clear breach of traditional news media ethics by Hannity" News media? Ethics? Since when was Hannity and his ilk other than well coifed newstainment talking heads? " aka talk show host edition.cnn.com/2022/01/05/med…
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“I had just turned 40, and wherever my generation gathered, we would lament our lost capacity for concentration.” Some pretty good reasons to lose the phones and get outdoors. theguardian.com/science/2022/j…
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Not coincidentally the same criminal associates er “children” pleading with Daddy to stop all his badly staged coup tomfoolery at the Capitol on 1/6.
I understand that Daddy told them they were special. news.yahoo.com/donald-jr-ivan…
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