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I don’t want to be presumptuous, but you can also just wash your hands even if there’s *not* some pandemic currently capturing your attention. It doesn’t have to be a special occasion.
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If they scrolled the names of the Americans who died in this pandemic the same way U2 did for victims of 9/11 during the Super Bowl in 2002, they would have to stop the game & run names on the screen for twelve and a half hours.
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I’m in favor of immigrants who come to America to not do anything remarkable, who just hang out & sometimes spend time with their friends and family, who are flawed, regular people. I’m in favor of immigrants who don’t have to be superheroic or economic martyrs to justify access.
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Tomorrow, a lot of people are going to say, "We made it. We survived four years." And it's vitally important to remember that so, so many *didn't* make it. We have to be their voices, and seek justice and accountability for the brutal harms that have been visited upon so many.
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Normalize saying "I don't now how to pronounce this word because I've only ever read it and never heard it out loud".
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James Brown got his big break as a Little Richard impersonator. Hendrix got his start playing guitar in Little Richard’s band. The Beatles formed around his work. Bob Dylan and Freddie Mercury began with his music. It’s impossible to overstate Little Richard’s influence.
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60% of the population of the United States just lost any constitutional protections against warrantless assault or home invasion by armed agents.
In a 6-to-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that border agents may unconstitutionally enter a person's home without a warrant and assault him and ... federal courts are powerless to do anything about it.
The border, once again, is a Constitution-free zone.
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Every single kid on the city bus is talking about the climate strike, even crossing over to kids who go to other schools, who don’t usually talk to each other. (They are *also* talking about storming Area 51. ☺️)
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I know this makes me a cranky old man, but when I look up how to do stuff on the Internet, I want to read an article that’s maybe 600 words that I can skim. I definitely do not want to watch a YouTube video that’s been padded out to 10 minutes to feed the monetization algorithm.
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Second time in two weeks I’ve talked to a dad whose teenage son is being radicalized by content recommended to him by YouTube. Regular folks have no idea this stuff is out there, being force fed to kids, and no tools to help reduce or prevent the harm.
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Every abuse report I made to Twitter under its new leadership yesterday was rejected, saying that the accounts are not violating policy. Two were aimed at Black people, one was aimed at a Jewish person, each explicitly used the most common slur used to target those groups.
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On this day in 2007, Prince won Super Bowl XLI with a soaring halftime performance that climaxed with the skies opening up to honor his guitar solo. It is not just the best-regarded halftime show ever, but was to that point the most-viewed musical performance in American history.
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Did you know: Prince would often get a library card for any places that he was going to be visiting for more than a few days in a row; library cards for Oakland, Baltimore and other cities were amongst his personal effects at Paisley Park when he passed away.
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It's impossible to overstate how much the big tech CEOs and VCs are being radicalized by living within their own bubble. The level of paranoia and contrived victimization is off the charts, and they increasingly only consume media that they have funded, created by acolytes.
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As a father in a diverse city, I get the privilege of seeing kids of all walks of life, every race and gender and class. And one thing unites all these kids: they’re all dipshits who won’t zip up their coats when it’s cold as hell.
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They’re really really putting millions of dollars into trying to get you to feel FOMO over crypto, huh? Can you think of a reasonable, worthwhile, durable investment that they had to beg regular folks to participate in?
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That’s not “stealing”.
Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish
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Who is a person (not counting family) that opened doors for you in your career when they didn’t have to? Anytime is a good time to show gratitude!
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Most of what gets shared as heartwarming stories are usually temporary, small-scale responses to systemic failures. I wish we found it just as inspirational to make structural changes to unjust systems, but I don’t know if our culture knows how to tell those stories.
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This is one of the most monumental headlines of my lifetime. This may abate more suffering and improve more lives than any other invention or discovery. It’s bigger than the moon landing, in real terms.
Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event."
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We have invented: a computer that is bad at math.
Interesting. The AI totally fails the cognitive reflection test. It gives the intuitive but incorrect answer every time.
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How come we have to listen to the voice of the poor working class when they back white supremacists, but not when they pull off one of the most effective and sustained labor organizing efforts in decades? Where are the countless fawning media profiles of the teachers?
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Every goddamn year the media disrespects our kids for winning the spelling bee. Every time.
12-year-old Ananya Vinay won the National Spelling Bee so naturally CNN had her on to spell "covfefe" and say some racist stuff to her.
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I try to understand other cultures, but “we had to burn a forest down so we could tell people about our newborn child’s genitals” may, at last, be a bridge too far for me. What is the anxiety that drives them all to do this? Why must their gender binary panic be pyrotechnic?
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So, if I understand correctly, the two biggest Christian sects in America are now both known to have created massive supply chains for systemic child assault, and nobody is asking every Christian member of Congress to denounce them and sever all ties to these churches? 🤔
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This thread starts one way, and only gets better. What an amazing person.
I wanted the best way to tell my neighbor that he tried it with his late night party. So I wrote him a letter and baked him a cake.
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I love almost every "first time hearing a song" reaction video from these two guys, but this has to be one of the best: Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight". "I ain't never seen nobody drop a beat three minutes into a song!"
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Sending a Tesla to Mars is a wonderful milestone on the path to launching Peter Thiel into the sun.
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Google’s decision to kill Google Reader was a turning point in enabling media to be manipulated by misinformation campaigns. The difference between individuals choosing the feeds they read & companies doing it for you affects all other forms of media.
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It is rank incompetence on the part of
@JoeBiden
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These nativist white supremacists try to introduce requirements for immigrants that they could never pass in a million years. Nobody is more incompetent, unqualified, or destructive to communities than these hate-fueled bigots, and they’re trying to set a bar for immigrants? No.
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Unlike
@AjitPaiFCC
, I’ve led teams creating innovative new tech on the Internet. Everyone who’s done so knows that killing net neutrality is bad for society — not just because it harms tech innovation, but because it compromises our civil rights.
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Today, I’m excited to join an entire community in enthusiastically endorsing Elizabeth Warren as the next president of the United States. In an urgent time when our federal government’s ability to serve the most vulnerable must be our top priority,
@ewarren
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Any of the folks at Google or Facebook working on facial recognition wanna ID all the guys at this klan rally? At least put it to good use.
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You cannot reform an organization where the consensus of multiple experienced, trained members of the group agree that the right decision is to murder a person who is sitting in their own locked car, feeling distress and fear. You have to defund.
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*John McCain holds puppy over train tracks, decides at the last minute not to throw it in front of the train*
Media: “An American hero!”
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I don’t have much of an opinion on Taylor Swift, but I know that even her very measured statement today will result in countless threats & attacks on her, and that she did it anyway, so even if it’s belated, I respect it. Every voice helps.
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I’m trying to imagine any other context where a publicly traded company had seen a customer use their product to break federal law, and to try to destroy the lives of innocent people, and then added that person to their board.
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Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history.
Me:
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Because the tech industry fought like hell to erect barriers against platforms like MySpace & Neopets that were letting underrepresented folks actually *make* the web instead of just consuming it.
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The White House. Disney World. The Empire State Building. Niagara Falls.
#LoveWins
http://t.co/f4VKl9sVas
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I will never, never, never get over being furiously angry that I will always be randomly selected, and that there is no status or power or rank or title or wealth that will ever make me a full person when traveling.
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Chance performing meaningful, moving, vital & inventive work while owning his master recordings may be the best Prince tribute possible.
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CARE ABOUT THINGS! It’s good to care about things. I know everybody in social media is supposed to be detached and cynical and ironic, but being earnest and loving things and caring about things is better, and better for you, and better for the world.
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They’re also so smart with knowing that old people will always be happy to see younger folks enthusiastically discovering the stuff they’ve loved. Been awesome to watch their audience grow to the point where they have sponsors now.
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Very excited for tomorrow, when I will fix everything in my life and write 400 books and run 1000 marathons and alphabetize my socks every day and definitely change decades of habits overnight.
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At this point,
@twitterbusiness
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I am not moving to Canada, not surprised by white supremacists & misogynists, and not afraid of Donald Trump. We have got to get to work.
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Oh shit, the nuclear option.
FELLOW DESIS: Does anyone know
@AjitPaiFCC
’s Mom & Dad? Maybe our parents can talk to his parents about
#NetNeutraity
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loooool who tf is “we”?
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No matter what, we have to organize & stand up to Trump and fight for the marginalized. I am not afraid of that motherfucker
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In a subway station with ~hundreds of people visible on the platform and in the entrances, every single person is wearing a mask as the rules require — and as all decent people choose to do out of their care for one another. Except the two NYPD cops. The only ones.
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Somebody should get Zuckerberg a twitter account so he can respond to the crisis unfolding at Facebook.
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@HotlineJosh
Always interesting to see an editor who can’t tell the difference between someone who gets mad when media tells the truth & someone who corrects media when it distorts the truth.
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A reminder that may not be obvious: amplification on social networks has monetary value. Twitter’s algorithm counts it as engagement even if you shared a tweet to criticize it or mock it, and uses that signal to amplify the tweet further. Only RT what you would pay to promote.
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President Obama is probably the most decent guy who'll ever be in the White House. Even where I disagree, this is a good man whom I respect.
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Will always amplify any story about the MOVE bombing because I still find so many people don’t know that Philly police bombed a Black neighborhood in the 80s. This atrocity is too often erased or overlooked.
Philadelphia's city council voted to apologize for the 1985 bombing of a Black neighborhood.
Police dropped combat explosives on members of Black liberation group MOVE, who were living in a row house. 11 people died — including 5 children — and fires left 250 people homeless.
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There are literally half a billion Indian men in the world and People thinks Blake Shelton is sexy.
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The earliest public footage of Prince yet found is this clip of him at 11 years old, stating his support for teachers in the 1970 Minneapolis public school teachers strike. "I think they should get extra money, because they ... work extra hours for us"
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Shout out to everybody home for the holidays telling their family about conversations that happened online by saying "My, uh… friend said…"
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Absolutely incredible. Years and years of explaining the simple values of representation, dignity, and inclusion pay off.
@HariKondabolu
you’ve fought for, and won us (and our parents!) the respect we always deserved.
.
@HankAzaria
addresses the controversy surrounding the character ‘Apu’ from
@TheSimpsons
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#LSSC
#Apu
#TheSimpsons
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When net neutrality was the issue, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. had a blackout, and it worked. This is far more grave.
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The petition calling for Trump’s compliance with the Constitution is now the most popular in White House history.
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@housescience
you are an embarrassment. Science *means* something. The scientific process & peer review mean something. Shame on you.
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It's time for leaders at Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft who were at that Trump roundtable to step up. You've done it for crises before.
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In 2001, Prince donated $12,000 to save the Louisville Free Public Library’s Western branch, the first to serve African American patrons. Prince dedicated the gift to “assist your library in reaching all areas of the community”.
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What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it's possible to love yourself so much that everyone else does, too.
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Do not remove your card from the chip reader
Do not remove your card
Do not remove your card
HOLY SHIT REMOVE YOUR CARD NOW, NOW, GO GO GO
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If done right, marriage is a decades-long process of finding out which method of loading a dishwasher is most annoying to another human.
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Shout out to all the tech CEOs who thought sucking up to these bastards would get you more H1Bs & founders.
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Being an asshole and ironically acting like an asshole are the same thing, in the real world.
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There’s probably a billion dollar market in selling “dumb” appliances and housewares to people who don’t want “smart” ones. I’d start with a dumb TV, with no apps or anything that surveils your viewing to phone home to an ad network about what you’ve been watching.
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I want 30 minutes of prime time to argue for federal funding to identify, isolate & contain violent white supremacists who keep trying to attack America with pipe bombs & guns. I am willing to insult any media outlet, since you all seem love rewarding people who humiliate you.
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LOL you're a less familiar Indian type, the self-hating felon imbecile.
GOOD RIDDANCE DEPT: Obama capo
@PreetBharara
is a familiar Indian type, subservient to those above him but ruthless with those in his power
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Trying to destroy bodegas with a startup called “Bodega” that has a bodega cat logo is… just awful.
Two ex-Googlers want to make bodegas and mom-and-pop corner stores obsolete
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Almost all of the time, people are awesome when you give them the chance to be their best selves. But it can be hard to remember that.
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@AliWatkins
Headline is false. 90% stat is false. Sourcing is… embarrassing. Try again, or give the opportunity to a journalist who wouldn’t buy into obvious copaganda.
The rest of the article is outrageous. Here are the “expert” sources it quotes, supposedly to help explain what’s happening.
1)Police lieutenant
2)“the police say” generically
3)Former cop (undisclosed)
4)Former cop (undisclosed)
5)Police lieutenant
6)That’s it.
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I could never be a celebrity or influencer because all the things I’d want to endorse don’t have ad campaigns. “Drink tap water!” “Send your kids to public school!” “Walking is nice!”
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MSNBC the latest to get played by the stupid harasser technique of “digging” — finding old tweets (especially sarcastic ones that appear to say the opposite of what they mean) & using them to target people. Absolutely stupid. Inexcusable.
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There are 90x as many Indian Americans in this country as there are coal miners. I would like 90 questions about concerns specific to our community for every one that’s been asked about coal miners in the past. Get started.
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The chilling effect on journalism on Twitter will be severe. Musk is known to directly target his critics, including swatting one of his earliest vocal critics. Twitter will not ban him as a board member the next time he attacks a journalist.
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This sounds like a man who has been through a *hell* of a lot of loss in his life, speaking with a completely open heart to show his kid that he loves him even at his lowest point. Literally the best thing about Biden, or about anyone.
The actual audio is heart wrenching
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Does anybody else have a constant low-level heartache from being so proud and full of love for one’s child as they grow up, but deeply fraught with the nonstop grieving for the kid they used to be, knowing you’ll never see that little one again? Or is that just me? Ok, thx.
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Stay strong, my friends, and have faith. Mango season is nearly here. 🥭
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Due to the poor quality of many reaction GIFs of Prince, I’ve been considering digitally remastering all of the best Prince reactions and releasing them as a new, HD set of GIFs. Would this be of value to everyone?
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Yeah, that’s bad. Wish they would have taken any of the many other suggestions of active users who could have been added to the board over the years. Including those who are developers or experienced creators of healthy communities.
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Broken tech culture is seeing the success of Pokémon Go & attributing it to AR instead of a huge 25-year-old global cultural phenomenon.
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@robyncaplan
And the longevity of personal websites is massively better than any corporate media, interestingly.
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