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deputy features ed @verge . prev @nytimes @motherboard . I don’t check my DMs. look for me elsewhere, this place is internet chernobyl
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managed to stop laughing long enough to make a mailing list
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what the fuck is going on with the police scanner archive and the missing 18 minutes of audio? has anyone figured out what the hell is happening there?
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I’m at the coup
I’m at the superspreader event
I’m at the combination coup / superspreader event
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i like how we spent centuries at the mercy of measles and once we defeated it a handful of ding dongs took the side of measles
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I once did a fun cute little blog about how elon musk follows zero women on Twitter (not even his own mother). I asked SpaceX and Tesla for comment because duh and they (the PR professionals!!!) came back to me with “but he follows more women than men on Instagram.”
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“if you don’t like it why are you still tweeting”
because I fucking love things that suck ass. I went to law school. I work as a journalist. I have almost finished playing the entirety of mass effect andromeda. I’m a dumb piece of shit
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You would be surprised at how many people send me these kinds of messages from their work emails. But using the domain for your online church is a new low, and yes, I am going post your email on the internet.
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*me reading AOC tweets* Is this what it feels like to have an elected official that lives in remotely the same universe that you do? Boomers have it good
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i am extremely concerned about the frequent and repeated consensus view in the nursing subreddit about the looming collapse of the american healthcare system
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it's not nearly the funniest part of the list of things he intends on doing but "making the algorithms open source" and "defeating the spam bots" are goals that work against each other
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if I wanted to be cruel to a bunch of powerless people, I would probably *not* send them to Lawyer Island
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People keep asking for my opinion on cancel culture, and the only thing i have to say is that the Atlantic was nearly destroyed in 1869 by thousands of subscription cancellations over an article by Harriet Beecher Stowe insinuating that Lord Byron fucked his sister
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honestly I think he got ratio’d so hard last night that he decided to buy twitter after all
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like, someone please tell me it’s completely normal and okay for the uvalde police scanner archive to skip from 11:52 am to 12:10 pm
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2017: the video gamers are Nazis and the jocks are taking a stand against white supremacy
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good morning! just sitting here drinking coffee and thinking about how the state of wyoming has two senators and a total population smaller than portland, oregon. hbu?
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every tech motherfucker in january 2017: how can i help. how can i make the world a better place. how about an app
[fast forward three years later]
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gonna end this with the most striking line from the manual:
"A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field."
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I’m in tears, this is the perfect cross between Boaty McBoatface and Gamestonk
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something I didn't know until I went to law school(!!!!!!!) was that universal daycare was a popular — sometimes mainstream — feminist demand in the 1960s and 1970s. for all we talk about women empowerment, the arc of history, and so on, there was a giant leap back in the culture
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the turkey takes his mask off
it's edward snowden
obama groans, it's too late to unpardon him now
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seriously upsetting that the astroworld tragedy is turning into a full-fledged satanic panic + unfounded drugs scare. I've never seen such a meticulously documented disaster across social media platforms
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i can't believe the "trump stole money from kids with cancer" is like a second tier story today
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My (78m) wife (65f) won’t stop texting this guy (62m) I kind of know from work
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and you fucking bet it was all Instagram models plus his ex-wife 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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This is wild. The three local ACLU chapters of California have all broken rank with ACLU National
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I literally have no sense of what is typical here and I would love to just bury this specific thing and not give it another thought. Someone please tell me there’s nothing going on with this
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imagine spending your entire career claiming chaos is feminine and then meeting slavoj zizek
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this is a terrible day for our country and the health of our democracy will not recover for a generation. and also lmao
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"we gotta make a statement. this whole thing is bad for the nixon brand"
This morning’s widely-circulated characterization of Roger Stone as a Nixon campaign aide or adviser is a gross misstatement. Mr. Stone was 16 years old during the Nixon presidential campaign of 1968 and 20 years old during the reelection campaign of 1972. 1/2
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lol I love that the president got caught on tape asking someone to falsify an election and we’re out here like BEAN DAD. SHORT WOMEN.
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There is still a pandemic.
Police are sending people to hospitals.
They are deploying tear gas even though the virus is respiratory.
And no one in their right mind is going to comply with contact tracing after this.
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It’s not just that Democrats no longer have an incentive to hold back. If they don’t regain power and expand the courts, you get a country whose government is wildly — to a hostile degree, even — unrepresentative of its people and its values.
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man at this point we need a Wikipedia style timeline of the diffs in police statements
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Wall of moms is extremely sizable. Feds have issued a few warnings now and I haven’t been able to make any of them out due to the jeers of irate moms
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star wars medicine:
the guy who got his legs chopped off and set on fire lives
his wife fails to survive childbirth
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Just a reminder that Signal calls and FaceTime Audio are both end to end encrypted.
Feds intercepted protesters' phone communications in Portland this summer, intel sources with knowledge of the operation tell me.
“You’re getting an inside view into your targets, who they are, who they’re talking to—the hierarchy."
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it's nice when the best revenge is to aggressively and blatantly exist
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can’t stop thinking about how a purveyor of pillows is waging war against the woke
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the mayor came out, got tear gassed by feds as a photo op, then left, and then his own police declared a riot lol
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If I wanted to troll I’d say the conclusion here is that cancel culture is part of our American heritage and we must treasure it as such
But really, the only conclusion here is that Lord Byron fucked his sister.
/end
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Someone once DM'd me that I was "going to the gas chamber" and when I reported it, Twitter deemed it not a violation of their rules lol
Hands up if someone has ever tweeted wishing for you to die or suffer bodily harm.
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this is the best possible explanation offered to me so far — it raises other questions of course, given what was happening at the time
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yep, this will have been captured and uploaded by someone with their own scanner setup - but a lot of these radios have an encryption *capability* that they could have switched on - lots of metadata (including that fact) would still be captured (but prolly not uploaded here)
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commentator who has studied east asian geopolitics for decades: regardless of one’s feelings about abe, one cannot deny this is a shocking and
well-meaning liberal who’s never heard of abe: oh no!!! 🕯
guy with furry avatar and nothing to lose: fuck that guy he sucked ass lmao
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Yes, white privilege is part of it, but I watched a bunch of suburban white moms with sunflowers get shot in the fucking face so the soft touch from the police here is ideological 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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Rogue One is the story of an extraordinarily difficult FOIA request
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really admiring the guts it takes to pick a reign name with a 50% incidence rate of abolishing the monarchy
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honestly there has nothing been more flabbergasting than Democrats having faced down getting blown up / shot / kidnapped and then pretending like they have no power to do anything about it
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did I ever mention that Twitter locked my account for hate speech against white people from 2014 right around the time they refused to ban Alex Jones because his tweets predated 2015
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Anyways, all this to say, in Elon’s defense, he is actually doing about as well as his hired professionals do
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elon musk’s text messages make him look dumb as hell but in his defense we only have his texts because he’s fighting a lawsuit for no good reason, that was launched because he backed out of buying twitter for no good reason, a deal he made for no good reason
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@jduffyrice
it’s a lot of “my coworkers are all quitting because this job sucks and now there’s no staff and too many patients and people are already dying from lack of care” with a touch of “how the f is the system going to financially cope with the strain that covid is putting on it???”
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Here is a video of an arrest last night that has already appeared on Twitter filmed from another angle. The feds hold the arrestee down in the gas, for an interminable period of time.
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There is so much going on here but let’s fucking dwell for like five seconds on the depravity of how vehicular murder/manslaughter has become protected right-wing speech
A wild document. Felony collective punishment for anyone who attends a protest where property is damaged, while vehicular murder or manslaughter is effectively legalized. Plus if your city council acts to reduce the police budget, the state defunds everything.
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Oh my god I just had the stunning realization that the US is the Florida of the world
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this is terrifying stuff with far-reaching consequences, things could go down an incredibly dark path from here and it’s going to be hard to sleep tonight
that said, it’s still funny to watch americans rush to get their tweets off before googling abe’s whole deal
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Some personal news
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@SarahJeong
joins NYT’s editorial board. She's the newest in a fab group of recent additions to
@nytopinion
: Michelle Alexander
@susanthequark
@JenSeniorNY
@karaswisher
@MCottle
@JInterlandi
@MaraGay
@JyotiThottam
@talmonsmith
@lauren_kelley
@ByAlexMarch
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sorry????????? they abbreviated the predatory provision to whaaaaaat????
New class-action against PetSmart alleges the chain traps workers in grooming jobs by holding $5,000 in debt from the ‘grooming academy’ over their heads, locking them into PetSmart for 2 years
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weeks ago: we can all agree we won’t know the results right away. it would be irresponsible to rush things so that an outlet can be the first to call a race. this is obvious
now: [people crying blood tears, yowling about the Democratic primary. It is not even midnight EST]
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Except the end game isn't to actually get rid of Section 230, it's to intimidate platforms into promoting and protecting right-wing partisan speech regardless of veracity, hatefulness, or negative impact on public health or safety.
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best as in the one that makes the most sense to me, not best as in I’m stoked about it
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The best part of this saga being, that he almost certainly did
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if you're the type of man whose takeaway from all this is that you're worried about hugging women then you should probably be worried about hugging women
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can you imagine being the guy who's convinced that liberals are too sensitive but feels triggered by 1) kathy griffin, 2) shakespeare
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sorry but it's fucking annoying when people (right or left) bring up the fact that obama was shit on immigration as though many of us didn't already oppose it during the obama years. the new enforcement makes a real difference in real people's real lives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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just so weird to see people still galaxy braining the myth of the aggrieved poor white even as the people who stormed the Capitol are revealed to be *checks notes* lawyers and business owners and an incoming congressman
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if "a few violent protesters" means you have to disperse/arrest an entire protest, what does "a few violent cops" mean for a department
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I'm sorry that this makes me sound so old, but I simply do not understand why people put so many cameras and microphones around themselves so willingly. Smartphones and laptops maybe aren't so much of a choice but good god why the exercise bike, the doorbell, the refrigerator, th
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I kind of don’t think this makes it better
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Related: when a room is 20% women, men perceive 50% gender parity. For groups in power, parity is perceived as defeat
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"Bill Maher is bad" = people finding out it's spelled Berenstain Bears. It was always like that you guys but sure ok let's do this again
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I got into tech law & policy because I liked technology, the end result being that I now hate technology
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there are tech people out there creating things that do make the world a better place. however, on balance, the sum of all efforts definitely tilts towards fyre festival
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five women—four judges and one acting attorney general—are trying to hit the brakes on the muslim ban. trump is going to lose his shit
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No I actually don't know what this is, it's like watching Fyre Fest being organized but for government
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omg rofl realizing that twitter is experiencing exactly what newspapers all over the country have experienced when bought by an idiot billionaire
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silicon valley is obsessed with solving problems that are clearly most efficiently solved with better public works
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Hi all, I have a statement about the tweets that have been going around:
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Apple banning the Facebook and Google certs is extremely funny but should also give us pause to think about how much of our daily lives depends on a handful of corporations that have been engaged in a cold war of compatibility for years
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could have been for tactical reasons! upsetting thing is the timeline on police arriving / other cops pulling their own kids out to safety??? / “containing” the shooter in a classroom / having a staff member unlock the door??? / restraining parents in the parking lot is unclear
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remember how he was like "lock her up" and now he's violating the constitution and ignoring court orders
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railing about the new Matrix movie’s “woke agenda” when the original literally cuts to the credits with Rage Against the Machine’s “Wake Up” …………. beautiful
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me in 2014: haha shit sure is weird rn
me in 2018: trump is president. nazis run rampant. a dead brothel owner won a Nevada election and so did a 28 year old socialist. there are three recounts in florida. ryan reynolds is pikachu
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not sure why men always jump from women persecuting them to them being "burned at the stake." come on, you're a man, you're not going to be burned at the stake after a witch trial. you're going to be pressed alive by heavy rocks
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People who keep touting smart contracts as "simplifying contracts" don't understand that litigating contracts is expensive because of human interpretation, not because someone forgot to write something down and get it notarized
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this satirical flyer absolutely rips and the babies of fed soc needs to toughen up and also maybe stop being a viper’s nest of insurrectionists
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🚨 GOOGLE'S USE OF THE DECLARING CODE AND SSO OF APIS IS FAIR USE 🚨
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People were detained, handcuffed, marched onto planes, deprived of their lawyers. That's not an "opinion" about how to read the order.
Reading the source material is better than reading other people's opinions about the source material
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But I know that the reason the Republicans obsess over the culture war is *because they have lost the culture war.* The country is not on their side. The future is not on their side. How can you expect to keep your grip? Are you just going to keep tear gassing the future?
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Blockchain is an elaborate work-around for a *very specific problem*: verifying irreversible transfers of value without a centralized authority. In other words, it's a computationally burdensome way to hate the government.
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Five years ago, Zoe Quinn was chased out of her own home. It wasn't the first time the internet decided to ruin someone's life. But the tactics developed during Gamergate, and the personalities that emerged from it became our national politics.
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So....
Sessions has offered to resign...
... and there's no FBI Director ...
.... and there aren't any nominations for US Attorneys...
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