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I read books, write code, drink whiskey, eat tapes. He/him. Trying @[email protected].
Cleveland, OH
Joined September 2008
1. Being the victim of a scam can be devastating. A reminder that nobody from @FTC will ever give you a badge number, ask you to confirm your Social Security number, ask how much money you have in your bank account, transfer you to a CIA agent, or send you texts out of the blue.
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I want to give it up to this local TV reporter for doing some accurate reporting. It's a shame that he's such an outlier.
There's a story going around the Milwaukee area about an alleged fentanyl contact overdose that may not be as it seems. Contact overdoses are extremely unlikely. A quick explainer:
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It’s an idea we’ve had for a while but it will take a little time to get the right perspective. Our sound engineer did record shows sometimes so it’s very possible. Thank for asking - it helps motivate me.
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still can't believe this is a real thing the New York Times did
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I wrote about Thomas Bradley, who signed up for a hotel shift via Instawork, a temp-job app. When he arrived to work, he saw he was being used as a strikebreaker. He joined the picket line, the app suspended him, and now the workers are striking over it.
jacobin.com
On top of issues like low pay, workers are up against faceless algorithmic management that can punish them for various offenses — including for refusing to cross picket lines. Workers at a hotel in...
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By far, the most convoluted, bureaucratic, dragging entity I’ve had to deal with, sorting out things after Mim died, has been @bmi . It’s almost like they want you to give up. Meanwhile, the money sits in their bank.
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NEW: The conventional wisdom is that parents have grown increasingly furious with public schools. But it's actually people without school-age children who are particularly skeptical of public schools, multiple surveys show. https://t.co/VIwg7fCUAo
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This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life. Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.
Want the truth on Florida’s African American History Standards? See statement below from experts who crafted them. “Any attempt to reduce slaves to just victims of oppression fails to recognize their strength, courage and resiliency during a difficult time in American history.”
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This is such a clinic by @VaughnHillyard of how to do a broadcast interview — come with the documents, know your facts cold, and use it to call officials if they BS you —
Nancy Jacobson says No Labels won’t help Trump win but didn't offer any metric on how it would determine whether to stand down. The group doesn’t reveal its donors and isn’t publicly discussing its deliberations over whom it may recruit to run on its planned bipartisan ticket.
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I am very sad to report the passing of Jules Konopinski yesterday at the age of 93. He was the last surviving person who was a member of both the 43 Group and the 62 Group, and the last surviving of the 43 Group's great street fighters.
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When Peggy Hill called Phoenix "a monument to man's arrogance", it was a temperate 111°.
Reporting this week from our climate future: Phoenix, going into its 18th day in a row with heat over 110 Fahrenheit, with no end in sight. Last time the heat was this high, for this long, was 1974. Even a city as adapted for heat as Phoenix is struggling.
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"You can't know if I actually voted in both states; because of the secret ballot I might have just left everything blank!" is bravura work on the part of the public defender.
Accidentally traveling from Ohio to Virginia to Florida to try to vote in each place by Election Day 2020, as one does, as a licensed attorney who’s into Donald Trump.
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Oh my god they found the tape with the original Wilhelm Scream recording session — INCLUDING ALT TAKES!!!
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Marvel never asks me to work on their movies, what are they afraid of, Academy Awards
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Ajit Pai is also the reason you can't answer your phone without it being Rachel from Cardholder Services or a call about your extended warranty. Glad to see he's taking a victory lap about how great his term was for the people he worked for.
Sigh. Okay, once again: The reason the end of the federal net neutrality rule didn't significantly impact the internet is California shortly after enacted its own net neutrality rule, and carriers decided it was cheaper to stay net neutral than create a patchwork for every state.
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