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An insurrection enthusiast arrested for storming the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 was once named “Officer of the Year” for a “solving” a 26-year-old homicide when he wrongly accused a Black man of 1st degree murder.
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This is a triumph of journalism & testimony, painstakingly reported, vivid, and enraging. @raffiwriter is one of the greats and the subject—the gulag in Xinjiang that is happening right now—could not be more urgent. It’s long but essential. Take the time.
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New: Cops in Washington raised >$70k for their K9's medical bills after he was shot in January. They made him a TikTok star, and were promoting merch with his image to fundraise for the K9 unit last month. Not mentioned? The cops were the ones who shot him
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All the most important writings, podcasts, and videos about NFTs, collected in one place👇
The a16z NFT Canon
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Presumably in the “must carry” world that Justice Thomas describes, conservatives would demand opt-in parental controls. YouTube (Google) did that. Dennis Prager sued them for it claiming censorship. They don’t want fixes. They want to be victims.
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(theverge.com)
I’m here for Yahoo Answers jokes, but I’m mostly really bummed that Verizon is being a terrible steward of internet history. This site should be archived for the future.
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Larry Ellison sucked up to Trump for four years, came away from it with basically nothing, and now anyone can reimplement APIs under fair use laws.
I guess what I’d like to say about that is: LOL
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Remarkable work by @BrandyZadrozny about how a town with no newspaper turned to local Facebook group -- and caused constant, widespread, nonstop panic of murderers and crimes that weren't actually there.
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(vice.com)
To be clear Amazon did not actually apologize. It defended the "own-goal" behind its week-long Twitter meltdown, blamed a series of *other* forces & actors, shied away from discussing its own working conditions, and *most importantly* continued to lie.
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[NYS Dept. of Health · Brooklyn] Medgar Evers College (Brooklyn residents only): 11070 appts
Apr 7 – 8:00AM-8:45PM
Apr 8 – 8:00AM-8:45PM
Apr 9 – 8:00AM-8:45PM
+ 4 more days
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“It’s never appropriate to make a human being with a critical care need wait over two months for a repair that could have been completed in two days,” he said. The committee asked Maestas no questions.
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(time.com)
Jordan E. Taylor: The U.S. has had "vaccine passports" before—and they worked
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(github.com)
StyleCLIP, manipulating StyleGAN imagery with text: don't miss the absurdly impressive demo video
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(washingtonpost.com)
oh dear Lord, it’s voters “back home” who are causing GOP to obstruct Biden??
stop trying to normalize radical behavior;
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(nytimes.com)
Just about anyone with a Social Security number who is not someone else’s dependent and who earns less than $75k is entitled to the stimulus. But some of the people who would benefit most from the money are having the hardest time getting their hands on it
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About 45 percent of white evangelicals say they will not get vaccinated against Covid-19 — a significantly higher share than Catholics and Black Protestants, to name a few. For this story, @elizabethjdias and I spent time talking with some of them.
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More than a dozen advocacy groups called on McGraw Hill to stop charging its freelancers a fee in order to get paid. The company's response: No.
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Reuters: 3 months after MAGA mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his Nov. election loss, “about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists “trying to make Trump look bad.”
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Why is it so hard to work right now? (Why is it taking me so long to write this tweet?) Here's my piece on our national case of anhedonia:
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I wrote about the banning of Revolutionary War reenactors from Facebook and what that says about the state of automated content moderation.
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(theatlantic.com)
"To call America a nation of immigrants is not wrong, either as a factual statement or an evocation of American myth. But that fact coexists with this one: Over the past century, the United States has deported more immigrants than it has allowed in."
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