Yikes. Remember the Arthur Clarke story about the Star of Bethlehem? phys.org/news/2021-02-v… (ht @UnlikelyWorlds & @amendlocke)
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i really can’t overstate the influence that seeing the movie Hackers in 1995 had on my generation
Geez, I need to go to bed! *checks clock. it's 11:49pm PST* Welp, guess I'm staying up for #WandaVision !!

IIRC PRISM (the government program) hasn’t been officially stopped, no? https://prism-break.org/en/ lists services you can run to but like the stack is so screwed.

I had a pregnant coworker who had worked 7 years at our store sit down behind the customer service counter when no customers were within eyesight and get fired. She got a job as a taxi dispatcher for less money but got to sit. twitter.com/danpriceseattl…
Give service workers chairs. Makes no sense to force them be on their feet all day, and certainly not for crummy wages and no benefits. How are we still arguing about t...

I’m 3 seconds away from setting up Prosody for the family. The majority of us are Android users and there’s more clients on Android so it’d be simple. Shoot, we could even go all in and consider using Movim.

Think of it as a 0day and fix it ASAP. twitter.com/beschlossdc/st…
Donald Trump and his entourage have illuminated crucial vulnerabilities in our political system that will probably be exploited in the future by someone more intelligent,...
For years, @TremendousValue and @thismissy have been gifting me gin in an attempt to convince me to like it. Well, it finally happened. Tonight’s cocktail is a Key Lime Gimlet with Farmer’s gin. Tasty!

XMPP wasn’t actually bad at all. The biggest reason, it seems, is that companies can’t make reliable money over metrics when people control where they send their information to. Like it makes sense why Google and Facebook only bridged it versus allowing for full support to this day. Shoot, everything they do now could have been extensions still!

This. And this is the actual tip of the iceberg (excessive wealth is anti-Christian but it’s a start) https://thegrio.com/2021/02/10/kirk-franklin-on-homophobia-in-the-church/

The only answer is to eliminate ICE and to reallocate those funds to the families directly impacted by the forced deportations caused by them. https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/1359951999245107200

I thought this was a meme map and then found it is from the USPS report and I am blown away at the surreal map meme energy
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Hot new state boundary map just dropped

I’ve been waiting for someone to put these words together that I couldn’t. https://twitter.com/samklew/status/1359913159440494593

Everyone who mentions “free speech” and “cenorship” and/or decides to grossly misquote Orwell need this comic glued under their eyelids https://xkcd.com/1357/

Your favorite cloud provider’s actively using government experience to endorse anti-human labor suppression tactics. Love to see it. https://theintercept.com/2021/02/11/amazon-jobs-security-fbi/

Listened to @BerlinPhil premièr of Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s ethereal Catamorphosis and found some mind bending banana maths on Wikipedia...A hylomorphism is the composition of an anamorphism followed by a catamorphism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamorph…
I have a theory…hear me out. Most people aren’t in crushing debt because they spent too much. Most people are in debt because…wait for it… They don’t make enough money. Crazy, I know! Even crazier: the solution to that is to…increase…low/mid-income wages. Mind! Blown! twitter.com/alliebonbon/st…
Alexandria Bontrager https://twitter.com/AllieBonBon
To spite Dave Ramsey today I'm going to do something exorbitant like buy coffee or eat three meals.
I’m just putting it out there into the universe. I am still available For this project. Let’s make a music video on roller blades to the Janet Yellen song and explain inflation vs deficit spending.
Lillian Karabaic 🥄🏳️‍🌈 BLM https://twitter.com/anomalily
Quick, someone book me on a video project where I play a 90s rollerblading economist so I can buy this jumpsuit and write it off on my taxes.