Can we talk about how incredible the US women’s gymnastics team is that even after injury withdrawal mid-event of their best teammate, they still pull through with a silver? The talent in that bench is incredible.
Is Peyo like the horses in that I Think You Should Leave sketch?
All Things Interesting https://twitter.com/mrstrangefact
In France, a beautiful 15-year-old stallion named Peyo often comes to comfort and soothe terminal patients at the Techer Hospital in Calais. The horse chooses which patie...
Even more so if you got J&J…
awkward time to be fully vaxxed and immunocompromised.
Lean into it. Make Steve Harvey ACC Commissioner.
This fantastic essay touches on so many things related to IndieWeb and A Domain of One’s Own. We often talk about the “why” of these movements, but Alan Jacobs provides some underlying ethics as well. #IndieWeb #DoOO #EdTech #ethics boffosocko.com/2021/07/26/557…
This is a wild ask but: does anyone know about changes in the price of horseshoe crab blood? I need a informed source for a piece I am working on.
“The Hami missile silo field is in a much earlier stage of development than the Yumen site.” — Great work by @mattkorda & @nukestrat fas.org/blogs/security…
Looking forward to apologists for the Chinese regime using their usual whatabout excuses on this one.
rooting for the nameless gorn https://twitter.com/karabaic
This story’s got it all. Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight — ProPublica propublica.org/article/operat…
Post: The Tchotchke Internet nadreck.me/2021/07/the-tc…

The Tchotchke Internet is a social media landscape of digital flair and knick-knacks, a direct evolution of the freemium user experience. It’s the small ways that users can spend money (or make money) to have a better experience on social media. It’s Reddit Gold, Discord Nitro, Twitter Super Follows, celebrity verified checkmarks, premium Zoom calls, NFT galleries, Ethereum domain names in your bio, Fortnite skins, Roblox Robux, personal Minecraft servers, custom Twitch emotes, Linktree URLs, cryptocoin giveaways, Clubhouse invites, and social media partner programs.

People are spending a lot of money to express themselves online and most of what they’re paying for is basically the digital equivalent of an emo kid’s backpack covered in Hot Topic pins, random little digital artifacts that bely some kind of personal identity.

Ryan Broderick

It’s a clever, and I think apt, name for how the internet has shifted recently, and continues a trend we’ve been seeing for a while around virality, monetization, and content creation. We’ve been talking about “influencer culture” for a while, and I think this is a (perhaps inevitable) continuation of that trend. I think that the “digital flair” is definitely an attempt at status signaling, but also an attempt for some to feel like they can still express themselves and be part of the larger dialogue. As the nature of discourse on the internet increasingly feels like broadcasts (one-to-many, and largely in one direction), having little ways to make your mark feel increasingly important.

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Inject this directly into my veins! Loki's soundtrack was soooo good… music.apple.com/us/album/loki-…
I see that Activision allegedly managed to sneak in some union busting talking points at the all hands today. Very impressive, guys! Calling a hotline is definitely better than having the protection of a union....... uppercutcrit.com/activision-bli…
“It’s hard to have a brainstorm on a Zoom call.” No, Mr. Out-of-Touch Executive, it’s easy to have a brainstorm on a Zoom call (async’s even easier much of the time!) for those of us not trained to think that butts-in-seats = collaboration. Get with the times…or step aside.
We can send one another messages through the split flap transit board when we’re in different places. I just got this important update. (Reads: “Dora is very tired” in Croatian, please note tired cat on couch below)
“It’s like uber, but for that creepy Jake Ghyllenhaal character in Nightcrawler”
Citizen is quietly hiring New Yorkers to run around the city and livestream crime scenes for $25 an hour nypost.com/2021/07/25/cit…
Worth reading. Your paid entitlement may take you weeks to collect because of antifraud measures that haven’t measurably decreased fraud. Want your unemployment benefits? You may have to submit to facial recognition first - CNN cnn.com/2021/07/23/tec…
COVID vaccination threads on Nextdoor be like...
I can’t believe it’s taken me multiple decades of adult living to discover I can just buy a bottle of malt vinegar and drizzle it over a bowl of regular ol’ potato chips and now they’re, like, twice as good. Why didn’t anybody tell me this
Looking forward to the followup with the woman who’s raising his kids without his assistance while he…”sacrifices”. 🙄 Oh, and with the kids in a few years. capitaldaily.ca/news/penniless…