I'm in the Wall Street Journal today talking about the difficulty of identifying bot accounts, and more generally whether social media platform metrics mean, well, anything real.
Yes, there seem to be a lot of fake accounts on Twitter, much like there are on other major social networks. But research shows nailing them down accurately is virtually ...
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Of *course* Onkyo filed for bankruptcy like last week.
So… Denon? I dunno.
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Are you keeping a watchful eye during eternal Caturday?
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Okay, I think I’ve settled on the Onkyo TX-RZ50. Supports 5.1.4, has great room correction, and is supposed to have a very “un-opinionated” and true-to-source sound.
Now the issue is that its sold out everywhere… blast!
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Pebbles got a surprise bath this evening after I got a bloody nose during snuggle time. Getting blood stains out of a dog is harder than I expected. Pebbles is no longer speaking to me.
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Wow. This might be the clearest condemnation of white supremacy and the racist terrorist ideology we face in this country by President Biden to date. He's not mincing words here—though he stops short of calling out Q+GOP+FOX by name. Wow.
President Biden condemned the racist rhetoric that reportedly influenced a white man to gun down Black shoppers at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo. “What happened here ...
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Who will flood socials with young royals s2 fanbait
Not Netflix firing its whole queer social team 2 weeks before pride 👀
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StumpSF book club: Strugatskys’ The Doomed City (@ Produce Row Cafe in Portland, OR) swarmapp.com/karabaic/check…
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Oh, for context I am planning on a 5.1.4 setup, so I likely need a receiver with a lot of channels, Atmos support, and I’d also like room correction.
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Renovation is under way at the LA house. Excited about the home theater! I have my new projector and screen, with new speakers on order. Next up is the A/V receiver. Any recommendations?
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Friend threatens to block me because I called his house a starter home.
Weaponizing politeness is a thing now, I guess. 😒
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Why is it they all show up when I'm trying to cook dinner? Two different sets of guys from different companies just came to the door within five minutes of each other to sell me solar for my roof.
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What #Frankl got wrong with "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
There is no space between trauma trigger & response. The response is immediate: fight or flight. If fight, the attacks are vicious & unrelenting.
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The hazards of being at a tech conference:
I read "let's create a class system" and thought this was sly dig at object-oriented programming. 💀
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He also says he never actually examined any evidence, including the actual tracking data
He played a game of telephone with a known con man selling a bridge and drove off a pier
In short, D'Souza admits that he doesn't present the evidence to bolster his claims and that he's relying on Gregg Phillips — who is obviously not credible — on the...
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Once again Apple is delaying its return to office plan and allowing employees to work remote:
Apple slows return to office plan, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces theverge.com/2022/5/17/2310…
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