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Finding Your Safe Space
Daring Fireball: Petulant Wingnuts Push Parler
This is what puts the lie to claims that Twitter and Facebook moderating and labeling content is an infringement on free speech. Don’t like Twitter or Facebook’s rules? Use something else.
That said, I have my doubts that Parler, in particular, is going to work very well.
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The Value of the iPhone’s Telephoto Lens
Neglecting The Telephoto Lens
Yet in stark contrast to my thoughts a few years ago, I thought the telephoto lens
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Bad Marketing Data
Jacques Corby-Tuech - Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data
The numbers are often all we have to prove our case, to get more budget and in extreme cases, to continue to stay employed. We'll remain in this mess until we can separate marketing from short sighted and poorly informed decision making.
It really
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Bug Prevents Third Party Apps from Opening on macOS
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application | Hacker News
And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple is the
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Let’s All Hold Our Horses on Reviewing the M1 Before it’s Even Out
Good or bad, people seem to be eager to review Apple’s new M1 chip based on either:
* Geekbench scores
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My 7 Favorite Things After a Summer with Big Sur
I've been using Big Sur for a couple months now and today I wanted to share a collection
review
iPhone 12 Pro Review: One Leap Forward, One Step Back
I’ve been using the iPhone 12 Pro for almost a month at this point, and I’ve waited a
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How I get all my work done on an iPad Pro
If you were ever curious what I use on my iPad to get all of my work done, this video
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We Did it While This Country was Trying to Kill Us
Joe Biden Was Elected By Black People
And we did it while this country was trying to kill us. Even though a deadly pathogen—police brutality, voter suppression, the coronavirus, white supremacy—take your pick) disproportionately attacked our communities. We did it because they were trying to kill us with knees on our necks, no-
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Empty Stands, iPads, and MLB The Show Sound Effects
Fake crowd noise in MLB created from 30 iPads - Sports Illustrated
The dozens of sounds that came loaded on the tablet for each team were originally made for the PlayStation game MLB: The Show. Each noise has three levels—small, medium, and large—and layering can create additional ones. (An extra-loud cheer can be
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What the Hell Happened with the Pixel 5?
Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely | Ars Technica
With so many of Google's "premium" changes being a wash, there are not many obvious reasons to pick the Pixel 5 for $350 more than the Pixel 4a. The most obvious improvement is the 90Hz display and bigger
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Auston Mann on the Difference Between the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max Cameras
Austin Mann with the quote I was hoping as a 12 Pro owner:
I shot in tons of different lighting scenarios, and frankly in many of the scenes both cameras rendered a beautiful image and I could barely see a difference between iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Phew! I gambled on getting
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Animal Crossing Crushed in 2020
The Nintendo Switch has now sold more than the NES
Since its launch in March the island life sim has
Politics
Today is a Good Day
Nearly 4 years ago, Donald Trump promised that “American carnage” was going to end “today” in his inaugural address. Sitting here at the end of his term, the best way I can describe his what has transpired under his leadership is indeed, American carnage.
I won't go through the list because you already
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The Epic Games Store is a Way Better Experience than Steam
First off, let me say that I don't use any social features of Steam or Epic, so this is coming from a single-player focused view. If those features appeal to you, then carry on enjoying Steam, this article is not going to convince you of anything.
To start, let's look
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Your Regular Reminder that Pokemon Go Has Been Huge All Along
Morning Brew
It’s all Meowth money showers right now over at Niantic, the company behind the 2016 breakout augmented reality app, Pokémon Go. Turns out it wasn’t the summer fad we all thought it was.
So far this year, players have spent about $1 billion in the app, according to Sensor Tower, a
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How I keep track of my most important work (The Three Things)
I follow GTD pretty religiously, but one of its side effects for me is that I find it easy to
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Lying with Statistics
How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science | MIT Technology Review
Unsurprisingly, conservatives ran with this new support for their old narrative and have continued to do so. The study’s fans include President Trump, who used it to justify the creation of his short-lived and failed commission on voter fraud, and
