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The Unifying Case for Getting Covid Under Control? Probably not, but It Should Be.
The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund put out their 2021 End-Of-Year Preliminary Law Enforcement Officers Fatalities Report (PDF) and it
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When the Assholes Show Up
Doodled Dragons takes at least $30,000 after tweeting "our charity will instead now be... my bank account"
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Programming Should Not Be an Elite Practice
I wasn't going to link this this, but then I got to the last paragraph:
The entry barrier
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When You Don't Show Up to Your Own Product Announcement
Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won’t say why | Ars Technica
Samsung pulled a no-call no-show
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How Dead is RSS? I Looked Into it and Things Seem…Good, Actually
I Miss RSS, by Billy Wilcosky:
RSS is still around but I’m saying I miss it because it’s
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People Were Skeptical About the Web Too, You Know
Eric Selfert on Twitter:
Calling out the fact that some other technology at a similar stage was (1) ridiculed and
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Gear Does Matter
Two Cameras: Two Uses, by Greg Morris:
My smartphone needs to have a good camera to capture all of life&
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The Erosion if the Common Good
Anita Sreedhar and Anand Gopal writing about vaccine hesitancy in the U.S.
Public health is no longer viewed as
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Fitness+ is Adding the One Feature That Could Bring Me Back!
Apple Newsroom:
Time to Run on Fitness+ is a new audio running experience designed to help users become more consistent
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What It’s Like Working at a Large Company
Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do? | Hacker News
At this point I
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Dear God, I’m Writing About Star Wars
Spencer Kornhaber for The Atlantic, Why Star Wars Keeps Telling the Same Stories:
Mesmerizing fights and tasty twists will no
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When it Works, it's Invisible
Katelyn Jetelina writing for her excellent Your Local Epidemiologist:
One of public health’s biggest challenges is that when it
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Apple’s Biometrics Should be Multiple-Choice
Apple’s new iPad Mini is becoming a powerful healthcare tool, by Niel Smith
The Powerful A15 Bionic chip with
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What Will Replace the Smartphone?
John Gruber in response to the sugestion VR headsets will replace smartphones:
VR headsets will never replace phones. I highly
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That Sounds Way More Creepy
Jesse Pujji in a Twitter thread on why Facebook isn’t “always listening” to you and why they don’t
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Why we Argue About Die Hard
Is [REDACTED] a Christmas Movie? - Kaitlyn Tiffany
Because of the dreaded incentives of social media, we force debate upon
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Sewing Doubt
Tim Harford on The New Bazaar podcast:
Cigarettes smokers are going to eagerly grab onto any evidence they can to
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Where do You Post Ephemeral Thoughts?
Finding the Right Place
There’s a type of content, that I can’t quite put my finger on what
