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[. @Juno_Gold]

For anyone still using oversimplified, non-contextualized FBI stats to pose biased arguments: Third Section -> https://t.co/iYSr0l76cI

[Artnet @artnet]

The internet killed the yellow pages. Netflix killed Blockbuster.

Will NFTs kill traditional art?

Greetings, my name is @CozomoMedici. What I'm about to share with you may make you angry. You may disagree. But it's crucial you here it.

So buckle up, and let's begin👇

[. @Juno_Gold]

Spotify is hilarious and cringe(?)! for this automation 😂 - “Thank you @drake for spending 2,392 minutes with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1.”

#SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/J3K2smvAVw

But fr I’m in the top 1% of listeners 🏄🏾‍♂️ lets go

[ʀ⎊ᴜ ʀᴇʏɴ⎊ @RouReynolds]

A met police officer exposed himself to a woman in a restaurant

He was not fired

3 days later he abducted & murdered #SarahEverard

There is currently an immense crisis of confidence in the police

And THIS is how they react to tonight’s peaceful event

[. @Juno_Gold]

Social media

[. @Juno_Gold]

Posting on

[. @Juno_Gold]

I hate

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

This should probably go into my series on mediocrity. Easily my least popular (and most un-American) major view is the tautological one that the average person should not set life expectations based on a presumption of specialness. Lake Wobegon hates me. https://t.co/Tp5t2YID3A

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

And don’t underestimate minimum viable level of competence required to enjoy an activity. Adult tastes for most things tend to mature past abilities. I’m an ok artist, but not good enough to enjoy my own work (either process or output) much unless I put in more years of practice.

[Emily Lakdawalla @elakdawalla]

There’s no GPS for Mars. Rover has an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU, a gyroscope) that helps it dead-reckon distance & direction traveled & pitch & roll. It images the Sun periodically to determine its yaw. Orbiter imaging of rover helps tie all this to Mars’ geodetic network.

[Web Smith @web]

When we studied Greek mythology in school, we should have viewed it as a study of marketing, communications, and public relations.

There's a direct line from Homer to Gesner, Jung, to Sigmund Freud.

All myth-making strategy and story-telling / narrative building stems from it.

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

2021 is like 32% less fun than 1997 when I started tracking fun levels in the world.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

I've been thinking a lot about Twitter, social media, and how we need better means of communication for larger, more complex, nuanced, and actionable ideas so that we might change things.

So. I'm starting a substack. I hope you'll subscribe and join me.

https://t.co/48Vy0tcJ6h

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

February 17, 1600
On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a stake put through his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.

[meow @notawethang]

Toni Morrison on the shallowness of the slogan “Black is Beautiful” to NYT 1974.

[. @GregTSargent]

The absurd false equivalency from Trump's lawyer here suffers from a big flaw:

Trump's lies about the election *actually did* incite the violent assault on the Capitol.

The rioters themselves have confirmed this.

This is what the false equivalency is tacitly designed to erase.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

The same words mean different things in different contexts. Language is always contextual and relational. Understanding context is key to understanding meaning. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

“Please don’t do this to me,” the child said to an officer in Rochester, New York. “You did it to yourself, hon,” the officer replied.

New video shows a 9-year-old girl crying after being pepper-sprayed by officers who had been trying to detain her. https://t.co/2Mu0y47N0I

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

My small business pays nearly $600 a month per employee on health care (the employee pays another $300 or so).

So our 200-person company pays about $1.4 million a year just for health care costs - and it's still expensive for employees.

This is the sad reality for businesses.

[Prof Emeritus C Omowale Simmons @charles97564117]

SO many errors & distortions in the French right wing that it would take books to correct. Briefly: France is still a leading white supremacist colonial power & still has military boots on the ground & still stealing riches from Africa.