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[Ryan Calo @rcalo]

I just heard something so chilling, and yet plenty familiar to privacy advocates—that the Taliban has seized American biometric and facial recognition equipment, which it could use to identify U.S. collaborators.

[Jay Smooth @jsmooth995]

I hate when people overhype things on on twitter so I will just state calmly that this is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life

[qntm @qntm]

My latest short story is called "Lena". https://t.co/GIC3nRhCma

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

This incredibly disturbing fake wikipedia page about the historic first guy to have his consciousness uploaded to a computer should win a Hugo award: https://t.co/2k56XK7cmR from @qntm:

[Justin Ling (Has Left) @Justin_Ling]

There's the no-fly list, which Ottawa told you about. But then there's TUSCAN, which it didn't. https://t.co/yuRACRwiaW

[Wolfie Christl @WolfieChristl]

"Humans as a Service"

(via @JeremiasPrassl)

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

I 100% believe that Americans are only flipping out about Facebook right now because of the Russian connection. Europeans aren't intrinsically more privacy focused: people just don't trust *foreign companies* with their data.

[GL @gldivittorio]

Do👏🏼not👏🏼play👏🏼devil’s👏🏼advocate👏🏼unless👏🏼you👏🏼have👏🏼passed👏🏼the👏🏼bar👏🏼and👏🏼are👏🏼currently👏🏼representing👏🏼Satan👏🏼in👏🏼a👏🏼court👏🏼of👏🏼law.👏🏼

[#1 haterade drinker 🌾🇵🇸 @tyelland]

[colleagues i barely know start talking about tech and journalism]
me: [okay, be cool, keep it casual] we should nationalize facebook

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

Blockchain is an elaborate work-around for a *very specific problem*: verifying irreversible transfers of value without a centralized authority. In other words, it's a computationally burdensome way to hate the government.

[Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov]

The world in 2017: MasterCard wants to know if refugee camps can be turned into smart cities.

[sara @_vidaura]

@dvelyk yes! ottawa! everything is v good :)

[sara @_vidaura]

@dvelyk kk, will DM you with details when i've got them.

how are you??

[sara @_vidaura]

@dvelyk hey! still interested in a Cool Tech Article Club? trying to get something organised; maybe articles biweekly with convos in slack?

[sara @_vidaura]

@DallanInvictus @dijkstracula You Better BeGlebe it!

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[Andy Cush @cushac]

Raymond Chandler owning all science fiction writers and casually inventing Google in a letter from 1953