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Technology pro into espresso, great food and writing. Also a COVID Long Hauler urging people to mask, distance and be safe because you REALLY don't want this.

[Steve Silberman @stevesilberman]

Devastating photos of the front lines of #COVID19 around the world. I have no idea how people who minimize this tragedy are able to live with themselves. [via @edyong209] https://t.co/21ecd4GEvb

[WIRED @WIRED]

After Congress' vote, a programmer created an extension to make it harder for ISPs, or anyone else, to profile you
https://t.co/8lwLu5oFkg

[PCMag @PCMag]

Stop Trying to Make Me Use Facebook, by @THErealDVORAK: https://t.co/LoE3TP6Y33

[EWPLDF @EWPLDF]

@Templesmith Libtn ans: warn them to leave; if they willfully refuse, let them fend for themselves & charge them if they later need rescuing

[CNET News @CNETNews]

Security researcher toys with cyber-scammers before tricking one into installing ransomware https://t.co/MqxMkw6oVo

[Atheist QOTD @AtheistQOTD]

"A book that changed me? The Bible. It turned me into an Atheist." Andy Hamilton

[ZDNET @ZDNET]

ICYMI: Guess how many US surveillance requests were denied in 2015? https://t.co/JJ3GU8Es4w

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

Toilet paper couldn't be advertised as "splinter free" until the 1930s, when production techniques improved.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

Teen Puskar Nepal holds the world record for the most times someone has kicked themselves in the head in one minute—134 times.

[BBC Science News @BBCScienceNews]

Gunman injured by armadillo ricochet http://t.co/KEnlg6hC8n

[Gizmodo @Gizmodo]

This is the most Earth-like planet ever discovered: http://t.co/ix4Xs6s6Nm

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

The number of people killed by police in the U.S. during 2015 reached 500 on June 10, 2015, according to a Guardian investigation.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

Police in the U.S. have shot and killed more people—in every week this year— than are shot and killed by German police in an entire year.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

The five worst cities in the U.S. for air pollution are all in California.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

In 2013, a feral pig in Australia stole 18 beers from a campsite, got drunk, and then tried to fight a cow.

[EFF @EFF]

Cory @Doctorow notes that FBI's crypto backdoor proposal really means breaking general purpose computing: https://t.co/xQmY0JzAVa

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

86% of holy water contains fecal matter.