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An affectionate machine-tickling aphid.

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CROATOAN

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This username on mastodon dot social.

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Guess we’re done with PCR tests?

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Surely the fired Fox News anchor can get a job with that other one, ONAN or whatever.

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Government secures a five year contract to access A THING THAT SHOULD BE PUBLICLY OWNED.

https://t.co/RLtz89AKw2

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@tomcoates Before the image popped in, I imagined this as one of those vending machines where the items get pushed and drop down to the bottom.

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Is it acceptable to think of art, in cultural terms, indistinguishably from those that invest the most money in it?

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While the debate is focused on “encryption”, I think it’s worth remembering that one stated use for chat monitoring is “grooming”.

Since that’s highly-contextual, this implies that providers will need to store the plaintext of all messages beyond the ability of users to delete.

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@AlecMuffett @VICE @stacyliberatore It’s obvious who it is, but the “person in mask” was a deliberate presentational style for Vice’s “Informer” series of videos.

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@AlecMuffett But originally from a German family, so probably appropriate.

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There’s no point reading the article, just leave it at the headline.

https://t.co/otIXXEHSGH

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@DrLloydWood thanks… for that?

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Netflix, or whoever, should have videos of sleeping cats. Sometimes a sleeping cat is all I want to watch.

[Smooth Dunk @SmoothDunk]

why did I make this

[Rasmus Kleis Nielsen @rasmus_kleis]

Weird how Session, Signal, Element, Threema, Viber and Wire are magically transformed into "technology giants" in BBC news piece when they are signatories of letter also signed by WhatsApp, and three block quotes from government before getting to the issue https://t.co/JvTmoPYVV8

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Excited to find out if this logic extends to suspected wage theft.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Thanks to Tennessee’s new permitless carry law, no training or background check is required to carry a hidden, loaded handgun in public. As a result, too many Americans think shoplifting is a crime punishable by death. https://t.co/RRcg8AX1mQ

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I see that the same government that wants you to log into every site for age/identity verification, also thinks cookie pop-ups are a problem.

https://t.co/M4frn9kZ2j

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@simonth https://t.co/DB0Rebak3Y

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@simonth Citation needed, but not given. https://t.co/DJacyKwXgn

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In Ted Lasso, Rebecca’s phone has an Apple Pay icon in the iMessage app - but I don’t think this feature is available in the UK.