1/ A thread about the class dynamics of air-conditioning in Europe. I believe attitudes toward air-conditioning are class markers in many European countries. Air-conditioning is seen as prototypically American, and that's important.
🎉 I'm going to give one random person that retweets this $10,000. Because I’d rather spend my ad budget on you than BigTech
👩💻 I'm trying to promote my site Remote OK which helps you find a remote job so you don't need to go back to the office
💖 Thx!
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The news is finally out! So proud to announce that @y42dotcom has closed a $31 million #SeriesA financing round 🥳.
Excited to be a part of this journey and everything that is to come 🚀.
🚨Huge milestone unlocked 🚨!
We’re so incredibly excited to announce that we have closed a $31 million #SeriesA round, led by @insightpartners and @atomico, with participation from
@lafamigliaVC and Data Community Fund.
Read more about it here: https://t.co/zQoXpYWivJ
Space #Olympics 2/4:
No-handball – we had to adapt the rules a bit during the match, much investment on both sides for the win.
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Handball sans les mains – les règles ont dû être adaptées au cours d’un match que nous décrirons sobrement comme intense.
Clearly a rubicon moment for privacy and end-to-end encryption.
I worry if Apple faces anything other than existential annihilation for proposing continual surveillance of private messages then it won't be long before other providers feel the pressure to do the same.
🚨🚨 Apple says to "protect children," they're updating every iPhone to continuously compare your photos and cloud storage against a secret blacklist. If it finds a hit, they call the cops.
iOS will also tell your parents if you view a nude in iMessage.
https://t.co/VZCTsrVnnc
Consider the moment seized 👏
In her first career major quarter-final, 🇬🇷@mariasakkari earns the upset over defending champ and No.8 seed Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-4. She'll face Krejcikova for a spot in the final.
#RolandGarros
Barack Obama tells Snapchat's @PeterHamby that “snappy” slogans like “Defund the Police” aren't very effective and will lose you an audience.
“The key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done, or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?”
Französische Regierung wegen unzureichendem #Klimaschutz vor Gericht. Unsere #Klimaklage vorm @BVerfG ist auch noch anhängig. Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass die Gerichte das Einhalten des Pariser Klimaschutzabkommens verlangen werden.
#Klimakrise
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“This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel.” 😞 https://t.co/bScBsbSwiH