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writing about tech and its discontents for the . formerly & . dm for signal.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Dec 2021

    Since Facebook rebranded to Meta, tech and the media have started talking about "the metaverse" as if it's a real thing that already exists. Here's my friendly reminder that it isn't, and doesn't, and won't anytime soon.

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    11 hours ago

    "For the metaverse to be interoperable, it first has to be operable to begin with.” -

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Truly inspiring that even amid a historic pandemic that's grinding the nation to a standstill, the indomitable entrepreneurs of CES are still out there in their booths in half-empty Vegas convention halls hawking skintight metaverse torture vests

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    11 hours ago
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    A great respecter of the Western cannon

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  5. 11 hours ago

    if you're determined to invent a silly latin phrase to dress up another "cancel culture" complaint in fancy intellectual garb, maybe worth at least checking to make sure you spelled the latin word "casus" correctly?

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  6. 12 hours ago

    proud to see my former comrades fighting the good fight--the one for better wages & terms of work for the assistants, producers, and underpaid younger staffers who are the backbone of and pretty much any media company for that matter

    We're currently in our penultimate bargaining session and we're still energized to achieve the measures enumerated in the thread below. These basics aren't . They're common sense, and they'll help us create a more equitable Slate.
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  7. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    brb going shopping in the metaverse

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    The fundamental flaw with social media extremist policy is that violent movements are only banned when they receive attention & public backlash. This means that - on Twitter/Reddit/FB/etc., dangerous extremists are only banned after they've gained support to persist off-platform

    How should we think about Facebook and January 6 — and stories about failures in content moderation more generally? I tried to sort through my feelings
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  9. Jan 4

    If the metaverse becomes a thing, will it obliterate what shards of privacy we still have from maintaining separate identities on discrete social platforms in Web 2.0? Smart point by in this good interview w/ for :

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  10. Jan 4

    Come listen to , , & me talk about the Elizabeth Holmes verdict and what it means for tech and Silicon Valley. Rachel was there pretty much every day of the trial and knows it better than anyone.

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  11. Jan 4

    i am also the bad art friend for being three months late to the art thing everyone was talking about three months ago

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  12. Jan 4

    finally read "bad art friend" and while i'm far too late for the discourse i do have one thing to add, which is that the larson-to-carver comparison is unintentionally perfect in that carver i've been told was the worst art friend of all

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  13. Jan 3

    Holmes convicted on four counts of wire fraud

    Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four counts, not guilty on four counts and there is no verdict on three counts
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  14. Jan 3

    maybe they could covertly obtain an off-the-shelf verdict from a more functional jury and present it as their own?

    the jury says it is unable to reach a verdict on three of the 11 counts
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  15. Jan 3

    "It predicted a shooting that wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t predicted the shooting." on the brutal self-fulfilling prophecies of predictive policing systems:

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  16. Jan 3

    sigh

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  17. Jan 2

    going to bed wondering if we’ll wake up to the school calling a snow day feels the exact opposite as a parent from how it felt as a child

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  18. Dec 31

    this is exactly my level of hope and expectation for 2022 plus a soupçon of existential dread that sooner or later will come a series of years that make 2020 look like a halcyon picnic

    A year can suck butt and still be better than the one prior; 21 just did and I expect 22 to do the same.
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  19. Dec 31

    once every decade or so, just to keep things interesting, the college football title goes to a team outside the southeast, by which i mean ohio state, which a solid 3 hours’ drive north of the nearest SEC school

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  20. Dec 31

    college football is a regional sport. the playoff is the time each year when we briefly pretend that it’s a national sport and let a couple of non-southeastern squads get pummeled on the way to another SEC title

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    31 Dec 2021

    Every time I see threads like this detailing a string of vulnerabilities layered on each other with deception mixed in, I remember the ultimate goal is to get all of the normie users into this world and have them navigate it.

    A few hours ago, a promising token called was airdropped. It was set up as a "year in review" of your Ethereum transaction history. Less than an hour ago, this turned into a painful experience for buyers of the token. Here's how pulled the rug in under 6 hours🧵 1/
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