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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 30 Sep 2015

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Dr. Sarah Wishart

    Wow, that’s all kinds of wrong.https://twitter.com/sarahwishart/status/649453654831984640 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    Dr. Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart
    @aral have you seen this http://forthepeeple.com/ 
    10:23 PM - 30 Sep 2015
    • 14 Retweets
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    • Michael Farrell What's on your mind, Claudio? Dražen 🎃 Anneke Nunn Karlo Herschel Krabovskie Emily Bick Tim Turner TheAlex
    8 replies 14 retweets 12 likes
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      2. Dr. Sarah Wishart‏ @sarahwishart 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I've never seen an app thats made me feel this horrified!

        3 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @sarahwishart

        @sarahwishart In some ways, it’s good: it’s the extreme cases that make people think (like the malignant hedge fund pharmaceutical guy)

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Herschel Krabovskie‏ @herschkie 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral sound like EXACTLY WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING WITH EVERY FUCKING APP OUT THERE but no one cares until someone rubs it into our faces 💖

        1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @herschkie

        @herschkie Exactly.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Pete Hotchkiss‏ @petehotchkiss 1 Oct 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @herschkie I’m holding onto a thin thread that this is actually a massive social experiment to prove dangers of our “digital selves"

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Herschel Krabovskie‏ @herschkie 1 Oct 2015
        Replying to @petehotchkiss

        @petehotchkiss @aral in a cosmic sense, you might just have described one aspect of how the universe evolves, at least we both are believers

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Seb Lee-Delisle‏Verified account @seb_ly 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral "we love you enough to give you this gift" Unbelievable arrogance.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @seb_ly

        @seb_ly Smells like Silicon Valley to me.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Seb Lee-Delisle‏Verified account @seb_ly 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral that's what I was thinking.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Tim Pastoor‏ @timpastoor 1 Oct 2015
        Replying to @seb_ly

        @seb_ly @aral It's so wrong that I'm afraid people will like and use it.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. End of conversation
      1. Jeremy Saunders‏ @jeremyrsaunders 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral anyone can review you if they have your phone number, and you can't remove yourself... sounds promising

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      2. Michael Aldridge‏ @glidepro 5 Oct 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @sarahwishart well there's one train of thought...http://www.newsweek.com/was-peeple-just-joke-379706 …

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Dr. Sarah Wishart‏ @sarahwishart 5 Oct 2015
        Replying to @glidepro

        @glidepro @aral Yes I tweeted a snopes post about it a few days ago saying there were loads of holes in the story - hard to know to what end

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Michael Aldridge‏ @glidepro 5 Oct 2015
        Replying to @sarahwishart

        @sarahwishart @aral perhaps an elaborate attempt at validating the idea!?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Dr. Sarah Wishart‏ @sarahwishart 5 Oct 2015
        Replying to @glidepro

        @glidepro @aral well possibly - I've seen something else that suggests the creator has reworked it - so maybe they were just clueless

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Michael Aldridge‏ @glidepro 5 Oct 2015
        Replying to @sarahwishart

        @sarahwishart @aral we live in hope! well, they've certainly had a response...

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      1. Karlo‏ @JayCrow07 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral oh lord

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      1. Michael Aldridge‏ @glidepro 30 Sep 2015
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        @aral only the vacuous will be signing up to this - hopefully! Though the fact that you can't quit or remove yourself from the service...!

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      2.  🎅🏻 Victor Hopman  🎄‏ @vic23 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @ThomasMarzano @sarahwishart This is really creepy, must be a jokepic.twitter.com/iHEMTyaTCM

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Karlo‏ @JayCrow07 30 Sep 2015
        Replying to @vic23

        @vic23 @aral @sarahwishart super scary

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