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This website has tremendous seniors in high school about to graduate and go our separate way vibes, except the school is also on fire.
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I normally get my flu shut a little later, but got mine after a local MD told me she was seeing a lot of pretty ill flu patients, high fever, etc.
This year's vaccine is a good match, too!
Great time to get it along wit updated Covid vaccine. Helps rotect yourself and others.
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Looks like we are looking at a potentially early #flu season, per these @CDCgov fluview graphs. Remember it takes 2 weeks for the #fluvaccine to take full effect. #GetVaccinated
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Hundreds of people are dying every day and there’s finally a very effective vaccine that’s well matched to the currently circulating variant…and people don’t know about it. Embarrassing failure of leadership and media
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Starting to get a sense of the public's understanding of, and demand for, the new bivalent Covid booster:
-1/2 of adults have heard little or nothing about the new booster
-4 in 10 fully vaccinated adults not sure if CDC recommends the booster for them
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At 1:00 pm today, I'll join and several other members of Congress to call on the Archivist to follow the law and recognize that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified.
Watch:
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Today I met with officials in Helsinki, which has had a ~75% drop in road deaths over the last thirty years (including recent years with no ped/cyclist deaths at all).
Me: “How much of a role has IT played in reducing crashes?”
City official: “Zero. We simply slowed down cars.”
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NEW! @USDOT is seeking your feedback on a critical topic – Intersection Safety. See “Enhancing the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users at Intersections” and see how you can contribute bit.ly/3QIiJgY
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I do not know what software web3 will be built with, but web4 will be built with static html
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Why is Gen Z writing retro pixel game engines instead of learning labor-intensive low level graphics accelerator APIs? Labor experts call the phenomenon “quiet blitting”,
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“No U.S. diplomats have been killed this year, anywhere in the world,” he said. “But three U.S. State Department officials have died in the Washington area — all hit by vehicles. Two have been hit on bikes. One was right here.”
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Hello 👋. Me performing well had nothing to do with national politics. My Team ran a great campaign that spoke to people about the issues they care about and was rooted in values-based, compassionate leadership. ☀️☀️☀️
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.@ChmnMendelson beat Erin Palmer in the Democratic primary by just under 7 percentage points. Was he expecting it to be that close?
"I would say no. But it's also clear that right now we're in a great period of voter dissatisfaction."
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DC must do more to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe. This ain't it.
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Looks like @MurielBowser immediately sent the fire hose in to wash of the names of the dead off the street. Wish she was the responsive to actually preventing the deaths :( #bikeDC #VisionZero
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Early on I wondered if there might eventually be something to NFTs. But this is just incomprehensible. Getting further and further from anything useful.
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If you make a NFT of a real diamond, and the diamond itself gets destroyed in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same asset.
Because the token still exists and is in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed.
What NFT is doing to the concept of asset, few understand.
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This is really good advice: if you work on digital projects, grab screenshots of them and stash them somewhere. I know from experience that if you don't do this you'll regret it ten years later!
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you should take more screenshots: alexwlchan.net/2022/07/screen
digital work is ephemeral, and I’ve found screenshots to be the easiest way to preserve the memories of my creativity
looking through them reminds of the fun, silly, and interesting things I’ve worked on
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Very excited to announce that Industry Dive will be acquired by Informa, one of the best events and media companies out there. Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere 🙂
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Today, we have entered into an agreement to be acquired by @InformaTechHQ. Excited to bring our award-winning business journalism, audience development and marketing capabilities to Informa's portfolio of specialist B2B brands. Read more at dive.pub/3PEoEmY
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Them: Can you change the text of this button?
Me: Sure it'll just take a couple minutes
Them: Actually, can you A/B test the changes? We want to be data-driven.
Me: I'll need a data analyst, 2 vendor integrations, 2 sprints, and about 500% more visitors than we have today
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Supreme Court my ass
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Congratulations for installing Lisp on your Switch! We will now refer to your joycons individually as joycar and joycdr
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Our Sunday Review cover this week:
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Sigh. If they want to allow end-to-end encryption, as they claim, then providers *can't* access the content. That's how end-to-end encryption works. If they can, it's not end-to-end (and it's inherently more complex and less secure).
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"We want a backdoor, but we don't want just *anyone* to be able to use it. Only us good guys."
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Nothing beats the VR feelin' that you get when playing Descent. ↯94DEC
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So many have worked so hard on this trial with the goal to protect kids. should give the EUA the urgent priority review it deserves. Parents and pediatricians can make informed decisions based on the data.
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We're announcing that we have submitted a request for #EUA for our #COVID19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) in children 6 months to under 2 years and 2 years to under 6 years of age to the U.S. FDA, and that similar requests are underway with international regulatory authorities.
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44 years ago tonight, April 22, 1978, The Blues Brothers made their world debut on "Saturday Night Live"….back when SNL was funny.
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Not having to wear a mask on the plane but still having to take your shoes off at the TSA checkpoint is peak failure to assess risk.
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A great celebration of journalism tonight - our newsroom won 9 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals across different categories in the regional awards.
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This is real. This is not a partisan thing. This isn’t something you can afford to ignore right now.
Not just companies, but individuals, too. Enable 2-factor authentication everywhere you can. Install the latest updates on your computers and mobile devices. Beware of phishing.
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Since day one, @POTUS prioritized strengthening cybersecurity defenses to prepare our nation for any threats. While we continue do everything in our power to defend against and respond to threats, we urge companies to execute security steps. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
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Congress literally passed a $782,000,000,000 Pentagon budget this month.
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Another reason for #DCStatehood:
DC was shortchanged $100s of millions in FY 22 earmarks because DC doesn’t have any senators to request earmarks, even though DC residents pay the same federal taxes as state residents — in fact, the highest per capita in the US.
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Americans are tired of changing their clocks twice a year. When winter comes, nobody wants to be sitting in the dark. Let’s make Daylight Savings Time permanent and free ourselves from this outdated ritual.
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Every web developer has their "but what if I made my own CMS for this project?" phase at least once
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🚨I wrote about immunocompromised people—what they’ve been through, their frustrations, and their hopes.
This is a plea to think about those who don’t get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter of moral and medical urgency. 1/
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DO THE BEST YOU CAN THIS WEEK.
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being an SRE is just asking "is that localtime or UTC" over and over until you retire
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cryptocurrencies? uh, no.
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Let me see if I have this straight:
web1: capitalized HTML tags
web2: CSS border-radius
web3: pyramid schemes
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Ten years ago this week , , and I were building desks, struggling to get a DC business license, and officially launched Industry Dive.
Not sure anyone can describe the mixture of excitement and desperation that comes from quitting a paycheck to start something
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DC should lead the nation in . Do it for Allison, for Zy’aire, for every family that has experienced the trauma of having one of these written: ddot.dc.gov/page/fatal-cra.
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Perspective: At 5, she was killed riding her bike in a crosswalk. Her legacy should be safer streets. wapo.st/3q5mSQF
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I can't think of anyone who has had a better year than the QR code. What a comeback.
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