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I never thought of a Mad Max mashup with Mario, but now I can’t stop thinking about it.
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Also worth remembering how central GameStop was in gamer culture at the time.
When and I broke the story of Sony rejecting discless plans for the PS4, GME jumped some 13%.
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The idea of the digital tipping point was still very new and uncertain
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The entire Xbox One with Kinect and game sharing experience would have completely changed the ecosystem for the better but y’all let a couple of talking heads create a “draconian drm” and “spy camera” mob and the platform has never fully recovered from the walk back. twitter.com/jezcorden/stat…
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The internet has a new winner.
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This is incredible. Water in the tree trunks freezing from windchills and cracking the wood.
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I'd love to know if any trees have burst or exploded in the sharp #polarvortex outbreak over Maine and the Northeast. In Lamoine, tree trunks were certainly making insanely unnerving cracking noises through the night. More video & context: revkin.substack.com/p/tracking-a-f
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I'm livid. In a meeting today, a colleague referred to the public #humanities as a "hobby." News flash: public-facing scholarship is crucial to the future of all scholarship. It's not lightweight extra fun-times stuff. Dismiss it at the discipline's peril. profession.mla.org/the-hows-and-w
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It was amazing watching report out such important stories about Uber and Lyft while at and I was so glad she had the resources and support to continue digging into them at .
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Lesson 6: Yes, you need a narrative. Data is necessary but not sufficient to convince readers. Story still matters. @darakerr's database of ride-hail carjackings was even more compelling because of Brandy Littrell's story of being shot 7 times. /10
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Lesson 1: Important ≠ secret. Journalists love exposing secrets, but crucial issues are often hiding in plain sight. We chose topics based on # of people were affected, so we spent a year showing Facebook repeatedly failing to keep its promises. /5
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“influencers are swinging back to the accountability between themselves and their audiences.” on the deinfluencing trend that's everywhere on tiktok:
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ICYMI: on the #Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes: Professor Mark Anthony Neal on the debate over the #AP #AfricanAmericanStudies #Curriculum #freespeech vs #woke #indoctrination rate & review
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On this week's episode of Kaleidoscope with @allisonradio, a look at the controversy surrounding the College Board's pilot curriculum for AP African American Studies courses.
@DukeAAAS Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) joins to discuss.
Listen: spoti.fi/40pgUeW
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Musk has said he’ll bring greater transparency to Twitter. So far: 1. API price hike 2. Overdue transparency report 3. Key researcher consortium stalled
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New: Twitter’s decision to paywall its API is drawing blowback from researchers and lawmakers, who say it undermines Elon Musk's pledge to boost transparency on the site. W/ an assist from @Cat_Zakrzewski
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Now, perhaps we could all think of better ways to spend $4.5 billion, but this would take time, and shareholders demand immediate action. So heads must be cut.
But don't be fooled: This is a dumb use of money.
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With the noise of big tech events like this week's #SamsungUnpacked or the next #iPhone launch, it's easy to miss that produces a tremendous amount of deeply reported, important stories. Here are a few:
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Schwartz told rally (via phone) he's been called an "insurectionist" every hour of every day
He says OathKeepers *proved* there was no seditious conspiracy.
(Note: Six of the OathKeepers defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy)
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if you want to get a sense of some of the impact of this change, just look at the quote tweets 💔
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Happy two-year anniversary to the video that best captures the feeling of being alive in the 21st century
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A woman did her regular aerobics class out in open without realizing that a coup was taking place in #Myanmar. A Military convoy reaching the parliament can be seen behind the woman as she performs aerobics. Incredible!
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Apple is the latest tech giant to signal that a period of growth may be coming to an end. reports.
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For no reason whatsoever, here's a list of some fucking awesome shit my team pubbed over the last year or so.
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I initially believed tech layoffs were purely Wall Street driven vs. trying to gain control of the workforce. Now I'm questioning that.
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Apple's iPhone, Mac Sales Fell During The Holidays
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"Harvard Kennedy School is committed to the teaching and study of misinformation and disinformation" - by kicking , one of the leading researchers in the field, to the curb and closing her shop. (Thanks, , for surfacing.)
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JUST IN: Punxsutawney Phil, the famous "weather-predicting" groundhog, furrcast 6 more weeks of winter. But you don’t need Phil to predict when spring will come. (And, he’s only right ~40%)
Signs of spring are here in areas. By & :
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AMD guides to a 10% year-over-year revenue decline for the March quarter, while Intel forecasts a 40% year-over-year revenue drop. One is better than the other
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New cars are horrible.
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In ‘sentences that would make your nan’s head explode’: I can’t update my car because I live on a hill
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Microsoft is reportedly integrating the AI tech underlying ChatGPT into its Bing search engine in a move that might have the potential to serve up a search experience that's superior to Google, according to AI researchers. reports.
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A Brief History of Let’s Get Back to Teaching the Basics
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It lists exposure to drag in the "require to register" section along with acts such as sex traficking of a minor. This is absolutely insane. A person performing the play version of Mrs. Doubtfire could be charged with a felony and forced to register as a sex offender.
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Smartphone Shipments Are Imploding. Is Apple's iPhone Next?
Levi’s 40-inch? Gap 40-inch? Or CK-40-inch?
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At first I figure this was about seriously obese people. But 40 inch waist? That ain't *that* much, is it? twitter.com/WSJ/status/162…
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This Shabbat morning, the toured the Schindler’s Factory Museum in Krakow, Poland. He is seen here viewing names of the more than 1,000 Jews saved through Schindler’s work.
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God. Part of the horror of the Tyre Nichols video - which I’m not sharing - is how what we hear officers say is the opposite of what we see. For ex - the demand to see his hands when they are holding his arms & kicking him. It appears they’re manufacturing a pretext for the stop.
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