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Day: April 7, 2021
Twitch Will Ban Users For āSevere Misconductā That Occurs Away From Its Site
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Live-streaming service Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the platform, the company said on Wednesday. The Amaz...Read More - Source: Slashdot: Your Rights Online
Technology has turned back the clock on productivity
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Has the economic clock started to run backwards? The defining fact of economic history is that, over time, humans have been able to produce vastly more of whatever goods and services they value. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith had no doubts that the foundation of this dizzying economic growth w...Read More - Source: Tim Harford
Worship Blog 2021-04-07 23:04:41
Man stabbed in Rosemont park
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A man was stabbed Wednesday evening in Rosemont’s PĆØre-Marquette park. That’s pretty much the whole story.Read More - Source: Montreal City Weblog
UQĆM and grad strike deal
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UQĆM and graduate HĆ©lĆØne Boudreau have come to an out-of-court settlement and she will take down any revealing photos that include the university branding.Read More - Source: Montreal City Weblog
Good People Doing Good Things ā¦ Overflowing Love
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There’s so much good in the world. Here’s more from jilldennison.com:
Some weeks putting together the good people post is a challenge, but this week ā¦ I ...
Worship Blog 2021-04-07 22:08:32
The DeskStand delivers an adjustable standing desk experience without a new desk
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Now that the global pandemic is subsiding and the world is slowly reopening, it's probably about time to talk about that subject you've been avoiding until now It's time to ...Read More - Source: Boing Boing
Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare
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Iām excited to announce that on March 1, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific (including Japan and Greater China) to help build and expand Cloudflareās growing ...Read More - Source: The Cloudflare Blog
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SSE Thermal & Equinor Join on Plans for Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Projects
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Equinor and SSE Thermal have today unveiled plans to jointly develop two first-of-a-kind, low-carbon power stations in the UKās Humber region, comprising one of the UKās first power stations with carb... Source: Gulfoilandgas.com Top NewsRead More - Source: Wild Well Entertainment
Sorry, judges, encrypted chat is not like a private thought
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Engadget: “A state judge recently ruled that two of the men who plotted to kidnap Michiganās governor did not make terrorist threats because they used an encrypted chat app to do so. Since federal agencies and lawmakers have been trying to get encrypted comms backdoored by arguing that they ar...Read More - Source: beSpacific
Long Covid isnāt as unique as we thought
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Vox: “…The dominant narrative about long Covid has been that itās a uniquely perplexing feature of Covid-19. Reports of āCovid brain fogā or āCovid dementia,ā for example, suggest a disturbing and extraordinary ability of the coronavirus to destroy the lives of survivors. Even a year lat...Read More - Source: beSpacific
5 Ways to Tap Into Your Smartphoneās Audio Powers
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The New York Times – “A virtual assistant is just one tool that lets you use your voice to share your thoughts, capture a moment or just get things done. It has been a decade since Apple integrated Siri right into its iPhone software and mainstreamed the voice-activated assistant. But th...Read More - Source: beSpacific
Google Illegally Tracking Android Users, According To New Complaint
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schwit1 shares a report from Ars Technica: Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed a complaint against Google in France alleging that the US tech giant is illegally tracking users on Android phones without their consent. Android phones generate unique advertising codes, similar to Apple's Id...Read More - Source: Slashdot: Your Rights Online
Althouseās Commenters
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Ann Althouse closed the comments section on her blog. Here's a note by someone applauding her decision. I confess that I liked the comments section but then I just ...Read More Source: Execupundit.com
Your Moment of Zen
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less than 24 hours apart pic.twitter.com/R4qq54bX94
— Michael (@_FleerUltra) April 7, 2021
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Progress Or Regression?
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On this day, April 7, 1927, the image and voice of then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover was transmitted from Washington DC to New York City.
This was the first successful long-distance demonstration of the television. I recall growing up outside New York City in the 1960s. Ā We had one black and wh...Read More - Source: Mitigating Chaos
assortedfiles: āScully is once again the targeā¦ā
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Scully is once again the target of a teen serial killer. Mulder pretends like he cares more about alien babies than Scully.Read More - Source: Some X-Files (@[email protected])
Stakeholders Advocate Action on Bidenās Infrastructure Plan
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With policymakers aiming to commence consideration of President Joe Bidenās $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan this spring, groups representing every corner of the transportation landscape appear united in their calls for action on Capitol Hill.Read More - Source: Wild Well Entertainment
Letās ā @itsPeteski on instagram
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Daily affirmations, Mr. Joshua (@pants)
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Daily affirmations, Mr. Joshua (@pants)
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