Stefan Tilkov retweeted
Did you know that BP's pr team invented the 'carbon footprint' concept?
Rebecca Solnit makes the essential point about individual versus collective action with her usual trenchant wit. She is smart and good, and everyone should listen to her.
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“Carl Berry, a lecturer in robotics engineering at the UK’s University of Central Lancashire, put things to me in less uncertain terms: ‘[Calling it] horse shit sounds generous, frankly’”
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I agree Commodore definitely played an important role, but so did Apple, Atari, and also IBM and Microsoft and the PC vendors, the latter group particularly because they most successfully blurred the line between private and professional use
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
But remember methods are there just to guide us, and the moment you start treating them as if they are some fundamentalist, sacred text…
Well, then you’re pretty much screwed.
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
"Kein Bock auf Opposition, sexy und solide"... Beim Lesen dieser Zeilen ahne ich, wie sich mein Sohn gefühlt hat, als ich mit dem Longboard unterm Arm seine Geburtstagsparty gecrasht habe und jeden einzelnen von den Dudes mit "Hey Diggah" begrüßt habe.
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
Mastercard is creating stringent rules for how porn sites must verify participants starting October 1st in response to news articles about sex trafficking. Why don’t they do the same about verifying gun purchasers in response to news articles about mass shootings? Is porn worse?
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
The idea that Visa & MasterCard say using our cards to buy nudes is bad but buying AR-15s is OK, is the weirdest manifestation of America’s puritanical streak.
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
Sometimes I reflect on the reality that most of the software on which civilization depends is fragile, built on a chaotic foundation of decaying layers by millions of forgotten souls possessing a wide range of skills, from brilliant to highly suspect.
This is one of those days.
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
Der Weltcomputer braucht Geld! In Teil 1 seiner Artikelserie gibt Euch @larsr_h eine Einführung in die programmierbare #Ethereum-Blockchain. #SmartContracts, #NFT, Bahnhof? Wir starten hier 👉 innoq.com/de/articles/2021/0…
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
No.
a weird thing happened over the past nine months: millions of people actually got into VR (including companies buying headsets for employees)
after years of fizzled hype cycles, is mainstream virtual reality….*actually* around the corner?
nytimes.com/2021/08/19/techn…
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
OnlyFans can’t get investors at a valuation of $1B with $400M in revenue (20% cut of $2B in sales). Any other company would easily get 5x that valuation with that revenue.
However banning porn will kill it like it did Tumblr. Opportunity for a new player.
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Stefan Tilkov retweeted
"Only Fans" ain't shit without sex workers.
Just like Tumblr before it, social media platforms love to use sex workers to launch and rise then ditch them when they want the respectability of the mainstream.
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