#Phone

Mencius Moldbugman

moldbugman

Starting to formulate a theory that I’m tentatively terming “Techno-Crapitalism”: the tyranny of half-broken technology dictating your lives for capitalist gains; immiserating the consumer-user in the process. Some examples:You attemp

Stephanie H Convery

gingerandhoney

After they closed in March, staff from Melbourne’s Yarra Plenty libraries pulled from their database the phone numbers of every library member over the age of 70 – 16,000 records

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist Karl Jansky was born #OTD in 1905. While searching for the source of radio hiss that interfered with transatlantic phone calls for Bell Labs, he discovered that astrophysical objects

O.V.A.tion's™

Dre_Ova

Stupid but GeniusThread...1. A shoe hackIs your electric socket too high for your short charger cable? Worry no more! All you need is a shoe with string 2. Multipurpose buckleYour

Matthew Green

matthew_d_green

The boring answer very likely is that police *aren’t* guessing suspects’ passcodes. They’re relying on the fact that the owner probably typed it in. Not *after* the phone is seized,

Nir Eyal

nireyal

1/ What really prompts you to compulsively look at your phone, or scroll a social media feed? 2/ If you think about it for a second, you’ll realize the trigger

Chief Manifestation Engineer

WWMCME

1-Friends, ready to turn your mind inside-out?Much of our world is inverse, hence why it feels so insane.Still think we're trying to ascend?Try this thought on and see how it

Charles Bethea

charlesbethea

A few notes from my long strange Wood call this evening. To start, he was holed up in his bedroom watching OAN. I could hear a segment on human trafficking

David Mordecai 🌈

liminal67

The 96 year-old-woman whose Power of Attorney for Care I hold just called. Two months ago we (she also has a separate POA for property) hired caregivers to come in

Rohan Mendiratta

_rohanm

On marketers, newsletters, and unknown callers.A mini thread. We have a love-hate relationship with newsletters. We love to read our favourite ones (s/o _@sairamkrishnan). But when it comes to creating

Brian Koppelman

briankoppelman

This is a Sean Connery story. 2004. Before @davidlevien and I wrote Ocean's Thirteen. Long before Billions. We had a VERY modest office--a tiny studio apartment off second avenue in

Septic Peg

PegSeptic

Covid & how you may be feeling... a thought thread. Local restrictions lead to frustration & uncertainty, we are as humans emotionally unprepared for the detrimental effects of biological diseases.

Alex Harrison

alexhairysun

MAJOR updates on the FOIA requests @whereisourtent and I made to various orgs involved in the deployment of NIPAS officers to @copsoutofNU protests. What we thought was us being frozen

F R A N K L I N

FMFking

You guys use the phrase, "African parents", mostimes to create the impression that African parents are barbarians. Try sometimes to use it in defining love. I just watched the video

N8👑

SculptYourMind

How to Live Through Your Body While Stuck in Your Head// Thread // Living through your body is not a permanent fix but, in situations where you feel trapped living

kylie⁷

cuddlesjk

i’m from hong kong and protesters here have some of the smartest tactics when fighting with our own police brutality. Here is an example of how they put out tear

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