Month: October 2017
October 15, 2017
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I’m hiring music-loving freelance writers to write 500+ words about their fav albums.
DMs are open or ken@schafer.com.
RTs appreciated.
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It’s kind of weird that Apple put a phone in Watch before they put one in iPad.
October 14, 2017
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Yessss! I am now a proud patron of Joshua on @patreon, and you should be too: #NewPatron
https://patreon.com/falseknees?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=tyshare2
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Fighting the Cowardice of Cynicism
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Dutch Tulip Fever? Not what you think it was.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
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In praise of “Hard SF”
https://io9.gizmodo.com/its-time-to-start-reading-hard-science-fiction-again-1464532911
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Life has been on Earth for a REALLY long time.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/scientists-discover-some-of-the-oldest-signs-of-life-on-earth/541251/
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We are NOT living in a computer simulation.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation
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Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-smart-people-do-foolish-things/
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“The study really discredits the idea of a biological construct of race”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/a-brief-history-of-the-genes-that-color-our-skin/542694/
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Are Audiences Too Lazy to Appreciate ‘Blade Runner 2049’
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The Noir Fairytale of Baby Driver
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/07/29/once-upon-a-pair-of-wheels-the-noir-fairytale-of-baby-driver
October 12, 2017
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I’ve seen photos of this, but didn’t know there was film footage. Chilling.
(1939, when 20,000 nazis gathered at Madison Square Garden) https://t.co/NeQzddsFjM pic.twitter.com/hbVgAbGvHX
— Craig Mod (@craigmod) October 12, 2017
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It’s a stay inside and listen to Fleet Foxes kind of morning in Toronto.
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I loathe hypocrisy
October 10, 2017
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Blade Runner 2049 was visually stunning but light on plot. I loved it.
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It’s so fucking embarrassing being a man.
🤦🏻♂️
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🎙 “Now we can swim any day in November…” 🎙
October 9, 2017
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💯
One way for Twitter to stem fraud without squelching speech: Add a ⚠️ to parody account names – like an inverse blue checkmark.
— Ivor Tossell (@ivortossell) October 9, 2017
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Landing rocket engines on aquatic drone ships is one of those gee whiz futuristic things that still amaze me.
Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Just Read the Instructions. pic.twitter.com/CS40cSiqSP
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 9, 2017
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October 8, 2017
October 7, 2017
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Catalonia and Scotland: how incompetence births nations – The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/catalonia-and-scotland-how-incompetence-births-nations/article36513031/
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I just backed THUNDER ROAD on @Kickstarter
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Deer Squad | Scenery on Vimeo
October 6, 2017
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My Pilgrimage to a Viral Holy Site: The Little Caesars of Passaic, New Jersey
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/searching-for-ghosts-of-the-past-at-a-nj-little-caesars.html
October 5, 2017
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2017 Craft Beer Branding Trends
October 4, 2017
October 3, 2017
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“Miles of Algae” is probably my least favourite Emerson Lake and Palmer album.
Miles of Algae Covering Lake Erie https://t.co/eEikjRPWEg
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 3, 2017