23 Iyyar 5781 (May 2021) – Page 2

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5781 (Thursday 6 May 2021) · 1 minute to read

Testing native location lookup now that I’ve switched to international.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5781 (Thursday 6 May 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Weird how, for a large chunk of Americans, the masculine ideal went from suppressing emotion and stoically enduring hardship to benefit others to being emotionally needy and complaining that it's so unfair to be asked to inconvenience oneself to help others.
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) May 6, 2021

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5781 (Thursday 6 May 2021) · 1 minute to read

Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world by Siva Vaidhyanathan

The reality is that Trump used Facebook most effectively as an organizing and fundraising tool, not as a platform for ‘posting’

My only response to this is: “Well of course he did.” He was handed an incredibly powerful set of tools coupled with an incredibly easy way to use them. What did people expect would happen?

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5781 (Thursday 6 May 2021) · 0 minutes to read

How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs by Patrick Howell O'Neill

An attack that targeted Apple devices was used to spy on China’s Muslim minority—and US officials claim it was developed at the country’s top hacking competition.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5781 (Thursday 6 May 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Conservatives working with an unclear definition of Critical Race theory is the point. It's not the own you think it is. Most of them think it is the same as the word "woke"--subject to whatever they want it to mean.
— Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey) May 5, 2021

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5781 (Thursday 6 May 2021) · 1 minute to read

Testing to see what happens when I attempt to write a new post, with historical weather API set as my primary option while current data API is set as fallback. Still backfeeding while adding new content.

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