Amanda Unvarnished

The perfect clickbait topic doesn’t exi…

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gift-wrapping-five-oranges-has-outwitted-the-best-minds-in-mathematics-for-generations/

—@codinghorror

I’m hovering your finger over the “record” button on the tape player for three hours, trying to make the perfect mix tape off the radio years old.

—@Skepticat

Just submitted the first build of #openscape, a community revival of #soundscape, a spacial audio navigation app to test flight. Then… Forgot to send this post… Oops. Anyhow I got approval.
That’s the ‘app’ part down… Now I guess the rest is development. #iosdev

—@coffee_nebula

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https://support.freedomscientific.com/Support/TechnicalSupport/Bulletin/1795

—@freedomscientific

Goddamn even if the cops leave the phone locked to view the ID, they’ll just pocket the phone afterwards and “give it back to you when we’re done here” – you willingly handed it over to them, they can keep it.

Now they know you can’t be recording them. You want to hand over the one thing that they know might keep them honest?

Are people just not paying attention? How the fuck can anyone be in favor of this? You want your ID on your phone so bad, get a sticky ID holder and slap it on the back.

—@rodhilton

Here’s a case where a man got shot for reaching for his phone, the officer involved thought it was a gun.

“Hold on sir, don’t unlock that. There have been reports of people triggering explosives with their phones. Hand it to me and give me your passcode.”

This is easy as fuck. I could come up with 10 bullshit excuses to make you unlock your phone in as many minutes.

Don’t give cops a reason to take your phone. Your recording is likely your only protection.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting/index.html

—@rodhilton

You know what you can’t be doing if you hand your phone to a police officer, whether it remains locked on the ID or not?

You can’t be recording the police officer on that phone.

So let me say it real loud for the people at the back who think that the convenience of not carrying a 10mm piece of plastic is worth putting folks who are disproportionately targeted by police in even greater risk:

DO NOT PUT YOUR FUCKING STATE ID ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE.

—@rodhilton