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A heartbeat away… isn’t that what they say? If that would happen Sweden, my home country, would look even worse on this list.

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/2021/01/07/1954/ /2021/01/07/1954/#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:15:37 +0000 /2021/01/07/1954/

Day 1 vs. Day 1,448 pic.twitter.com/OohffkCQrc

— 11th Hour (@11thHour) January 6, 2021

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/2020/11/09/1947/ /2020/11/09/1947/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:43:59 +0000 /2020/11/09/1947/ The Trump campaign’s last stand ]]> /2020/11/09/1947/feed/ 0 1947 /2019/11/13/1771/ /2019/11/13/1771/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:22:23 +0000 /2019/11/13/1771/ Berliners are trolling Trump by shipping him a 2.7-ton piece of the Berlin Wall ]]> /2019/11/13/1771/feed/ 0 1771 /2019/11/07/1770/ /2019/11/07/1770/#respond Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:25:10 +0000 /2019/11/07/1770/ Tech and Liberty

Kill the algorithm

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/2019/10/31/1767/ /2019/10/31/1767/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:11:31 +0000 /2019/10/31/1767/ We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…?” (Jack Dorsey).

Finally some good news from Twitter.

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/2019/07/22/1740/ /2019/07/22/1740/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:59:00 +0000 /2019/07/22/1740/ Highlights from In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Reading it, I couldn’t help but notice several parallels between what was happening in 1933 & 1934 as Hitler worked to establish an authoritarian government in Germany and some of the actions of our current government and its President here in the US. If you think that sort of statement is hyperbolic, I urge you to read on and remember that there was a time when Nazi Germany and its rulers seemed to its citizenry and to the world to be, sure, a little extreme in their methods, fiery in their rhetoric, and engaged in some small actions against certain groups of people, but ultimately harmless…until they weren’t and then it was too late to do anything.

Here’s everything I highlighted on my Kindle presented with some light commentary…much of it speaks for itself and the parallels are obvious. I apologize (slightly) for the length, but this book provided a very interesting look at the Nazi regime before they became the world’s canonical example of evil” (Jason Kottke).

Read this summary!

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/2019/04/10/1692/ /2019/04/10/1692/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2019 06:08:19 +0000 /2019/04/10/1692/ Commander in cheat? Donald Trump’s 18 golf tournament wins examined

In an extract from his book on Donald Trump and golf, Rick Reilly explains why the president’s game can tell us more about him than a roomful of psychologists” (The Guardian).

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/2018/09/18/1592/ /2018/09/18/1592/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:20:44 +0000 /?p=1592 How Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will become President ]]> /2018/09/18/1592/feed/ 0 1592 /2018/09/10/1589/ /2018/09/10/1589/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:13:48 +0000 /2018/09/10/1589/ The Swedish election–which I, of course, dutifully voted in–resulted in an almost perfect tie. There is something to say for the UK style first-past-the-post voting principle.

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