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May 5 · Issue #336 · View online
The best of the tech industry, life optimization, and just plain fun.
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Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You was the standout media from this week - I can’t believe I missed this 2018 movie satirizing the Bay Area and capitalism in general that’s rated 93% on RT and directed by an Oakland activist. Absolutely hilarious, absolutely insightful, makes you both laugh and think. Must watch! Know any other good - ‘so true it hurts’ movies like this? I also finished Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, which predicted both Twitter and Trump though written in 1993 about a post-apocalyptic America that reverts to fundamentalist ideals to ‘help America to be great again’. A worthwhile read, if not especially innovative in the genre. Reads like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road with an empathetic woman as the protagonist.
IRL my friends are all making cool online videochat apps during quarantine - Nexus Events does speed 5 min opt in networking, and Bobble Heads lets you move around your head to hear people better and share screens.
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Giving you a safer experience online
Add this to things Twitter should have out of the box. Let’s you auto block people others have reported as abusive, and more.
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Presently • Group Gifting | Gift Better, Together
Appoint a gift czar to buy something expensive and have everyone else donate money towards that, instead of a dozen cheaper gifts.
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"I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce
Reading Justin Musk’s old tell all after her 2008 divorce with Elon is an interesting read for any SV denizen to get a look instead the billionaire’s messy personal life. “If you were my employee, I’d fire you.”, he said. And now singer Grimes is pregnant with his new child! They met after making the same obscure AI joke on Twitter! :O
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So You’re Going Outside: A Physics-Based Coronavirus Infection Risk Estimator for Leaving the House
Lots of math to tell you exactly how risky going outside is for infection. Good for the overthinkers out there.
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Virtual Dance Party Instructions
Here’s a guide on how to stream music on Twitch, which is all the rage during lockdown. You need a special cord for Macbooks to get the DJ mixer output back into the computer, is the tricky part.
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Distance Disco
Watch a group of dancers and figure out which one is dancing to the same song you are. Fun! What if Spotify had a feature like this that put you in a chatroom with everyone else listening to the same song you are at the same time? Could be fun….
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ai_memes Memes & GIFs - Imgflip
Somehow AI generated memes are almost as good as human ones.
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