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    1. Playdate Update - 6/8/2021

      @Playdate: Hi. Are you ready for a ✨#PlaydateUpdate✨?We have a lot to catch up on. Our first-ever video update has details on Season One, future games, some surprises and info on future pre-orders. Please join us!🗓 Premieres Tuesday, June 8th at 9:00 AM PDT➡️ https://t.co/cfSNsgTqeQ pic.twitter.com/dSClZQmkUy

      11 votes
    2. FOSS and UX (twitter thread)

      @Kavaeric: Let's walk through this, shall we?Say we've decided to make a new FOSS word processor. Call it, I dunno, Libra-Office or O-Pan-Office. Just a thought. Word processors, as you might guess, are also a fairly entrenched market.Who's our target audience?

      26 votes
    3. YouTube experimenting with removal of public dislike count

      @YouTube: 👍👎 In response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count. If you're part of this small experiment, you might spot one of these designs in the coming weeks (example below!). pic.twitter.com/aemrIcnrbx

      23 votes
    4. A story about losing $10M on a to-do list startup

      @Andrew Wilkinson: This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.Ten. Million. Dollars.Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.That's enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.Here's what happened...

      14 votes
    5. Avant-garde perfume recommendations

      @C Thi Nguyen: If you're looking for some weird aesthetic exploration to fight off the COVID boredom blues, can I recommend: avant-garde perfume. No, really. First:1. Not all perfume is cloying mall crap. There's world of indie, experimental weird-ass perfume. 2. It's cheap.Thread:

      14 votes
    6. NHS staff create videos in many different languages to discuss the importance of covid vaccination for people with diabetes

      @Partha Kar: To tackle the issues of #Vaccine uptake in those from ethnic minority population,I am joining hands with many colleagues to create a series of videos - specifically for those with #Diabetes First up? @alkapandey08 in Gujarati 🙏🏽Please use and cascade as you can pic.twitter.com/PpAY49lj6l

      11 votes
    7. Jimmy Bernot PhD - Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with fifty parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study

      @Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️‍🌈: Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study. Check out this thread & follow me for more #parasite & marine biology content [t]#ScienceTwitter imgs: https://t.co/hH5YsfS0ay https://t.co/kVurE6BbTS pic.twitter.com/l75h5XcNfl

      Twitter: Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️‍🌈
      10 votes
    8. Animation representing the global annual temperature anomaly over time, discretised by month, from 1880–2020

      @Scott Duncan: Wait for it...Our planet is pulsing warmer and warmer. 2020 will serve as a stark reminder that our climate is continuing to rapidly change.Each bar of colour represents a month of global temperature as we loop through 140 years of data from 1880 to 2020.[THREAD] pic.twitter.com/geNg2kDeYd

      13 votes
    9. Tim Cook responds to Facebook on Twitter: "[..] Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, [..] we just require that they ask for your permission first."

      @Tim Cook: We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it's used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. pic.twitter.com/UnnAONZ61I

      13 votes
    10. The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser

      @Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H

      13 votes
    11. This graph shows that measuring #SARSCoV2 levels in municipal sewage almost perfectly predicts forthcoming #COVID19 cases with a full week's notice (R=0.994)

      @brennanspiegel: This graph is amazing. It shows that measuring #SARSCoV2 levels in municipal sewage almost perfectly predicts forthcoming #COVID19 cases with a full week's notice (R=0.994). It's one of several discoveries in this new study from @Yale: https://t.co/hZVdXebx2D. C-19 is #InThePoop

      15 votes
    12. Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away

      @emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40

      9 votes
    13. SCOPETREX vector gaming on your oscilloscope!

      @tubetimeus: announcing the SCOPETREX -- the vector gaming console for your oscilloscope or XY monitor! ever wanted to buy a Vectrex, but can't afford the high prices on auction sites? well now you can build your own! full design files at https://t.co/hHAbFwwePE

      4 votes
    14. COVID ( @UCSF ) Chronicles, Day 2

      @bob_wachter: COVID (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 2 The response to post #1 was gratifying, so I'll make this a daily digest...of life inside @ucsf/@ucsfhospitals as we begin managing growing # of #COVID19 pts. Pic below: a few principles I'll follow for these posts. Today's issues follow...(1/10)

      4 votes
    15. Mozilla's outgoing content design lead is tweeting his artwork

      @mart3ll: My Mozilla Design Journey ________________ Alright folks, this thread will travel through 141Gb of design files from 2006-2020. Some of the early work will be cringe-worthy, but hopefully this will show how a designer's skills progress over time. Let's get started!

      14 votes
    16. Drive-through nation

      @skybrian: You know what we need right now? Drive-through nation. Imagine @Walmart and Costco converting to drive-through only. You put in your order somehow and wait in the car. Workers wearing masks and gloves take stuff off shelves. It would actually create jobs.

      4 votes
    17. Play Chess against GPT-2

      @theshawwn: I am preparing to release a notebook where you can play chess vs GPT-2. If anyone wants to help beta test it: 1. visit https://t.co/CpWrFvtnY2 2. open in playground mode 3. click Runtime -> Run All 4. Scroll to the bottommost cell and wait 6 minutes If you get stuck, tell me.

      5 votes
    18. The voice at Embankment Tube station

      @garius: It is election season. The world is busy and rubbish. But it is also Christmas. So take a breather and let me tell you a story about London, trains, love and loss, and how small acts of kindness matter. I'm going to tell you about the voice at Embankment Tube station.

      5 votes