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New decade, new nonsense

Fyi, the `is` operator does not work for comparing large integers. try:
>>> x = 3
>>> y = 3
>>> x is y
True
>>> x = 60124
>>> y = 60124
>>> x is y
False

— Oren Watson #AntiNFT (@0renWatson) April 18, 2022

🤦 Imagine shipping a $1599 monitor then promptly forgetting it exists, accidentally discontinuing its OS https://t.co/7UvcDIIDIt

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) April 11, 2022

US-based product designers:
Have you ever seen a non-US keyboard?

My keyboard doesn't have buttons with [ and ] so I can't use these shortcuts.

A quick fix: let users customize keyboard shortcuts

A better solution: provide shortcut sets that work on different keyboard types pic.twitter.com/ypdY8v8tfW

— Fredrik Matheson (@movito) April 7, 2022

even the tiny interactions with Xfinity are just purpose-built to make you as mad as humanly possible pic.twitter.com/lsjynyxGPM

— Cara (@caraesten) April 5, 2022

“Other banned keywords include terms like ‘ethics,’ ‘freedom,’ ‘diversity,’ & ‘fairness.’”

You might be thinking: “this is concerning.” But you can’t type it, because that phrase is banned too. https://t.co/taQwGVgzlo

— Mar Hicks (@histoftech) April 4, 2022

Just gave a talk about how surveillance technologies turn sex workers’ everyday lives into what is basically roulette, where they have no idea what digital tools or apps they’ll still have access to from one day to the next. One of many, many examples: https://t.co/68rczwouk9

— reading gramsci (@whoreganizer) April 4, 2022

My GPS just made a mistake and the voice said “sorry about that” and then it switched to a different persons voice for the rest of the trip??? Did…the robot…get fired??

— Lucy Huber (@clhubes) April 3, 2022

I'm debating if I include, like, ten seconds of a music video clip's audio in an upcoming video and thought I'd check what the official policy is on fair use. They provide a video to explain that, which has been apparently blocked for a copyright claim, so I can't watch it pic.twitter.com/TPMdp6G0eO

— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) April 1, 2022

Researchers Used a Decommissioned Satellite to Broadcast Hacker TV https://t.co/IokT7sJ3FK

— TL Jordan (@dulcedemon) March 31, 2022

Twitter's confirmed (see thread) that embeds of deleted tweets will no longer have the contents of the tweet as a blockquote. As Kevin points out, this renders unreadable every news article that embedded a tweet from the former US President that got suspended from its platform 🙃 https://t.co/VUsuzXi1f6

— there are 25 blimps (@ckolderup) March 29, 2022

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