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  1. Today I'm starting on Eyes Wide Open by noreenahertz and I've pre-ordered her book The Lonely Century.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      "If we do not want to be victims of a future that others dictate to us, we need to get better at making choices with our eyes wide open, our brains switched on."
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        "In 1984, just as email was beginning to enter the main- ream, Jacob Palme, a computer scientist from the QZ Computer Centre at the University of Stockholm [...], warned that 'electronic mail system, if used by many people, causes severe information overload problems'."
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          "Indeed, so aware is the US Army of the medium's powers of evasion that it intentionally deploys PowerPoint when briefing the media, a tactic known as 'hypnotising chickens!"
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