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Nish Kumar, British comedian, on people calling him by some other Indian name.
From https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/03/my-name-is-nish-kumar-so-please-stop-calling-me-nish-patel:
"When you make money off my name, you learn my damn name." -
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From Adrienne Crew's latest piece, on time travel fiction. Third installment of ten in her Afrofuturism series on Hilobrow.For an American of African descent, the notion of traveling to the past is a painful one. In no matter which time period a person like me might arrive, if I’m in Europe or a European colony, I might very likely be raped, ( Read more... ) -
PSA to anyone who’s thinking about adopting devs.
From http://phantomrose96.tumblr.com/post/182948728452/psa-to-anyone-whos-thinking-about-adopting-devs:Please spread this. So so so many people are trying to run websites without the slightest idea how to keep a happy, ( Read more... ) -
"Here's what Trevor Noah's hilarious Oscars Wakanda joke actually means"
I do appreciate a good language joke. South Africans, particularly Xhosa-speakers, really seem to have liked this one too ( Read more... ) -
The MBTA Customer Opinion Panel
Have you seen this or signed up for it? It requires either a CharlieCard or a CharlieTicket number, and your responses are linked to that.
From http://mbtabackontrack.com/performance/index.html#/engagement:The MBTA Customer Opinion Panel is a group of ( Read more... ) -
"My left shoe won't even reboot."
At least the firmware update didn't brick the shoes if you're using the iOS app. Just the Android version of Nike Adapt.
(Why would I pay $350 for shoes that need a mobile app for full functionality?)
From Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update:One user writes, "The first software update for the shoe threw an ( Read more... ) -
Giant Chunk of Elevated Subway Crashes Through Windshield of Moving Car
One irrational fear I have when passing under an elevated track is that something will fall on me.
I suppose perhaps it's not that irrational?
65th Street and Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens, underneath the 7 train, this afternoon:
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Apparently vendors of Smart Home devices are under pressure from Amazon and Google to share their data.
From https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3070965/amazon-google-smart-home-trackingGiven that companies like Logitech ( Read more... ) -
Transit user data, law enforcement, and fare collection.
As the MBTA makes its plans for AFC 2.0, its new fare collection system, it's important for all of us to keep privacy and due process in mind with a system that as currently proposed will require a one-to-one correspondence between riders and cards ( Read more... ) -
National Pizza Day
I always did like Sandra Boynton's work.
And now I know what to do today.
#NationalPizzaDay
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