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Thomas Baekdal
@baekdal
Author, Professional Writer, Magazine Publisher, and Media Analyst.
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Joined April 2008
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    Just a quick note: I am permanently off Twitter. I'm not coming back. Instead, you can connect with me here. Linkedin (professional): linkedin.com/in/baekdal/ Mastodon (mixed): mastodon.social/@baekdal Instagram (personal): instagram.com/baekdal/
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    I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top
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    One of the problems with Hollywood today is that all the movie editors are now using HDR screens with 1000 nits brightness, and they don't realize that they are making every movie and TV show way too dark to see. Take this example... how the f... will you be able to watch this?
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    Danish news site reminds people of being skeptical of how news photographers take pictures. Here is the same place, one picture taken with a zoom lense, and the other with a wide-angle lense: nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-0…
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    Replying to @baekdal
    My gaming laptop has 300 nits maximum brightness... and, during the day, it has become impossible to watch many TV shows and movies ... I have to wait until it's dark and turn off all lights. This was never a problem in the past.
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    Replying to @baekdal
    And here is what it looks like adjusted... but there was so little color information left that it's basically impossible to correct.
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    Replying to @baekdal
    Here I have opened this up in my photo editor, and you can see that the colors/brightness of this entire scene has been completely crushed.
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    Replying to @AdreanCG
    Look at the final image on my laptop. I can't even see the people...
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    And just like that, the White House becomes a fake news site.
    Replying to @markberman
    The White House site now says that "killings have risen by 50%" in D.C. That is incorrect. They were up in 2015, down in 2016.
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    One of the problems in my country (Denmark) is that everyone has decided that COVID doesn't exist anymore, and part of the reason is that if you just look at the data, it doesn't look that bad. But this is deceptive, and let me explain why.
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    Okay, Zuckerberg is definitely preparing to run for President in 2020...
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    Replying to @baekdal
    In other words, both the health authorities and the Danish press is misleading the public about this. This is not a 'small' part. It's the opposite. It still means that the majority of people are hospitalized because of COVID. If we put this into a graph, it looks like this:
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    Replying to @baekdal
    To all the people now saying "It's not the same people" ... look again:
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    I want to make a very important point. A narrative here in Denmark is that we can't trust hospitalizations because only some of the hospitalizations are because of COVID, while others are just people with broken arms who then also happen to have COVID.