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Jason Snell
@jsnell
Tech journalist and podcaster. (Not really interacting here anymore. See pinned post for info about how to reach me.)
Monkeyhouse, Mill Valley, CA
Joined February 2007
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    Good places where you can interact me: Six Colors, Incomparable, Relay FM, TWiT member Discords (join today!) jsnell at zeppelin dot flights on Mastodon snell dot zone on Bsky jsnell at threads
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    I did this and I'm not sorry
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    Exactly this. Disney's argument is that a corporation can make a contract with someone, then launder it through a second corporation, at which point it no longer needs to uphold the obligations of the contract. Amazing stuff. #DisneyMustPay
    The comparison made was that if they are allowed to do this, it could mean any company could sell works they had contracted to a sibling company and thus rid themselves of the pesky need to pay the creator they had contracted with.
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    Animoji karaoke is sweeping the nation
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    Congratulations to the @49ers on their great victory over the children of Santa Clara County.
    The @49ers won a significant tax victory, successfully appealing in getting the the tax on Levi's Stadium cut 50%. That means an immediate $31 mil refund, and $6 mil lower tax bill each year. the county said this will cause a big cut in educational funding
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    To image a black hole they needed half a ton of hard drives containing five petabytes of data. The fastest way to transfer that data? Airplane. An airplane data transfer from Mauna Kea to Massachusetts would have a data rate of roughly 14GB per second.
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    George Will: "The person voters hired in 2016 to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed' stood in front of police and urged them 'please don’t be too nice' when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement."
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    This Mac, which my wife used throughout college, came back to life today.
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    Oh now that I'm no longer under embargo, enjoy this message I got last week!
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    Replying to @SnazzyLabs
    This is wrong, the iPhone X was just released a year or two ago
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    Phil Schiller did say he wanted to work on some new hobbies
    Yo, the Front Page Tech channel was somehow hacked. @TeamYouTube - help ASAP
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    Boy, remember when they made death threats against Roger Ebert when he said video games weren't art? No? Oh that's right, they didn't.
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    here's a shot of the back of the iPhone 12 clear case with MagSafe
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    THE AND THE FAST FURIOUS