Late-evening Twitter poetry from Tom Brokaw after blurting out his opinions concerning hispanic immigrants' "failure" to "assimilate". There's speculation that he's been hacked – "This cannot be real," writes Soledad O'Brien – but a look at his timeline suggests that Brokaw is just at the perihelion of boomer twitter. The light and heat of social media's burning sun blasts each generation's neurons a different way.
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Jan 28, 2019
Good tweet from Tom Brokaw's account after bad ideas about hispanics
Washington Examiner's twitter account: Trump going to hell
They surely got hacked, but some of those guys are on the strong stuff and you just never know what happens when you mix high-proof conservatism with Jesus and give everyone unlimited access to the Twitter account. Update: The Examiner said their feed was hacked and a tweet was posted that did not come from […]
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Twitter publishes tweet archive of Russian and Iranian state-run troll farms
To enable “further research of information operations on Twitter”, the company today published a dataset of tweets posted by known Russian and Iranian troll farms. In line with our strong principles of transparency and with the goal of improving understanding of foreign influence and information campaigns, we are releasing the full, comprehensive archives of the […]
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Live-blogging Trump's mental breakdown
As the Cohen and Manafort news blows up, we’ve got Jackhammer Jill watching the Orange Menace’s twitter feed like a hawk. When the blowhard begins to melt down, we’ll post tweets and analysis here. Earlier this afternoon, Michael Cohen, in a courtroom in New York, under oath, declared that President Donald Trump “directed” him to […]
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Work towards becoming a certified project manager with this training bundle
Breaking into the big leagues as a project manager isn’t done overnight, but there are principles that anyone can learn, and they’re applicable to nearly any business. No matter what your field, if there are multiple teams working toward a common goal, you’re going to need a roadmap. The Project Management Professional Certification Training Suite […]
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Save over 25% on this open source portable gaming console
On the one hand, nostalgia is “a corruption of the historical impulse,” according to William Gibson. On the other hand, “Super Mario Bros.” will never not be cool. Luckily, there’s a way to satisfy that retro gaming while still keeping an eye on the future: The GameShell Kit. This thing is simultaneously the last handheld […]
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Boost your data analytics skills with this master class on Tableau
The field of data analytics can get intimidating, even for business professionals who constantly rely on it. But at its heart, its purpose is to simplify. To take mounds of information and distill their insights into a single clear picture. Currently, the go-to software for painting that picture is Tableau. And if you want to […]
