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“What are you most thankful for?”

This is how you do it. [Starts at 18:30 mark]

Pretty normal pre-game press conference from Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel…there’s usually a gem in each, & his notion of gratitude & responsibility to everyone around him has been a consistent vibe since he took over the team.

[via] Why Every Twitter User Should Archive and Lock Down Their Data

“Now is a good time to take steps to lock down your Twitter account, grab what data you can, review where you’re using Twitter to sign in to other online services, and delete anything you’d rather not live on a site that may be on its last legs. Taking these steps could protect you from identity theft or private messages being made public. And for activists or journalists in repressive countries, archiving and locking down Twitter data could be even more essential.”

Source: NY Times: Why Every Twitter User Should Archive and Lock Down Their Data | Wirecutter

Where will newly unemployed ‘tech workers’ go?

This:

“It has become fashionable for VCs to talk about how all these tech companies are overstaffed,” wrote Emily Mazo, an organizer with the labor advocacy group Collective Action in Tech, in an email. “Any of the workers who just got laid off will likely tell you that they were in fact understaffed, that they were working much more than 40 hours a week even before half their teams were fired, and that they have long lists of things they wanted to build but didn’t have the hands for. But workers are the first ones to be hurt in a downturn moment.”

Source: via SLATE: Amazon, Facebook, Twitter layoffs: Where will newly unemployed tech workers go?

[via] Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man?

“One of Vonnegut’s most famous lines is from 1961’s Mother Night: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Vonnegut often pretended to be nicer than he was, which was good for both his ego and his income.”

Source: Dorian Lynskey in UnHerd: Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man?

Ex Libris: The Locked Room

  • Author(s): Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
  • Acquired: 1993 (ish?)
The Locked Room

I believe this was purchased in New Orleans, either from the Tulane University bookstore, or from Beckham’s Bookshop, which to my great happiness seems still to be hanging in there, 30 years later…