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@BenedictEvans

Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Curious. Easily bored. Single parent. Expat in San Francisco.

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    Apr 2

    New post: the death of the newsfeed

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    16 hours ago

    Our letter to the editor of today.

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    5 hours ago

    It is the foundation of “America”, we have been doing it for hundreds of years, with millions of people, here on this continent and everywhere:

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    5 hours ago

    The big surprise is not that these “child camps” are happening in America, but that how prevelant and ingrained the foundational myth/bullshit/propaganda of America (and how this is somehow un-American) is within us idiot Americans.

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    7 hours ago

    Observation: There was a time when a username with an @ in front of it but with no other branding meant “on Twitter.” Nowadays, it means “on Instagram”, especially in ad campaigns.

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    9 hours ago

    In Austin, Texas you can watch JAWS while floating in an inner tube on a lake.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    When you have thousands of my likes and posts to analyze and you show me stuff I would never, ever engage with.

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  8. 7 hours ago

    Instagram, like Messenger, feels more and more like a grab bag of FB strategic moves rather than a single product vision. Live TV? Share funny memes with friends? Build a deep taste graph?

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    Jun 7

    There’s an increasingly obvious split in Instagram between a taste & discovery product with huge ecommerce potential and a fun P2P sharing and messaging app.

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    Jun 18

    The Lal Dera The only surviving Mughal campaign tent in the world 18thC Gujarat Now in the Peacock in the Desert Show, Houston Museum of Fine Arts – at Museum of Fine Arts Houston

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    8 hours ago

    CAD on phones and tablets! Not a mere viewer but editing and data management too. Some said it was impossible, but led a team that did it. Thanks Ravi!

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    9 hours ago

    "Since launching in San Francisco, SF has taken over a ¼ million trips on Lime-S electric scooters covering more than 300,000 miles... The corresponding offset in airborne pollutants is equivalent to 280,389 lbs CO2 saved... 🛴💨 💚"

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    11 hours ago

    Instagram just hit 1 billion users... up 200 million since last September. 400 million actively using Stories.

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    10 hours ago

    "The Europeans have basically been free riders on the voyage, spending almost nothing on defense, and instead building vast social welfare systems at home and robust, well-protected export industries abroad." Valid points from 's

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    11 hours ago
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    As spotted in "El mundo today" satiric spanish diary "Old lady with sounding keypad heads electronic music festival" ;-)

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    11 hours ago

    Instagram announces a billion monthly active users. Before Kevin Systrom came on stage, they played “I got money”.

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    11 hours ago

    Fleshing this out as we go: Instagram announces IGTV, a standalone app for longer videos

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  18. 11 hours ago

    Write 15 different drafts. Go back and add a paragraph to the first one and then publish it.

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    12 hours ago

    Dear , This wasn't a good look on 25 May. Now, nearly a month later, you really can't claim to be engaged and committed. Kind regards.

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  20. 13 hours ago

    There’s a man next to me using a feature phone and the beeps from the keypad are almost as retro as the sounds of a dialup modem.

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    22 hours ago

    I wish engineers working on copycat projects at Facebook would leave & start a company. Go, be free 🦋.

    Facebook unleashes an army of HQ trivia clones
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