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Tom Gara
@tomgara
writing and editing things. now: @meta, formerly @buzzfeednews, @wsj, @ft, views always my own, etc
PGP: http://bit.ly/1Nja4jP
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    Tom Gara
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    Sep 11, 2024
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    You can find me on the other place, although I may lose my willpower and come back here. Crazy to think I’ve been posting furiously here for 15 years! Changed my life! Shaped my whole career! I love so many of you and will miss it!
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    Tom Gara
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    Nov 23, 2021
    A tragic airplane moment: we’ve been sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off for two hours. The guy in front of us fell asleep immediately upon boarding, he just woke up and started getting ready to get off the plane - he thought we’d landed. My wife broke the news to him.
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    Tom Gara
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    Jan 23, 2020
    A man sued his employer for racial discrimination, settled the suit, took the settlement check to the bank to cash it, then the bank didn't believe the check was real and called the cops on him, leading to another racial discrimination lawsuit
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    Detroit man settles race discrimination lawsuit, then bank won't cash his check
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    Tom Gara
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    Jul 12, 2020
    I’ve heard from a lot of liberals tonight who feel completely owned by this, they say it’s the most defeated they’ve felt since November 2016. Their worst fear, the thing that will own them the most, is if Trump supporters everywhere start doing this all the time
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    Morgan Fairchild
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    Jul 12, 2020
    Trump wears a mask for the first time in public during a visit to a military hospital x.com/i/events/12820…
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    Tom Gara
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    Jun 11, 2022
    This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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    Tom Gara
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    Sep 27, 2022
    Honestly, this creates an incredible legacy moment for Biden. He now gets to appoint a new Try Guy, meaning a full 1/4 of all the Try Guys will be Biden appointees
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    Tom Gara
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    Nov 2, 2022
    It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity
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    Kane 謝凱堯
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    Nov 1, 2022
    someone get the PMs under control at google
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    Tom Gara
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    May 6, 2017
    My friend's toddler babbled "don't forget to subscribe" as he was put to bed. Kid watches so much YouTube he thought it means "goodbye"
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    Tom Gara
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    Apr 16, 2024
    Incredible story. USC offers a minor in “resistance to genocide”, this girl minored in it, was named valedictorian, and then they cancelled her speech because she might talk about genocide
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    philip lewis
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    Apr 16, 2024
    USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students” ‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…
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    Tom Gara
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    Sep 15, 2023
    It’s fair to assume there’s cameras everywhere now, but I’ve gotta admit: if you asked me to guess how good the night vision camera coverage of the audience at a Beetlejuice the musical show in Denver would be, I probably wouldn’t have guessed this good
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