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Manokaran’s team began thinking about why people love Lego during lockdown, and realised that a big hook was how it sounds. Inspired by the online craze for white noise as an aid to relaxation and focus, they began recording.
a waterfall of colour with 11 brand new minifigures striding purposefully towards an imagined brighter future
🚀 Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set | LGBT rights | The Guardian
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There are three main reasons: money, money and money.
🔗 Opinion | A Sports Event Shouldn’t Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics. - The New York Times
Via @canion
those trucks were involved in more than 50 serious crashes over the last three years
🔗 The Deadly Toll of Amazon’s Trucking Boom — The Information
Another one for your endless list, @Burk.
Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it.
🔗 Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China - The New York Times
Saved for later. Big.
Which major platform has a news feed, disappearing posts, private messaging, and a live broadcasting feature? That would be … all of them.
Anybody who gets a text from me knows I mean it.
When Apple fails to protect survivors, the consequences can be fatal. Apple leadership needs to give abuse survivors and experts a central place in its development process, incorporating their feedback from the start.
WhatsApp Will Turn Your Account Into a Useless Zombie If You Don’t Accept Its New Privacy Policy
🔗 WhatsApp’s New Update: What It Means for Your Account
I guess they’re leaving me no option…
you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
🔗 Wormhole is a file sending site with end-to-end encryption | Boing Boing