@DanFrakes

Fruit Editor (form. @nytimes, @wirecutter, @macworld), form. policy analyst. Pro-science; Chicago & Bay Area sports fan; dad; UCLA; https://xitter.cf/t.co/LiJ7dVHS8X; @df@hachyderm.io

 San Francisco Bay Area
Joined August 2007
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It just keeps getting “better”… “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.” transparency.twitter.com/en/…
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“He’s not only a star on the pitch, he’s a star off it too. Richarlison donated oxygen cylinders to the Amazon city of Manaus when its healthcare system buckled during the pandemic.” theguardian.com/football/202…

Richarlison praised as ‘idol Brazilians deserve’ after Bolsonaro era

Goalscorer against Serbia at World Cup is being celebrated as much more than just a sporting hero

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FYI, View on Mac for the full list.
Dan Frakes@DanFrakes23 Nov 2022
PSA: Some nice discounts on Mac apps this week apps.apple.com/us/story/id16…
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Seeing more x-rated stuff in my timeline and searches the past few days than I have in the entire decade before. Feature or bug of the Elon era?
PSA: Some nice discounts on Mac apps this week apps.apple.com/us/story/id16…
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I have the feeling my map is becoming for the US elections what's the @MariahCarey's song "All I want for Christmas is you" has become for the holiday season...
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@simongerman60011 Nov 2022
Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.
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Land doesn’t vote; people do. #misleadingmaps
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(From this excellent viz: xitter.cf/karim_douieb/status/11… )
Karim Douïeb@karim_douieb8 Oct 2019
Challenge accepted! Here is a transition between surface area of US counties and their associated population. This arguably provides a much more accurate reading of the situation. @observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/@karimdouie… #HowChartsLie #DataViz #d3js
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On Election Day, a reminder that hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens will not be able to vote, or will have their votes discarded, because the GOP, terrified of demographic changes, has spent the past decade trying to make it harder for certain groups and areas to vote.
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Latest example: PA GOP is trying to toss thousands of mail-in ballots missing a handwritten date, even though they were received *before* Election Day—in other words, there is no question they were mailed in time.
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Follow-up: In five states alone (AL, GA, LA, OH, FL), GOP likely gained enough House seats from unconstitutional gerrymandering to controls the House.
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One of my all-time macOS keyboard shortcuts: Save as PDF. @MacSparky explains how to set it up macsparky.com/blog/2022/11/s…

Save as PDF… (Revisited) - MacSparky

Apple made some more changes with macOS Ventura that broke my “Save as PDF…” workflow. Here’s a video explaining what changed and how to fix it. If you’ve never tried this trick, you should. It...

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just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen...the day before a national election.
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“The country’s election infrastructure isn’t designed to stand up to one of its two major parties turning against it.” propublica.org/article/north…

A County Elections Director Stood Up to Locals Who Believe the Voting System Is Rigged. They Pushed...

Even in a county where Trump won more than 70% of the 2020 vote, local election deniers have mounted a campaign to access voting machines and slash the elections director's pay.

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Pat Lee@patlee31 Oct 2022
Replying to @tedlandau @DanFrakes
I would prefer $20 a month for no tracking, ad free and a checkmark. That is value to me….
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Update: Apparently I was just one of the “early” folks affected by this issue, which is being fixed: nytimes.com/2022/10/31/techn…

Instagram Users Report Widespread Account Suspensions (Published 2022)

Some users said they could not access the social media app and had been notified that their accounts were suspended. The company behind the app said Monday evening that the issue had been resolved.

nytimes.com
Dan Frakes@DanFrakes29 Oct 2022
Life with a two-letter Instagram account: 10-20 of these emails a day, for years, because people are trying to hack the account. The latest: My account is dead because someone reported it for “impersonation” and @instagram didn’t bother to confirm before disabling it.
Between this, firing people who miss unplanned deadlines, and Musk personally promoting tweets by conspiracy theorists, sounds like Twitter is in good hands. “Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification” theverge.com/2022/10/30/2343…
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Replying to @DanFrakes @instagram
Also amazing how quickly these bot replies about “contacting this or that person to get unlocked” are unleashed anytime people mention Instagram accounts being hacked.
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