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The “Big” in Big Tech Breeds Extremism
Tech companies hit a turning point this week and have actually started wielding power against far right groups aiming to incite violence. Most dramatically, Facebook and Twitter both permanently banned Donald Trump, and Parler, a “free speech” social network that minimizes moderation and has become a favorite among white supremacists, has been removed from Google’s…
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Review: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
I read Aubrey Gordon’s What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat a few weeks ago, and it was deeply healing for me. And if you are a fellow fat person considering reading this, it’s a great read, but this review really isn’t for you. Instead, it’s for the more conventionally sized people…
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What’s to come in 2021 on icanthascheezburger
I made a bold goal that in 2021 I would post 100 blog posts throughout the year. Given that I only posted 30 things in 2020, you might be wondering how I aim to more than triple my output on this blog. Well, it starts off with fluffy posts like this one where I don’t…
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Taking Inventory of 2020
Obviously the year has sucked big time for the world, so I’m not really going to dive much into that. I entered 2020 hoping for things to look up; I was expecting to end 2019 on a high note, having just gotten engaged to the love of my life, but just days after I popped…
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I could have built a better Slack: a story about excellence
Salesforce announced this week that they’re looking to buy the work chat app Slack, and although I’m sure this will mint a lot of new millionaires and probably help Slack avoid the pressures they’ve been facing as a public company, I’m still not convinced that a golden age of great new Slack features is ahead…
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What Am I Even Doing Here?
For a few years here icanthascheezburger was pretty light on new posts. From June 2015 to June 2020 I made a whopping eleven posts. I’m really happy that I got more talkative on here this year. Maybe it was the pandemic-induced quarantining leaving me with more time to think, maybe it was a subconscious desire…
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One Small Step For Apple
On Tuesday, Apple held a relatively quiet virtual event at 10am Pacific, during which they kicked off a massive transition for the Mac, the likes of which we haven’t seen since early 2006: you can now buy a Mac with an entirely new processor architecture of Apple’s design. The History Apple isn’t new to processor…
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Walk the Planck
If you know me you know my collection of clicky keyboards has been steadily growing since I bought my first one in April of 2012 (a Das Keyboard, if you were wondering). In recent years, though, I’ve developed an affinity for a specific subgenre of keyboards: keyboards that are 40–50% the keys of a full-sized…
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Reflections on the election this week
This has been a deeply stressful and mentally draining week in the icanthascheezburger household. For us, an election like this is consequential. Being queer we had the great fortune of witnessing a vast expansion of our recognition of equal rights, but these are precarious and are already getting whittled away. In a sense, these elections…
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The iPhone 12 belongs to the ages
The last phone I reviewed on here was the iPhone 5 back in 2012. I generally get a new phone each year, but I suppose I’m not religious about posting stuff on here. Looking back at that review, I remarked primarily on two things: speed, and the transition from the 30-pin connector to Lightning. While…