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Scott Manuel @SRMThoughts

Dad. Photographer. Hiker. Curious Person.

Joined December 2010
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Conor O'Neill @ConorONeill_DI
17 Mar 2024
Little nugget on N.C. State's run: Wolfpack is 1 of 6 ACC teams with a national championship in its history. They beat the other 5 -- Louisville, Syracuse, Duke, Virginia, UNC -- to win this week's tournament.
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Instagram’s new Notes feature evokes memories of AOL’s Instant Messenger for millennials, but Gen Z doesn’t get it. Well, from this old Gen Xer to the kids...there was a time when you could disconnect from the Internet and AIM made it easier. wsj.com/articles/instagrams-… via @WSJ

Instagram’s Notes Feature Leaves Millennials Nostalgic, Gen Z Confused

The new function, which mimics AIM’s away messages, highlighted a generational divide among Instagram users.

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Nothing like a good #longread on a 12ft tall skeleton sold at Home Depot and the related market dynamics. Spoiler alert...plenty of money made here. #Halloween #business www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproje…
It doesn't get much more esoteric than how the Internet keeps time with the NTP protocol. A great story about the people and tech keeping it alive. #longread The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time newyorker.com/tech/annals-of… via @NewYorker
Today would be a great day to release #AustinTice. #freeaustintice Inside Biden's meeting with Austin Tice's parents axios.com/austin-tice-biden-…
A constant product management challenge for successful software...how not to make it suck after 20 years of success. #productmanagement #Google What Google Search Isn’t Showing You newyorker.com/culture/infini… via @NewYorker

What Google Search Isn’t Showing You

The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.

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This Big-Ice Cream conspiracy story just keeps getting better and better. Learned that mcbroken.com tracks all the broken machines. My geo has 11% down. #mcbroken McDonald’s Ice Cream Woes Have Inspired Memes, Mockery and Now, a Federal Lawsuit nyti.ms/3t6sixN
A really interesting read on the connected TV market. Those dongles we use now will continue to lose market share as people just use what is baked into their TV. Plenty of strategic moves to come. Mean Screens – VideoWeek videoweek.com/2022/02/07/mea…

Mean Screens - VideoWeek

Evan Shapiro is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning producer, a professor of media at NYU/Stern School of Business and Media Studies at Fordham University/Gabelli School of Business. He is also a...

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Sorry sir, you will be listening to NPR forever. So many software bugs out in the wild. Car infotainment system bugs are one of the worst. Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02…

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems

The problem was a broadcast containing image files with no extensions.

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The wild, wild west of public / private / nation-state hacking all rolled into one article. It's a mess out there. North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet outline.com/gEPJ2x
What a technically fascinating and terrifying exploit. An amazing piece of engineering sadly used for bad things. Project Zero: A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution googleprojectzero.blogspot.c…
A story of loss...both personal and technical. Don't throw the old hard drive out before extracting your private keys or you may lose your family. #Bitcoin Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (via @Pocket) newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

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Time passes, but McSorley's stays the same. A great 1940s @NewYorker article that could have been written today. newyorker.com/magazine/1940/…

The Old House at Home

Joseph Mitchell’s classic 1940 story about McSorley’s Old Ale House, which opened in 1854 and remains one of the oldest bars in the city.

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Today would be a great day to bring #AustinTice home. #FreeAustinTice
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Stuely @Astuely
1 Jun 2021
When you had to use one of these to play your Atari #GrowingUpGenX
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Scott Fowler
 @scott_fowler
26 May 2021
Please spare a kind thought or prayer for Charlotte Observer photographer David Foster's family, and for our own family of current and former Observer-ites, who all loved David. His passing is just crushing news for all of us. Frosty was 52. charlotteobserver.com/news/l…

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History rarely repeats, but it does sometimes rhyme. Will the post-pandemic 2020s look like the 1920s? It's complicated. What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably) (via @Pocket) smithsonianmag.com/history/a…

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky

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A fantastic piece of journalism @politico on the killing of Osama bin Laden 10 years ago this weekend. One of the most consequential operations in my lifetime detailed in a brilliant oral history. Well done. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Key info for @jdcivicscience to see as the official truth teller and myth buster for our generation. Preach! @Kgmanuel The New York Times: When Does Gen X Reach Retirement Age? Errr..... nytimes.com/2021/04/24/style… via @GoogleNews

Generation X, Your AARP Card Awaits (Published 2021)

The advocacy group for the over-50 set welcomes a mercurial generation that never wanted to grow up in the first place.

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Coming a few weeks after @Google announced an investment in @TheRTP, it is great to have @Apple making an even bigger investment. The engineering and leadership talent located here is ready to shine. newsobserver.com/news/busine…
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