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Comment · 8 months ago
Re: the silent filter, I'm reminded of the McLuhan quote:

"Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth."

Comment · 8 months ago
There's also Geronimo's block-letter signature, which for some reason moves me. Sense in it his resigned adaptation to a shifting world and adoption of a new language, after years of resistance.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Why not display a Recent Phone Use option when both side buttons of an Apple device is pressed?

* slide to power off * Medical ID * SOS Emergency Call * Recent Phone Use

Report would be high-level -- has phone been unlocked in last 30 minutes, if so, timestamps showing when it was unlocked, for how long, how many finger taps occurred, etc.

That would give law enforcement a quick indication of whether phone was in use. Of course if there are passengers it could be contested. For more detail, they'd have to subpoena as they do now.

Comment · 3 years ago
Reminded of advice my former boss, who spent a decade plus leading an elite military unit, received as he set out in his career:

“Be careful how much you give this organization, because we’ll take it.”

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Reminded of these lines from a poem:

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Comment · 6 years ago
Moore said investigators caught a break several months later, saying they were able to track her after she used an app on her new phone. Warfield's defense attorney, Joseph Balter, said later in the hearing that it was Warfield's "Words with Friends" app, which is a game similar to Scrabble.

From there, authorities were able to learn an alias email address Warfield was using, and used that to determine the phone she was using and its location, Moore said. They were arrested by law enforcement including federal agents from the ATF in Baltimore and Louisville, U.S. Deputy Marshals from Indiana, and officers from the Southeast Indiana Regional SWAT Team.

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