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“Now is a good time to take steps to lock down your Twitter account, grab what data you can, review where you’re using Twitter to sign in to other online services, and delete anything you’d rather not live on a site that may be on its last legs. Taking these steps could protect you from identity theft or private messages being made public. And for activists or journalists in repressive countries, archiving and locking down Twitter data could be even more essential.”

Source: NY Times: Why Every Twitter User Should Archive and Lock Down Their Data | Wirecutter

This:

“It has become fashionable for VCs to talk about how all these tech companies are overstaffed,” wrote Emily Mazo, an organizer with the labor advocacy group Collective Action in Tech, in an email. “Any of the workers who just got laid off will likely tell you that they were in fact understaffed, that they were working much more than 40 hours a week even before half their teams were fired, and that they have long lists of things they wanted to build but didn’t have the hands for. But workers are the first ones to be hurt in a downturn moment.”

Source: via SLATE: Amazon, Facebook, Twitter layoffs: Where will newly unemployed tech workers go?

“One of Vonnegut’s most famous lines is from 1961’s Mother Night: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Vonnegut often pretended to be nicer than he was, which was good for both his ego and his income.”

Source: Dorian Lynskey in UnHerd: Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man?

• Author(s): Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
• Acquired: 1993 (ish?)

I believe this was purchased in New Orleans, either from the Tulane University bookstore, or from Beckham’s Bookshop, which to my great happiness seems still to be hanging in there, 30 years later…

From 4/26/2012 (my first hearing) til now, #1 on the chart…well, I mean TBH this Last.fm chart isn’t really accurate — there was a time when my phone wouldn’t scrobble & it was a lazy few months before I fixed it… & of course all of the vinyl spins are missing — the analog curse made bearable by the blessing of warm, hipstery, audiophilic hi-fi glory that is a nice LP.

Sooooo, #1 and then some.

It might have been a goof initially, but since I’ve been noting this as xx Day for 9 years…the practice has made me take more notice of my many other fan “crushes” before, during, & after declaring this my new favorite.

You gotta be good, you gotta be loved to stay in the rotation.

Previously:

XX Day (9), A Lovely Solo Cover Of The xx’s “VCR” from Arlo Parks, XX Day (7), Happy “xx day” [Update, 2018], Songs of The xx, ranked.