Note 334 X Is Reportedly Soliciting People To Buy Recycled User Handles For $50,000

X has been trying to find buyers for user handles it reclaimed from inactive accounts, even going so far as to send out solicitation emails asking for “a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchase,” according to Forbes. Elon Musk announced back in May that X, formerly Twitter, would start purging accounts that have gone dormant, and has alluded to plans for recycling disused handles.

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https://www.engadget.com/x-is-reportedly-soliciting-people-to-buy-recycled-user-handles-for-50000-174504242.html

Elon Musk has lost his damn mind (again).

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Note 177 Poison Expert Allegedly Poisoned Wife With A Shockingly Toxic Gout Drug

A Minnesota doctor who had worked for a poison control center was charged this week in the poisoning death of his wife, who died from a lethal dose of the highly toxic gout medication, colchicine.

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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1979464

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Note 167 T-Mobile Comes To Its Senses, Won’t Force More Expensive Plans On Customers

T-Mobile is not going ahead with its plans to force more expensive wireless subscriptions on users. The carrier has realized the move wouldn’t sit well with its customers.

My Comments: In my opinion, this would have been a disaster move for T-Mobile. I have had T-Mobile service since 2004. Even when I used to do online chat customer service for Verizon, I had T-Mobile. Yes I was one of those Verizon agents that read your complaints online that you weren’t getting any signal, while texting my loved ones on 4 and 5 bars of signal on my T-Mobile phone. Anyway, I was prepared to cancel two of my lines if T-Mobile increased my plan and just go back to a single line. I only added lines for the fun of it, not because I needed them. I’m sure I wasn’t the only customer ready to play some real game with T-Mobile.

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https://www.androidauthority.com/t-mobile-forced-upgrades-canceled-3379505/

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Note 155 Microsoft Now Thirstily Injects A Poll When You Download Google Chrome

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Google Chrome download in Microsoft’s Edge web browser? How many times will the company try to steer me away?

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https://www.theverge.com/23930960/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-poll-why-try-another-browser

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Note 135 Jeremy Renner Wrote New Music Inspired By Snow Plow Accident

Jeremy Renner recently took to Instagram to announce his music career is set to resume with a new collection of songs directly inspired by his near fatal snow plow accident on Jan. 1 and the resulting recovery process. The Marvel actor and “Hurt Locker” Oscar nominee previously released the edgy rock track “Heaven Don’t Have a Name” in summer 2019, and his EP “The Medicine” dropped in March 2020. His new collection of music appears to have the title “Love and Titanium,” a reference to how he addressed his recovery in interviews.

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https://variety.com/2023/music/news/jeremy-renner-new-music-snow-play-accident-recovery-1235765449/

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Note 134 Interview With The Vampire Is Here for Gay Rights And Gay Wrongs

The AMC adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is a rich gothic romance that takes the source material and updates it in ways that are both fascinating and, at time, far more explicit than the books ever were. While gay sex was deftly skirted around, the deed was all but said in the novels. In the new series, it’s just another part of the show. What’s the point of being coy in 2023?

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https://gizmodo.com/interview-with-the-vampire-jacob-anderson-representatio-1850951129

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Note 132 These Are The Best Ultrawide Monitors You Can Buy In 2023

Sometimes you require more screen real estate, and a conventional 16:9 monitor just doesn’t cut it. Whether you’re a creative professional in need of an expansive curved display or a gamer seeking the ultimate immersive experience short of VR, there’s likely an ultrawide monitor tailored to your needs.

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https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-ultra-wide-monitors/

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Note 131 Smart Upcycling Machine Dissects Batteries To Save Them

Circu Li-ion cofounder and CEO Antoine Welter says his startup’s upcycling machine can diagnose batteries in seconds. “We know exactly which cell can be reused and which one can’t,” he told TechCrunch on Monday.

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https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/23/smart-upcycling-machine-dissects-batteries-to-save-them/

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Note 130 Apollo Mission Samples Reveal The Moon Is More Ancient Than We Thought

The Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about 40 million years older than we knew.

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https://gizmodo.com/apollo-mission-samples-reveal-the-moon-is-more-ancient-1850950960

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Note 129 NASA Wants The Voyagers To Age Gracefully, So It’s Time For A Software Patch

Forty-six years in deep space have taken their toll on NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Their antiquated computers sometimes do puzzling things, their thrusters are wearing out, and their fuel lines are becoming clogged. Around half of their science instruments no longer return data, and their power levels are declining.

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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977686

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