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Simon Cohen

@ActuallySimon

🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Freelance tech writer specializing in audio/video Terrible at Wordle https://t.co/lxxV1Kiuhc

Toronto, ON شامل ہوئے Aralık 2011
254 فالونگ804 فالوورز
Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
Stephen Miller: "They cannot imagine what they have awakened...You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal” Who exactly is “they” here?
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@ForecasterEnten I'm normally a fan of your CNN segments but the piece of gen z attitudes by gender was terrible. By only showing GOP males and Dem female responses, you created a story instead of showing a story. Where were the GOP females and Dem males?
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Christopher Harris
Christopher Harris@HarrisFootball·
@ActuallySimon Hey, Simon, thanks for your column about the "listening-out-loud" phone phenomenon, it's the worst. You linked to your great review of open-ear wireless earbuds - I wondered if you or anyone at DigitalTrends ever reviewed open-ear *wired* earbuds? Is that a thing?
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@CNN no coverage of Ukraine's massive strike on Russian airbases? Surely this is one of the biggest things to happen since the war began.
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@UPS_Canada Lol I love that you assumed my tweet was a complaint, but it was actually a compliment
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UPS Canada
UPS Canada@UPS_Canada·
@ActuallySimon Hello, we are really sorry for any inconveniences caused with our services. We would like to help you, could you send us your tracking number, email address, address and phone number via private message? -Bryan twitter.com/messages/compo…
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@getadblock why do you use cookie banners on your own site if you agree that they should be ignored?
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Arlan Vennefron
Arlan Vennefron@avennefron·
@ActuallySimon Simon, just read your article on lossless audio. It far more expensive to make a flexible cable that will carry the added bandwidth and shielding required by lossless.
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Rebecca 🇺🇸
Rebecca 🇺🇸@RebeccaMtn·
"Trump Suggested Injecting Bleach" is still a widely cited story that also happens to be a complete hoax. Read on to learn what Trump actually said, and just how stupid and disingenuous "journalists" are. While looking into the origin of this story I came to learn that while this was in part an intentional and concerted effort to mislead people about what Trump was actually saying, evidence points to some of people who reported or recounted what happened being really, really stupid and projecting their stupidity on to Trump. What I find fascinating is that the media's hatred of Trump actually affected their ability to even understand what Trump was saying. The hoax was born from remarks Trump made at a Coronavirus Press Briefing on April 23, 2020 where just prior, William Bryan who was the Acting Homeland Security Under Secretary for Science and Technology explained what factors helped control the virus. A slide was used to help illustrate ways to combat the virus. Among these were listed: -Heat and humidity -Sunlight -Disinfectants like bleach and alcohol Moments later Trump went back to the podium and said, "So I asked Will a question that some of you are thinking of if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, uh, whether it's ultraviolet or just powerful light.... And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way... And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute and is there a way we can do something like that, uh, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning, cuz you see it get in the lungs and [the coronavirus] does a tremendous number on the lungs so it would be interesting to check that...it sound interesting to me." Clearly Trump is using Layman's terms for a complicated idea in medical science which has been and is being explored. (which I'll be posting below in a thread) It's now my opinion that the morons on Trump's team as well as morons in the media were influenced by their own bias against Trump to connect the words on the slide used by Mr. Bryan to the words Trump used when talking about something related but completely different, moments later. Trump NEVER suggested "injecting bleach" as the MSM claims and it seems this very notion may have (ironically) come from the then White House communications director, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who later went on to become a host on The View. A 12/30/22 article by The Hill stated, "Griffin said that when she was on the coronavirus task force she tried to stop the Department of Homeland Security report that was initially sent to then-Vice President Mike Pence from getting to Trump, according to (Jan 6 committee) testimony released Thursday. Pence thought that the report that people should consider exposing the body to light, heat and disinfectants as a potential treatment for the coronavirus was “interesting” and that Trump should be “briefed” on it." In her testimony at the Jan 6 committee hearings, Griffin stated: "I tried to stop it outside of the Oval Office, because I knew the President was willing to go on national television, having not been able to properly digest what the report was indicating, and say something stupid or dangerous to the public. And I went to Mark Meadows, and I said, Sir, this is going to blow up in our faces. He's not ready. Like, what are we encouraging? Are we saying like, you know, go buy a humidifier? Do we want to put a run on humidifiers? Or turn your heat up to 95 degrees. Like, it just didn't make any sense. And Meadows overruled me, and we got the injecting bleach thing." Whether Griffin got her wording from the press or whether the press got their wording from Griffin, I don't know. What is clear is that Trump never said anything about injecting bleach.
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@JoshKorn I generally a fan of regulation, but sometimes it creates unintended consequences. I think that's what's happening here.
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JoshKorn
JoshKorn@JoshKorn·
@ActuallySimon I also found out - today - that the AirPods Pro hearing health feature isn't available in Canada. It's *so* encouraging to know that it IS available in places like Afghanistan. Nice to know that Health Canada is yet again making choices for us.
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
Not sure what comes next on Cory's list of punishments but I believe it should be applied to those who do this while on a call. The level after that is for those who are on a FaceTime call.
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER@doctorow

Hot take: if you play sound out of your phone around strangers in a public place, you should be shot. If that place is a public transit vehicle, you should be shot and pissed on. (Why yes, I am in transit all day, thanks for asking)

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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@maf001 Sorry @maf001 I'm not on twitter much these days. Also I think I missed part 1? Can't find it. But as for this q ^^ no. eARC is only needed between the TV and the soundbar.
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Alex
Alex@maf001·
@ActuallySimon Part 2 - I want to play both 4k blu-ray discs (films) and blu-ray audio [dolby atmos] discs (music). I have purchased a 4k UHD TV with eARC and a soundbar with eARC. I now need to buy a 4k blu-ray player. Do I need eARC connectivity on that blu-ray player?
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Simon Cohen@ActuallySimon·
@OPP_GTATraffic how about an awareness campaign to remind people that the left lane is for passing only? 🙏
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Tomas Franzese
Tomas Franzese@TomasFranzese·
The article launching alongside Save State is a deep dive into Doom + Doom II with insights from multiple developers at @NightdiveStudio. It's an ode to the modding community that has kept Doom alive for decades and ultimately contributed to this remaster. digitaltrends.com/gaming/doom-do…
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