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Oh my god. Animal Crossing’s central bank has slashed interest rates, causing an uproar among players and sparking a bubble in — wait for it — digital turnips and tarantulas: https://t.co/TQ78iK2LXk — PolitiTweet.org

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Fun and topical: This year’s congressional press passes are phlegm green — PolitiTweet.org

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What a week. Who needs a drink? — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook going head-to-head with Zoom will make for an almost ideal natural experiment re: network effects and competition. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DaveS_00 @TalKopan That seems plausible to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m sort of torn on this. On one hand, we’ve seen that Amazon is absolutely willing to eat years of losses for the prospect of long-term gains and domination. On the other, Amazon is also ruthlessly efficient and so it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to see the costs passed along. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @byHeatherLong: The Congressional Budget Office is predicting 1 in 10 American workers will still be out of a job in 2021. That means a… — PolitiTweet.org

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(But of course many of these agencies will probably be contracting out to third-party software developers, some of whom may be shadier than others, which is why this is a question at all.) — PolitiTweet.org

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7. It sounds like the exact rules for app developers, and what they can collect beyond the Bluetooth data, are still in the air. Apple reiterated that only apps from public health officials can access these features, and all the regular app developer rules still apply. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. When you get a notification that you may have been in contact with someone who tested positive, you’ll get the date of your potential exposure, how long it lasted, and the Bluetooth signal strength of the connection (weaker = you were farther away; stronger = you were closer). — PolitiTweet.org

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5. This was implied before, but Apple and Google made it explicit today that whether you report your own positive diagnosis to the system is your choice. — PolitiTweet.org

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(The minimum is about 5 minutes.) — PolitiTweet.org

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4. There’ll be a limit on the amount of time you can be considered to have been in close contact with someone, about 30 mins. Within this and other limits, each public health official app can choose the parameters for what constitutes a close contact. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple and Google released some further details on contact tracing today. Some highlights: 1. Their target for Phase 1, the app-centric implementation, is for "mid-May” 2. Bluetooth metadata will be encrypted 3. There will no longer be a persistent key tied to your device … — PolitiTweet.org

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I asked Twitter how it views tweets that contain clips of Trump’s disinfectant remarks. In addition to saying they don’t violate Twitter’s rules, the company told me it views Trump’s statements as a wish for effective treatments, not as a specific call to action. — PolitiTweet.org

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S&P this morning vs. the makers of Clorox and Lysol https://t.co/k69nZUotlh — PolitiTweet.org

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Despite Amazon’s testimony that it doesn’t use individual third-party seller data to market its own competing products, WSJ reports some employees have done it anyway: https://t.co/fZztl0Xnkj https://t.co/o6fLRcPzTX — PolitiTweet.org

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@jjhikes Literally what I put on the rice and beans just now — PolitiTweet.org

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@ashleydrixey @realdanstoller Dang, respect — PolitiTweet.org

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@kansasalps Oh no, that’s for when we hit 4:30. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sfiegerman Lemon! — PolitiTweet.org

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Quarantine Day 1: “Can’t wait to have healthy, home-cooked meals for lunch. Every. Day!” Quarantine Day Whatever-the-hell-it-is-because-time-no-longer-exists: “Guess it’s leftover rice and beans and this stale doughnut at 3 p.m., because I am trash and this is what I deserve" — PolitiTweet.org

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@ceciliakang @mitrakalita @benyt @HRHSherlock TV images of the Gulf War. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our newfound reliance on e-learning and e-commerce is exposing how those with quality internet access are far better-positioned to weather this crisis than those without. Join me today as I interview experts on the matter, in a webinar at @GMFDigital: https://t.co/e1HhBjxYLR — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Hawley is pressuring Apple and Google to make their CEOs personally liable for safeguarding user privacy with the Bluetooth contact-tracing initiative, citing Google’s “poor record on privacy”: https://t.co/FxJotqbc6z — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GMFDigital: Join us Weds 4/22 for the next in our webinar series looking at impact of COVID on tech policy: "Lessons from Corona for a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska after consultation with… — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook is now using self-reported user data to track the coronavirus at a county-level, in partnership with academics: https://t.co/ifHMStyHnS https://t.co/oAHAKn1usL https://t.co/cHMCSETSW4 — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of what Bezos covers in the letter helps illustrate our earlier reporting on how virtually every part of Amazon is seeing a lift in these times: https://t.co/NhFKapILJ3 — PolitiTweet.org

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In his annual shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos goes over the ways Amazon has become essential during the pandemic, including details on what AWS is seeing: https://t.co/HegSDEYsvY https://t.co/MIpArNL42V — PolitiTweet.org