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@benyankee It’s her reward for not walking on that rock-strewn beach. — PolitiTweet.org

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@themoko I always just assumed you got the job based on, you know, talent, smarts and drive. But I know you, worked with you, and knew the company. So I can’t compete with ignorant, sexist commenters. — PolitiTweet.org

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You tell ‘em, Jason! Yes, you do work for @Recode. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AskingAmy It *sounds* delicious! Can I have a piece? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeBuckley @BloombergTV I agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kudos to @BloombergTV for broadcasting and live-streaming the glorious, spectacular Boston Independence Day celebration,from the cradle of the Revolution, featuring the Boston Pops Orchestra, many other entertainers, and marvelous fireworks, on the banks of the Charles River. https://t.co/h7tJZeKdCW — PolitiTweet.org

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@brooke I'm boycotting Trump tonight. But I'd note that military flyovers are fairly common. They happen at sports events, big civic and holiday events, and tonight there will be one at the annual, huge, July 4 celebration in blue, blue, Boston. It's the tanks that are truly jarring. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rpesce @natphilbrick Another great one, Rich. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @racheld: My #YUP this week goes to the inspiring couple @mPinoe and @S10Bird. Read Sue’s fabulous essay, “So the President F*cking Hate… — PolitiTweet.org

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@skytri As previously noted, military and financial aid from France was indeed crucial in winning the Revolutionary War 8 years later. But I was writing about the political act of declaring independence, on July 4, 1776, which we celebrate today. That was done without French help. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bric422 Great book. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaeldupuis Me too. The whole episode on the Declaration is brilliant. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Choire I got 10/10. — PolitiTweet.org

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@simonleyland I never forget to thank the French for making possible the military victory 8 years later. But what we are celebrating today is the political act of declaring independence. The French weren’t involved in that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Happy Independence Day! I hope, amid all the justified celebration, Americans pause to consider the profound importance and courage of the act of distant colonies, with little military might, defying the world’s greatest superpower to secure their right to self-governance. https://t.co/folybyMmDl — PolitiTweet.org

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Remember this as you celebrate the Declaration of Independence today. — PolitiTweet.org

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@wklj Yet, by its own self-description, its own website, this is not a sales tool or a CRM tool. It’s an email client for people - individuals - who juggle a lot of email and want to handle it more efficiently. Spying doesn’t seem necessary for that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac Is there a @Recode discount? — PolitiTweet.org

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@wklj @PleaseStacy @JoannaStern I’m all for @JoannaStern tackling this. But the real solution lies in two places. One is the government, which is building up to privacy regulation. The other is Superhuman itself, which should decide whether spying on helpless email recipients is part of a better email client. — PolitiTweet.org

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@susanthesquark Exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PleaseStacy @wklj I know a lot more about it than I did yesterday. I've heard from the CEO publicly. And I've heard privately from an investor defending it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dogpatch33 It's marketed as being a personal tool, to help heavy email users cope with the volume of email more efficiently. This feature seems to be just gratuitous. — PolitiTweet.org

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@matthewnewhook It's not standard. And it's not "open". It's hidden and secretive and is not a feature of normal person-to-person email. It stems from the poisonous ad-tech industry, the root of so much of the privacy theft rampant online. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ It reminds me of @facebook’s playbook: steal peoples’ privacy, get caught, then apologize and pull back, but only partially. — PolitiTweet.org

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@wklj Why should users have to give up loading images? And the CRM vendors are hardly “everyone”. Most actual people using most actual popular mail clients aren’t tracking the people they email by default. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ Instead, he uses the “everybody else does it” excuse and lists a few really obscure products. And he adds the “power user” excuse and contends, in effect, that these people have a right to optionally spy on everyone else. This episode is another reason for federal regulation. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ The blog by CEO @rahulvohra admits that the recipient of a @Superhuman email can’t opt out of being tracked by emails sent from his product. He admits that the industry needs a solution to this. One good move might be to remove read tracking altogether from Superhuman. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ This is a good *first* step. Better than doing nothing. But it’s not enough. I read the full blog post. It makes no mention of disabling tracking how *often* the recipient opens the email. It’s also full of the rationalization that secret tracking is ok in “business” software. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JurisBriedis @nytimes @Superhuman We have that too. It’s rarely used. And it can’t verify that the letter or package was read, or where it was read, or how many times it was read. Only that somebody signed a card saying it was delivered. That person might not even be the addressee. — PolitiTweet.org

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@susanthesquark Resembles some of my Notes. — PolitiTweet.org