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@mims It had 1 or 2 KB of RAM. Membrane keyboard with BASIC commands mapped to the keys. You needed a black and white TV for the monitor (not included) and a cassette recorder for storage (not included). British technology! It cost like $99 new and it got me hooked for life. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rVardell68 @DawnC331 @Recode I often follow that strategy. But the problem is that Foxconn, and other Chinese companies like it, assemble smartphones, laptops and other digital devices for nearly *all* the major brands, and maybe minor ones too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jarinsea @jromeo80 @instagram If someone could prove that, beyond any doubt, it’d be a huge story. attn @reckless @JohnPaczkowski @LaurenGoode @JoannaStern — PolitiTweet.org

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@mims Timex, not Timed. Tweets but editable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DawnC331 Yup. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mims Timed Sinclair 1000. With extra 16K of memory attached. https://t.co/nNuBbZTgvO — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2015 I visited a mammoth Foxconn complex in China with @DawnC331 & was only shown things like unused swimming pools & a nearly empty “union hall”. We were barred from the many hulking, rust-stained, manufacturing buildings. See her @recode story: https://t.co/1fGaqgOlZN — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a great, deep story by ⁦@joshdzieza⁩ of ⁦@verge⁩ about the nearly invisible but supposedly huge Foxconn project in Wisconsin. It details the political motives and the company’s refusal to provide answers to citizens and the press. https://t.co/Mwgk3miCfy — PolitiTweet.org

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@savitz @Patriots @RedSox Really? Were the Phillies World Series champs and the Eagles Super Bowl champs simultaneously? Like the Red Sox and Patriots right now? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jromeo80 @instagram I don’t know exactly how, but it’s the surveillance industry. Probably location info. — PolitiTweet.org

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The @Patriots Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and Stephon Gilmore threw out the opening pitches at @RedSox home opener. Reigning NFL champs and reigning MLB champs on the same field. Love how those Boston teams stick together. #gosox #gopats #TitleTown https://t.co/pTH8B4WhL6 — PolitiTweet.org

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About 20 world champion @Patriots players throw simultaneous first pitches to about 20 world champion @RedSox players at the Sox home opener at @fenwaypark. Never seen anything like it. Those Boston teams stick together. #gosox #gopats #titletown — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TedyBruschi: #OpeningDay memories - Let’s line up a football team and throw baseballs at home plate. Varitek caught mine. 💨 ⚾️ https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BriannaWu @NewsLitProject We’re a nonpartisan, non-profit organization, 11 years old. We produce a digital curriculum on news literacy used in every state and 100 countries. I’m on the board. I don’t think we have a government policy proposal. See https://t.co/Ddp6fSKRXo and https://t.co/P9hnbaZEgi. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jimmyspolitics @NewsLitProject @BriannaWu Opinion (which I wrote for decades in my columns) is real journalism, often backed by reporting. It’s just as valid as straight news, but it’s different from straight news. We teach kids to recognize the difference. But we don’t classify opinion as fake, or as misinformation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BriannaWu @NewsLitProject Yes. Lots of folks are working on the problem of stemming the supply side of misinformation. We at NLP are working on the demand side, teaching young people, soon to be voters, how to apply critical thinking to what they read, in order to see misinformation for what it is. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why we need news literacy programs in schools This is what the @NewsLitProject is seeking to teach with its #Checkology digital curriculum. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MillsCorpCEO @AppleSupport @tim_cook @Apple @MacRumors @cultofmac @MacObserver @backlon Zikes! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @carlquintanilla: “Woodward, Bernstein. You’re both on the story. Now don’t fuck it up.” “All The President’s Men” (dir. Alan J. Pakula… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @wuerker: It's a great and very timely project. I've spoken to some of their student groups who came to @politico to learn about the ne… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alticus @reckless @LanceUlanoff The “iOS space”? There’s no “iOS space” that exists on its own. It’s just a name for the software that powers a smartphone & that has been swamped by the competition. Since the phone and the software are sold as a single thing, reinforcing each other, they don’t exist apart. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ramosclass: A few Infozone and Misinformation Types infographics using their knowledge from @NewsLitProject Checkology. #MediaLiteracy… — PolitiTweet.org

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Journalists and teachers gather together for a day of discussions about how real news is reported and written and how it’s consumed, especially by students. A great program held in multiple cities by the @NewsLitProject. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @LanceUlanoff I agree. Just as long as you apply even more skepticism to the companies that control the truly dominant platforms - Google and Facebook - and who, unlike Apple, have no larger competitors. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @Dman228 @LanceUlanoff This is the perfect statement of what annoys techies and tinkerers about Apple, and has annoyed them since the Mac launched in 1984. But it’s also what makes tech better and simpler for most people. None of this is new. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @Dman228 @LanceUlanoff Of course it does! So what? That would matter if, like Microsoft in the 90s, or Google now, their OS or browser was dominant. But Apple isn’t dominant in any foundational segment. Not the key hardware, not the key software, not the key service. Influential, yes. Dominant, no. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @LanceUlanoff The tech oligarchy, including Apple, is a serious issue. It requires new laws and regulation. You know well I believe that and have written it. But I wouldn’t want to see a law or reg that barred a company from competing by developing a better proprietary product like AirPods. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @LanceUlanoff Or Android, a vastly bigger platform. So, yes, there’s a duopoly. We all know that. But the American economy is much bigger than consumer tech. Agriculture is huge. Energy is huge. Finance is huge. Construction is huge. Some may use iOS. But none *depends* on it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @LanceUlanoff The gatekeeper to the U.S. economy? Are you kidding? You’re kidding, right? — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @verge @BuzzFeed @WIRED @voxmediainc But what really bugs you is that it’s tightly vertically integrated and builds devices deeply designed to work best with each other. These decisions are huge boons for 90% of its customers. And huge irritants for the other 10%. I’d take that ratio if I were Tim Cook. — PolitiTweet.org