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• The Pebble app maxed out at 3,000 daily active users, out of 20,000 registered users. That daily user figure fell to 1,000 daily users following its rebranding from T2.

  

  Matt Maldre

  

  Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  The grip Twitter, now called X, has on the market may be stronger than some believed. Unfortunately, that’s led to the first casualty among Twitter alternatives, as the startup Pebble (formerly T2), is shutting down. The would-be X rival had grown a small but engaged community on its microblogging …

• “The disconnect many young people feel may come from a lack of representation, which we show violates a fundamental aspect of how audiences — teens and adults — define what is news.” https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/09/what-is-news-anyway-readers-answers-depend-on-how-much-they-see-people-like-themselves-in-the-story/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=jamespinnick%2Fmagazine%2FThe+Media+Today

  

  Matt Maldre

  Oct 24, 2023
• I can currently type up to 80-90 WPM. Is there a reason why I would want to learn this new form of a keyboard? So I can reach 100 WPM?

  

  Matt Maldre

  

  This Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It’s Banned From Typing Competitions

  VICE - By Matthew Gault

  The CharaChorder is a new kind of typing peripheral that promises to let people type at superhuman speeds. It’s so fast that the website Monkeytype, which lets users participate in typing challenges and maintains its own leaderboard, automatically flagged CharaChorder’s CEO as a cheater when he …

• TLDR. A Rubik's Cube broken apart and randomly assembled has only a 1-in-12 chance that it's solvable.

  

  Matt Maldre

  The Amazing Math Inside the Rubik’s Cube

  getpocket.com

• 10-30% of people who get Covid, now has long Covid.

  

  Matt Maldre

  

  Don’t dismiss Omicron as ‘mild’. Take it from a Covid long-hauler

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  Throughout the pandemic, Covid infection – from asymptomatic to severe – has led to long Covid in millions

• Don't drink well water. https://bestlifeonline.com/news-parkinsons-water/

  

  Matt Maldre

  Jul 5, 2021