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xr input systems psycho • clanker abuser staff prototyper (non-sexual) at evil corp CHI@SEA • dreaming of electric sheep
xr input systems psycho • clanker abuser staff prototyper (non-sexual) at evil corp CHI@SEA • dreaming of electric sheep
![Screenshot from article with a passage highlighted, as follows:
According to British lawyer and writer Sands, Jack Bauer—played by Kiefer Sutherland—was an inspiration at early "brainstorming meetings" of military officials at Guantánamo in September 2002. [highlight start] Diane Beaver, the staff judge advocate general who gave legal approval to 18 controversial interrogation techniques including waterboarding, sexual humiliation and terrorizing prisoners with dogs, told Sands that Bauer "gave people lots of ideas." [highlight end] Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security chief, gushed in a panel discussion on "24" organized by the Heritage Foundation that the show"reflects real life."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xvhgidzgtklsruui5jkkmhss/bafkreicrwhexnkwmgjpg6au5hrhx3ugszjhcd5xgvasz6po6wofsxxzmua)
![Screenshot from the article:
"Other studies revealed further problems with the cueing theory:15
Skilled readers don't scan words and sample from the graphic cues in an incidental way; instead, they very quickly recognize a word as a sequence of letters. That's how good readers instantly know the difference between "house" and "horse," for example.
Experiments that force people to use context to predict words show that [highlight start] even skilled readers can correctly guess only a fraction of the words; [highlight end] this is one reason people who rely on context to identify words are poor readers.
Weak word recognition skills are the most common and debilitating source of reading problems."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xvhgidzgtklsruui5jkkmhss/bafkreidq4kpfy342ml4xx5cbgxrda4mdz67i7duet4hufy6c2n7jisr5ka)
![Screenshot of an email. On top left is the "Steam" logo, a light blue circle with a white mechanical valve linkage. Below is the email text: "Hello [redacted]. You're officially in the reservation queue for Steam Frame 256GB Kit"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xvhgidzgtklsruui5jkkmhss/bafkreifpm4dr5utb4ydveo27thhvkev2nvbk7j456a23tb3pyhp3cupktm)
![Screenshot of text from the article, with a portion highlighted, as follows:
about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, [highlight start] “Who’s a good boy?!” [highlight end] More than 12,000 of those messages appear in the recovered logs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xvhgidzgtklsruui5jkkmhss/bafkreiegha42qujsrfmg2l4zjifwkano24ust6iihanxx7oqnzwg7ykdyu)
![Quote screenshot from GoodReads:
"When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xvhgidzgtklsruui5jkkmhss/bafkreig4o5hss4uh2l2oysqo3npizz5fjab46dsbeywzogzjkxqtkgj5iq)
