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TimeMachiner. Tech, culture, nostalgia. By Aaron Crocco
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πŸ‘‹πŸ» Hey there! Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Stream here at TimeMachiner. I hope you are all doing well.

I found a very interesting segment from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that goes deep into data collection. Funny enough, I'm tackling that topic head-on this Thursday on The Longform. Oliver's humor makes a lot of this heavy stuff entertaining but also informative. I can only hope to strive to convey a story as well as he and his team do. That said, be on the lookout on Thursday (Wednesday for Time Traveler members) for my take on this from a different angle.

Today's random factoid is: The chainsaw was originally created to aid in childbirth. 😳 Source

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John Oliver: Data Broker
The HBO program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver covers a wide range of topics. Some are deadly serious while others are quite lighthearted. But regardless of what he talks about every Sunday evening, it’s thorough and interesting. This past Sunday he took a stab at data collection and privacy,…
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Driverless Car Runs From Cops
You know you truly live in the future when robots are having encounters with police. Recently a Cruise driverless car was stopped by San Francisco police during the evening. Cue lots of walking around, trying to figure out what to do, and… the car driving off for a short distance…
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Cox Customers Fight Back
It’s no secret we all hate cable companies. They are deceitful, money-hungry monopolies that have no interest in serving their customers. So it’s no wonder that every time they try to get away with something, there is tons of blowback. Cue Jon Brodkin’s reporting about how a massive amount of…
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Finish Him
One staple of the mid-nineties is Mortal Kombat. The arcade game took the world by storm due to its digitized fighters recorded from real actors. Oh, and there was violence galore. So it came as no surprise when a sequel came out soon thereafter. Mortal Kombat II was a phenomenon…
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