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Here we are again, the start of another tournament cycle, the Countdown Cup qualifiers. This one is going to be the last of these tournaments for the season before the season playoffs begin. This also means that we have two teams that have qualified for the season playoffs already, the Dallas Fuel and the Shanghai Dragons.

The first week of tournament cycles always means a great degree of uncertainty when it comes to match results and this one was no different.

Let’s get into it.

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What I’ve Read This Week (July 26 2021 to August 1 2021)

‘Fraud on the Farm: How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme’ by Paul Benjamin Osterlund for Rest of World
‘Thoughts On: Scarlet Nexus’ by Mint for his blog
‘Opinion: Why is this unusual?’ By Geoff Huston for the APNIC blog
‘Security Is the Story We Have, Not the Story We Want to Have’ by Nick Heer for Pixel Envy
‘Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed Expansion Spends 8 Years In Dev Hell’ by Ethan Gach for Kotaku
‘Sundown Towns Are Still A Problem For Black Drivers’ by Ade Onibada for Buzzfeed News

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Irreconcilable Differences

Recently the Mastodon project launched a first-party iOS app. The app’s visual design itself is mostly uninteresting, it looks like a clone of the first-party Twitter iOS app (not a bad thing) and covers most of the basic functionality of the Mastodon software.

What is interesting however and what has caused a great deal of consternation and frustration among certain segments of the fediverse is what is missing. The current version (as of July 31, 2021) is missing two basic features that are currently present in the official Mastodon web app and in other third-party iOS and Android applications.

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