Burt Helm
@BurtHelm
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He/him | Writer, mostly on business & tech. Words in @nytmag @gqmagazine @business @fastcompany @inc | Board president, Portland String Quartet Society
Portland, ME
Joined April 2008
The best part of this only-in-Maine story? The 64 year-old lady and the bear already had beef. https://t.co/PKNzJ0Xixk
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Reason #5711 why Pamela Colloff is the GOAT investigative reporter
I always use colorful stamps when sending mail to anyone in prison: just one pop of color can be meaningful in a world of white and grey. @DinaGachman on the sensory deprivation of prison and the hunger it creates: https://t.co/VZQm3b26G8
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My little town of Cumberland, ME set its all-time voter turnout record yesterday: 83%!
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“Apparently for Zuckerberg, real men scroll.” Zuck is officially out of beta
imagine being one of zuck's nearest and dearest bros and in the old days you got to just go to his compound and drink expensive wine, and now you have to "wrestle around" and let him do juijitsu moves on you
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I can't stop thinking about this. At this point I wonder if we've collectively taught it about every single crosswalk in the world.
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This has been reported before, but is it common knowledge that every time we fill out a ReCaptcha we're helping train Google's self-driving car AI? Hence its obsession with traffic lights, cross walks, etc...
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Apple Music randomly played an earnest contemporary country song this morning and...and it really resonated with me? Yes I've been living in a rural area for the past two years. No I won't be taking questions at this time.
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For me, hyperfocus = endlessly fiddling with phrases in a single paragraph as I write, or organizing all my reporting in a super duper spreadsheet as I procrastinate writing. But how do you snap out of it?
Friends, help me out—I’m trying to nail down explaining the difference between flow state and ADHD hyperfocus. Does this ring true? Flow state feels like, “Wow, I’m super productive/creative right now!” Hyperfocus feels like, “Wow, I HAVE to focus on this thing right now!”
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This data visualization of "rude compounds" is a delight, unless you're a total bumwaffle
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Explore this post and more from the dataisbeautiful community
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Ousting Collins and other moderate republicans is still far from a given after yesterdays ruling
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Here in Maine, plenty of pro-choice dem boomers vote Collins every time. One told me she doesn’t blame the senator for yesterday.“We’ve entered a new era when the supreme court is entirely political. Susan and I are part of a generation that didn’t think that would happen.”
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Confirmation hearing statements on Roe: Roberts: “settled as a precedent of the court” Gorsuch: “a good judge will consider it as precedent” Kavanaugh: “an important precedent” Barrett “so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling”
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One tip here: carry your "press credentials" at all times...do any of y'all have these? I've carried business cards of course, but never been issued a bonafide "press" badge. Is this a newspaper thing?
The following advice and recommendations are intended to give the reader a high-level understanding of the rights of a journalist when confronted by law enforcement officers while covering a protest or other political event. #JournoSec #roeoverturned
https://t.co/5kbyud3y0u
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How am I only now discovering Court Listener?? Makes PACER feel almost usable.
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I am *psyched* @chafkin is writing mag stories again
My @BW cover story with @chafkin this week: After years of secret offices and jurisdiction-hopping, Binance CEO says the world's biggest crypto exchange is now ready to be the "adults in the room" https://t.co/GY1yEZp8cF
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Plus, more on-duty cops means more can get paid while mourning, which I imagine is comforting for them.
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