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Not to be LinkedIn on main but when I was in college I thought “networking” meant going to really uptight events and putting on a facade but as I get older I realize that networking happens organically when you’re just nice to people and make friends without an agenda
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hey everybody, i know these scotus rulings are really brutal but let’s all just take a moment, go outside, take a deep breath and —
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NEWS: King Charles III rebrands to Charles3 as the monarchy makes its metaverse debut
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she's a 10 but she prefers the airplane aisle to the window seat because she's afraid of asking people to get up when she needs to pee
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when people say "tiktok is just dance videos" they are actually saying "i refuse to engage with a massive shift in the way that people use the internet that is implicating over 1 billion monthly active users because i think it makes me seem more intellectual on twitter"
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idk if people who aren't in media understand how big a deal it is for
@newyorkerunion
to get a $55k salary floor. so many entry-level media jobs in NYC pay $30k, which basically means you can only work in media if you have rich parents and/or you're working a second job.
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elon banned a bunch of journalists for posting about the elon jet ban but then those journalists realized even if you're suspended you can still join twitter spaces and then they did a twitter space and elon and jason joined and yelled at them and then disabled twitter spaces
what is *the* dumbest thing elon has done at twitter so far?
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This is why tech culture sucks. The creator of Wordle deliberately hasn't tried to monetize the game, but some random dude decides to steal it. The whole spirit of the game is that it's free, ephemeral, and can't be played more than once a day. But who cares if money's involved?
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truly all the career advice i have is to be nice to people (unless if they're assholes then they're an asshole)
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High School Musical 2, a film in which Troy Bolton realizes that being a class traitor makes your friends mad at you and then sings a power ballad to repair his relationship with the working class
What are the greatest pro labor films?
I’ll start, Sorry to Bother You
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you know when you’re feeling depressed and then you go see a man play bagpipes in front of a projection of a wikipedia screenshot that says “list of nontraditional bagpipe usage”
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personally i never could have possibly predicted that paid blue check "news" accounts would accidentally post AI-generated images of a horrific event that didn't actually happen, literally no one considered how paid verification could amplify disinformation
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just kidding my other career advice is that NYC is overrated
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listen, elon follows 30 women on twitter so it's not gonna be hard to figure out who it is
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if you're mad about the wastefulness of
@phoebe_bridgers
smashing her perfectly good guitar, wait til you hear about about the lincoln project
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and then like the following week he banned a prominent journalist for linking to her other social platforms on twitter and then tried to retcon a policy in the middle of the world cup that says you're not allowed to like... post your instagram...
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It's so important for people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to be able to work in media because... when the people writing the news are mostly homogenous... guess what happens to the news
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(this is not "everyone should be on tiktok," it's "when we underestimate the impact tiktok is already having on culture, we're going to be blindsided by it and unprepared to understand what is happening to the way we interact online")
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hilarious reporting by
@sarahintampa
, who talked to the guy with the
@x
handle, and, guess what, no one from twitter has reached out to him, lol, lmao even
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Tech bros would rather make money off of someone else's idea than just be fucking normal
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Trying this again because Elon is CENSORING ME from posting my ART: I talked to
@tithenai
,
@maxgladstone
,
@kelsaywhat
and
@tha_rami
about Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood, a more powerful literary force than the Pulitzer Prize.
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the options have always been "be rich, or work your ass off until you burn out by age 25" and the ability to get paid a decent wage for an entry-level job at conde nast is...... wow.
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This is unironically a very good digital fundraising strategy,
@LeviFetterman
. As Levi's (un?)official press secretary, I'm excited about
@JohnFetterman
's candidacy for PA Senate!
#LeviForOffice
#FettermanForSenate
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Guess what? Instead of freelancing at TechCrunch, I am now ~salaried~ at TechCrunch! I'm still covering digital culture, social media, creators, labor, etc., but now you can email me at the fancy address amanda
@techcrunch
.com & send me encrypted tips via Signal at 929 593 0227 🥳
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i think this is truly an incredible post because it's like four layers deep into the joke and yet it's still pretty mainstream??? genius work here all around
I was actually asked to be part of the apology song video, I said no. Kind of scary to think I could’ve been in it.
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Imagine not only ripping off someone's idea to make a profit, but also bragging about how your ripped off someone's idea to make a profit on Twitter
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kind of fascinating how it is no longer ~cool~ to post song lyrics mysteriously on social media. is it an age thing (i.e. do current middle schoolers still do this) or is it an overall evolution.
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you only have 600 tweets to look at and this is one of them
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activism reality show but it's just 24-year-old field organizers phonebanking from their parents' house during the pandemic and then getting laid off after nov 3
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BREAKING: As
@LeviFetterman
's unofficial press secretary, I've received reports from the Office of the Official Dog of Pennsylvania that Levi is ready to announce his breed mix. When asked for comment, he said, "is alllll me."
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having a job in journalism means feeling wildly lucky yet also constant terror that you can get laid off at any moment and then whenever you have an iffy day at work you think about how lucky you are and then feel bad that every day isn't a dream because dream jobs are still jobs
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The big progressive PAC I worked denied me disability accommodations and consistently violated our collective bargaining agreement because they didn’t want us to eat lunch
That blanket NDA you signed years ago to get severance? It's void now, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
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now that the
@blaseball
news is out, i can share the real news here, which is that this is an actual image in the blaseball press kit
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Honestly wild that she’s probably in the minority for being a congress member without stocks? Like, in what world is it ethical for people who write and vote on legislation that affects businesses to have a financial stake in (and thus a bias toward) those businesses
During her Twitch stream on $GME and retail trading,
@AOC
discloses she doesn't own any individual stock:
"I don't believe members of Congress should own individual stock, so I don't have any!"
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certainly, this was not an outcome that the most casual internet users could have foreseen. no one possibly knew that if you have a certain icon symbolize legitimacy for almost fifteen years, then suddenly make it so that anyone could buy that symbol, it would create confusion.
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@hankgreen
Hank, as a fan, I personally give you permission to make like 7 fewer videos a year to give yourself time to pursue regular dental care
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i watched a good deal of white lotus this weekend (i'm still not done with s2, no spoilers) and i am absolutely screaming over this detail from a profile of jennifer coolidge
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We've got ~* the deets*~ on
@WorldsBeyondPod
, the new ~*indie*~ podcast from D&D supergroup
@BrennanLM
,
@erikaishii
,
@quiddie
& Lou Wilson. Unfortunately, I couldn't include their commentary on the bathrobe-wearing skeleton from my campaign in the article.
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@carmenmmachado
I went to a dietitian at Penn once because I was having trouble eating well while taking 5 classes + working 20 hours/week + not having a kitchen and she was like “you should go to sweet green” and I was like “bruh if I could afford that I wouldn’t be working 20 hours a week”
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It's so funny for Elon Musk to be in this Twitter Space talking to people he banned on Twitter on Twitter and not acknowledging the elephant in the room which is that Twitter is so broken that banned users can still talk to him on Twitter Spaces
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interviewing
@jasminericegirl
is a real treat because in the middle she's like "hold on i'm sending you a meme," more founders need to be like her
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factcheck:
David Sacks just ludicrously made up that Ron DeSantis' Twitter space was the largest group that "has ever met online." There are 100,000 people in this thing.
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if only twitter had a mechanism in which we could verify that public figures are who they say they are in order to cut down on disinformation
I know a lot of people joke about twitter blue, and honestly I don't want to pay for it
but this account copied everything about my bio, followed people I know, then blocked me lol
once i (and others) lose blue checks, ID verification will be a serious concern
sigh
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It feels weird and hard and frustrating to be Jewish lately, especially as a Jewish person who was not raised with any real relationship to Israel and who strongly believes in the right to peacefully protest. I've been kind of quiet about everything for my own sanity but idk man.
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@RatioMonkeys
@ArcticMonkeysJP
they did the teddy picker crying lightning transition again 😭😭😭
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journalism sux, i wanna write about an old movie but it came out in 2004, which is neither 10 nor 15 years ago, so i just have to wait til 2024
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I Looked Up All The Women Elon Musk Follows So You Don't Have To!
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Obsessed with the two (2) men who think I am being earnest
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this seems mostly like an adjustment for big "pandemic era" growth but also maybe when you build an entire franchise around values of inclusion* but then decide that you're going to wage war on trans people simply for living their lives, your fanbase will no longer support you??
After "exceptional" 2021 results, Pottermore, the global digital publisher for J K Rowling’s Wizarding World, saw profits drop by 40% last year.
Read here:
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spotify laid off 1500 people in december -- but one of those people was the creator of the encyclopedic music database every noise at once, which is now in jeopardy due to the layoffs
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I went on
@PhillyD
's show to talk about a piece I wrote for
@techcrunch
last month -- how podcasting isn't dead, even if Spotify's business decisions might make it seem otherwise! 🫡
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when we talk about how it sucks that
@inputmag
is getting shut down and how good the stuff they published was, it’s important to remember that a big factor in WHY they published such good stuff was that they paid a minimum (minimum!) of $0.50/word for freelance features
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everything that's wrong with the democratic party can be summed up with the fact that last night state leadership went after A MEME PAGE for critiquing their strategy
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richest guy in world doesn’t know the difference between sex and gender
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My friend made friends with someone at a party last night and I told her she should follow this person and DM them “hey nice to meet you last night!” so they know who you are etc and she said “that’s not normal” and now I am really worried about all you who live in NYC
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“why would I give the middle finger to my teammates?”
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wrote an incoherent thing on instagram about
@PWRBTTMBAND
&
@alloverbruise
and why bands like this matter
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potential candidates from the thirty (30) women elon follows:
katherine boyle (GP at a16z)
linda yaccarino (chair at nbcu)
ella irwin (twitter trust and safety head)
tasha keeney (director of investment analysis at ARK)
cathie wood (CEO at ARK)
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remember when they deployed the national guard to philly because someone looted a footlocker
BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.
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@svershbow
one time this happened to me and I tweeted about the bad first date I witnessed and somehow one of the people on the date managed to find the tweet and it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me ever
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All I'm saying is the Judaism I know and practice is one that honors our history of oppression by working towards social justice, and this tradition makes me proud to be Jewish, while aggressive nationalism does not. It is incredibly painful.
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when you're rudy giuliani and you show up at the four seasons total landscaping
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you think you can hurt me? i write for a publication that doesn't use the oxford comma
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today i got a PR email claiming a company raised a $260m seed round. it is $5m equity and $255m debt. are the tech bros ok?
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cannot wait to see the tech PR emails i get that somehow connect the queen's death to their startup
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After twenty years, the ubiquitous, storied Stripperweb forum is shutting down on February 1. No one knows why.
I wrote about how the community has come together to archive their collective history and attempt to track down the forum's elusive owner.
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journalism is hard because I answer calls from unknown numbers and like 5% of the time it’s an important source trying to talk to me about a story but then 95% of the time it’s about my car’s extended warranty
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you go home with a guy and his bathroom looks like this, wyd??
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@kattenbarge
also the OP is a satire account 😭(I know you know but for anyone who is reading)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Technical issues crash Ron DeSantis’s presidential announcement on Twitter
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Hey,
@blaseball
is back, and I gushed about it for 2000+ words in
@inputmag
! If you're confused about what's going on with this absurdist, web-based, collaborative, horrific, cosmological [takes breath] free baseball simulation, look no further!
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I find it fascinating niche fandoms organize movements, and today's rendition of that phenomenon is... the omegaverse, wherein fanfic writers via
@knotinmyname
are trying to publish as much fic as possible to force AIs to train on, um, slick and knotting.
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Instagram users are already tired of how much algorithmically generated content is on their feed, but Mark Zuckerberg said today that the amount of recommended content will **double** by the end of next year.
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i'm not the kind of journalist that tries to coerce people into revealing embargoed information, but i will let
@blaseball
twitter know that i asked
@_stephenbell_
if crying is allowed in blaseball and they said "that's redacted information"
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Congress doesn’t seem to understand how social media works, and TikTokers are getting frustrated. I talked to
@vitusspehar
,
@cfiesler
,
@abbieasr
& Naomi Hearts about their reaction to a potential TikTok ban for
@TechCrunch
.
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The same people who claim to care about children are publishing intimate details of childrens’ lives without their consent, tell me how this is supposed to be good for children
Upon interviewing Emily Yoffe myself I was told that I had no say in whether or not the article was published. I asked if my consent was required to publish the article and the reporter told me, “that’s not how these things work.”
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I'm glad this is being covered, but the article misses the point that a lot of people go into freelancing because there just aren't enough journalism jobs that pay a living wage. Given this reality, it's a failure for J-schools/undergrad journalism not to teach about freelancing.
Here's why some journalism school graduates are freelancing instead of looking for full-time employment.
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“hello I want my 100M twitter followers to know that I do indeed Have Sex™️”
Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.
A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.
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"trendbait" is a good word, i am finding this increasingly happening in my inbox where PR people pitch me on a trend (also: i will never write a trend piece based on PR bc that means it's not an organic trend???) and then i look into it and it's like one guy made a tiktok
and yes I coined a term to describe them: TRENDBAIT!!!!
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Linkedin posts already look like they are written by AI
BREAKING:
#LinkedIn
is working on an AI-powered assistant that get you started with a first draft for your next post!
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what if Kim’s 400-page radical labor history book sold five times as many copies as Tucker Carlson’s biography
my 400-page radical labor history book has sold four times as many copies as Tucker Carlson’s biography, haha
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lotsa chatter about spotify daylists, was thinking about identity-formation and algorithmic personalization, started wondering who at spotify is responsible for its thousands of hyper-specific genres like "egg punk," found out that guy got laid off 🥲
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i am once again saying i would sell my soul to see this man's taxes
MrBeast brings in about $600 million to $700 million a year, but he says he isn’t rich. “I mean, not right now. I’m not naive; maybe one day. But right now, whatever we make, we reinvest”
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we got professional headshots done last week so now you have to stare into the abyss (my eyes) and tell me i'm pretty but not in a creepy way pls
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