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CBS News: the mom in Uvalde who police handcuffed, and who ran into the school to rescue her children, says that law enforcement called her with a threat: if she talked to the media about the police response she would face an obstruction of justice charge
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Facebook staff wanted to make a voting information center on WhatsApp ahead of the 2020 election for Spanish speakers.
Mark Zuckerberg objected to the idea because he thought providing key voting info in Spanish could make the company look partisan
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"The CEO of a Florida-based company downplayed the category 4 hurricane headed directly for the area in a meeting with employees, and even told them to bring their kids and pets to the office so they could bunker down together—and keep working."
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At least 357 sitting Republican legislators in battleground states have used the power of their office to discredit or try to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a review of legislative votes, records and official statements by The NYT.
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Our son Émile has arrived!
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Paula was so brave. She gave all her strength when it came time to push. She and our little guy are doing so well. 🥳🎊🍁
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This Twitter employee's dire description of what its like inside the company reads like a universal tale of media company mismanagement:
Via
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With new reporting about Zuckerberg's objections to a Spanish-language voting information center on WhatsApp, it's worth looking back at what was happening on the platform among some Spanish speakers in Florida and elsewhere in the run up to the 2020 election:
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This story takes all the trolling, shitposting, and public feuding and gets at a key question about Musk and the wealthiest people and corporations in America:
How can the government enforce rules when extreme wealth annihilates the concept of punishment
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New AOC interview with the NYT:
—She says she & her allies were told not to help in Virginia and continues her long standing critique of the Party not seeking campaign advice from successful progressives
—highlights lack of exec action on student loans
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Twitter is working on a feature to allow people to post videos and then charge users to view them, with adult content as a possibility.
Mock ups of the new feature viewed by the Post resemble the OnlyFans model of locked content that users can pay to see
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How Texas authorities changed their stories:
—no one tried to stop the gunman from entering the school
—there were 12 minutes before the gunman entered
—police did not keep him "pinned down" in a room, but waited ~1 hour to confront him
—no body armor
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Celebrating our anniversary with…a baby shower! Hatchling is coming soon.
🐣💐🎉🥰🥳🍼
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The IRS will spend $15 million studying a free tax filing system. It’s a landmark step toward overhauling the way most Americans file their taxes and ending years of domination of tax prep by private corporations
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Jack Sweeney, the Florida teen who drew attention for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet, is now publicizing the movements of planes owned by Russian oligarchs and aircraft associated with Vladimir Putin.
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"Under the Constitution, it is illegal for an American official to accept a gift from a foreign government..."
....Trump administration officials routinely flouted guidelines about day-to-day government issues like record-keeping and ethics..."
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“White Americans want an endlessly appreciating asset and the ability to police who their neighbors are and what they do. Housing segregation, suburban sprawl, and planned communities are how they won those things, and how they protect them.”
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“One party is so committed to its ideological objectives that it is willing to violate the Constitution to achieve them. The other is so ambivalent about its own goals that it fetishizes procedural obstacles to their enactment.”
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This is a weird clip that implicitly attacks journalism. But it lays out the thinking of people who essentially believe that reporting they disagree with is a form of “doxxing”
And it presents baffling logic: Revealing powerful business interests to the public is dangerous
“Releasing their identities…was very, very dangerous for them and their families.”
@nicolemuniz
, CEO of
@yugalabs
, the company behind
@BoredApeYC
speaks about anonymity and accountability after the founders' identities were revealed.
Join Us:
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“At Twitter’s offices, employees said tearful goodbyes, exchanged contact info and tried to make their documentation easily accessible for the staff who were to remain
They wanted to ensure their colleagues could keep the site running in their absence”
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A forward-looking column showing how the Depp-Heard trial serves as a dark preview of an emerging media environment — led by engagement-chasing creators who see themselves as breaking news authorities and who audiences rely on to shape narratives online
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In some apartment buildings in Miami, landlords have jacked up the rent by 100%, pushing out locals as finance and tech professionals pour into South Florida. Tenants are offering hundreds of dollars over asking or agreeing to pay an entire year upfront.
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A new mantra in big tech: If you can’t beat them, clone them. And if you still can’t beat them, hire a Republican strategy firm to malign them through dubious news stories in local media
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“The huge animal would have weighed 24 tons and was the same size as six elephants, Deng told CNN. Its shoulders were more than 16 feet off the ground, the head at 23 feet, and its body was 26 feet long, he added.”
Paleontologists working in China have discovered a new species of giant rhino, the largest land mammal ever to have walked the earth.
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🚨🤖🥳
After 6 years at the
@washingtonpost
, today is my last day. I’m so grateful to my colleagues and to the
@PostGuild
, for working to make the Post a better place.
I’m excited to be joining
@YahooFinance
as a reporter later this month.
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Welton Chang, chief technology officer for Human Rights First:
“I don’t think anyone ever thought about data privacy or what to do in the event the [HIIDE] system fell into the wrong hands”
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@mehdirhasan
Part of the dysfunctional dynamic this clip highlights and contrasts with is that asking pointed or even basic follow up questions, or merely being persistent, draws accusations of having a "political agenda." That makes media people ultra-sensitive to "the appearance of bias"
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.
@pareene
argues it’s not “democracy” that Millennials have lost faith in, but a political order that excludes entire generations from meaningful representation and power.
“What are you going to do about the fact that we all know you can’t do anything?
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Sen. Manchin’s objections to paid leave for people who get sick or who need to take time for the birth of a new child included:
—concerns about people lying about getting sick or having a baby
—the impact on businesses who need workers to keep working
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MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday, Semafor reports:
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The college student whose twitter account tracking Musk’s jet was just banned:
“I'm pretty surprised, especially after he put out a tweet saying he wouldn't do it…But I guess after the last commotion over the weekend, he's probably not too happy…”
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One of the ways 2024 will differ from 2020:
Trump and his allies have made a mission of supporting state candidates that would discredit or overturn election results, making it easier for anti-democratic efforts to move forward in the states
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On today’s front page w/
@tcfrankel
,
@JStein_WaPo
&
@JaxAlemany
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In the contest over the infrastructure bill, the crypto industry and its allies sprung into action, mounting a campaign on Capitol Hill, and proving their newfound power as a lobbying force
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“We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors…with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information.”
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"While many of the guests are indeed parents or school officials, the Fox News segments rarely included their professional biographies: among them, Republican strategists and lobbyists, staff of conservative think tanks, and media personalities."
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An amazing team
@washingtonpost
built an immersive, visual explainer of how AI image generators work
A step by step guide of how the striking images are made, and the ethical problems they’ve unleashed
@kevinschaul
@Tan_Shelly
@nitashatiku
& Monique Woo
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1) Uber paid California drivers NOT based on fares
2) California passed historic gig-worker law
3) Uber changes driver pay based on fares to prove drivers are actually independent
4) California changes law to favor Uber
5) Uber changes driver pay back
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A lot of quotes and passages expounding on the idea of “financial impunity” — when you’re so rich fines don’t matter and so rules are meaningless.
“To put this into perspective, Musk's net worth is more than 100 times the SEC's annual budget.”
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“Arredondo did not attend the meeting. He has gone to great lengths to avoid the public eye since the shooting. Last week he took the oath of office for the City Council…in a secret ceremony. Police officers have also guarded his home and workplace”
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Even though Uber rides now cost a lot more money, the company has uncoupled driver earnings from the price customers pay, part of a pattern of eroding driver control.
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The reporting here is a window into the whole mindset and American political posture that if you aren't doing crazy numbers on social media the only explanation is that the algorithm is censoring you
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Absurd, fully in-character interview with
@dril
, who savages Musk and “free speech” posturing
Via
@TaylorLorenz
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The Republican-controlled State Legislature in Arizona voted to revoke the Democratic secretary of state’s legal authority in election-related lawsuits, handing that power instead to the Republican attorney general.
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NEW: Disney responds to protests and calls for action surrounding Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill, saying in part, "The biggest impact we can have in creating a more inclusive world is through the inspiring content we produce."
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The TSA is relaunching a self-defense training course for flight attendants following reports of thousands of instances of unruly passengers. The course includes suggestions for deterrence and ideas on the most vulnerable places to hit an attacker
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"The billionaire couple, in less than a decade, have accumulated more than 269,000 acres of farmland across 18 states, more than the entire acreage of New York City."
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This story adds weight to arguments dismissed as alarmist after the 2020 election: While Trump's efforts to override voters were blocked at the state level, in 2024, key institutions & positions will likely be controlled by his allies openly committed to overturning results
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@emilynussbaum
@EricMGarcia
Every direct testimony I’ve seen outside of the news article paints a far less sympathetic picture of the professor and bolsters the case for the students who felt like crap
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12-year-old coder made 6-figures selling Weird Whales NFTs
“As of now, Ahmed doesn't have a traditional bank account, only a cryptocurrency wallet.”
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A stunning analysis and series of maps from
@andrewvandam
, trying to answer the question: Why do people in the South have such low credit scores?
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@davidmackau
Bloodlust transmogrified into lolz + Confluence with the orca attacks and the news cycle death clock
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Interesting discussion about the power wielded by the Facebook whistleblower, how her approach to journalists and her media presence differs from Snowden’s, and a quick aside about her personal wealth and “crypto friends”
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To-go cocktails will stick around in at least 20 states after the pandemic
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Where are all those delivery fees going? The
@washingtonpost
tried to find out, setting up an experiment, placing identical orders on 3 delivery apps, and then gathering receipts from the restaurant and the drivers to see how much everyone was getting paid
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One of the takeaways in this story is the concept of financial impunity, how a person’s extreme wealth renders the whole idea of rules and rule breaking meaningless because of the gargantuan piles of money at their disposal
NEW: Elon Musk ignored legal disclosure requirements and kept buying Twitter stock well after he was supposed to tell the market. It made him $156 million. From
@ReedAlbergotti
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This shining example of a job posting, with a listed minimum salary, highlights how many news outlets refuse to do the most basic work to attract a diverse pool of applicants
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An eye-opening story about the mass failure of job application software, which filters out millions of qualified or nearly qualified people — including veterans, moms, and laid off workers — because computers are not actually good at finding talent
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Starting Friday, Disney guests will have to wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status, the theme park announced Wednesday night. Face coverings are optional when outside, and visitors younger than 2 will not be required to wear a mask.
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As
@AlexYablon
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@pareene
discussed recently, one alternative to trying to get office workers back into massive buildings downtown so that cities can ensure tax revenue from commercial real estate is to...reorient city centers around housing
Both San Francisco Mayor London Breed and New York Mayor Eric Adams have urged firms to bring back workers to the office to help revitalize urban streets and the broader economy. “You can’t stay home in your pajamas all day,” Adams said in February.
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Elon Musk's Twitter is throttling links to websites he dislikes, adding a 5-second delay when people click on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks, a Washington Post analysis found
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“consumers who bundle just a few streamers together in 2023 will find that the final cost is effectively the same as basic cable. Couple that reality with the introduction of ads into streaming and the end product eerily resembles on-demand cable.”
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That feeling when u send a really good tweet.
Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever track & field gold medal, and he knew it the second he released the javelin.
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the administration straining to interpret the vaccine contracts and negotiate in a way that benefits the global population leads to the question: why did the US government agree to these contracts?
The White House has concluded that it can’t unilaterally share Moderna’s vaccine process, despite federal contracts that staked the company with billions.
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A mom tells the WSJ that after the gunman was killed, police brought in school buses to transport the children away from the school.
When a father tried to approach a bus to retrieve his kid the police tasered him.
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My dad savaging me, a notorious late sleeper, after I sent an early morning baby video 🥶😭🍼
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"All of these thirst traps can create a disorienting experience for a young, horny, American progressive with pro-Palestinian sympathies — which, of course, is exactly the point."
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@WJSClanton
@nhannahjones
Multiple clips circulating from broadcasts abroad show full contact and the screaming afterwards
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The very strange interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino makes total sense when you view her role as Musk's humiliation sponge, writes
@pahwa_nitish
, in a thorough analysis of the ways Musk has made her look ill prepared. Leading Twitter as self sabotage.
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Celebrating Paula’s first birthday as a mom! 🙌🏾🎂🎈🐣. The Shaban boys are very lucky to have her. 🍾🍼
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@davidmackau
There is another “meanwhile this is happening” element too, which I think gives people “permission” to make light of Titan
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@xoxogossipgita
on the layers of Hollywood drama & the evolution of fandoms
"One thing is more clear now though: some parts of fandom are completely indistinguishable from QAnon to the point that you can switch allegiances without most people noticing"
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No amount of tweeting could embarrass a news organization like these official statements.
AP spokesperson responds to the open letter signed by more than 100 AP staffers criticizing how the company fired Emily Wilder for violating its social media policy
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Police admit they misjudged & acted slowly:
— Scene commander and 19 officers decided the situation didn't require active-shooter protocol
—Gunman locked himself inside with children but police did nothing to break down the door
—Gunman had 1,657 rounds
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Public Citizen found common themes across secrete contracts:
—language to block donations of Pfizer doses
—Disputes to be settled in secret arbitration courts
—Pfizer able to change terms, including delivery dates, and demand public assets as collateral
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-Uvalde doubled its security budget in recent years
-The district has its own police force, threat teams, reporting system, social media monitoring software, fences around schools and a requirement that teachers lock their classrooms
-It happened anyway
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After delivering an account of the shooting highlighting the heroism of police who faced down evil and prevented more loss of life, the governor of Texas now says he was given inaccurate info.
He also went to a fundraiser after the children were killed
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Another way to read this column was to collapse all the ways breaking news clout chasers differ from journalists and to think of the new, dark media environment as just an exaggerated, mutant version of the old one: traffic chasers, set free from ethics of fairness and accuracy
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Our first Halloween in our new place and my wife is running wild
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Media bosses who talk about “newsroom culture” as a reason to forbid remote work rarely talk about the perverse aspects of “newsroom culture,” like a lack of diversity. And they ignore the benefits of not forcing people to work in the most expensive cities
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“As Ukrainians deal with the devastation…many are also encountering a confounding and almost surreal backlash from family members in Russia, who refuse to believe that Russian soldiers could bomb innocent people, or even that a war is taking place at all”
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A stunning photo essay by wildlife photographer Alex Benja, who travelled through Wyoming following a group of mostly Peruvian shepherds as they guided a massive herd of sheep through their year-long, 300 mile grazing migration
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Why are far-right personalities in the US cheering on Putin?
Vice reports on the mythologies and fantasies held by extremists who hail Putin as a white Christian crusader
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“Mullin’s behavior has alarmed top U.S. officials who say he has gone to extraordinary lengths to defy U.S. warnings.”
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“He doesn’t know how many people set alerts for his tweets, but he knows that every time he posts a restock link, 100,000 people click on it.”
Fun profile of the guy who helps people find PlayStation 5’s
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"It’s also clear that, in private, some of the richest and most famous people in the world are not all that different from the random reply guys that appear underneath every single one of Musk’s tweets"
@bigblackjacobin
on groveling and double texting
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When creators claim that their engagement sags and that they lose followers when they did “pro-Heard” takes, it’s worth examining why algorithmic sorting steers audiences that way
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“I am one victim to the asymmetrical enforcement of rules around objectivity and social media that has censored so many journalists — particularly Palestinian journalists and other journalists of color — before me.”
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*stares directly at the sun
Swimming caps designed for natural black hair created by a black-owned brand will not be allowed at the Olympics.
The International Swimming Federation said the caps did not fit “the natural form of the head”
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