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Joshua Topolsky

@joshuatopolsky

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EIC @sherwood_news . Founded @verge , @outline , @inputmag . Makes rave music. Likes beautiful things. Hates schedules.

New York, USA
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Everything happens so much
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Excuse me?
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I know everyone has read it but it's worth reading again tonight
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Christopher Nolan: "I'd rather you literally die than watch my movie on a TV."
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New Nolan statement: "Some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service."
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Just curious @jack , does Elon still seem like the perfect guy to run Twitter?
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@VP Can you be more specific actually
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@helen Where did you see this? It's insane
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Took me a second
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Very good this will work very well
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How about we let people be dead???
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4 years
Oh so this is what a roid rage episode looks like on Twitter
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In retrospect this photo seems insane but we were having fun..... Happy 10th you weirdos!!!!!!
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I own a completely square monitor ama
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2 years
Fun fact: if one (1) pinecone ever gets stuck in the trunk / roof gap of a Tesla Model Y while closing it will shatter the glass immediately
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We won't know tonight who actually won this thing, but we know about half the country supports and endorses fascism and racism and cruelty and hatred and god it makes me so sad that this is who we are
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Phone makers: What if your phone... was also a tablet? Consumers: Um can you just make my battery last all day? Phone makers: It also comes with a free VR headset.
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This actually *is* peak 2020
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The "you have successfully unsubscribed" email from the list you just unsubscribed from... like the villain popping off one more shot just before he dies
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Tim Cook looks amazing
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1 year
Can’t lie it felt pretty good
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3 years
This is a joke. @jack delete his account. It's enough. Show you care about what happens and stop this madman from inciting his mentally ill followers to real violence and sedition. YOU are a threat to American democracy if you don't silence his fucking bullhorn.
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Twitter has now removed several of Trump’s tweets, including his tweet about Pence and the video to supporters earlier this afternoon.
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Don't be afraid of the virus that sent me to the hospital on a helicopter, in need of oxygen, where I had 9 doctors, took an untested, experimental drug cocktail, enormous amounts of steroids, and now have lung capacity which I have ordered my medical team not to speak about
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
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WHERE ARE THEY TAKING THEM???
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iOS 14 is so good I'm an Apple fanboy now
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3 years
I think about this a lot
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All I can say about @elonmusk owning twitter is that if his ideas about what a good user experience is are reflected in recent Tesla software updates... You can't even imagine how shitty this website is about to get
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
Like really @NBCNews you're giving Trump a platform when he REFUSED TO DEBATE Joe Biden? this isn't about ratings it's literally about the future of our democracy and you're still acting like it's business as usual
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4 years
It's pretty incredible that dems are like WOW your platform is out of control it lets false videos spread like wildfire and the republicans are like WHY WON'T YOU LET ME SPREAD MY FALSE VIDEO
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Today iOS truly became president
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Why does Billie Eilish look like an Xbox
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The last thing you see before you die
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December 21, 2020
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Arieh Kovler
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On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be rallying in DC, at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol after it certifies Joe Biden's win. I don't think this has sunk in yet.
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This is insane. @Google @YouTube @SusanWojcicki honestly WTF is this? I just got a two minute ad filled with COVID-19 misinformation and lies before a video about physical therapy.
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Joshua Topolsky
3 years
About 11 years ago, I started quietly asking people I worked with at Engadget what they would think if we could find some way to get out from under AOL and get attention and resources to build a new kind of tech and culture publication. Needless to say, almost everyone said yes.
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Joshua Topolsky
2 years
In uncharacteristic move, Elon Musk pulls out
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I can't describe how much this brings me joy
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The last thing you see before you die
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3 years
dude @jack fucking take away his platform you coward — you're HELPING HIM DO IT
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I am hearing that the number of employees who DECLINED to stay at Twitter under Musk was something closer to almost 80%
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who made this
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4 years
THIS is what the map should look like on CNN and every other network. A LOT MORE PEOPLE are voting left, more than ever before. The traditional map that fills in empty states as red or blue without representing actual population is so misleading about where this country is.
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Good morning! If you only look at one map today, make it this one. This is what red/blue states really look like. Land doesn't vote. People do. #ElectionResults2020
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Bring back weird phones
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These are super fun and we're going to be doing a bunch like this (special thx to prince-among-men @casey )
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Please I beg of you Mr. Musk make the Tesla phone with its own mobile OS and app ecosystem which is honestly very easy for a man with your enormous and impressive brain power
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Liz Wheeler
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If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?
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I was wrong about VR. And so is @kevinroose and the NYT. And really, anyone who counts it out right now. So I wrote about it.
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5 years
Let's just pretend he won for Mr. Robot okay?
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4 years
If you're upset about this wait till you hear what the priests have been doing to children
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Crazy that the SpaceX crew had to pay an additional $7K for autopilot tho
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3 years
Really hard to give a shit about a new Mac when the secretary of state is talking openly about the fascist coup the republicans are currently undertaking
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5 years
Classic AM scene over here
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Joshua Topolsky
3 years
Where is the tear gas? The kettling? The arrests? The violence we saw against completely peaceful protestors simply walking down the street? This is a fraud and a charade. If they wanted to clear the Capitol they could. They don't want to.
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
YOU'RE FIRED
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2 years
You know dude's thinking some wild shit here
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Freud, age 16, with his mother
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Me after reading twitter for one hour
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4 years
Just to be clear, the president of the United States refused to codemn white supremacists. That should scare the shit out of you.
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You do in fact love to see it
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I'm very happy for America and the world but extra happy for my daughter, who was shocked to learn there has never been a woman president in this country and now has an amazing woman VP to see and hear and that's fucking HISTORIC and WONDERFUL
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Lifehack
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2 years
Like @reckless has had many great pieces but I think this is the best thing he has ever written and the most succinct takedown of the whole affair I have ever seen
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
Epic is right. Apple has become what it set out to kill.
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3 years
I really need this and I don't think I have to explain why
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Imagine if everything in life could feel like this
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
Sorry but the cybertruck design is actually genius level brutalism. It's demolition man IRL. It's a Hummer in low poly mode with none of the carbon footprint. It will sell poorly and be discontinued in two years.
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Absolutely without question the last thing you see before you die
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Joshua Topolsky
3 years
Think about how many people would still be alive if Twitter and Facebook had done this a year ago. The spread of lies and misinformation will never be accounted for.
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Joshua Topolsky
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I love Apple Wallet because it shows the flights I took in 2017 for reasons no one could possibly explain
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Joshua Topolsky
2 years
I really need the people who build social media apps like Instagram and this hellworld to understand that when I unmute a video, it means I want to hear that video, not every video. You have created one of the most annoying user experiences of all time. Stop sucking.
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Imagine being paid like $50m to never have to think about Twitter again
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There has to be consequences. There has to be.
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This can't be real
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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This is the one. The internet is over. Shut it all down. This wins. These people vote...
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The last thing you see before you die
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Joshua Topolsky
1 year
Wait this is FUCKING CRAZY. Twitter has marked mastodon servers as “sensitive content” (aka dangerous) and is flagging posts with them automatically. @elonmusk what the fuck are you scared of my dude?
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Please lord spare Joe Biden
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
I've just been told that my 5-year-old daughter told a schoolmate that god is a "made up clown that lives in the sky" and I've never felt so proud
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Made this today and it’s extremely cool
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
An ad featuring a spew of misinformation and lies and conspiracy theory masquerading as journalism force fed to google users? Great job everyone.
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These attacks on journalists must stop
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Joshua Topolsky
1 year
One thing I know for sure: you can definitely step on your own dick in front of everyone for way less than $44B
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
Me at the beginning of 2020 vs me in late March of 2020
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
They are lying directly to the public and press about the health of the president of the united states — we are in some really dangerous territory now
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Maggie Haberman
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Conley says we are 72 hours into the diagnosis. We were told around 1 am on Friday morning that POTUS was positive, which is only 36 hours ago.
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I own Airpods pro now and I can honestly say they absolutely shred all other earbuds.... The noise cancellation in particular is nuts. Why did I resist for so long?
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Joshua Topolsky
3 years
Just found in a box of old CDs: a clip of me dj'ing in Tokyo (sometime between 1999-2003?) in a packed club where people are going nuts and can I please go back there?
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Joshua Topolsky
3 years
TIL Nolan and Elon Musk have a similar online fanbase
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
Abolish the electoral college. You wanna run America? Get the majority of the HUMAN BEINGS in this country to actually vote for you. This is nonsense.
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Joshua Topolsky
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Sorry but this is the best tweet ever
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
You'd laugh if you weren't crying. This is like 1D chess.
@axios
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. @jonathanvswan : “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.” @realdonaldtrump : “You can’t do that.” Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”
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IT'S ALIVE
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Joshua Topolsky
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I can't fucking believe how good WandaVision is. On so many levels, it is a staggering work of art. And I do mean capital A art. Underneath all its comic myth making/breaking and pulp it is doing things most TV shows can only dream about.
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
If you think wearing a mask is a political statement... you're a fucking dummy
@Variety
Variety
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AMC Theater CEO Adam Aron says their cinemas won't require masks upon reopening because they didn't "want to be drawn into a political controversy"
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A good way to get people with lots of followers to never come back to your service is to ban them because you can't take a joke
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Joshua Topolsky
4 years
Nothing says "pro-life" like 170,000+ dead and more to come from COVID-19, murder on the streets by armed right wing militias, and Americans being shot in front of their children by cops. You may be praying, but it ain't to god.
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Josh Hawley
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This is the most pro-life, pro-faith national convention of my lifetime
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Joshua Topolsky
1 year
How did we get here? People who work retail realized it's not worth risking bodily harm to protect a company that has more money than god, insurance, and will deactivate these devices, rendering them useless and worthless. The ignorance of this tweet is really something special.
@CryptoKaleo
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Society is so broken in California that employees are basically trained to help assist tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise being stolen right in front of them (notice them holding customers back) as everyone else just stands around and watches. How did we get here?
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