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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

5 months

I gave a statement today at LA City Council in support of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza:

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

4 years

Someone needs to invent Zoomroulette, where you can click a button and drop into a random business meeting, university class, or friend hangout.

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6 years

Doing my taxes: "Is at least two thirds of your income from farming or fishing?" *gazes wistfully out the window for 40 minutes*

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6 years

A podcast where people have to explain to their significant others what they're laughing at on Twitter

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4 years

imo the best way to troll venture capitalists would be to tax capital gains at the same rate as income

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7 years

"My Family's Slave" is now trending in the Philippines, where it's lunch time. I'm going to share a few interesting threads from Filipinos:

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6 years

I am deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Gmail. To reach me in the future please find me on the battlefield in Fortnite Mobile.

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6 years

RIP to Tom Wolfe, who gave a generation of young writers wildly unrealistic expectations about how glamorous and lucrative a career in magazine journalism would be.

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@AdrianChen

6 years

Whoa, Pravda just went live

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Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

Just want to say I was Asian before it was cool.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

4 years

The use of "contact tracing" to describe police investigations of protestors is chilling tbh. The war on COVID is normalizing surveillance in a bad way.

NBC News

@NBCNews

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Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington says they've begun contact tracing arrestees. "Who are they associated with? What platforms are they advocating for? ... Is this organized crime? ... We are in the process right now of building that information network."

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4 years

Well I endorse @BernieSanders so there

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@NBCAsianAmerica

4 years

Exclusive: More than 100 Asian American and Pacific Islander creatives, activists, and academics have endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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9 years

http://t.co/JweHxqNDD4

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

Tried to tamp down the troll farm panic on @chrislhayes show last night. It's 90 people with a shaky grasp of English and a rudimentary understanding of U.S. politics shitposting on Facebook.

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6 years

OMG, a sober/informed Russia take on MSNBC! @AdrianChen , who profiled indicted Russian troll farm in 2015, tells @chrislhayes that what other MSNBC guests have compared to Pearl Harbor "is essentially a social media marketing campaign" and maybe not worthy of a national freakout

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

In case you missed it, my 2015 story on the Internet Research Agency, just indicted by Mueller

The Agency (Published 2015)

From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

The only way to defeat Joe Rogan is to institute a 20-hour work week and three months mandatory paid vacation so that people have time to read a fucking book.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

5 years

When will we have the technology to develop a podcast with male *and* female hosts

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

7 years

How to dispose of a body in Park Slope.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

10 years

I can't stop laughing at this, by @killola http://t.co/ptZgO7qeMV

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

5 months

I was arrested today at a protest in LA that closed down the 110 freeway at rush hour to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. complicity in Israel's crimes against Palestinians.

IfNotNow🔥✡️

@IfNotNowOrg

5 months

BREAKING: 75 American Jews & allies were just arrested shutting down a Los Angeles freeway to demand a ceasefire, and an end to U.S. funding of war crimes against the people of Gaza. Millions face death by bomb, bullet, starvation & disease in Gaza. No more business as usual.

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Adrian Chen

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8 years

Whenever writing gets me down I read this Fran Lebowitz quote. Cheers me up every time.

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4 years

I believe the protests are necessary regardless, but it is heartening that early results show very small numbers of protesters testing positive for COVID: 1.4% in Minneapolis and <1% in Seattle.

Fewer than 1% of Seattle protesters test positive for coronavirus

SEATTLE - Fewer than 1% of the thousands who got tested after attending Seattle protests were positive for coronavirus, according to UW Medicine. The Seattle Mayor's Office released the results...

komonews.com

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Adrian Chen

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7 years

For what it's worth, none of the Russian trolls I found tweeted pro-Bernie stuff. Only anti-Clinton and pro-Trump.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

7 years

Putin has gone too far

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

Relieved that I no longer work at the magazine so I can tweet that having Steve Bannon at the festival is a dumb and bad idea without first navigating a psychic labyrinth of conflicting professional and political commitments!

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Adrian Chen

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5 years

Rode the bus from LAX next to a 26 year-old German guy who had just arrived for a three week trip around California. His eyes grew wide as he took in the palm trees and the dust and the pink light of the late evening on the skyscrapers. "Dude," he said. "It looks just like GTA."

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Adrian Chen

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7 years

My dispatch from the Philippines on the rise of President Rodrigo Duterte, in this week's @newyorker :

When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power

Since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, in May, more than three thousand people have been killed in a vicious drug war.

www.newyorker.com

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

All of the mid-century paintings in the Whitney that were supposed to convey the crushing alienation of modern life now look like utopias where there were jobs and functioning infrastructure.

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

This scaremongering ad against EU privacy laws makes me really want the EU privacy laws

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Adrian Chen

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2 years

I'm reading the recently-declassified transcripts of the meetings between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. They're something.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

The new Banksy is a little on the nose

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Adrian Chen

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8 years

I wrote about how @meganphelps left Westboro Baptist Church, and how Twitter helped, in this week's New Yorker:

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

7 years

Because I work for the Kremlin.

Eric Garland

@ericgarland

7 years

Again, @AdrianChen - since you admit no skillset in information warfare, why are you disagreeing with the US government in their findings?

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Adrian Chen

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8 years

Next week's New Yorker cover is incredibly powerful

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

They know how to protest in the Philippines

jordan

@JordanUhl

6 years

Protesters in Manila, Philippines burned Trump effigy. What a welcome 😏

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7 years

Oh man the @nypost app got hacked. Super creepy push notifications

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

I made an LA faux pas last night. Somebody invited me to an NYE party and I said I couldn't go because I have another party. They were shocked! Apparently the polite thing to do here is to say something like "cool, I'll text you!" and then just not show up.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

I support the New Yorker union, because you can't eat prestige.

The New Yorker Union

@newyorkerunion

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We are asking @condenast and @newyorker to voluntarily recognize our union, and we look forward to beginning an amicable collective-bargaining process. #NewYorkerUnion

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6 years

My cousin who lives in London thought I moved to LA already so he didn't call when he had a 24-hr layover here but then I randomly ran into him on the street. Like this for one year of good luck.

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Adrian Chen

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5 years

the origin story of Hollywood just fucked me up

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4 years

@PJVogt @somebadideas I went to Vietnam to investigate this back when it was happening and tho I never published a story I don't think this is really why he deleted it.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

This is a good initiative from Facebook that probably won't have any unintended consequences

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

2 years

re: "whataboutism"- imo it's important to highlight US hypocrisy in condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine when we did much the same thing in Iraq, etc bc it shows how one nation can't + shouldn't dictate what is right or wrong for the rest of the world, as the US tries to do.

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8 years

I have some personal news: I'm joining the @Newyorker as a staff writer!

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Adrian Chen

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5 years

Some people make searing art out of their loneliness. I come up with the idea of a grocery store for single people where you can buy lettuce by the leaf.

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4 years

@PJVogt @somebadideas I think he got a lot of attention he didn't want from the Vietnamese state.

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6 years

In this week's New Yorker, I profiled @RealIcePoseidon , who has turned his life into a livestreamed reality show for an obsessed audience of gamers and trolls, with often-terrifying results:

Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer

When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

www.newyorker.com

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8 years

The FBI takes down another terrorist mastermind

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Adrian Chen

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6 years

Dear @lyft , it took 30+ minutes to get a car last night and in the interim I accidentally got into an argument at the bar about the 2016 Democratic primary after having 3 beers. Please Venmo me $20,000.

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@AdrianChen

4 years

*books cruise*

NPR

@NPR

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BREAKING: Joe Biden is projected to win the Michigan primary, according to the AP.

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5 years

First day with my new gaming PC is going great. I befriended a 10 year-old while playing the pirate simulator "Sea of Thieves." His first words to me were "Just so you know, I'm 10 years old so I can be pretty annoying."

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Adrian Chen

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9 years

I just tried to think of jobs outside of media and it sounded like a Richard Scarry book: "mailman, scientist, teacher..." Help.

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9 years

Updated Zero Dark Thirty Script: INT. CIA OFFICE - DAY ISI AGENT: Here is where Osama bin Laden is. JESSICA CHASTAIN: Thank you. THE END

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

Just called the number I have for Mikhail Burchik, named in the indictment as an employee of the Internet Research Agency. He said "Yes I have heard the news" and hung up.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

I feel so validated for not liking anything

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6 years

I'm at my grandmother's house. She's a neuropsychologist and showed me her contribution to the IQ debate... from 1988. "The IQ has long ceased to be a useful scientific construct for organizing and describing our increasingly complex and sensitive behavioral observations."

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

11 years

If every verified user vanished from Twitter it'd be a pretty sweet message board for cool people

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@AdrianChen

5 years

The best advice I have for writers is to keep a ridiculous variety of snacks on hand. Each different kind of snack allows you to write an additional 100 words per day. This is remains true for up to 8 snacks, after which the effect diminishes rapidly. I have tested this.

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Adrian Chen

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7 years

Yikes. There was just a shooting at Barclay's in Brooklyn. I heard like 6 shots. One guy hit that I saw. Tons of cops.

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5 years

I wish articles like this would include at least nod at the correct solution to the problem of a single tech company moderating billions of posts across the world, which is dismantling Facebook as we know it

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7 years

Every article I've read about this stuff goes: 1) something weird happens on the internet 2) Russian trolls are a thing 3) Russia did it??

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

6 years

This framing of Russian propaganda as "cyber warfare" is bad. Will lead to more surveillance, censorship, securitization of social media.

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

11 years

Me and @max_read collaborated on important political satire. http://t.co/GwJwS6tr

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4 years

OK I just went in a Zoom meeting from some random link I found on Twitter and they were talking about soccer strategies? I think it was some sort of coaching staff? I had to leave, it was too creepy.

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4 years

might fuck around and road trip to the potato piles

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5 years

It's comforting to know that James Baldwin did the 20th century equivalent of aimlessly scrolling through Twitter before you get out of bed.

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Adrian Chen

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9 years

I went to Russia to investigate a pro-Kremlin troll farm. It got weird! My story for @nytmag http://t.co/ExclqhcI4B http://t.co/4Agyo8aMgU

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

7 years

15/ He gets power from that misunderstanding--the more people fight over what he says, the less people fight about what he does.

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Adrian Chen

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4 years

This article about how Silicon Valley elite hate Bernie but their employees love him is about as good an argument as any for why I am voting for Bernie and am heading out to canvass for him one last time (until the general 🤞)

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5 years

I've been thinking about it, and here's my ranking of tech companies by how evil they are: 1. Amazon 2. Google 3. Facebook 3. Uber (tied)

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Adrian Chen

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7 years

Some exciting news: My story about @meganphelps is being turned into a movie!

Westboro Baptist Church Movie in the Works From Marc Webb, Nick Hornby

Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea are attached to produce the film, entitled 'This Above All.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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6 years

Sure, they're filled with unnameable dread, but at least they're not stuck on the platform for the third time this week because a Doritos bag caught on fire on the tracks.

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4 years

Killing Jimmy Carter's 1978 capital gains tax hike was Silicon Valley's coming out party as a political force. Making it a reality today would be a fitting way to start rolling back its toxic influence on politics and society.

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6 years

In my experience 33 is the year you start craving a big ass expensive candle.

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7 years

Here's everything you need to know about Philippine pres Rodrigo Duterte, who Trump just invited to the White House.

When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power

Since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, in May, more than three thousand people have been killed in a vicious drug war.

www.newyorker.com

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Adrian Chen

@AdrianChen

4 years

At tip for working from home, based on 5+ years experience: After ~3 days the moderating influences of civilization fades and you begin a quick and irreversible descent into a feral state governed by your basest impulses. Don't worry, it happens to everyone.

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Adrian Chen

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4 years

I've watched a ridiculous number of the coronavirus briefings and today's was the most batshit, imo. From Kushner's dead-eyed droning to Trump browbeating Birx and his crescendoing rant at the end... a real rollercoaster.

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Adrian Chen

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7 years

I looked into the incredibly shoddy @propornot report on Russian propaganda. It's scary this thing got any play:

The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda

A report from a group called PropOrNot has accused hundreds of Web sites of spreading Russian propaganda. But its methodology is a mess.

www.newyorker.com

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5 years

I was on a social media hiatus so I didn't get to post this but I stared at this for a long time.

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6 years

Today I learned mapping apps sometimes send drivers on less-than-optimal routes in order to use them as guinea pigs to generate data. That's fucked up! (From "Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting The Rules of Work" by @mawnikr .)

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8 years

It's springtime in New York!

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5 years

John Berger ethers pet owners: "The pet is either sterilised or sexually isolated, extremely limited in its exercise, deprived of almost all other animal contact, and fed with artificial foods... They are creatures of their owner's way of life."

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Adrian Chen

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9 years

. @Pontifex just wait until you see Philly

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@AdrianChen

6 years

This Yummy Taco is titled like a phd dissertation about the social construction of ethnic food?

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6 years

New York City fashion rule: Always carry a tote from a publication more obscure than the one you work for.

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6 years

This is why I can't get down with calls for Facebook, YouTube, etc to increase moderation that don't consider the human cost of exposing more low paid workers to trauma and extremely tedious labor.

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Facebook apparently employs a large force of content moderators (contractors) here in Austin. My Uber driver last night was one. Said she spent most days taking down child pornography, beheadings, etc. Scarred her psyche.

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4 years

Holy crap

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7 years

In general I would not take seriously any claims about Russian trolls and bots unless they list specific accounts/pages to back it up.

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I love all these in-depth explainers about "Kompromat," as if nobody has ever dug up dirt on someone and used it against them in the U.S.

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4 years

I have learned that this is a Joe Biden proposal, which makes me regret shooting so low. (I am congenitally moderate.) Actually, dismantle capitalism.

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7 years

There has been a bad lack of specifics in discussions of russian trolls. Name the accounts, show how they're linked to Russia, or gtfo.

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump get used to it

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Whoa, Facebook says it sold $100k in political ads to my old friends at the pro-Kremlin troll farm

Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election

The company told congressional investigators that it has discovered it sold ads totaling $100,000 to a Russian “troll farm.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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5 years

Me at a dinner party in L.A.: So... did you guys hear that a restaurant in New York City is bad now?

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6 years

The workers at the Marriott at Twitchcon are striking and broadcasting people who cross the picket line on twitch to raise money

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

m.twitch.tv

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6 years

This is also my last piece as a staff writer at the New Yorker. Sad to leave so many brilliant colleagues, but I'm very excited for my next project: I'm working on a book about gamers, based partly on this article, to be published at some point before End Times by Random House.

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6 years

The Internet Research Agency got indicted, I presume, for the Federal crime of cyberharassing a handsome young American freelancer

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5 years

It's funny to me people discredit Twitter users because they are named like BonerDude69 given that the Washington Post called their most important source ever Deep Throat...

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4 years

Actually my favorite part was when Peter Navarro skittered up to the podium and turned to Trump and was like, "if there's one thing we've learned from this crisis, sir, it's that you were right about everything". Basically all you need to know about how they're processing this.

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9 years

"Twitter is just like high school." FLASHBACK: I sprint down a high school hallway while hundreds of eggs scream racial slurs at me.

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10 years

I swear to god as soon as online publications realize they don't have to publish every day it will be as revolutionary as the printing press

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