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@MediaEvan

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Media writer/complainer |previously Custom @digiday @videoinknews @integralads | words @tubefilter @DCNorg | evandesimone @gmail .com

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Joined June 2013
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
I regret to inform you that I am once again going to start publishing my weekly newsletter about ~the media~ every Friday. Sign up here if you like that sort of thing.
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3 years
There should be a Pullitzer for headlines.
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Streaming consolidation cannot come quickly enough.
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3 years
People that Tucker singles out in his rants, especially women, reliably receive a deluge of death threats. He is aware of this and makes these decisions with that knowledge.
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Sara Pearl
3 years
Tucker Carlson opened his show tonight by comparing @TaylorLorenz to Meghan Markle, @MichelleObama and @HillaryClinton saying she has "one of the best lives in the country."
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If I were a giant tech monopoly, I would consider not making an ad where I literally crush commonly recognized symbols of creativity and joy.
@tim_cook
Tim Cook
1 month
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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2 years
Incredible.
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3 months
Ok then.
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1 year
I’m just going to say, once again, that we went horribly wrong when we decided to let venture capitalists become public intellectuals in all areas of life.
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Katherine Boyle
1 year
The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension. College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress.
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Journalism.
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10 months
Rare to see the Post at a loss for a kicky headline.
@Azi
Azi™️
10 months
NYPost and NY Daily News
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Really appreciate Semafor's focus on key global issues.
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Say a prayer for the push-notification teams.
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10 months
Not going to name the publisher, but you shouldn’t be able to post a salary range like this and claim to be complying with New York’s pay transparency rules.
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2 years
@Tim_Org As a hiring manager, I always find these awkward to receive as I've probably made a decision about the candidate already. I struggle to imagine a scenario in which it would impact that decision.
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3 years
Anyway…
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4 years
We need to start thinking about what can be done to help the non-trivial number of Americans who are so addled by misinformation and lack of media literacy that they embrace bizarre conspiracy theories in the face of an increasingly dangerous and complex world.
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4 years
@BrendanCarrFCC Kathy Griffin's account was suspended for this tweet. Twitter is showing deference to the President by merely obscuring his Tweet. Why would you omit that?
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2 months
The harassment he’s describing is a polite voicemail.
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Henry Rodgers
2 months
BREAKING: @DailyCaller has obtained a voicemail showing The Washington Post harassed a veteran's wife when he refused to engage in their hit piece on Senate candidate and veteran Tim Sheehy, who has been endorsed by Trump. Read all about it here first for @DailyCaller :
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4 years
Caroline Calloway continues to influence.
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New York Post
4 years
Lindsay Lohan owes $365K on advance for book she never wrote, lawsuit claims
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2 months
You can debate the individual merits, and obviously Elon is pursuing a specific political project, but at the aggregate level, I’m not bullish on building a new media platform exclusively around people who’ve been fired by legacy media.
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Alexandra Steigrad
2 months
Scooplet: Ex-CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge — known for Hunter Biden laptop reporting — in talks to join X
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1 year
@kattenbarge How was this so expensive? It has one set.
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Evan DeSimone
8 months
THIS. Please do not make me watch an eight minute video to get the same information I could get by scanning a text article for 30 seconds.
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Kat Tenbarge
8 months
Every day I’m heartbroken by the continuous shift away from text online to audio/video. I don’t WANT to LISTEN or WATCH things. I want to READ things
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5 years
Georgia's system of tax breaks and incentives was among the most successful in luring film and tourism dollars. This regressive law is going to cost that state much of what it's built.
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1 year
I’m sorry, but this is the correct response.
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Evan DeSimone
6 years
Everyone I know is refreshing twitter waiting for the AT&T/Time Warner ruling and let me tell you I definitely need cooler friends.
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Evan DeSimone
3 years
How tech executives feel about the way tech is covered is...not important?
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
There’s just no reason for the New York Times to give a platform to the junior senator from Arkansas as he calls for an invasion of American cities.
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
🚨Breaking🚨 We have enough Work From Home guides. I repeat, no one needs any more guides to working from home.
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1 year
@DavidSacks It's not the money. They don't want it. It's a meaningless bauble. Instead of signaling authenticity it now just signals submission to a gang of capricious dorks.
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4 years
Published and deleted...did they EMBARGO this?
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These people, who have deep but narrow expertise in one field (sophisticated gambling), are routinely invited to opine on public health, foreign policy, education, macroeconomics, and a host of other topics in which they have no actual background.
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1 year
This is already an option. $44b and no knowledge of what he’s bought. Sad.
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Elon Musk
1 year
@stillgray @EvaFoxU Allowing users to make some of their Lists optionally public would be great
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Got asked to do a podcast and just found out there’s a video component.
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1 year
Thank God we handed this data over to a gaggle of partisan opinion writers instead of any of the scores of journalists who’ve spent years writing about platforms, technology policy, and the business of Twitter or we might not have this trenchant analysis.
@BGrueskin
Bill Grueskin
1 year
Taibbi on his Twitterfiles tweets: "What does it all mean? I haven’t really had time to think it over. Surely, though, it means something."
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@KarlBode I’m wracking my brain for who this will be and the only criteria is “who is the worst woman I can think of”
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4 years
At home vs abroad...
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11 months
Who would you rather have on your website, beloved star Lynda Carter and her half million followers, or three verified weirdos with a collective audience of 2,000 incels?
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1 year
I wish great success on any outlet hiring journalists right now, but these numbers and this business model make no sense. We have all been attending the very public funeral for this business model for the last two weeks.
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4 years
@BenMullin Obama to substack any minute now.
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Evan DeSimone
3 years
A lot of execs complain about the lefty labor politics of young journalists. I would argue that if you didn’t want every young writer to become a socialist you shouldn’t have tried to pay them 30k a year a made them live in the worlds most expensive cities, but what do I know?
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4 years
All the fanfare around AOC elides the fact that she’s actually a very grounded and straightforward communicator. This is actually really effective example driven analysis.
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10 months
You sure babe?
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5 years
Any reporter who participates in this should be ashamed of themselves.
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3 years
Twitter.
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Not a great look for the owner of Time Magazine…
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10 months
Gotta say, I’m warming up to community notes.
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1 year
Twitter says don’t be mean to David Sucks.
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8 months
Wow, times really have changed at the journal…
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11 months
This is the first time in like a decade that I can recall people actually rooting for a Facebook product to succeed.
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Evan DeSimone
10 months
@Jason You guys really equate staying up late with doing good work don’t you?
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
It's kind of beside the point, but there's a whole generation of working media professionals who never experienced any of these perks and it's kind of absurd to keep referencing them like the 90's weren't two full decades ago.
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7 months
Exciting to see global media brands diversifying.
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Evan DeSimone
2 years
Just read a pitch for something described as “a retail metaverse for the real world.” My friends…it’s a mall.
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2 years
Always fascinated by how Oprah remains above reproach despite having fostered some of the most malignant personalities ever to grace daytime TV.
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4 years
"I am stunned," former Voice of America director Amanda Bennett told NPR early Tuesday morning. "It removes the one thing that makes Voice of America distinct from broadcasters of repressive regimes." -
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4 years
It's an interesting choice to skip a major network interview and instead bring this to a disgraced racist's YouTube channel.
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3 years
I need someone to find out who invited Larry David to sit front-row at Fashion Week so I can thank them.
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11 months
The brand is the only thing left with any value so sure, burn it. What an incredible moron.
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3 years
Tronc?
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Alex Heath
3 years
Surprise: Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on the metaverse. I’m told Zuckerberg is planning a formal unveil next Thursday at Connect, the company’s annual AR/VR conference
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Still one of the most bizarre relationships in media. It'll make for a lucrative book deal if there are still book deals by the time this is all over.
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Thoughts and prayers for Weight Watchers paid social team.
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Evan DeSimone
2 years
@joecool0510 @Tim_Org I don't think it tells me anything about a candidate that I wouldn't glean from a normal interview so I don't think it should be a consideration in the hiring process.
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1 year
I keep forgetting that the mean girl from my freshman dorm is now a massively successful YA author.
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kelsey weekman
1 year
this is like. going to sell a billion copies. they can definitely afford to do better. gndksbdkw
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Evan DeSimone
3 years
Aside from the obvious technical limitations on display tonight, none of the upstart pro-fascist platforms offer the experience their intended users really want, namely the ability to harass and annoy normal people.
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
Since Parler is still trending because of Twitter’s long overdue purge of conspiracy nonsense, I will shamelessly remind you of this maxim from a recent newsletter.
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@mattmccartyllc @niubi $8 a month for 33 followers and no likes? Really babe?
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3 years
Every IAB Study: People love relevant targeted ads! Prince Phillip:
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3 years
Guys! While digging out my winter clothes I stumbled on a very important piece of forgetten swag…
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
Here's a sample of the dozens of Facebook ads the Trump campaign is currently running in Florida to encourage supporters to request absentee ballots.
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@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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IF YOU CAN PROTEST IN PERSON, YOU CAN VOTE IN PERSON!
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Evan DeSimone
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@joecool0510 @Tim_Org Given the number of interviews, candidates need to go on just to secure employment I don't think it's necessary to add any additional tasks. Particularly if they're purely performative. I don't plan to have an ongoing personal relationship with any of these candidates.
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This person should, of course, be covered. However I’d question whether a glossy Sunday night sit-down is the right tool to help an audience understand someone who lies habitually and whose past statements have been demonstrably untethered from any observable reality.
@60Minutes
60 Minutes
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Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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If you don’t like reality, just ignore it
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Forbes is grouping @TylerOakley and @lelepons as "Digital Stars" so I guess we really are post-platform now.
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So to sum up, Netflix forced everyone to reorient their business around streaming, had two weak quarters that tanked the market's view of streaming, and is now on track to outperform everyone.
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Evan DeSimone
2 years
So this is pretty much exactly what right-wing power users were complaining about when they talked about "shadow banning"
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Elon Musk
2 years
New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
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Bari Weiss spent three years trying to get fired so she could do a talk-show martyrdom tour about it, and I really respect the NYT just waiting her out.
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This is incredibly funny and VERY Amazon.
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Saying again, I think the true media winners in AI will be the ones that are able to leverage more value from their archive using AI, not the ones focused on cutting the cost of content production with generative tools.
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Peter Kafka
11 months
New from me: G/O Media caused an uproar when it used bots to write stories for Gizmodo and other sites this month. Now it’s going to do it again. “It is absolutely a thing we want to do more of.”
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Evan DeSimone
3 years
Alex Trebek went out of his way to be transparent and open about his cancer diagnosis and to encourage others to get screenings and treatment. Particularly despicable to float a health huckster like Dr. Oz as a possible replacement.
@Jeopardy
Jeopardy!
3 years
New episodes of Jeopardy! continue this week with guest host @DrOz !
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Evan DeSimone
5 years
Failing to acknowledge that the veteran in question is a Blaze contributor is also, I would argue, a “bold strategy.”
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TheBlaze
5 years
Attacking a veteran. Bold strategy.
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Evan DeSimone
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I’ve read this a dozen times and still can’t wrap my mind around a person thinking that The Social Network was a flattering/aspirational portrayal of startup guys.
@sama
Sam Altman
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i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that. let's get that movie made! (i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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A fresh twist on the zombie genre is tough to find but @Strawburry17 's "The Void" has definitely got one. http://t.co/cH0CR0FfuJ
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5 years
Media The Witches from Executives Hocus Pocus 🤜🤛 “We want to capture young people”
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Evan DeSimone
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Call me crazy, but I think one reason that so many people want to work at the New York Times is that the New York Times is not constantly about to run out of money.
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Evan DeSimone
1 year
Setting up a fund that exclusively shorts Forbes covers…
@mirandadevine
Miranda Devine
1 year
Forbes sure knows how to pick winners! Via @INArteCarloDoss
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It’s interesting that various zombie outlets keep getting caught doing this and sort of hastily deny it. If you really believe this is a cornerstone of some emerging future business model why try to hide it?
@weareyourfek
foster kamer.
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Futurism caught Sports Illustrated publishing AI stories — with fake author profile pages and all. We went to them with it, and they wiped...all of it.
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Yikes (h/t @popbitch )
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3 years
Taliban spox in their first press conference complaining about Facebook. Absolutely surreal.
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Evan DeSimone
11 months
Famously, advertisers love it when you radically limit impressions. I wonder what ad superstar and Twitter “CEO” @LindaYacc has to say about this…
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
@jayrosen_nyu Bold choice to assume there will be future generations.
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Evan DeSimone
2 years
The @KyivIndependent is providing on-the-ground English language coverage in Ukraine at significant personal risk. They deserve our help.
@KyivIndependent
The Kyiv Independent
2 years
The Kyiv Independent team has been working around the clock to bring you the latest updates from Ukraine. Helps us keep going: Patreon GoFundMe Crypto: BTC bc1q444wayyye4jke3ty87sdvm77dwkysz9hwcyu6u
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Evan DeSimone
10 months
Impossible to deny how transformative Starlink is for global communications. Also impossible to deny that allowing one weird guy to monopolize this sector is very unwise.
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Evan DeSimone
6 months
This is one of the best features I've seen this year.
@MaxRivlinNadler
Max RN
6 months
Happy holidays from @HellGateNY ! We heard you wanted a 45,000 word interactive project all about Mayor Eric Adams's inner circle, featuring investigative reporting, FOIA'd documents, texts with his son, and so, so much more. Enjoy!
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Evan DeSimone
4 years
Every time you think this sentence is done surprising you it just keeps going.
@WardieJerusalem
Hazel Ward
4 years
Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom @AFP
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It’s almost like if you totally undermine the meaning and value of a thing, people may not want to pay for that thing.
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