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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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?
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
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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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
"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." -
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
@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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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?
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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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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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.
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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