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business & tech reporter, eternal optimist. colorado raised. @businessinsider @inputmag @yalepress @newshour etc

San Francisco, CA
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WeWork raised a total of $22 billion in funding and is now worth $900 million
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@cathyyardley @moorehn I just needed more detail to set the scene
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@h3h3productions We forgive you, fatso ❤️
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@reallifesenator do you freak w them?
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@alexhern I understand why the Brits eat this now, they’ve just accepted the misery
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@punished_cait Smells like a year of free rent
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@SethGreen @morebuttertv @DarkWing84 my man the blockchain doesn't lie, if it says darkwing owns the ape, they own it
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@heyyitsjanea @DominicMadori someone needs to find bike guy
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@alexhern Brits be like “will I ever find happiness in this life”
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@mollypriddy @LineDalile we need to back the narrative. morning people are actually BAD and should NOT be trusted
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@h3h3productions it seems they're limiting state run media orgs, not just article specific to Tesla. If you tweet out an unrelated article from China Daily it will show the same alert
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10 months
Stanford's student newspaper really took down the schools own president, major W
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BREAKING: STANFORD PRESIDENT MARC TESSIER-LAVIGNE RESIGNS
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Wirecutter staff is asking for $300K increase in pay across 65 people, or $4,600 per person. NYT, with $1 billion in cash on hand, is refusing. Don't shop @wirecutter this Black Friday.
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With @wirecutter / @nytimes management refusing to come to the table to reach a deal, 100% of our unit will be striking from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. The best way you can support us is by boycotting @wirecutter from 11/25-11/29:
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@allisonbraley @ScottNover my favorite part is towards the end where he clears the drain
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@wongmjane Google to Bard rn
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@wongmjane Should indicate in your bio which amount you’re paying so people know whether or not you’re poor
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@goldman @katienotopoulos You know Twitter had overnight engineers create a Spaces-specific ban just for Katie
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lol’ed at this interview with @semaforben in Insider’s strike publication, @BizOutsiderPub
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Elon is trying to get people to engage with sponsored tweets
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@wongmjane @YouTube Premium is worth the money, I couldn’t imagine seeing ads on YouTube again. I would kms. And you get background listening and higher quality video
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lol i just got this alert on desktop
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@NoContextBrits @alexodam James Corden was England’s way of getting revenge for us declaring independence
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@HaysKali @katienotopoulos normally you'd see more info/be able to replay so it seems like it was killed internally
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@TaylorLorenz the "gaming" status ☠️☠️☠️
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@cathyyardley @moorehn What was your lunch though?
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The @elonjet account was suspended today
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My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk
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@BenMullin you could kill a medieval peasant with this tweet
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@ludwighurtado @caleweissman this ruined my evening
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@tanayj just kidding, bard was wrong. confusing pedantics
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@dissectmarkets I am a WeWork member and love it! Was just way overvalued
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@elonmusk send Ye up there
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@iamharaldur we stan, keep your head up
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@juanbuis You’re feeding the stereotype of Europeans being smug dickheads with these tweets
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@wildtiktokss @moorehn there has never been any anticipation greater than the one sitting in front of your TV on a snowy morning waiting for your school to slide across
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@DominicMadori @heyyitsjanea I’d opt to use someone else’s bike over my own but that’s just me
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@Grant_Marek LEAVE FAKE KLAY THOMPSON ALONE
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@tanayj apparently the answer was correct
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IMPORTANT UPDATE BARD VINDICATED multiple bards vindicated, in fact
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We’ve been misinterpreting what they meant by “open” the whole time because their definition is insane
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For god’s sake, change the name
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@Baileymoon15 they're talking about you in a separate coworker groupchat
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@MichaelCarusi @MikeIsaac Samsung’s TVs themselves are great but the software platform they try and push on you is awful
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4 years
The stereotype of poorer people drinking more seems to be wrong. Wealthy people drink more, it’s just that they avoid getting in trouble because they can afford ubers and other things
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Residents of high-income neighborhoods drank approximately twice as frequently as those in low-income neighborhoods, the study found. Those with a college or masters degree drank 58 percent more frequently than those without one.
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@Casey third world shithole
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@wongmjane okay just kidding i want the lo-fi one everyone mocked back please
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@BrandyLJensen mfw the beans on toast recipe takes 2 hours to prepare
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@thetomzone They’re adding you as a defendant as we speak, you just manipulated the mainframe to show you those
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@McJesse One of the snow globes should have someone standing outside peeking through the windows
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@Jason they are paid to do the job, jason.
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@jaduino My expert analysis is... That's not great
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@dontcallmebeans @SethGreen @morebuttertv @DarkWing84 Crypto is trustless and only the holder of the crytographic keys can transfer their assets. If the blockchain says that Seth transferred his NFTs to someone else, that’s all that matters
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@wongmjane CAN'T BE SILENCED
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@lucy_guo You can’t save yourself from this ratio
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Hosts, be sure to give Brian the authentic Airbnb experience: cancel his booking right before he shows up
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1. Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb. I’ll be staying in a different town or city every couple weeks
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It's OK, I managed to (kind of) fix Twitter's stock performance. http://t.co/DfVeAZzv5L
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@allisonbraley @edzitron my favorite response was that every panel looks like it came from a different refrigerator
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@CincinattiZoo harambe can't heal
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@SullyCNBC @LouisAnslow crypto makes it WAY easier to steal people's money 💪💪💪
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@howdyitsdavid I go to WeWork everyday! It’s a great product, just became way overvalued
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@wongmjane any of your money at SVB over $250k has been converted from fiat to this:
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@netspencer @igb @TwitterDesign fuck u spencer man honestly
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"At a first-day market cap of $16 bn, Slack would give LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Twitter's Biz Stone, Path's Dave Morin and other early investors returns of 1600 times their initial capital. Each $25,000 they invested would now be worth about $40 million."
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@michaelsayman yep, that perception is a major reason why I would choose another brand over Tesla if I were buying a car
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Users have to *manually* remove it to keep using their accounts?? Baffled
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@geraldstratfor3 @kristnmerrilees @ElonMuskAOC thank you, Gerald. I too have wondered about this.
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@BriannaWu I want a Citroen Ami
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@ctjlewis @chamath @typesfast @Dannyhbrown some of it will work, chamath. but some won't
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@llsethj built to last
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I’m sure advertisers will love this
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Nothing like seeing Community Notes on an ad that appeared in the replies of a tweet of someone resigning from Twitter
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LOL, Matt Binder of Mashable @mattbinder was banned but he was invited to a Twitter Space and was somehow still able to join. He's speaking right now.
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@Kenny___Rose I wish I were him
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I'm joining @BusinessInsider 's big tech desk starting in January. Maybe by then all of... this will have calmed down some.
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@MikeBeauvais @JakeSwearingen the new 30-50 feral hogs tweet
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@NeerajKA @nikillinit I’m glad he shared the frozen burritos
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@jack @sydart_media Jack is going HAM on web3 bros right now
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@reallifesenator bro you were 11 in 2014 fuck i'm old
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@ctjlewis Man I remember doing that in SF from ~2010-2013. We had some wild times in illegally converted warehouses
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@googlecalendar @AdamSinger Google is dunking on office work here while requiring its own employees to return
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@h3h3productions welcome back king
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The Bluesky web app is even a faithful copy of Twitter. Just need DMs and this thing will be good to go.
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@alovelydai @AlexCartaz Texting “here” instead of knocking is me, lol
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 @LineDalile too bad everyone in belgium mean af
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@kyliebytes I didn't know anything about FabFitFun but... how could they not see that this wouldn't appeal to their demo? Baffling
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@Jason $25 JCal?
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@spectatorindex @ctjlewis i mean, they had the opportunity to do the funniest thing... and went for it
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A 14-year old wrote a story for Input about how she uses a wheelchair and Zoom classes were actually a godsend for her 😭
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@dsigal @dontcallmebeans @SethGreen @morebuttertv @DarkWing84 that’s kind of the point I’m making, you still need a system of law to work these things out. a digital ledger isn’t the end all be all
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The Messenger, a so-called “unbiased” news site, launched today after raising ~$50 million ~ It’s first headlines look like this
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@AASchapiro not legal. if you can get there from an adjacent part of the beach (or from the water), you are allowed to be there
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@biz “Elon is the singular solution I trust” - @jack
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