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Editor in chief @techreview . Formerly BuzzFeed News, formerly WIRED. Pro-California. Hella Frisco. He/him.
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"I don’t want to see an authoritarian surveillance state whether it’s run by a government or whether it’s run by five corporations” -
@AOC
via
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The reality is that our underfunded public schools already had trouble finding enough space & making ends meet
"They said we’d have masks and face shields and everyone is going to be covered, but it’s a school district — sometimes we don’t have soap"
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With the benefit of a couple of months of hindsight, what was your best preparing for a pandemic move?
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"CNN does not want its falling viewership to watch what I'm saying," the president says, live on CNN
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I've been going to Apple events since 2001, and have gotten really good at interpreting these invitations. Based on history and the design here, this will be consumer electronics with computational stuff and things made available to the public for purchase at some point
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Some news: I'm joining MIT Technology Review as its next editor in chief. It's an incredible team, at a storied publication, and I could not be more excited about it.
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I probably haven't gone more than 2-3 minutes without thinking about the coronavirus outbreak since late February. I think about it in my sleep. I was thinking about it when my dog ran away and I was chasing her down the street. I've never thought about anything else so intensely
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The blame-the-homeless tech elites that rushed to politicize Bob Lee's murder should feel ashamed. I'm sure they won't, but they should.
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"Trump told people that he had watched Carlson’s show and it had affected his view on the Iran situation."
via
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Is it illegal for me to ask what religion a corporation is during a job interview?
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The weather in California right now is incredibly gorgeous and vaguely terrifying
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Each round of GOP questioning is not meant to interrogate the witnesses but to create moments that can be flipped into Fox News segments, shared as bite-sized Facebook posts, or dropped into 4chan threads - super smart piece from
@broderick
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As a manager at BuzzFeed, I sincerely hope the company pays out PTO to all the people who have earned it, not just those in California.
There is a reason this is protected by the law here in CA. It's the right thing to do.
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Maybe it should go without saying, but I'll say it: I'm very proud of her
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@DavidSacks
@elonmusk
I suspect that mocking, signing, and selling the Blackbirds shirts won’t be as good of a joke as you seem to think it is.
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You just turned 45, choose a subclass
-Trying to learn Snapchat
-Nervously checking IRA
-Hoping to lose 12 lbs
-Divorced and scared of Tinder
-Googles classmates to see if dead
-Betting big on crypto
-Frequent coach class flyer
-Sad about Prince
-Quotes Mountain Goats guy
You just turned 35, choose a subclass
- Thought leadership book author
- Snark Twitter
- Crossfit
- Whiskey guy
- Stan
@ComfortablySmug
- Investor
- Start vaping legal cannabis
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Honestly I would stop doomscrolling but there is just so much doom out there to catch up on.
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The graphic that the Mercury News put together to show the Air Canada near-miss at SFO is incredible
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We are about to spend a week arguing about what we all saw with our own eyes.
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It's not a UFO, it's just the military testing missiles in case we have to fight a nuclear war with Russia. So, don't worry.
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Good God my Twitter feed is just way too chock full of stuff from 8-14 hours ago.
I miss live Twitter.
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Facebook Messenger interface increasingly resembles the junk drawer in my kitchen.
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Let's unfuck the machine. (A note from San Francisco)
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Peloton is not mad, it is just disappointed in you
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There was a lot of trash TV in the 90s but Friends was the worst goddamn show of the decade or maybe century & when you watch it you are wasting your life; every episode a dog endlessly eating its own vomit and puking it back up again and again and again
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Yeah, I mean, it's not like anyone wanted to live in San Francisco before tech workers made it cool. SF is over.
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Look, knock earthquake Twitter if you will, but it is original Twitter at its most pure.
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Here's
@john
being interviewed live by
@Kantrowitz
- you can log on and ask him questions:
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My unpopular opinion based on being both a crime victim and juror is that the San Francisco district attorney's office is basically incompetent.
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Firing up twitter today after all those eulogies last night feels a little like waking up on January 1 2000, turning on the lights, and being like…. “Well fuck what am I going to do with all these beans?”
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It is *insane* to me -- totally insane -- that engineers working in tech will pledge this but their employers won't
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A sex party where nobody knew it was a sex party is the most silicon valley thing I can imagine
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"Giuliani waved a handful of papers at the camera, claiming they were affidavits from Ukrainian officials.... But they weren’t. They were pages printed from Hopelessly Partisan, an obscure right-wing conspiracy theory website."
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Love seeing San Francisco's former first lady on TV talking about California!
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I was going to save this for his actual going away party, but fuck it. Smell ya later Ben
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Something that hasn't gotten enough credit in Bay Area curve flattening is how soon big tech companies told their employees to stay home. They didn't do it perfectly, but it kept many tens of thousands of people from commuting all over the Bay Area from the first week of March
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This is some remarkable and heartfelt writing from
@johnpaczkowski
, on the agony of saying goodbye to his children in the middle of all this madness:
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As we near The End, I’m glad to see Twitter can still be reliably used to notify the rest of the world when San Francisco has an earthquake.
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We got confirmation Dorsey was SIM jacked. Amazing the carriers haven't set up better protections against this
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Sitting here trying to imagine what kind of unrelenting non-stop shitshow would erupt if Zuckerberg advised people on Facebook to vote for either party
To independent-minded voters:
Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.
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China has tried to keep these camps secret from the world.
This look inside a Xinjiang detention center is the result of years-long, painstaking, and innovative reporting from
@meghara
and
@alisonkilling
on one of the most important stories of our time.
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Aaaaaand this is the tweet that got me downloading my archive.
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.
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Holy shit the hot takes on the SF school board blow out are gonna be *insufferable*
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All right stop
Collaborate and listen
Ice is stuck in an airplane detention
This is crazy. Apparently there is over 100 people sick on the bottom floor, so happy I’m up top, it’s a double-decker plane 380
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Won’t someone think of the CEOs?
1/ I do worry that as companies get to be more successful, the number of attacks from press, politicians, and trolls on CEOs (and rounds of congressional testimony) makes the job not fun, and they leave from burn out. Gates, Page, Bezos...
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"You don't need to push me!"
Rosalind is a fearless reporter who spent last year covering Hong Kong protests, where cops hit her with batons when she covered arrests of protesters there.
Eight months later, it's NYPD with batons.
I was filming this arrest w my phone and cops grabbed me on my arm and pushed me back w batons. You can see officer’s baton in the video coming at me over and over again “you don’t need to push me I’m press” I’m yelling
#nycprotest
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This is incredibly shitty of
@sonos
and should be a red flag for tech reviewers to warn customers not to buy their products
Wow. Just got a giant "Fuck you for buying a bunch of our shit in the early days" email from
@Sonos
.
/cc
@internetofshit
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I think part of the disconnect over the Away story is the changing nature of startup tech companies: As more and more companies are "tech companies" it is less and less okay for them to behave like tech companies
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When I was writing lots of front of book stuff I'd put copy into a Twitter window to help me tighten. 140 constraint made me a better writer
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Incredible that Twitter hasn’t banned Elon like five minutes ago.
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Counterpoint: If the last three years have taught us anything it's that Trump could inject 200cc of coronavirus directly into his eyeballs on live TV and there would be zero consequences whatsoever
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We Traced The Smears Against Kamala Harris To Obama Birthers And Neo-Nazis via
@CraigSilverman
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Trump went on background with reporters as a "senior administration official"
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😯😯😯😯😯😯😯
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"Anybody that wants a test can get a test."
New: The Capitol physician told Republican staffers today the Senate lacks the capacity to test all 100 senators when it comes back Monday. Instead the Senate will test people who are sick. Test will take 2+ days.
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"That both men were able to spew neo-Nazi rhetoric, amass an arsenal of weapons, and openly threaten journalists and critics for months without consequence shows just how much freedom far-right extremists have to operate in the U.S"
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Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic
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All the plans I’ve been making for the Fall seem increasingly unlikely
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I grew up hunting since I was a very little kid as did many/most of my peers in Alabama. One friend, a constant hunter, traveled through Africa as an adult where he shot and killed an elephant. He later described it as the worst thing he had ever done "like killing a human being"
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Every conversation I've had at F8 that wasn't about Facebook has been about how to get the fuck out of San Francisco
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Contagion was the 270th most-watched Warner Bros. film in December. So far in 2020, it is the second most watched. via
@davidmackau
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Sources are telling me Miami is over. The new new tech center is now Memphis. Everyone should relocate to Memphis now. Unfollow
@MiamiMayor
and new follow
@MayorMemphis
. Will discuss tonight on Clubhouse but is a done deal. Don't be left out. Remember: Miami out. Memphis in. Ty.
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Jake Paul greeting Marco Rubio with "hey what's up man" to discuss a mass murder is really just too goddamned much
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Grateful that when I was growing up in the 80s I had Michael Jackson, David Bowie, George Michael and Prince as male role models.
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I made it!
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The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
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Do not take Altaba if you have a heart condition. Side effects may include vertigo and difficulty urinating. Tell your doctor immediately if
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