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senior culture writer at @techcrunch | making @wowiftruepod with @multitudeshows | [email protected] | signal: 929 593 0227 | she/her ✡︎
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Joined June 2014
Not to be LinkedIn on main but when I was in college I thought “networking” meant going to really uptight events and putting on a facade but as I get older I realize that networking happens organically when you’re just nice to people and make friends without an agenda.
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hey everybody, i know these scotus rulings are really brutal but let’s all just take a moment, go outside, take a deep breath and —
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NEWS: King Charles III rebrands to Charles3 as the monarchy makes its metaverse debut.
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reminder that this whole couch thing started from a shitpost by an account with 1700 followers.
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she's a 10 but she prefers the airplane aisle to the window seat because she's afraid of asking people to get up when she needs to pee.
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when people say "tiktok is just dance videos" they are actually saying "i refuse to engage with a massive shift in the way that people use the internet that is implicating over 1 billion monthly active users because i think it makes me seem more intellectual on twitter".
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idk if people who aren't in media understand how big a deal it is for @newyorkerunion to get a $55k salary floor. so many entry-level media jobs in NYC pay $30k, which basically means you can only work in media if you have rich parents and/or you're working a second job.
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elon banned a bunch of journalists for posting about the elon jet ban but then those journalists realized even if you're suspended you can still join twitter spaces and then they did a twitter space and elon and jason joined and yelled at them and then disabled twitter spaces.
what is *the* dumbest thing elon has done at twitter so far?.
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This is why tech culture sucks. The creator of Wordle deliberately hasn't tried to monetize the game, but some random dude decides to steal it. The whole spirit of the game is that it's free, ephemeral, and can't be played more than once a day. But who cares if money's involved?.
This is absurd. 450 trials at 1am last night, now at 950 and getting a new ones every minute. 12K downloads, rank #28 word game, and #4 result for "wordle" in the App Store. We're going to the fucking moon.
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this post changed the history of democracy.
why did I stay up till 3am making a von dutch brat coconut tree edit featuring kamala harris and why can’t I stop watching it on repeat
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truly all the career advice i have is to be nice to people (unless if they're assholes then they're an asshole).
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High School Musical 2, a film in which Troy Bolton realizes that being a class traitor makes your friends mad at you and then sings a power ballad to repair his relationship with the working class.
What are the greatest pro labor films? . I’ll start, Sorry to Bother You.
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you know when you’re feeling depressed and then you go see a man play bagpipes in front of a projection of a wikipedia screenshot that says “list of nontraditional bagpipe usage”
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hello. tech reporter here. chappell roan said that "some twink at google" probably did this. is that you? let's talk.
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personally i never could have possibly predicted that paid blue check "news" accounts would accidentally post AI-generated images of a horrific event that didn't actually happen, literally no one considered how paid verification could amplify disinformation.
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just kidding my other career advice is that NYC is overrated.
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listen, elon follows 30 women on twitter so it's not gonna be hard to figure out who it is.
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if you're mad about the wastefulness of @phoebe_bridgers smashing her perfectly good guitar, wait til you hear about about the lincoln project.
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and then like the following week he banned a prominent journalist for linking to her other social platforms on twitter and then tried to retcon a policy in the middle of the world cup that says you're not allowed to like. post your instagram. .
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It's so important for people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to be able to work in media because. when the people writing the news are mostly homogenous. guess what happens to the news.
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(this is not "everyone should be on tiktok," it's "when we underestimate the impact tiktok is already having on culture, we're going to be blindsided by it and unprepared to understand what is happening to the way we interact online").
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hilarious reporting by @sarahintampa, who talked to the guy with the @x handle, and, guess what, no one from twitter has reached out to him, lol, lmao even
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Tech bros would rather make money off of someone else's idea than just be fucking normal.
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Trying this again because Elon is CENSORING ME from posting my ART: I talked to @tithenai, @maxgladstone, @kelsaywhat and @tha_rami about Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood, a more powerful literary force than the Pulitzer Prize.
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the options have always been "be rich, or work your ass off until you burn out by age 25" and the ability to get paid a decent wage for an entry-level job at conde nast is. wow.
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This is unironically a very good digital fundraising strategy, @LeviFetterman. As Levi's (un?)official press secretary, I'm excited about @JohnFetterman's candidacy for PA Senate! #LeviForOffice #FettermanForSenate
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i think this is truly an incredible post because it's like four layers deep into the joke and yet it's still pretty mainstream??? genius work here all around.
I was actually asked to be part of the apology song video, I said no. Kind of scary to think I could’ve been in it.
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Guess what? Instead of freelancing at TechCrunch, I am now ~salaried~ at TechCrunch! I'm still covering digital culture, social media, creators, labor, etc., but now you can email me at the fancy address amanda@techcrunch.com & send me encrypted tips via Signal at 929 593 0227 🥳.
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Imagine not only ripping off someone's idea to make a profit, but also bragging about how your ripped off someone's idea to make a profit on Twitter.
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you only have 600 tweets to look at and this is one of them
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kind of fascinating how it is no longer ~cool~ to post song lyrics mysteriously on social media. is it an age thing (i.e. do current middle schoolers still do this) or is it an overall evolution.
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finding out via npr that you’re not on taylor’s cf list.
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activism reality show but it's just 24-year-old field organizers phonebanking from their parents' house during the pandemic and then getting laid off after nov 3.
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BREAKING: As @LeviFetterman's unofficial press secretary, I've received reports from the Office of the Official Dog of Pennsylvania that Levi is ready to announce his breed mix. When asked for comment, he said, "is alllll me."
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gonna stop taking my meds and just spend like five mins every morning looking at the nl east standings
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having a job in journalism means feeling wildly lucky yet also constant terror that you can get laid off at any moment and then whenever you have an iffy day at work you think about how lucky you are and then feel bad that every day isn't a dream because dream jobs are still jobs.
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The big progressive PAC I worked denied me disability accommodations and consistently violated our collective bargaining agreement because they didn’t want us to eat lunch.
That blanket NDA you signed years ago to get severance? It's void now, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
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now that the @blaseball news is out, i can share the real news here, which is that this is an actual image in the blaseball press kit
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Honestly wild that she’s probably in the minority for being a congress member without stocks? Like, in what world is it ethical for people who write and vote on legislation that affects businesses to have a financial stake in (and thus a bias toward) those businesses.
During her Twitch stream on $GME and retail trading, @AOC discloses she doesn't own any individual stock:. "I don't believe members of Congress should own individual stock, so I don't have any!"
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certainly, this was not an outcome that the most casual internet users could have foreseen. no one possibly knew that if you have a certain icon symbolize legitimacy for almost fifteen years, then suddenly make it so that anyone could buy that symbol, it would create confusion.
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@hankgreen Hank, as a fan, I personally give you permission to make like 7 fewer videos a year to give yourself time to pursue regular dental care.
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i watched a good deal of white lotus this weekend (i'm still not done with s2, no spoilers) and i am absolutely screaming over this detail from a profile of jennifer coolidge
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We've got ~* the deets*~ on @WorldsBeyondPod, the new ~*indie*~ podcast from D&D supergroup @BrennanLM, @erikaishii, @quiddie & Lou Wilson. Unfortunately, I couldn't include their commentary on the bathrobe-wearing skeleton from my campaign in the article.
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@carmenmmachado I went to a dietitian at Penn once because I was having trouble eating well while taking 5 classes + working 20 hours/week + not having a kitchen and she was like “you should go to sweet green” and I was like “bruh if I could afford that I wouldn’t be working 20 hours a week”.
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today in "PR fails i shouldn't have to warn you about" -- do not offer to write an article for a journalist.
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It's so funny for Elon Musk to be in this Twitter Space talking to people he banned on Twitter on Twitter and not acknowledging the elephant in the room which is that Twitter is so broken that banned users can still talk to him on Twitter Spaces.
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Joe Biden told creators today, “You break through in ways that I think are going to change the entire dynamic of the way in which we communicate.” @techcrunch
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interviewing @jasminericegirl is a real treat because in the middle she's like "hold on i'm sending you a meme," more founders need to be like her.
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factcheck:
David Sacks just ludicrously made up that Ron DeSantis' Twitter space was the largest group that "has ever met online." There are 100,000 people in this thing.
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people on the internet DO NOT want couples to have coffee together. first the “coffee in the garden with my husband” drama, now people are mad that @jasminericegirl likes to make espresso for her boyfriend. truly bizarre.
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It feels weird and hard and frustrating to be Jewish lately, especially as a Jewish person who was not raised with any real relationship to Israel and who strongly believes in the right to peacefully protest. I've been kind of quiet about everything for my own sanity but idk man.
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if only twitter had a mechanism in which we could verify that public figures are who they say they are in order to cut down on disinformation.
I know a lot of people joke about twitter blue, and honestly I don't want to pay for it. but this account copied everything about my bio, followed people I know, then blocked me lol. once i (and others) lose blue checks, ID verification will be a serious concern . sigh
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@RatioMonkeys @ArcticMonkeysJP they did the teddy picker crying lightning transition again 😭😭😭
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I talked to several meme academics & political shitposters alike about why Kamala-brat-coconut-tree memes have caught fire + how we can contextualize the precarious power of political memes @JessRauchberg @tinysnekcomics @ryanlong03 @soc_of_internet
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journalism sux, i wanna write about an old movie but it came out in 2004, which is neither 10 nor 15 years ago, so i just have to wait til 2024.
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I Looked Up All The Women Elon Musk Follows So You Don't Have To!.
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Obsessed with the two (2) men who think I am being earnest.
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did the cullens pay taxes and if so, how do they pay taxes for hundreds of years on one person’s ssn without it getting suspicious? also how has Alice not gotten caught for insider trading.
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this seems mostly like an adjustment for big "pandemic era" growth but also maybe when you build an entire franchise around values of inclusion* but then decide that you're going to wage war on trans people simply for living their lives, your fanbase will no longer support you??.
After "exceptional" 2021 results, Pottermore, the global digital publisher for J K Rowling’s Wizarding World, saw profits drop by 40% last year. Read here:
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spotify laid off 1500 people in december -- but one of those people was the creator of the encyclopedic music database every noise at once, which is now in jeopardy due to the layoffs
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when we talk about how it sucks that @inputmag is getting shut down and how good the stuff they published was, it’s important to remember that a big factor in WHY they published such good stuff was that they paid a minimum (minimum!) of $0.50/word for freelance features.
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I went on @PhillyD's show to talk about a piece I wrote for @techcrunch last month -- how podcasting isn't dead, even if Spotify's business decisions might make it seem otherwise! 🫡
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everything that's wrong with the democratic party can be summed up with the fact that last night state leadership went after A MEME PAGE for critiquing their strategy.
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richest guy in world doesn’t know the difference between sex and gender.
@mtaibbi We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option. Perhaps someone wiser than me can explain this dichotomy.
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My friend made friends with someone at a party last night and I told her she should follow this person and DM them “hey nice to meet you last night!” so they know who you are etc and she said “that’s not normal” and now I am really worried about all you who live in NYC.
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wrote an incoherent thing on instagram about @PWRBTTMBAND & @alloverbruise and why bands like this matter
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potential candidates from the thirty (30) women elon follows:.katherine boyle (GP at a16z).linda yaccarino (chair at nbcu).ella irwin (twitter trust and safety head).tasha keeney (director of investment analysis at ARK).cathie wood (CEO at ARK).
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All I'm saying is the Judaism I know and practice is one that honors our history of oppression by working towards social justice, and this tradition makes me proud to be Jewish, while aggressive nationalism does not. It is incredibly painful.
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@svershbow one time this happened to me and I tweeted about the bad first date I witnessed and somehow one of the people on the date managed to find the tweet and it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me ever.
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remember when they deployed the national guard to philly because someone looted a footlocker.
BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.
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when you're rudy giuliani and you show up at the four seasons total landscaping
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cannot wait to see the tech PR emails i get that somehow connect the queen's death to their startup.
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today i got a PR email claiming a company raised a $260m seed round. it is $5m equity and $255m debt. are the tech bros ok?.
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journalism is hard because I answer calls from unknown numbers and like 5% of the time it’s an important source trying to talk to me about a story but then 95% of the time it’s about my car’s extended warranty.
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you think you can hurt me? i write for a publication that doesn't use the oxford comma.
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After twenty years, the ubiquitous, storied Stripperweb forum is shutting down on February 1. No one knows why. I wrote about how the community has come together to archive their collective history and attempt to track down the forum's elusive owner.
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you go home with a guy and his bathroom looks like this, wyd??
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i think the person/people involved does not want to be found. you are so valid, person/people.
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@kattenbarge also the OP is a satire account 😭(I know you know but for anyone who is reading).
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