old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
I haven't changed my tone on crypto from day one.
This reserve is the Big Scam(tm).
I don't argue with y'all. I don't pretend that my decades of academic and lived experience are equal to your 2 second searches and misplaced confidence. I'm not here to make you feel more knowledgeable than you are
The silencing of victims is sadly a global phenomenon:
#media #oscars #rapeculture
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This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.
Letter from Pam Bondi to Kash Patel that demands to know why she didn’t receive Epstein files and demanding an investigation.
A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them.
Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.
lol this take is DRENCHED in privilege.
Marginalized people cannot afford to be apolitical because our very identity IS POLITICAL. Activism isn't some cute hobby folks are engaging in. People are advocating for their SURVIVAL.
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Fantastic read.A compelling behind the scenes look of realities that scholars based in Africa face when collaborating w colleagues based in the Global North. Also offers advice on building more ethical collaborations.
For everyone in global collaborative research.
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Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!
Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety
I see that bald headed man has decided to finally stop pretending that he cares about the newspaper. This was always going to happen once orange man won the election. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
“And therefore, we will _____.”
They allowed for this to happen the moment they kept quiet about @apnews.com being denied entry.
The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.
this is a damn good way of putting the James Carville phenomenon in perspective
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear. The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
Andrew Carnegie helped kill 2600 people in a flood and sicced Pinkerton guards on striking workers.
We really don’t need to do gilded age revisionism.
I was pretty skeptical of Amazon taking control of the Bond franchise, but if this is the direction it's going, I'm pro.
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.
I just wish that we actually cared about antisemitism in this country. But instead yall had congressional hearings vilifying students and faculty (of all races & ethnicities) protesting genocide and silence with actual sieg heiling by white suprmacists.
WHOA
beep boop
The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.
People who were willing to risk their job security and literally everything tied to being able to live, just to go vote ?
And yall expect them to do more after failing them?
Yeah nah
