The two genres of longform NYT stories:
What if we can't trust trans people?
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What if we can trust Elizabeth Holmes?
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This is abysmal. nytimes.com/2023/05/07/bus
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In addition to all the other problems with passages like this one, it just isn’t deep or interesting in the way the writer thinks it is.
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there’s some suggestion this piece isn’t a whitewashing retcon but the inclusion of this bit of gas station dialogue is all you need to see
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tv writers are not the reason teachers are underpaid.
teachers are not the reason nurses are underpaid.
nurses aren’t the reason assembly line workers are also underpaid.
we are not in competition with each other. everyone deserves a living wage. #WritersStrike #wgastrong
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Theranos’ test never worked. Holmes knew it didn’t work. But she and the company still tried very hard to get more and more people to rely on it for potentially life-or-death decisions. If that type of fraud represents “the sun” to you, then yeah, don’t get to close to it
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No empathy chin
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So cool that physiognomy is back, wonder if it has anything to do with what’s Going On
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“I recently profiled Elizabeth Holmes, who has overcome her criminal past to become Liz, the current world record-holder for telling stories where everyone claps at the end.”
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Or, you can still do whatever you want but people don’t like blackface any more! So you can play a black guy, and no one will want to see it, and you’ll catch some shit - just like EVERY ARTIST EVER has faced the prospect of failure when they do things people don’t like!
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"Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a black man?" is sending me. 😭 Yes, girl. That's what we are telling you!
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Extremely funny that he throws "or majority" into his screed explicitly arguing that films should cater to the majority.
theguardian.com/film/2023/may/
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Extremely funny that he throws "or majority" into his screed explicitly arguing that films should cater to the majority.
theguardian.com/film/2023/may/
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One thing about the gun issue that I think is not really common knowledge is that more and more guns are concentrated with fewer and fewer people
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/n
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everyone has a million deep psychological theories but the reason guns are everywhere is that gun manufacturers put a lot of money into telling scared people that they are exactly right because bad guys have guns so guess what you need too
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"the essence of the city" these people have absolutely lost it
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Losing Nordstrom is a serious blow to the city. San Francisco as we know it is going away bit by bit, writes columnist @CarlnolteSF. trib.al/vcCjpWR
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How is this gun-control advocates’ problem? The gun nuts have successfully effected change, you made this world, talk to them about it.
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Serious q for gun control advocates: you’ve failed to effect change. Pls face it. You can’t do it, thx to the 2A. We’re all well aware you don’t like that fact, but fact it is. What’s next? Must we just stay here sad, concerned, lamenting? Could we possibly talk OTHER SOLUTIONS?
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The problem is not the 2A, but rather GOP activist judges rewriting 2A at the behest of the gun industry. In Heller (2008), by a single vote, the Court discarded two centuries of 2A jurisprudence. The Constitution is not a suicide pact and the GOP reading of 2A is absurd.
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Serious q for gun control advocates: you’ve failed to effect change. Pls face it. You can’t do it, thx to the 2A. We’re all well aware you don’t like that fact, but fact it is. What’s next? Must we just stay here sad, concerned, lamenting? Could we possibly talk OTHER SOLUTIONS?
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"We look the other way, mutter about crime and quality of life, and ignore the fact that we as a society are taking the cheap, easy way out by condemning some of our neighbors to a kind of walking death."
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New York reckons with a homeless epidemic and a killing. trib.al/a6B5urf
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right now there is no set measurement for streaming residuals. we do not know how many views streaming shows get so the studios make up a rate and that's what you get. sometimes you get NOTHING, other times you get a check for $8. i'm not kidding #WritersStrike
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Replying to @chescaleigh
So, how do residuals work if the show is ONLY available on a streaming service?
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Unbelievably proud to play a small part in running these assholes out of polite society.
slate.com/human-interest
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And it seems pretty clear he's joking. Most of the replies are joking too
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Entire story based on a single tweet
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You can't pretend to be a Bold Truth-Teller while also being too chickenshit to own up to your actual argument.
A paper that simply laid out a defense of merit *also* wouldn't be worth publishing because that's utterly banal. Own up to your beliefs or stfu, this is so tedious.
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Big AITA-subreddit stench around this paper. "All we did was defend the concept of merit!"
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Finally some Tar hate cause I thought I was going insane
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Suffering my way through "Tár" after three different dudes on Grindr recommended it
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Replying to
[scorsese voice] “*this* is cinema”
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See the true best original song in theaters this weekend. Apartment For Sale, performed by Cate Blanchett, from Todd Field’s TÁR.
Get your tickets now: tarthefilmtickets.com
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when people claim to have watched all of Dune pt 1 without taking a nap
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There is no way you twinks watched this all the way through. I demand compensation.
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There is no way you twinks watched this all the way through. I demand compensation.
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Suffering my way through "Tár" after three different dudes on Grindr recommended it
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This is just disgraceful for the to publish.
The paper got basically the correct response of "sir this is a Wendy's" when you demand someone publish your rant at a place it doesn't belong.
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She did, in fact, make it up
nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opi
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Do I have any followers who are libel lawyers or researchers?
(Don't worry we're not getting sued, it's research for our Oprah v Beef episode!)
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I know progressives oft-preferred attack on the UK monarchy is that it’s an extension of imperialism & colonialism, but it’s 10x easier & more effective to mock as a ridiculous clownshow than denounce as a moral travesty
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The subway killing in New York, horrible as it is, was not an isolated incident. From what data I can find, it looks like murders of unhoused people are on the rise all over the country. thenation.com/homeless-homic
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I don’t care if the menu says there’s a surcharge for egg whites. I’m not paying it unless you want me to take it out of your tip.
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I love how every one of these articles includes a variation on, "I'm not racist, I simply believe that some races are inferior to others!"
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I’m speechless
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Was thinking of turning this thread into a substack but did it first (and better). open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/
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Enjoyed this. I was a bit worried about this one, cause I thought it might just be cynical poking at the nudge stuff, but no, they really took it apart.
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Episode 13: Nudge (Part 1)
In 2008, an economist and a law professor proposed an era-defining political idea: What if the government stopped doing politics and started doing marketing?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nud
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Easily the funniest part of brain-dead conservative media defenses of Harlan Crow's patronage of Clarence Thomas is that how many of them end with "DISCLOSURE: ok yes Harlan Crow gives us a ton of money, too"
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The identity of Daniel Penny’s father has not been confirmed yet. No evidence has been proved establishing the connection. twitter.com/kdgriffit/stat
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