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From the COO of TikTok… very cool thread…
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9/ So while most of you know me as being fairly private as it relates to my personal life I did feel it important to bring my whole self to work and to share my gender identity and preferred pronouns. And through my actions show that difference is accepted and welcomed at TikTok.
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Appreciate this coming out of the shadows. I've been in meetings where it's felt like something was torquing my uterus for an hour straight (or longer). Guys prob don't realize that the woman sitting across from them is extreme pain, & not blinking an eye
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Wow: "startups with a coach raised 7x more capital than those without"
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Are you a founder looking to take your business to the next level? Consider investing in founder coaching.
A study by the Startup Genome Project found that startups with a coach raised 7x more capital than those without.
switchthefuture.com/coaching/?utm_
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Sigh, this is exactly what women want to come home to too
See, the sexes aren't so different after all
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All a man wants is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children who are glad to see him, and dinner cooking on the stove. This is literally all it takes to make a man happy. We are simple. Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.
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Viola Davis now has an EGOT.
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The best pitches are usually just really interesting conversations.
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They say venture investing takes a lot of patience.
It’s true. I won’t know if I’m truly good at my job for another 10 years.
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The last thing my trans student emailed me before they died by suicide was an op-ed they wrote to their local newspaper arguing for trans inclusion in highschool sports. They mentioned how cruel the comments from community members were. These annual "debates" hurt trans people.
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If you’re a dude, and you have a spare 90 minutes in your day because you defer all primary childcare responsibilities to your wife, then, sure, this makes sense
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Did a half empty plot of commercial real estate write this?
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I’m sad to report that I am leaving to pursue other projects, which I will announce soon. It was an honor and a privilege to found five years ago to create an investigative newsroom that integrated engineers and journalists. /1
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NEW: Working from home during the pandemic stopped a 20-year trend of college-educated women dropping out of the workforce. Return to office mandates are restarting it. That’s argument enough that they’re sexist.
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(And here's 's book "Self-Made:
Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians." Looks v interesting:
publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/tara-is)
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Anyways, kudos to , ,
. A great and much needed show on an issue that needed your insightful clarification.
npr.org/2023/01/30/115
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Otherwise we will continue to struggle—and we will fail our readers.
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To be able to cover this growing phenomenon in politics, journalism needs to step back and develop new thinking about how to cover untruths, new frameworks for understanding it, and new standards for language to describe it.
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Santos was reportedly inspired by TFG. If he can manifest what he wants, why can't I?
There will be more Santoses.
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This will become more important in the years ahead. TFG was a prime example of the above phenomenon. The DC press corps struggled to cover him bc they were stuck inside traditional mindsets re: how we report on the telling of untruths.
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It suggests the way he is saying something that is patently untrue is the same as the executive who knowingly tells a falsehood. It leads our readers to an incorrect understanding of the situation.
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When we use a word like “lie” with someone like Santos, we aren’t actually helping our readers understand what’s going on.
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So to come back to journalism, why does this matter?
Because it’s a different kind of untruth-telling.
Nuance matters. Our job is to explain the world to our readers/audiences. We need to be as precise as possible.
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There are some people who so deeply believe this, & live inside those beliefs, t/ they end up doing what Santos has done: Craft a version of reality they want, and then actually live inside that reality, and they believe that bc they want it to be true, it is true.
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The show unpacks all of this. Talks a bit @ Norman Vincent Peale, the power of positive thinking, & various movements that suggest you can manifest what you want in life simply from wanting it. (~ “The Secret”) And the people who internalize that & then operate from there.
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People who live inside self-delusions seem to be like the rest of us. They appear to be moving through the same reality as us. (vs. ppl who are biologically mentally impaired, where it's clear they're not.) But these folks are actually living in a reality of their own making.
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What the show (w host Brittany Luse & guest Tara Isabella Burton (author of "Self Made: Creating Our Identities")) does so well is talk about the phenomenon of people who are living in a kind of self-delusion.
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These are statements made by a person who lives in the same reality as the rest of us and knowingly chooses to say something untrue, for tactical or strategic reasons. The lie is a deviation from what they know to be true. And as such, is correctly called a "lie."
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Historically, journalism really only had a single conception of this: A lie.
The politician who says they didn’t meet with unscrupulous person X.
The business exec who says their company didn’t pollute that river.
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Why does it matter?
Journalism has entered a new era where it needs to create a broader taxonomy of "untruths," so they can better frame and report on people who say things that are not true
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A must listen for any journalist covering George Santos: explores the difference between outright lying and the kind of genuine self-delusion that drives fabrications like the ones Santos (appears) to be making
npr.org/2023/01/30/115
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That shooting was terrible, as all shootings are. But you absolutely can find a way to underline its horror w/o reinforcing the idea that it was especially horrific bc, gasp, women were among the victims.
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So here’s one place to start: Stop reaching for “grandmother” as a proxy for “vulnerable” person. Start registering, in your brains, that all people are equally badass and vulnerable, and no gender needs to be highlighted as (implicitly) weaker than another.
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Sure, most journos don't wake up in the morning intending to write sexist stories. But some of these tropes are so deeply embedded that they don’t even register when they're doing it.
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In a convo yesterday w another (woman) journalist who’s covered gender bias, we wondered together whether it would ever be eradicated. We observed that part of the problem is the narratives that the media itself (our industry) reinforces.
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There are generals in the Army who are grandmothers. Tons of CEOs are grandmothers. Startup founders are grandmothers. That older woman bench-pressing 200 at the gym is a grandmother.
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It's 2023. Grandmothers are not frail little white-haired ladies who sit on porches doing their knitting and watching the world go by.
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And yet, here, you’re doing that very thing.
When you highlight the grandmother, but not the younger, male people also killed, you’re reinforcing that very bias that, in other stories, you’re saying needs to be rooted out.
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But wait. If you’re running (other) stories on gender bias, then, presumably you believe that framing women as somehow weaker, more vulnerable, less capable than other people is problematic.
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Why is that a problem?
Journalism has traditionally used “grandmother” as shorthand for “vulnerable” person. Aka: “the shooters were so terrible that they even shot a, gasp, grandmother.” It’s being used to amp up the level of tragedy.
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This am, ran a story about a California mass shooting in which 6 people were killed. To illustrate the “depth of depravity” (as it were), they said a “grandmother” was among the dead.
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