With Twitter spiraling down the drain, I've found I'm spending more time on Mastodon than here and my brain/mood is better for it.
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Executive Editor . I been around awhile. I lived in town awhile. I threw it down awhile. And the town threw down on me
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Happy New Year!
Hope you all have a happy, healthy, and safe new year.
After 15 years on this site, I'm finding spending time away from here and more in the Fediverse has been beneficial to my brain.
Come join the party:
Gordon’s bass is just so damned sexy
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Been off Twitter for about two weeks now. So much healthier. But as tonight is the beginning of Phishmas, gotta keep up the post.
Phish. Night one. MSG. Section 110.
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So long and thanks for the fish.
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Well, it's been a year. And though has only been in existence for 16% of the year (yes i did math), I'm immensely proud of the work we've manage to produce.
Some highlights:
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WOW. Whattayear. We got to publish a few scoops, a few investigations, and a few fun features.
We're still young and hungry but I'm immensely proud of the work Morning Brew has put out, from weedy privacy explainers to scoops about Twitter's, uh, fallout.
Some highlights!
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It's the last working day of the year here at Morning Brew. ✨ That means I'm wrapping up my first year as a journalist & it's everything I've always wanted. Here's a few of my favorite stories in a year where I focused a lot on disability and DE&I 🧵
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So long and thanks for the fish.
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Elon has suspended three reporters who cover Elon
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After almost 10 years with Gizmodo, I'm being made redundant. It's been an honor to work with such amazing, talented people for so long. I loved my job and I know that I was tremendously lucky to have it for as long as I did.
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Godspeed to all the reporters who have to cover Elon.
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So it is now against Twitter's rules to tweet that you are at sporting event or concert because you didn't get consent of the athletes or musicians?
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Wonder why Bourdain's signature is more valuable that Julia Child's?
Keeping the streak alive! Can I go for the four-peat in 2023? We'll find out in 52 short weeks.
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oh thank god
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but hey, at least we're on the same ground here
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For yrs, the default response to any change Twitter made was "this is terrible" and a few weeks/months would go by and we'd all be cool with new Twitter.
But this new Elon version of Twitter just continues to be ... bad.
Rollouts are a mess.
Web on the L; mobile on R
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yellow check mark? why ... yellow?
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Went to see what would happen if I went to “boost” this ad, to give money to a Twitter to promote it.
I cannot. Hope it’s because of the word “advertiser” or “money” and not “LGBTQ”
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Advertisers who have strong messages of support for the LGBTQ community: this is where you are spending your money? You are aligning yourself with this guy?
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Won the first annual Sternberg Cup at the Nok Hockey Classic tournament.
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if you work for a company that uses Sequoia to manage your HR data...
A) Sequoia may have lost it including social security numbers
B) reach out to me or , because Sequoia declined interview or to provide any data on the scale of the breach
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Worked with on this analysis of the Sequoia HR breach, which saw soc sec numbers and other sensitive information breached from a cloud server.
Sequoia claims at least 800 companies as clients.
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Did the Yankees sign Rodon yet?
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Happy holidays!
What a sobering thread.
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In 1972, the highest federal income tax bracket was taxed at 70%. Today it's 37%. My dad's pension has been replaced, for me, by a mutual fund with "company match." The Voting Rights Act is functionally dead. 1/3 of workers were represented by a union in 1972, now it's 1/10. twitter.com/timmyf/status/…
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machado, tatis, bogaerts, soto? my goodness. san diego is gonna put up two touchdowns per game.
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Today's ads are about China and crypto. The right ad delivered to the right person at the right time.
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TIL Unilever "used AI to improve its lipsticks—and save beetles. Its Hourglass Red 0 lipstick uses a vegan replacement for carmine, a commonly used lipstick pigment that requires crushing 1,000 female beetles per tube to produce."
Rent: still too damned high
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We are living in the golden age of soup:
Seems relevant today: on the rise of media unions
"Mike Flanagan" is trending and my brain goes to the very first baseball glove I owned when I was 6, which had the auto signature of one Orioles pitcher named Mike Flanagan.
Wawa is going to Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.
The Convenient Store Wars has begun:
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What do the last 25 years look like if AskJeeves beat out Google and Friendster and MySpace were where we all hung out?
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Today is Pearl Harbor Day, and we are the same amount of years from that day as the attack on Pearl Harbor was from the start of the Civil War.
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Oh, oh wee oh oh. The right stuff.
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Take the time to read this. Just great reporting here. Big kudos to for sticking with this story.
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