NEW: A Facebook whistleblower has come forward to reveal how the company has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents
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Julia Carrie Wong
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This is my closest and only brush with greatness.
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Bonnie Raitt went to high school with my parents and used to let my mom stay in her dorm room to visit my dad.
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I talked with Patrisse Cullors about Tyre Nichols, LAPD killing her cousin, ten years of BLM and her fight for abolition:
"It’s not individual bad officers, it’s a culture of violence, and it's not going to stop until courageous officials make it stop."
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just absolute clown in a monocle stuff
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“We stood up against the exaggerated excesses of the left at a moment of unprecedented public support for redressing centuries of racist injustice, helping to stymie any possibility of progress and providing cover for a resurgent reactionary movement. We remain proud of this”
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Harper’s letter remains the most embarrassing fucking thing like how do y’all get out of bed in the morning
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journalists are usually desperate to lay claim to impact from their stories so it’s kind of funny when you see a whole group of people that wrote incredibly impactful stories disclaiming credit
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If you have a fun password sharing story, please chat with my colleague Matt. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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As the Netflix password apocalypse looms, wondering about your strangest password-sharing stories – do you use your ex-boss's cousin's step-dog's account? Has romance bloomed due to password-sharing? And will you keep using Netflix despite the crackdown? We want to talk to you!
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first good thing elon has done is kill the possum every hour bot
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If you have a fun password sharing story, please chat with my colleague Matt. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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As the Netflix password apocalypse looms, wondering about your strangest password-sharing stories – do you use your ex-boss's cousin's step-dog's account? Has romance bloomed due to password-sharing? And will you keep using Netflix despite the crackdown? We want to talk to you!
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it’s nice to appreciate technology that helps humans do something creative and abjectly human (hand knitting!? why bother etc) in a slightly easier way instead of technology that pretends to do something creative in a wholly inhuman way
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was starting a new pattern today and thinking it would be nice to have a stitch counter on my phone and turns out there are lots of options and they can do things like keep track of your repeats that normally involve me making and reliably losing lots of crosshatch notes
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knitting tech is so good
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I spoke to the family of Anthony Lowe, a wheelchair user + double amputee who was hobbling away from Huntington Park cops before they killed him.
“I’m heartbroken + filled with rage. I just cant understand why they'd do that" -Tatiana Jackson, his sister
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A REAL ZOODUNIT
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Update: The two monkeys taken from the Dallas Zoo were found Tuesday in a nearby abandoned home after a mysterious disappearance the day before, police said. No arrests have been made. apnews.com/article/dallas
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Who should decide who deserves Adderall?
In this longread, I examine the role of the DEA in creating the most severe ADHD medication shortage in history:
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although tbh death by dodo doesn’t sound that bad at least it would be funny
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at least we have the dallas zoo
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A very kind person gifted me this description of the last six months of my life and honestly it’s done wonders for my sense of self and general equanimity
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just seems like an oversight if you know what I mean
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people don’t talk enough about patty griffin
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They should do this with prison guards too. They can recruit them from Stanford.
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I agree with Yglesias that we need to bust the cop unions, and kudos to him for identifying an unorthodox method that nonetheless has a track record of success.
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The NYT having their movie critic review the Tyre Nichols footage after having autoplayed it on their front all night is quite something.
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The Paul Pelosi attack footage has been released — to the delight of voyeurs, zealots and extremists.
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If it’s helpful to anyone, know that you can honor the life of Tyre Nichols and fight for justice on his behalf without needing to watch the video. If you do watch it, mentally prepare yourself, watch it once, and then step away from the screen and do something restorative.
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This isn’t to say that news outlets shouldn’t publish footage that’s of public interest. But I do wonder if we’re providing audiences with enough information about the potential benefit of limiting their exposure. Not everyone needs to bear witness to every horror.
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The Pelosi video comes amid a stream of foreboding quotes about footage of the beating of Tyre Nichols, in the same week news outlets ran footage of a man fighting for his life against a mass shooter and NYT autoplayed footage from the aftermath of the fatal Rust shooting.
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I don’t know if it’s good for us as a society that we’ve created the expectation that normal members of the public should be regularly exposed to traumatic imagery of violent crimes in the course of staying up to date on the news.
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NEW: Ella Irwin, Twitter’s current head of trust and safety, has become the chief executor of Musk’s whims—even when it goes against established protocols for social media content work that Twitter and its peers have refined for the past decade.
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pamela paul saw that a New Yorker writer was getting praise for revealing her as a narcissistic reactionary with zero self-awareness and an incredibly shallow intellect and was like, hold my beer
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lol the times’ own book reviewer said the prose and characterization was so bad it made her flinch
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the New York Times is also finding this confusing
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just realized spatter and splatter are two different words and wow how about that
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Why is the Washington Post running ads on the platform that vindictively banned its journalists for tweeting accurate reporting (and has maintained the ban bc one of the reporters refuses to delete accurate reporting)?
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🧵Hundreds of formerly incarcerated youth have come forward with accounts of being sexually abused + tortured by officers in Los Angeles juvenile jails, from 1970s to today.
Three survivors shared their stories with me ⬇️
(TW: child abuse, sexual assault)
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My first weekly column in ! Please join me in this new adventure and let me know your thoughts
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There is a certain kind of writer for whom the most vicious thing a critic can do is read their work closely and treat it seriously. This reminds me of Judith Butler reviewing Bari. Brutal and delicious.
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I wrote about Pamela Paul and the most perilous pronoun of all: the first-person plural newyorker.com/culture/person
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