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I write about digital media for the Columbia Journalism Review. I'm an expert in stucco, a veteran in love and an outlaw in Peru (via )

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    Sep 6

    In Italy, 9 friends decided to recreate the Lord of The Rings by walking across the country to drop a ring into Mount Vesuvius

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  2. Sep 8

    If you're wondering about that "ivermectin cases swamping Oklahoma hospitals" brouhaha, I tried to break it down -- in a nutshell, a poorly reported local news story was uncritically amplified by a number of national outlets, and of course Twitter

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    Sep 7

    Newsweek repeatedly ran “sponsored” articles advertising colloidal silver as a way to prevent or treat COVID-19

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    Sep 6

    3 out of 4 of our household have covid. The 4th is 10 and the gov say he should be in school. But the 2 of us who could take him there are ill and isolating. Gov guidelines are that the school now have to mark him down as an unauthorised absence. It’s a dangerous shambles.

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    Sep 7

    Here's a breakdown of the viral Oklahoma-ivermectin mess, from 1) bad initial local story to 2) unquestioning national aggregation and tweets and then to 3) too-quick denunciations of the doctor whose comments had been poorly contextualized:

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  6. Sep 7

    This is the future we could have had

    The Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first and only known dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups which could stick to the machine magnetically [read more: ]
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    Sep 6

    “Civil War hero”

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    Sep 6

    😅

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  9. Sep 7

    In today's newsletter: “Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive hasn't changed, but the internet has”

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    Sep 6

    it’s true. was wrong in 2015 when he said Tesla could be worth $700 billion in 10 years. It turns out they only needed five.

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    Sep 5

    "This is not the update wanted to give you. Your husband died about fifteen minutes ago. I'm so sorry." The rest of it is harder to say. He wasn't alone. The respiratory therapist and I stayed with him until the end, squeezing his hands, telling him it was okay to go.

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    Sep 6

    Why did the Washington Post interview “the pandemic’s wrongest man” for an article about COVID-19? My latest newsletter:

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    Sep 5

    The most dystopian image of the year award goes to the new amazon building in mexico

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    Sep 5

    🧵THREAD🧵 We’ve got to talk about the Rolling Stone invermectin article. Turns out the story about rural hospitals so flooded with ODs that they couldn’t treat other patients was made up, entirely invented. A lot of people took the bait, and I’ve got the screenshots.⤵️

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    Sep 3

    Manami Ito beautifully plays the violin with her prosthetic arm. This amazing 36-year-old is also a nurse and Paralympian swimmer from Japan. She recently performed at the Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony. BRAVA!🎵🎶💯❤💯🎵🎶 (Manami.ito_8)

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    Sep 3
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    the piece also includes a misleading discussion of South Australia's quarantine tracker app it's not required, it's (1) a trial; (2) optional; (3) offered as an alternative to 14-day dorm quarantine for ppl under quarantine like foreign visitors

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    Sep 3

    Report: top 25 US newspapers lost 20% of daily print circulation between Q1 of 2020 and Q1 of this year, with national papers experiencing the steepest declines ( / Poynter)

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    Sep 3

    NEW global estimates of excess deaths — Thread Just released! The Economist’s excess death model is from now on updated daily. 15 million excess deaths globally during this pandemic. Around 4 million in India alone. 1/

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  19. Sep 3

    This is one of the dumbest things I've read on here in a long time, and that's a pretty high bar to clear

    I’ll explain since most can’t comprehend Dinner with Jay-Z is the better option over $500K because of the knowledge & expertise he has. He’ll give you the blueprint on being wealthy and successful. His knowledge will be worth more long term than the short term $500K.
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    Sep 3

    Study finds "that from August 2020 to January 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinformation got six times the amount of likes, shares, and interactions on the platform as did trustworthy news sources…”

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