Scott Woolley

@scottwoolley

Tech & business writer. Former LA Bureau Chief, Forbes. Honorary GCC faculty. Author of The Network, Ecco/HarperCollins. ΕΓΓΥΑ ΠΑΡΑ ΔΑΤΗ

Joined March 2009
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  1. Oct 14

    Is it too early to get the Pulitzer talk going for , & the rest of the WSJ team behind their ongoing coverage of higher education's various financial rackets? No, it is not:

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    Sep 16

    I transcend partisanship not through brilliance but by caring more about being intellectually honest in my work than in who wins. This does make me ineffective at securing partisan victories, which I don't care about, but effective at producing trustworthy journalism.

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    Sep 13
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    Test daily AT Home for 7 days after exposure daily in the AM before going to school. Confirmation testing each day not required. If neg, go to school, if pos, don’t Please please use a rapid test. Virus can grow zero to peak in a day. Waiting on a lab result is not actionable

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    Aug 14

    In 2019 the Supreme Court was 1 vote away from ending gerrymandering. Instead, both Rs and Ds are planning a gerrymandering palooza, with the American voter as the loser. Only 41/435 House seats were competitive between parties last year. In '22, there will certainly be fewer.

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    Aug 11

    Most of us have committed criminal offenses for which we’ve never been charged. But the system has no rational principle for deciding which subset of “offenders” to prosecute. So we feed the ravenous conviction machine with those who are least able to push back. It’s a disgrace.

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  6. Aug 5

    “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” ― Thomas Paine

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    Jul 31

    Great history thread:👇

    A few weeks ago, I posted this photo and tweeted: “Hey, Virginia, I hear you need new statue material.” Several folks asked who it was, which may surprise CW nerds, but the truth is: George Thomas remains (criminally) unsung. But it’s SOMEONE’s 205th birthday. So ... /THREAD
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    Jul 25

    Direction is much more important than speed. 🧠

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  9. Jul 25

    What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

    “America is one of the few countries with enough vaccines at its disposal to protect every resident — and yet it has the highest rates of vaccine hesitance or refusal…”
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  10. Jul 17

    “Thousands of highly educated scientists, doctors, pharmacists, and at least four major medicines regulators missed a fraud so apparent that it might as well have come with a flashing neon sign.”

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    Jul 11

    How the European Union's drive to curb carbon emissions led to pollution and community disruption in the American South

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    Jun 3

    The US pays for the basic science that leads to the drugs. The US consumer then gets charged the highest prices in the world for those drugs. The US government then gets fleeced by the corps that sell the drugs.

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    Jun 3

    AbbVie charges Americans 2-3 times the price for the same drug as overseas. Yet, AbbVie reported a domestic pretax LOSS of $7.8 billion and foreign pretax PROFITS of $19.1 billion over the past 2 years by shifting patents to low cost jurisdictions. What a scam.

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    May 22

    “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, & it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us & destroy them. But the line dividing good & evil cuts through the heart of every man. & who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

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  15. Apr 6

    The 6-foot rule, meant as a rough rule of thumb, is utterly useless in real world transmission scenarios like this one, which was reconstructed using video of a restaurant spreading event where 3 downwind tables got infected but no neighboring tables did.

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  16. Jan 12

    This historical micro-story is twitter at its finest.

    Here's a story about how a ship-eating clam helped bring about the Industrial Revolution:
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  17. 3 Dec 2020

    True, but cable channels don’t need broadcast licenses. The FCC could take on Rush Limbaugh or Sinclair Broadcasting, which use the public airwaves, but challenging a cable channel for its content is more like trying to control what a newspaper or website prints.

    Legislation passed by Congress early on in broadcast history – such as the 1927 Radio Act and the Communications Act of 1934 -- required the federal government to issue and renew broadcast licenses based on “public interest, convenience, and necessity”.
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  18. 19 Nov 2020

    The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs-pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. CS Lewis

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    4 Nov 2020

    I think many of us need to reevaluate how we contribute to an unhealthy online dynamic. Myself absolutely included. Going forward, I’m only engaging positive interactions and good faith disagreements. People are free to say whatever they want, but I will block and not respond.

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    22 Oct 2020

    Charlie Munger: "Why not celebrate stupidities?” “I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn. Forgetting mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn’t remind you.”

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