Jason Leopold@JasonLeopold
BuzzFeed News is dismantling our award-winning investigations team. So this is my last investigative project for the newsroom. I hope you'll give it a read and share it. I think our findings are pretty damning and worthy of your time.
Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold
🧵NEW: A yearlong investigation by @KendallTTaggart @jtemplon @a_cormier_ & me into private equity giant KKR & its takeover of BrightSpring Health Services, a company that serves ppl w/intellectual & development disabilities turned up some damning findings
https://t.co/Z1dvk6AfYo
9:52 PM · Apr 25, 2022
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Joshua Siegel@SiegelScribe
NEW 'Last chance': Greens push climate compromise with Manchin. Some environmentalists say it's time to toss in the towel on some of progressives' social policies in order to secure a narrower deal on the West Virginia senator's terms. Latest w/ @zcolman
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POLITICO Pro: ‘Last chance’: Greens push climate compromise with Manchin
1:20 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Once again Silicon Valley is spreading harmful misinformation.
abc27.com
Netflix launching documentary on Three Mile Island accident
3:45 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
We desperately need to regulate nuclear power plants in a comparative framework rather than apply an absolute safety standard.
Safety is good, but not if it leads us to use other power sources that are less safe!
slowboring.com/p/the-nuclear-…
3:46 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies
MJ Lee @mj_lee
Breaking: Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for Covid, White House says.
She is not considered a close contact of President Biden.
4:29 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I always wish people would kick the tires on this stuff more.
Is it true that, on balance, the leftward tilt of Twitter.com has empowered left politics in real ways? How would we know? What is the counterfactual?
I’m open to it, but we need evidence or grievance.
Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz
“Twitter isn’t a money-making corporation, like ExxonMobil; it is a power-making corporation, like The New York Times or the Ford Foundation.”
Curtis Yarvin on what Elon Musk should do with Twitter
https://t.co/U6lNUDtc41
4:46 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Suppose “the algorithm” was rigged to throttle engagement to defund the police tweets and shadowbanned defund activists — would that have hurt progressives?
Suppose Ricky Vaugh were still on here doing lots of explicitly anti-Semitic pro-Trump takes — does that help Trump?
4:49 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
What is more likely to get Elon Musk to do what you want in terms of policy change — cheering his vague pronouncements on free speech and then offering suggestions for how to implement them or dunking on him?
8:03 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Every day in the political arena people face choices between emotionally satisfying self-expression and considered thinking about ends and means, and a great many people choose poorly.
8:04 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp
The boring answer is that, like most people, I dramatically overestimated Russia's military capabilities. The more interesting answer is that I didn't expect the US to come up with such an effective policy response so quickly.
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus
What did you get wrong about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
8:38 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think @binarybits makes the key point here — algorithmic news amplification gives a positive advantage to misinformation.
Trying to check that advantage with content moderation then becomes very clumsy.
fullstackeconomics.com
How Elon Musk can fight misinformation on Twitter without censorship
8:58 PM · Apr 26, 2022
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Bryn Davidson @Lanefab@Lanefab
Getting rid of the side yards means you can keep a big back yard.
Getting rid of the underground parkade means you can infiltrate storm water, and reduce the embodied carbon used in the construction.
6 'family sized' 1500sf flats w shared roof deck and rear yard
12:07 AM · Apr 27, 2022
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