Favorites September 21 2021
jstrauss@jstrauss
Cool cool.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
3:25 PM · Sep 20, 2021
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Obviously this is not a great situation, but also, they made the deal with Kushner? Did he really control regulatory pressure?
The New York Times@nytimes
Facebook is using its News Feed, the social network's most important digital real estate, to show people positive stories about itself as part of a new initiative approved by Mark Zuckerberg and code-named Project Amplify.
nyti.ms
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image
9:33 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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Best I can say is that this is a better outcome than the previous story.
Paul Farhi@farhip
Astonishing, both as comment on @nytimes’ digital success, and lack of it elsewhere:
“The NYT has more digital subscribers in Dallas–Fort Worth than the @dallasnews, more in Seattle than the @seattletimes, more in Calif. than the @latimes or @sfchronicle.”
cjr.org
An expansion, a departure, and the same dire questions
4:56 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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It's crazy the extent to which NYT has become *the* source for US news in text formats
kottke.org@kottke
Today is September 21st and you know the drill: watch @electrolemon's latest epic video (feat. Earth, Wind & Fire) and then donate to some worthy causes fighting bullshit like abortion bans & climate change.
kottke.org
Today Is September 21st
7:51 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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I had not heard about this series of videos previously, but this was pretty neat.
Karl Mathiesen@KarlMathiesen
BREAK: Xi Jinping says China will stop building coal plants overseas. This almost completely ends the international finance of coal in a single sentence.
7:32 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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Karl Mathiesen@KarlMathiesen
Reality check: China still plans to build around 163 GW of coal plants at home — although that number has been shrinking.
Thom Woodroofe @thomwoodroofe
The hard truth is China had to bring more to the table ahead of COP26 to avoid being painted the villain. But until China is prepared to draw a similar line in the sand on its construction of coal-fired power at home, it is unlikely to be met with the fanfare Beijing might hope.
8:49 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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Hopefully they follow-up by stopping their local construction of Coal power as well. At that point they'd really be outdoing us.
Joe Rodricks@Joerodricks
@siracusa we’ve come so far.
11:30 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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That's an Apple Watch fitting within the camera bump in the corner. Modern phones are very big. I might argue... too big. But no one listens to me.
