Favorites September 21 2021

jstrauss @jstrauss

Cool cool. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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.msNo More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its ImageMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.

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.orgAn expansion, a departure, and the same dire questions<p>Yesterday, the Washington Post announced plans to hire forty-one new editors, in what management called a “major expansion to accelerate our transformation into a fully 24/7 news organization and strengthen the leadership of the newsroom.” The positions include multiple assignment editors, breaki…

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.orgToday Is September 21stEvery year for the past several years on September 21, Demi Adejuyigbe makes a video featuring the 1978 Earth, Wind & Fire s

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.

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.

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.

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.

Toronto, 2019