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23 Jan 2020
How can journalism compete with the hegemonic platforms we’ve got? docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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The gov't doesn’t maintain a comprehensive public database of the mandatory financial disclosures of senior executive-branch officials. So, @WSJ built its own.
For months, we pored over 31k filings from 12k senior officials across 50 federal agencies.
Here’s what we found.
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Josh Young retweeted
15 Sep 2022
And we finalized!
Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.
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We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's How Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash. dlvr.it/SQS1ZL
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Josh Young retweeted
30 Apr 2022
Fossil fuel interests are now cynically using the war in Ukraine to try to lock in a high carbon future.
A shift to renewables is crucial to mending our broken global energy mix & offering hope to millions suffering climate impacts today.
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28 Apr 2022
This is correct
27 Apr 2022
Open sourcing the "the Twitter algorithm" doesn't make much sense when the platform is, in fact, a complex system of code and machine learning models that interact with human behavior in ways that can be mysterious even to Twitter. My latest for @WIRED: wired.com/story/twitter-open…
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26 Apr 2022
This is embarrassing
In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
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25 Apr 2022
The sustainable alternative will fwiw be highly differentiated — including very different affordances and competitive strengths, not just a different tech stack
25 Apr 2022
Something like this has been inevitable for Twitter for a long time
It *is* a “free speech” product, in Elon’s sense
When the journalists remain addicted, pay attention
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter is nearing a deal to sell itself to Elon Musk for $54.20 per share in cash, the price that he originally offered to the social media company and called his 'best and final,’ people familiar with the matter say reut.rs/3Mu5b6Z $TWTR
Josh Young retweeted
31 Mar 2022
I think the vision of digital communities as “easy to exit” is misleading. Yes, physical exit costs are lower. But network effects are higher. This leads to network dynamics based lock in without physical lock in. Huge econ literature on this but best book is
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Josh Young retweeted
25 Mar 2022
Just wrapped up a great visit to the New Lebanon Farmers Market. With volunteers, creativity, & federal funding, this market helps local farmers and producers connect with consumers & provides residents in New Lebanon a more accessible place to get fresh, nutritious food.
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Josh Young retweeted
23 Mar 2022
This is your regular reminder that when donald trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to extort President Zelenskyy, 99% of republicans in Congress turned their back on Ukraine and refused to remove trump from office.
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2 Mar 2022
Mm-hmmm
2 Mar 2022
Or perhaps more cynically, it just takes a few days/weeks to figure out the best way to apply the normal partisan framework & ideology to an entirely new situation...
Josh Young retweeted
31 Jan 2022
When the very first #SocialSecurity check went out 82 years ago today few people predicted it would be maybe the greatest government program in history. It is. #Secure2100
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Josh Young retweeted
12 Jan 2022
Forgot to mention that before the holidays, I did a "slow interview" with @persily, co-director of the Stanford Project on Democracy and the Internet, about why he quit the Social Science One partnership with Facebook, and the legislation he helped work on galley.cjr.org/public/conver…
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Josh Young retweeted
11 Jan 2022
Aaron Swartz died nine years ago today, and, my gosh, it still feels like yesterday. The world has changed a lot in the intervening years, and it is worse off for his absence. (1/)
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3 Jan 2022
What percent of the increased transmissibility of omicron comes from a greater share of infected people being asymptomatic?
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