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21 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read
From the moment it was founded to the moment its impending closure was announced, Quibi burnt $1496 per minute, 24/7
$24.95 every second.

768 shares of Apple stock per hour.
9 Tesla Model X’s per workday.
One SpaceX launch every 13 hours.
The full production budget of Lord of the Rings. Once every 43 days.
One anticancer drug, from
conception to R&D to testing to approval to public launch. Every year.

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24 Oct
Also, since everyone's dunking on the "That's witchcraft" thing — that is … not an unlitigated issue in Charismatic/Pentacostal Christianity, as it turns out! The conclusion boils down to: the line between Witchcraft and Prophecy is which supernatural being you're listening to.
If God tells you what's going to happen in the future, that's a prophetic gift. If you try to find out what will happen in the future from other supernatural sources (demons, ancestors, positions of planets, etc) that's witchcraft. Tidy!
The complicating factor, of course, is that ~prophecy~ is, Biblically speaking, a highly regulated profession and the Old Testament spells out in no uncertain terms that if you ~prophecy~ something and it doesn't come to pass you're a ~false prophet~ and you get stoned to death.
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24 Oct
The merger of fundamentalist apocalypse eschatology and conservative totalitarianism fetish has been complete for a while, now they‘re just comfortable enough to talk about in mixed company.
I’m not being dismissive — there is genuine fear of totalitarian persecution, mixed with giddy fascination, at the heart of this rhetoric. A Thief In The Night meets McCarthyist rhetoric is a wild cocktail.
Tragically, the absolute certainty that they’ll be hunted and persecuted by [antichrist/antiamerica] dictators ... is the justification for the pursuit of dictatorial power and disenfranchisement of anyone they believe could be The Enemy.
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22 Oct
Piper constructs elaborate, squirming abstracts to avoid saying anything negative about Trump by name.

Compare it to his full-throated condemnation of Obama over the course of earlier campaigns—because the clergy Obama associated with disagreed with Piper on culture-war topics.
The point here isn't to point out hypocrisy, rather it's to note the depth to which the religious right's warping of Christian cultural engagement around reproduction and sexuality has debased the church's role and voice.
Piper can barely bring himself to *obliquely* criticize the *kind* of person lies continually, cheats workers of their wages, puts children in cages to deliberately terrorize families, abuses the vulnerable, and a host of other sins.
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21 Oct
I wasn’t kidding when I said that @AOC is the apex predator of modern American politics.
Rolling onto Twitch and playing social deduction games with constituents and having a good time in the middle of a traumatic pandemic that keeps people apart. And using the visibility *to explain how other countries’ health care system works*
Her public persona — not just in traditional media but on the fuzzier social channels — is quick, natural, and focused. She takes every opportunity possible to clarify complexity to constituents, and uses different social channels *in channel-appropriate ways*.
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20 Oct
After some tinkering with templates and reading up on iTunes' feed formatting requirements… The old archives for insertcontenthere.com are back up! Built on @eleven_ty, with @otter_ai powered transcripts coming shortly.
Using @Netlify rather than @GithubPages let me use some of the fancy metadata tools in 11ty, and install a few markdown-it plugins to handle definition lists and transcript markup.
Dropped the episodes into an S3 bucket — long term it might be possible to automatically get filesize and audio duration automatically, but for the moment they just go into the frontmatter of each episode's markdown file.
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4 Sep
Something interesting, troubling, and important is happening. This weekend there's an NBC special about online disinformation campaigns and recruitment pipelines for right-wing radicalism. On one level it's good; the media has historically ignored the complexity of the problem.
There's a pretty serious problem, though: This isn't a new, emergent issue. The roots go back to the earliest days of the social web, and the specific networks they're covering in Sunday's special predate Trump.
A handful of Black women — writers, scholars, artists, thinkers — were at ground zero for the rise of those disinformation and radicalization networks before anyone else took the issue seriously. 2013, 2014, 2015… long before mainstream reporters knew a chan from a flan.
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