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8 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This story is insane.
At the very moment where the CDC confirms what experts have been saying all year about outdoor masking being less urgent, @UMass, the largest public university in New England, suspends three students for a single off-campus photo reported to them by a third-party informant. Wow.
For further context, it appears related to this outdoor party in March: masslive.com/coronavirus/20…
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3 May
Brookline MA, the second-most educated town in the country, has decided to overrule the CDC and keep an outdoor mask mandate in place: boston.cbslocal.com/2021/05/01/cor…
Good time to re-up @NoreenMalone's great piece about Brookline's resistance to reopening schools, despite having heaps of parental expertise on how to do it safely: slate.com/human-interest…
And apropos, @GiniaNYT's latest from NY: nytimes.com/2021/04/29/nyr…
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30 Apr
"The combined yearly revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft & Facebook is $1.2 trillion, >25% higher than [before] pandemic. In less than a week, those 5 giants make more in sales than McDonald’s does in a year." @ShiraOvide on where we've arrived: nytimes.com/2021/04/29/tec…
"America’s technology superpowers aren’t making bonkers dollars in spite of the deadly coronavirus and its ripple effects through the global economy. They have grown even stronger *because* of the pandemic. It’s both logical and slightly nuts."
"The dictionary doesn’t have enough superlatives to describe what’s happening to the five biggest tech companies. It’s all a bit awkward, really."
That's exactly it. I've found it hard to find language to capture Amazon's growth. You start using comic-book words.
#fulfilllment
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29 Apr
This is such a good @tripgabriel piece about how the Democrats have lost their grip on Iowa. It goes to the heart of FULFILLMENT: the political divides aren't just urban-rural, they're also about struggling formerly Democratic small cities like Burlington. nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/…
"Schools have closed...young people with college degrees have fled for opportunities in Des Moines or Chicago. Employers have backfilled jobs w/ immigrants, often after weakening unions and cutting pay. 'There’s just a discontent, an unhappiness here seeing communities shrink.'"
Key detail: "In places like Des Moines County [Burlington], people now must drive far to see a dentist or buy a pair of shoes and all of those hours in their cars have increased influence of right-wing radio. 'People are driving all the time, they’ve got radios on all the time.'"
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23 Apr
What it's come to: people buying "trophy trees" that can each cost almost as much to find, move, and install as the median US sales price for an actual home. wsj.com/articles/the-n…
"Mr. Acree drives his wealthy clients around South Florida in search of the perfect tree, whether a giant kapok, an enormous canopied oak, a baobab, a ficus or a banyan...He gave an estimate of $250,000 to relocate a tree for a wealthy homeowner on Miami’s Indian Creek Island."
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20 Apr
.@DouthatNYT totally gets FULFILLMENT.
nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opi…
And I am really curious what people make of his conclusion.
The comments speak volumes. "Amazon helped keep us alive during Covid, delivering a variety of goods to us 2 or 3 times a week for 12 months. And even tho both of us have had vaccinations, we remain wary of going to crowded, enclosed spaces, and therefore continue to use Amazon."
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16 Apr
Glad to see Amazon's @JayCarney is now engaging in the growing conversation around FULFILLMENT. nytimes.com/2021/04/16/boo… A few quick thoughts in response:
.@JayCarney writes, "The book somehow casts Amazon in the role of villain, ignoring the fact that Amazon has been a positive force in the US economy, creating 400,000 much-needed jobs last year alone.”
It’s precisely this extraordinary growth and dominance that is now at issue.
I mean, I never could've imagined when I set out to write FULFILLMENT that the company, and the way of life it represents, would become so vastly more dominant in a single year.
And remember: those warehouse jobs have replaced countless lost brick & mortar ones. See: Chapter 8.
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