Wow, you know who would never do this and would also STILL make the best Jeopardy host? @levarburton.

NYT left out that Richards is the executive producer of the show—he named himself as host.
In his note Richards doesn’t mention any specifics of his scandal and makes no apologies.

“I know I have a lot of work to do to regain your trust and confidence” is the language of a guy who has no intention of stepping down as producer.
Mike Richards has only been the executive producer since 2020. It’s not like he’s been earning this his whole career. jeopardy.com/about/cast/mik…
Sony Pictures’ global head of TV, Ravi Ahuja, claims the executive producer of Jeopardy wasn’t part of the decision to make him the new host. But does this quote from Mike Richards sound like a man with no say?

This article tells you his age, inviting you to add 20 years to it A screenshot of a CNN busin...
30-year Jeopardy! fan, My Mom, expressed fleeting annoyance, saying, “he knew he was picking himself all along, right? It feels like we got scammed. Do you know how to play euchre?”
Mike Richards was already rich. If his goal was to become famous, well… congratulations. This show’s a wholesome American institution, and one man seems to think the show is his personal playground.

If Jeopardy! can live on without Alex, it can certainly live on without Mike.

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I am losing my mind over a @Cornell chemistry professor and former department chair with 69k followers advocating for a livestock de-worming drug as a Covid-19 treatment. The FDA released a statement saying don’t take this

A thread full of anti-science quotes of his 🧵 A screenshot of a Twitter conversation about Covid treatment
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David’s out here retweeting Steve Bannon’s conspiracy that restricting treatments is a way for Big Pharma to sell more vaccines. A Twitter screenshot of @rjblaskiewicz responding to a link
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PSA: People who are smart at one thing mistakenly believe that they’re smart at everything.

Dave’s bio says “Prof of Organic Chemistry @Cornell. Libertarian.” His feed’s full of anti-vax rhetoric but it’s clear he doesn’t understand social media or propaganda. A thread 🧵
Dave’s sharing without verifying. @EM_RESUS's post is real, but when I searched for the copycats… I only saw people talking about this screenshot. Two possible explanations:

1) Twitter’s doing good moderating and taking them down
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Either way, Dave’s implication of conspiracy is disproven. So why might bots copy this?

Sam’s post is credible, concise, timely, emotional. Importantly, “I just left the ER” suggests credibility without vettable credentials. Is the speaker a nurse? Doctor? Patient?

Easy likes.
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Sequel time! So you want to clean up your privacy online. Here's how.

Each choice is a tradeoff between privacy and convenience, and the tarnish of capitalism is everywhere. (Speaking of, still waiting on my @Sensodyne_US sponsorship.)

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First, backstory: cookies. When your device talks to any website, it downloads a tiny file, like the saved file in a video game so it can remember where you left off. Some are useful—”remember I’m logged in”—others just track you for ads.

There’s a tech arms race over cookies.
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I got doxxed last week, and it wasn’t over my privacy tweets. Someone posted my address on Twitter to harass my girlfriend @ohadelaide, who is defending herself against a libel suit for speaking up during #MeToo. Let’s talk the politics of why I’m a target now too. 🧵
In 2019, Adelaide tweeted about her sexual assault, naming her assaulter, amidst a gaming #MeToo moment. It became a new story covered in several outlets, which you can find easily.
Adelaide is American. Her assaulter is a UK citizen. The statute of limitations on libel in the UK is one year. One year to the day after Adelaide’s tweets, he filed a libel suit against her in a UK court.
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I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵
First of all, your social media apps are not listening to you. This is a conspiracy theory. It's been debunked over and over again.

But frankly they don't need to because everything else you give them unthinkingly is way cheaper and way more powerful.
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Data aggregators pay to pull in data from EVERYWHERE. When I use my discount card at the grocery store? Every purchase? That's a dataset for sale.
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