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17 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
It's been a shit week so The Why Axis' paid subscribers get a special treat today: cat data! thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-special-…
Inspired by Jorts, the lovable orange doofus who caused an HR crisis, I've got some cat personality data showing that people rate orange cats as friendlier and more outgoing than cats of any other color! thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-special-… Image
There's a more detailed orange cat personality chart in there but I'm not giving that one away -- suffice it to say it fits Jorts to a tee, with one big exception. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-special-…
I'm convinced the data reflect something real about orange cat biology. Look at how many famous orange cats there are! ImageImageImageImage
Could a cat of any other color have survived the Nostromo Incident? No. Would Ripley have turned back in a self-destructing ship to rescue a mere tortie or calico? Also no.
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8 Dec
As the guy who originally made this chart I periodically get asked to update these numbers, which only go through 2014. So it brings me no pleasure to report the following: Cops are still taking more stuff from people than burglars do thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-t…
One thing that needs clarifying: the figures in this chart are *federal* only. State cops take a lot of stuff too, although probably not as much as federal. We don't really know, because states are all over the place in how they report this stuff. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-t…
This is all in response to the story of the $100,000 cash seizure in Dallas, which local press framed as a feel-good story about a dog, but which involved cops taking money from a woman currently not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.
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17 Nov
The more I think about this the more egregious it gets. The paper of record letting its flagship podcast be sponsored with a message of blatant climate misinformation during a major climate summit. I would love to know what @mikiebarb makes of this
My guess is he has no idea who's running ads on any given day, because that's how it usually works with this stuff. The industry tells itself that this strict wall of separation is sufficient, but to a reader it's all part of the same package.
My general assumption is that a place like the Times or the Post has stricter ad standards than like, Infowars or whatever. And that they won't try to sell me brain pills or scams or flat-out lies.
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2 Nov
Why does the White House continue to allow a deranged conspiracy theorist into the press briefing room? It lends the legitimacy of the White House to this nonsense.
Also where is the White House Correspondents' Association on this? Just a complete failure to live up to industry-wide rhetoric about "facts" and "truth"
WHCA: We exist to promote excellence in journalism. Now, let's hear from member in good standing Emerald Robinson about how Satan put a bioluminescent tracking device in the Covid vaccine.
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1 Nov
Peters could have avoided this simply by giving the dude an accurate label, like "never-Trump Republican." Instead he tried to pass the guy off as a centrist liberal, which is inaccurate and misleading. People are rightly calling bullshit on that.
This sort of thing happens over and over again in @jwpetersNYT's stories and if I were his editor I'd probably be asking why that is
Peters is also the article of the NYT's 2019 Tea Party retrospective that failed to mention President Obama's race as a motivating factor for a large part of the movement. yahoo.com/now/wesley-low…
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29 Oct
Conservative media is trying to spin the most lethal Delta outbreak in the country as a GOP victory. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/floridas-del…
None of this is particularly complicated. I grabbed the numbers from the NYT: since August 1 (roughly the start of the Delta death wave), Florida's Covid mortality is easily the worst in the nation -- more than double the national average. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/floridas-del…
A Lancet study estimates that if vaccinations in Florida kept pace with leading states like Vermont and Massachusetts, DeSantis could have avoided 600,000 cases, 60,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths through August 31. thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
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27 Oct
New on The Why Axis: It's Halloween, which means that Serious Reporters are writing up literal ghost stories as if they were factual. And we wonder why so many are no longer able to tell fact from fiction. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-press-is…
I honestly had no sense of the scope of the problem until I started looking at all the ghost coverage this week. It's insane! "Why do people believe things that aren't true," an entire industry asks as it advises people on which healing crystals to buy
I think of stories as happening along a continuum that runs from "endeavor to find out what the truth is, no matter what people say" to "just repeat what people are saying, no matter how crazy." And right now way too much coverage is weighted heavily toward the latter.
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