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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
hahahahaha Eric Boehlert
Incidentally this is related to why the most brain-poisoned #resist people are dreadfully boring writers. If you say anything remotely clever, you're normalizing fascism by not titling your book "The Orange Drumpf Rethuglican Menace"
THE ONLY HUMORISTS ALLOWED ARE STEPHEN COLBERT, ANDY BOROWITZ AND RANDY RAINBOW
I did say this. Sorry. None of us can have a perfect track record.

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Feb 11
I'll say this politely: People who spend enough time on the "disinformation beat" start believing everything is downstream of the internet, when often the internet is actually downstream of other things, or the internet is just incidentally where people, with opinions, talked.
Any mass gathering of people that occurs these days will involve communications on the internet. Acting like this is thus a manifestation of some hidden-hand internet thing is overcomplicated -- people are mad, so they're breaking the law, and the government is responding weakly.
Honestly though the main lesson for news organizations is they should rotate beats more, like newspapers historically have done. Maybe you can send your disinformation guy after a couple years to be a regional correspondent, or cover the auto industry, whatever. Cross-training.
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Feb 10
I'm not sure there's a mass market app with a worse user interface than OpenTable. The latest issue: they added an Alert setting, like Resy. Tap Alert, it says you need to go to Settings and turn on notifications. But tap the button -- there's no notification setting to adjust.
There are all sorts of settings that don't do what you'd expect. Why are these the first 30 restaurants you'd offer me, randomly splotched from Soho to Lincoln Square? Image
It's really just a dogshit user experience. I don't know what it looks like from the restaurant's side, but it makes sense to me Resy has taken so much market share. But as a consumer, if you want to book restaurants you kind of have to use both.
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Feb 9
I haven’t seen a great account of what’s happening to all this food. Are we just eating all of it? (Some of it could be purchases of higher quality foods, rather than just higher quantities.)
And that doesn’t just have to mean, like, raspberries instead of apples. If the basket of foods bought at supermarkets switched toward prepared foods, it could be the same raw materials from the supply chain, with value added by supermarkets’ or their wholesalers’ employees
Some of you are suggesting it’s an offset for restaurant dining but as @RyanRadia notes, there’s no drop off in restaurant spending to offset anymore. (This chart is inflation adjusted.)
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Feb 8
Amused by @matt_levine on what you do when you're an activist investor and the CEO you want fired (outgoing Peloton CEO John Foley) is the only person with the power to fire himself: You tell him directly that he sucks, and maybe that will work! bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
@matt_levine This rivals the Starboard Value slides about Olive Garden not salting its pasta water for activist investor slide deck greatest hits Image
By the way... if any of you have questions about Peloton... there is a fairly high chance I will answer them in tomorrow's Mayonnaise Clinic. Email your questions to mayo at joshbarro dot com
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Jan 31
Since the government and mainstream media achieved a tremendous degree of message discipline around the vaccine and uptake was still unsatisfactory, why do people think more private restrictions on who says what to whom would be a useful strategy?
The problem is that a lot of people don’t trust the official messages, and you won’t fix that by trying to restrict other messages.
There is also the practical matter that if you threw Rogan out of the Spotify walled garden back into a normal podcast available on many platforms his audience would grow, not shrink.
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Jan 30
Actually, ensuring that 20-30 million Americans didn’t lose health insurance coverage is more important than anything to do with the January 6 riot
Some of your priorities have become absolutely insane
Nothing about the government can be “bigger than policy.” Policy the government’s output. If your process concern matters it has to be because of the policy it will produce. So lay out those concrete harms instead of shrieking about “democracy.”
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