Nicholas Slayton

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Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose. Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli.
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Lol a Twitter ad for twitter I just saw is still hyping up SF.

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Viktor Winetrout

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Huh. New bus stop on Sunset in Echo Park. Fancier and I think has more shade.

I am fucking begging you all to wear a mask. Please.

I had forgotten this from 5 years ago.

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Nicholas Slayton

Speaking of the St. Louis Gun Couple, I give you my favorite lede of the 2020s. www.riverfronttimes.com/news/inside-...

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Ryan Boyd

@dwnews: France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces charges of embezzling EU funds during her 2022 presidential election campaign against Emmanuel Macron. She will stand trial this September. https://t.co/rzeNpYTuK0

Made a verdita margarita. Recipe via notjustabartender on IG. Homemade green juice, fresh lime, Cointreau and tequila.

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Matt Novak

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

The Varnish, the best bar in Los Angeles, closes tonight. I've been going since 2011. A lot of my life is tied to this place. I'm going to miss it.

If you're having two waves a year the pandemic isn't over. Wear a mask.

4 members of a billionaire family get prison in Switzerland for exploiting domestic workers

4 members of a billionaire family get prison in Switzerland for exploiting domestic workersapnews.com An Indian-born billionaire and three family members have been sentenced to prison for exploiting domestic workers at their lakeside villa in Switzerland.

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Big Natural Resources

The Herb Wesson quote here aged well

This framing is bad. Voters overwhelming approved Prop HHH and it funded this. That is a success. It also frames the cost as obscene, even though that is the cost of any quality building project in the 2020s in DTLA. I hate the outrage bait local news does.

Over on the neofascist hellsite, this is trending. This turned out to be because the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories about how Ghaddafi was totally killed for speaking out against Israel are trending but I'm dying at it being a business and finance topic.

Regarding that effective altruism op-ed, just want to point out that @zittrain.bsky.social gave the definitive answer back in 2016.

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Van Weasel 🔥 Summer Hater Arc 🔥

Not my image but lives rent free in my brain

“That is considered the type of event which should only occur statistically once every 500 to 1,000 years.”

Sarasota sets record for most rainfall in 1 hourwww.wfla.com It’s not very often that 8″+ of rain falls in 3 hours in the Tampa Bay area, but that happened early Tuesday evening in Sarasota. At the very least, that is considered the type of event…

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David_j_roth

It also is so overly bulky for a limited truck bed. Like, look at this nonsense.

good news everyone! McKinsey now has its own AI www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

The state of AI in early 2024: Gen AI adoption spikes and starts to generate valuewww.mckinsey.com As generative AI adoption accelerates, survey respondents report measurable benefits and increased mitigation of the risk of inaccuracy. A small group of high performers lead the way.

They were asking what is a movie that has you on your soapbox screaming about how great it is

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Nicholas Slayton

You'll discover why this guy rules.

picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

my brain when someone asks me how im doing

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