.@axios Media Trends:
⭐️ Scoop: Politico stars plot new Playbook
📩 Patch is launching a "Substack for local"
🏄 Chernin investing $30M in surf media company
https://t.co/8XapSmHTCc
@inimitablepgw Webster the cat. If you haven’t read the Mulliner stories you are really missing out. “The story of Webster” and “cats will be cats” are unsung heroes.
@inimitablepgw A lovely girl needs, of course, no jewels but her youth and health and charm, but anybody who had wanted to make Veronica understand that would have had to work like a beaver.
@inimitablepgw Veronica Wedge, to wit, Lady Hermione’s outstandingly beautiful daughter, who was lying in bed staring at the ceiling and wishing she had some decent jewellery to wear at the forthcoming County Ball.
@searchmartin Twain’s story about typesetting it in “Roughing It” is a scream: he was berated (and lost a weekend fishing trip) because he used the initials “JC” to fit a line of type and was called back to reset the entire job. So as revenge he reset it as “Jesus H. Christ.”
@CoffeewClassics In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
How does a local news ecosystem survive this ripoff?
Google pays pubs ZERO for their reporting—scrapes & aggregates it, spits out an ai-digest, & no one will visit originating site(s). Ad revenue will collapse & they go under.
Who is doing this, & how does democracy survive?
@thinkingwest Most replies here are of people who already have enormous standing (Martel,Clovis,Eisenhower,Aurelius, etc). The q was about those who are overlooked…
Marlborough?
Montgomery?
Shaka(T’chaka)?
Sherman?
Henry Lee?
Horatio Gates?
@NateSilver538 His record.
His record.
His record.
Come on, Nate; stop shilling. All administrations are a reflection of thwir choices for key staff.
Just quiet down for a while and go back to what you are (inarguably) good at.
@NateSilver538 Asinine. Never has there been a global tipping-point crisis which humans caused & was in the power of humans to avert. Plagues (writ large) were not caused by human action (or inaction). Closest is nukes & jury is still out. History is not kind to apologists, @NateSilver538.