Mike Schramm

Writer, musician, artist in LA. Director of Research at (formerly NPD, EEDAR, Joystiq, TUAW). Now posting at

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

That's it for me on Twitter, then. I'll leave this up because it's mine. But I can't be a part of something that will give voice to hatred like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr. @BlessingJr]

Twitter's imminent shutdown is bumming me out, mainly because this is the platform I've built most of my audience on. Legit years and years of work, that inevitably got me hired, and has gotten me some of my biggest opportunities in life. All gone. Because of one rich white man.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

I am on Mastodon at @[email protected].

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

@MckKirk @tha_rami @schillingc Agreed that she was over the line by not even warning him here. But legally she's in the clear (and obviously he's a knucklehead). Rami's advice stands: don't ever say anything to a reporter that you don't want to see on the front page.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

Sweet. Turns out you can't just buy your way to the mayor of LA. Yet, at least.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Breaking: Rep. Karen Bass has defeated businessman Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, according to an Associated Press projection Wednesday, making her the first woman and second Black Angeleno elected to lead the city in its 241-year history.

https://t.co/ucNWKD84fY

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

Good riddance

[Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale]

Just now in a press conference, Villanueva concedes to Luna.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

I come from the water
That weren't no easy thing
It's more than nature
It's like my destiny

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

More of this please. The way to kill misinformation is to identify the people spreading nonsense. Everyone in this thread (including Joe Rogan, ahem) didn't know what they were talking about, but it didn't stop them from talking. Maybe next time they will?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

1. It's astonishing how wrong so many of the predictions of a 'red wave/tsunami' were. I for one am fed up with pundits and commentators getting things so, so wrong & then just... moving on.

So here's a thread/reminder of some of the worst midterm predictions. Read/share/enjoy:

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

Went to vote. Happy to support reproductive rights in California (duh), putting people who care about the community in charge (rather than billionaires), and leaders and laws that support people rather than corporations or money. Fingers crossed I wasn't alone out there.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

If you're in LA and voting tomorrow (like me), please read through this before you go out there. You can still make your own decisions! But learn about your decisions first. https://t.co/Mdp2DpVeha

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

Amazing how much corporate injustice is justified with, "Well, other people are doing X, so why shouldn't we?" And very often, it's just a misplaced assumption -- the other people aren't even doing X!

[Steve Krenzel @stevekrenzel]

I wound up meeting with a Director who came in huffing and puffing.

The Director said “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

I wrote an article. Hopefully the first of many in a series. God knows when I'll finish it. https://t.co/eute6McL8u

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

@hodapp I have thought about when I might leave Twitter, and from what I've seen the past few days, I think I will probably leave when every post in the timeline is about Twitter.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

A billionaire making even more money by ruining people's lives? Can't say I'm very surprised I guess.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

Someone in my neighborhood in LA has been painting colored hearts on sidewalks for the last few months. When I think about Twitter as a "town square," (which it's not, of course -- it's the back ad pages of an alt weekly) I think that's probably what I want my contribution to be.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

@pennyman Former Padres -- he's a Cardinal for life. But yes, would do a flip nearly every time he ran onto the field.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

Ozzie Smith.

[Mike Schramm @mikeschramm]

I like Jack Antonoff in general, actually, but yeah. He's got a few different colors and he uses them.

[caleb gamman @calebgamman]

im able to instantly detect if jack antonoff worked on a song due to a visceral hatred of his production style