jody

Recovering philosophy student.

[jody @jbgene]

Cardinal rule of politics: tell the people what you are for: preferably something that will fundamentally affect their lives before your re-election.

Demonizing opponents, no matter how fun or funny is not gonna get butts in voting booths.

[Senate Majority PAC @MajorityPAC]

The Devil went down to Georgia.

[jody @jbgene]

I miss OpenIPO

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Top 15 clients of the investment bank get most of the shares. And have a strong voice in dictating price. It could EASILY be a blind auction (direct listing) but alas it’s a captured insider’s game. The “customer” is the buy-side. Plain and simple.

[jody @jbgene]

John Doerr also backed Amyris: the synthetic biology company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2023 with over $1.3B in debt: screwing shareholders.

The adage stands “nobody knows anything.” Don’t buy what he’s selling on his name. https://t.co/6vsmAapkre

[jody @jbgene]

Finally! Reflection on how we lost an incumbent advantage vs endless demonization of a weak opponent.

Ignored are the billions for EV charge networks that went nowhere: short-circuiting US momentum away from oil dependence, while rewarding gov doubters. https://t.co/LMYpuRHDxo

[jody @jbgene]

Indeed: “knowing how to ask the right questions beats knowing how to code”

Always been true but now more than ever.

https://t.co/y306FFMYlv

[jody @jbgene]

Back after a 4 year hiatus. Although I still believe in COVID vaccines and vaccines in general, I was wrong about Twitter, now X, being ruined. @elonmusk has kept X a valid source of perspectives: as demonstrated by all the news that still breaks here.

[jody @jbgene]

If ⁦@elonmusk⁩ truly cared about free speech he would protect its most accountable form: scientific fact.

Instead, he floods @twitter with bogus blue checks then polls that mess to justify unleashing the worst pseudoscientists.

Deleting this app. https://t.co/IBvKZ7eaJ5

[jody @jbgene]

If ⁦@elonmusk⁩ truly cared about free speech he would protect its most accountable form: scientific fact.

Instead, he floods @twitter with bogus blue checks then polls that mess to justify unleashing the worst pseudoscientists.

Deleting this app. https://t.co/IBvKZ7eaJ5

[jody @jbgene]

Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s courtship of a Washington regulator - The Washington Post https://t.co/z7fAoGV25R

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Lot going on in this interview with former Waze CEO Noam Bardin talking about his new company, Post News, a social network with the goal of paying news publishers. @profgalloway says he's an investor. @karaswisher says she's an advisor. https://t.co/QrcppAW2Hv But also... 1/2

[Robert Draper @DraperRobert]

Fuentes just a performer? That was also said of white supremacist Matt Hale, who after I wrote about him for GQ in 2000 told his racist followers to visit me at my home in Austin, which led to GQ hiring security. Hale is now doing 40 years for soliciting the murder of a judge.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is a moment where people will demonstrate whether we are, in fact, better than this. Or I should say, whether the leadership of the GOP is better than this. 6 million Jews died. Trump is a shonda & Jewish supporters as well as GOP leaders should withdraw their support.

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

He’s long been a racist and an antisemite. You should be embarrassed to call him your friend.

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ https://t.co/TagSTpsNkT

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

How can Herschel Walker represent Georgians when he doesn't even claim our great state as his primary residence? https://t.co/UR6ezwUYm4

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

I was born and raised in this state, and I take Georgia's values with me to the U.S. Senate every week. I look forward to 6 more years.

[jody @jbgene]

@SJosephBurns Populism

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

🇧🇷 #Brazil's electoral authority has rejected the request from President Jair #Bolsonaro and his political party to annul ballots cast on most electronic voting machines.

If it had been accepted, it would have overturned the Oct. 30 election

[Inc. @Inc]

35 minutes of daily exercise can make a big difference. @ericcmack https://t.co/OVcFwXjGNV

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

I’m glad Musk got my message and is delaying the relaunch of Twitter Blue until safeguards against impersonation are in place. But users need to know what went wrong and how they’ll fix it. @elonmusk, we’ve seen your tweets—I’ll be waiting for your response to my letter Friday.

[Jemima Kelly @jemimajoanna]

Well I must say this bodes well for your secure crypto exchange @coinbase 🙃

(Sent to my personal Gmail account…. I have no Coinbase account and no, my real name is not Michelle)