Max Fisher

Host of The Bigger Picture, a show exploring big questions about our world. Author of The Chaos Machine, an NPR and New Yorker best book of 2022.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

Thrilled by this: NYT call my new book, The Chaos Machine, an "authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media."

"Utterly convincing and should obliterate any doubts about the significance of algorithmic intervention in human affairs" https://t.co/mXHNlwwMyh

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

@TheStalwart I once asked this of a big think tanker who specialized in Chinese internal politics, wrote books about it, a Chinese national himself, and he said the truth was he got almost all of his information from @ChuBailiang articles

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

@yarbatman Treating Hormuz like Suez or the Panama Canal would be a change from the pre-war status quo though, no?

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

Same short clip, 3 platforms. Guess which platform is dominated by men!

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

Countries also aren’t allowed to start wars for no reason but you guys decided you wanted a “might makes right” world

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Strait of Hormuz: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway."

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

Justice Democrats says they dropped Zohran-backed Brad Lander from their endorsement materials because "We are not AIPAC"

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

This is such a haunting devastating novel and there's not a person alive I'd trust less to adapt it. There are a half dozen story-ruining departures from the novel just in the trailer!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for Taika Waititi's ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’, starring Jenna Ortega & Amy Adams.

The film follows a robot who bought by a family to help them heal physically & mentally in a dystopian future.

In theaters on October 23.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

This is a complete fabrication. The text of the MOU goes out of its way to explicitly say Iran can direct the frozen funds wherever they want.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

JUST IN: Vice President Vance pushes back on “misreporting” about Iranian assets potentially being unfrozen and says that if any of the regime’s money is freed up, it will go to help the American economy and make U.S. farmers richer:

“We wanted to make sure that we set up a process where if- if we ever unfreeze Iranian assets, we can ensure that those- that that money, that Iranian money goes to help the people of Iran and not to fund terrorism.”

“If there is any frozen Iranian assets that are unfrozen, then we have approval over that process… and then the money would actually go to buy American soy, American corn, and American wheat.”

“If Iranian assets are ever unfrozen, they're going to go to make American farmers richer and feed the Iranian people. That's a very, very good and very classic Trump deal.”

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

A lot in here that resonated for me personally. I’m so grateful for my seven years at the Times. I still love it, love my pals there, read it every day. But working there can be a little like that joke about the best two days of owning a boat.

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

https://t.co/V3Mb2drB1n

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

It’s very funny that ten years ago beltway chickenhawks adopted an unachievable phony demand to justify opposing the JCPOA, Trump didn’t realize it was fake and fought a war to get it, discovered it was unachievable, and is now giving the chickenhawks the worst day of their lives

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

The cathedral on the grounds of the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built around 1050 and one of the holiest sites in Eastern Europe, is on fire tonight as Russia launches another mass missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital. Mayor Klitschko confirmed the blaze.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

"After Aberdeen School District implemented a phone ban, officials noticed a sizable increase in the number of students taking school-provided lunches. ... 'They they no longer feared having their photos taken.'"

Ban the phones. Ban them now.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

What a nightmare:

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

What a pathetic coward and baby Nick Bilton is. Barely in the job a week and already a disgrace to a profession that’s supposed to champion exactly what Pelley did: put hard questions to power.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

going to be fascinating to watch everyone find ways to pretend hasan piker and ezra klein aren't taking the exact same position

[Popstonox @Popstonox]

Hasan Piker responds to heckler asking if he called for Charlie Kirk's death

"I was supposed to debate Charlie. He respected that.

It's sad to see the the conservative movement refuse to carry the flame.

I on the other hand, do carry that flame. Because we are Charlie Kirk."

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Mamdani's housing plan is live!

There's sweeping YIMBY stuff:
-Aggressive TOD upzoning
-Major permitting reform
-Rescuing & rebuilding NYCHA
-Building Code reform

They're also looking at finer details, like fixing the FDNY inspections that so often delay final occupancy

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

Every time I see INHERENT VICE I find it increasingly hard to believe that it exists. The film not only gets better with each viewing, it somehow becomes more mysterious.

[N. @Nlacombe_]

you’re 22. you scroll 3 hours a day. it feels harmless

at 28 you can’t read an article without checking your phone twice per paragraph

at 32 you don’t understand why nothing you start ever finishes, you’re still dreaming of this project you wanted to start. still no time

at 40 you’ve never finished a book in a decade.

it all passed

[sam @sam_d_1995]

can someone explain to me how when Virginia voters passed a constitutional amendment, the courts said no

meanwhile Florida republican legislators completely ignored a voter-passed constitutional amendment prohibiting gerrymandering and that’s totally fine?

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

When I say the country is institutionally rigged for Republicans I’m talking about how Virginia gets their maps struck down after a two year process involving multiple legislative sessions and a statewide referendum but Tennessee can just decide not to enfranchise Memphis anymore