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I solve problems.

[Joseph Cranney @joey_cranney]

U.S. local newspapers are dying at a rate of 2 per week. By 2025, a third of them will be gone. If you’re not convinced that’s a doomsday-level threat to democracy, read this state-by-state list of what local reporters uncovered in 2022. It’s a sample of what we stand to lose.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Haven't written this yet, but Maggie Hassan, who was previously an impediment to the tech antitrust bills, not only flipped to support but a couple weeks back urged Schumer to give it a vote.
The no's on the D side are very limited. This is on Schumer.
https://t.co/o9aoqWh79h

[Engadget @engadget]

Yelp is making it easier to manage quotes for home projects https://t.co/MTolBHSjXJ

[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

[[email protected] @mesozoic]

@ptsi “Bluetoot” seems perfect except for the inevitable lawsuit

[Heather Knight @hknightsf]

$44 billion could….

Build 44,000 homes in San Francisco.

Pay 675,000 teachers for a year.

Help the SF Food Bank provide 88 billion meals.

Build 26,000 wildly overpriced $1.7 million public toilets.

Fund San Francisco government for 3 1/3 years.

Or….ruin Twitter?

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

the latest Money Stuff is a worthwhile read, if for nothing else the entertainment value of watching @matt_levine struggling to keep it together while going through the leaked FTX balance spreadsheet

https://t.co/lmUkfDHbMq

[[email protected] @mesozoic]

@beckerben Also: no power sharing agreement needed, committees move faster, legislation and appointments go more smoothly.

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

The early crypto skeptics deserve more credit.

Not only did they call all of this, they did so in the face of constant shaming and harrassment. (Not to mention everyone pointing to the increasing value of their crypto wallets as evidence that they were wrong.)

[[email protected] @mesozoic]

@AdamBlickstein Two words: Electoral College.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

NEW: data confirms 18-29-year-olds voted for Democrats more than *any other* age group yesterday. Young people literally prevented a Red Wave & saved Democrats. Full stop.

If you know a young voter, please thank them.

[[email protected] @mesozoic]

@glyph I haven’t figured out how to tune my feed on Mastodon to find new things that interest me. I’m subscribed to a few hashtags but I keep seeing replies to replies in the middle of a conversation with no context. (Point in case, we’re discussing this here and not there.)

[Steve Krenzel @stevekrenzel]

With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.

🧵

[Gordon Mar 馬兆明 @D4GordonMar]

We’ve been alerted of a man going door to door, pretending to be with our campaign, and asking people to hand over their ballots to mail them.

This is deeply disturbing. Whoever is doing this is not with our campaign, and is likely trying to illegally suppress your vote.

[Lisa Bloom @LisaBloom]

Hey Twitter employees getting laid off tomorrow! IMPORTANT INFO from a CA employment attorney (me):

CA's "WARN" law requires Twitter to give you 60 days notice of a massive layoff.

A layoff of 50+ employees within a 30 day period qualifies.

I know you didn't get that notice.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Most people STILL have absolutely no idea what's already here, and what's coming very soon, with climate breakdown. A small number of people have been trying so hard to let everyone know and we are mainly ignored and ridiculed.

[Joe Patrice @JosephPatrice]

Liz Truss implemented the GOP's whole economic plan and collapsed her economy within a month. I feel like this should be a bigger deal in the Midterms...

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

Fun fact: If Prop I in SF passes, we’ll either see raw sewage going into the ocean or will need to build a massive 30-foot wall separating the city from a stretch of Ocean Beach.

Prop I upends decades of coastal climate adaptation work. It’s a disaster & needs to be rejected.