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אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Aug 31, 2023

Jay Rosen Aug 28, 2023

CNN headline today:

"McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain."

What the GROUNDS for impeachment might be is addressed in paragraph nine. CNN thus buries the lede of a more striking story: a vibes-based approach, where you establish first the feeling, "we wanna impeach," relegating the small matter of "impeachment for what?" to later stages.

That's news! Instead CNN frames for us another strategy story.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/politics/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-strategy/index.html

#journalism #uspol #science

אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Aug 11, 2023

Lucas Pope Aug 8, 2023

"Papers, Please" is 10 years old today! Hell of a time slip.

Thank you to everyone that's supported me and my games over the last decade.

To celebrate:
* $1.99 sale until the weekend, all platforms
* Fresh goods + soundtrack
* $100K donation to rescue.org
* New de-make: "LCD, Please"

https://papersplea.se/#year10

Papers, Please

אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 25, 2023

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Jay Rosen Jul 22, 2023

An even more incredible turn in the Texas A&M story, after the president of the University resigned July 20.

The current chair of the journalism department, who recruited Dr. McElroy, released a statement accusing the former president of rank duplicity.

More serious: he says someone altered the draft offer letter to reduce the McElroy appointment from five years to one, without telling him.

It's his signature on the letter.

Read his statement:

#journalism #uspol #texas #science

אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 25, 2023

Taylor Lorenz Jul 25, 2023

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. #twitter #tech #elonmusk #x #twittermigration #twitterlogo #elon #musk

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אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 25, 2023

@IonicDriver @osinttechnical about 8 seconds from firing to impact, TOW goes around 300m/s, so about 2.4km

אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 6, 2023

cain Jul 5, 2023

i know that the love language model is bs because it doesn't have one for whether or not they actually check out the links you send them. that's like, the most important thing

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אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 2, 2023

@scott @mikemccaffrey my experience with Tern is only with their conventional bikes, but I can attest that they are a long-lived company with good build quality.

אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 2, 2023

To the alternative names proposed in the article, I would add The Horseshoe Party

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sahra-wagenknecht-linkspartei-afd-linkskonservativ-neugruendung-1.5983707

Wagenknecht und ihre Pläne für eine neue Partei: Die Sahra-Lücke

Warum sich vor allem die AfD vor einer linkskonservativen Wagenknecht-Partei fürchten müsste.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

אסא צרניק Asa Zernik Jul 2, 2023

Sheldon Jul 1, 2023

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS