I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...

A thread 🧵

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

Do these little things, and make life better for all of us! 😋

#bicycle #vegan #other #recycling

I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.

"Why do rich people sponsor fascism if it ruins everything tho?"

For the exact same reason they sponsor fossil fuel consumption on a boiling planet; it's profitable for them in the short term and these are deeply fucked up people who quite frankly aren't all that bright, but definitely lack "empathy."

You unfortunately live in a society that A) rewards that behavior and B) has been rigged entirely to cater to these objectively fucking homicidal morons.

I, a Republican, must purge any vestige of sustainability, equality, and democracy from society—all to protect children from "woke," a word I cannot define.

Now, to pose with my family for a nice Christmas picture, with all of us holding the actual #1 killer of actual children.

I have been writing about Fox and what makes it different for 20 years. http://archive.pressthink.org/2003/10/21/oreilly_voice.html

Two days ago, Josh Marshall wrote about Fox the best short form description and analysis I have ever read.

Marshall has a history PhD. As he says, "it’s worth stepping way, way back, not just to the beginning of Fox News in 1996 but to the beginning of the broader countermovement it
was a part of..."

No essay I know of puts it all together like his.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-deep-archeology-of-fox-news/sharetoken/WKLM5YQ0yue5

#uspol #journalism