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Adam Rogers

@jetjocko.bsky.social

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Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors. Signal: @jetjocko.15 https://adam-rogers.net

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · Nov 12

Here’s my booze book:

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And here’s my color book:

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A book cover with an Erlenmeyer flask half full of brown liquor and ice

A black book cover with an eye made of dozens of colored chips of paper.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 7h

Who is the mystery outsider? Wrong answers only.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Bari Weiss had lunch with Norah O'Donnell this week as CBS News brass re-evaluates how to revamp the "Evening News," a top priority for them. Another name in the mix: Tony Dokoupil. And then, I'm told, there's a mystery outsider.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

The Weiss House

As Bari Weiss settles into CBS News, she’s moving fast—taking anchors to lunch, phoning potential hires, and plotting a new “Evening News," with names like Norah O'Donell and Tony Dokoupil in the mix.

www.status.news

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 8h

SF's boom-bust economy means it likely has world's greatest transit ridership divergence. 15 lines exceed pre-COVID, in part thanks to speed/reliability improvements. Commuter and less-frequent lines show far worse recovery
www.sfmta.com/reports/muni...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 10h

One conception of the Devil is that his only actual power is deception—lies, illusions, obfuscation, trickery.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 10h

There should be a name for the exact moment you go from "crud, I got nothin'" to "oof, this is gonna be wwwwaaaaayyyy too long."

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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 23h

This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly nothing brings out the secret anti-semites quite like a mention of circumcision

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 14h

🧵RFK "HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS" Jr. is now linking circumcision with autism.

This nonsense was posted by his anti-vax group Children's Health Defense years ago, and I looked into it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9D...

SHOCK CLAIM: RFK Jr. Says Children Circumcised Early Have Twice The Autism Rate Due To Tylenol Use

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 17h

We should start scripting federal policymaking and public health with the understanding that the people in charge are distracted by second screens and can no longer process subtext or ambiguity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

Just to to-be-sure this, I know there’s a difference between a Washington desk and everything else. Still though, as you say—“let’s go check this out” seems like a good default generally.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

At least Fleuvog is doing the boots for Starfleet Academy, as it did for SNW. We can have good things.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Results from Brazil on fare free transit. While it did increase public transportation trips, the substitution was mostly changing walking to transit rather than car to transit.

Really cool research design as well.

Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 1d

A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta get his checkup checked out.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

No no see this is his annual “annual physical” physical.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad those exist, but that isn’t what I’m griping about here.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think me calling local TV stations would address why national news isn’t there or why national elected officials aren’t there.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Amanpour’s an overseas correspondent, not a war correspondent per se, but either way that’s not who you want to cover a domestic thing that is not a war, I would think.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

That’s great, and different than what I was griping about.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Assignment Editor 101 is, oh, we should just send someone to Portland to look around, then.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

The (shoddy, weak, obsolete) argument is "the news is not whether it's true, but that the president said it." But OK. It's also news if 10 senators go to Portland and report back.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

A national political party could just send a bunch of electeds to Portland for a weekend to look around, with cameras following them. I mean, national news outlets could also do this, but OK.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 1d

One contributing reason why e-bike discourse is cursed is that many people don't recognize them. They only see the obvious ones that are all grey market Chinese motorcycles with obnoxious tires. Your median poster might not even notice a Turbo Vado SL or a FX+ going by.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

“Are you sure you wouldn’t like to go down instead? Down’s nice.”