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Darius Tahir

@dariustahir.bsky.social

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health tech journo at KFF Health News. do people really read the bios, if they're not of Civil War generals?

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5m

Non-Euclidean parallels, maybe.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 4h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, this speech sounds like Jim Vandehei

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Economist/YouGov poll shows only 11% of respondents think tylenol is a cause of autism. 54% say no: d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 1d

Who’s polling t+1?

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 3d

The Dude’s ideal day.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 4d

“Rodri is a recognized CB by the IBC but not by the WBC…”

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 4d

The verb choice here is exquisite, calling to mind something like the boxing championship orgs but for CB recognition

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5d

4’33”

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5d

honestly looks like the Post got pretty close to the '20 result: www.washingtonpost.com/context/oct-...

(Poll: Biden +11... actual Biden +10)

Oct. 13-19, 2020, Washington Post-Schar School poll of Virginia voters

www.washingtonpost.com

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5d

definitely plausible. or could be race depolarization. lot more trump stuff around Eden Center around the '24 election

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5d

q is specifically about his job as president, present-tense

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting tidbit from the new Washington Post poll on the VA governor's race: at least in this poll's records, Trump's approval ratings in the state are the best they've ever been.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 5d

For Niko’s sake, DC sounds like a terrible idea.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 6d

But what is that pace? Does it have something to do with Blueskyism?

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 9d

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

Oh wow, this sounds incredible.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

Haven’t listened to the interview, but in broader context, we’ve seen Thompson and Yglesias play along with similar views (ie that more people should be strategist/communicators, perhaps even almost all people on Twitter), so perhaps unfairly, I think people are reading it in that light.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

Some of that (at least in the US) is they were aligned to popular critiques of college, whereas now those critiques are more focused on gender ideology or people not studying STEM.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

On a slightly different tack, I guess my model is that there *used* to be significant snob representation in the critic class, so that someone like a Gene Siskel would go to bat for My Dinner With Andre or something. But now the type of guy who would advocate you read War and Peace is not present.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

Like that’s why the phones thing is funny. Sure he hates phones but he cooked his mind on weed. Not so far in the past, is it?

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

Ah that’s right, thought that was at Autzen for some reason. But that obviously was in ‘12.

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

There was a field storming after the notre dame game?

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

It’s disorienting (purposefully, I presume) that a ton of the signifiers in the long setup are still straight out of the 60s but it’s set in the present day.

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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 10d

2013?