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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 23m

Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 1h

Good take, re shitposting.

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2h

The sole reason Trump and the fascists want him to win the prize is precisely to devalue it and destroy its reputation.

It’s not because they think he’s a peacemaker. It’s just shitposting.

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 10h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 1h

*stops reading at first mention of Giles Coren alongside the term "favourite columnist"*

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 2d

"To make matters worse, you have never reported, and they all know it," writes @lopatto.bsky.social in this advisory note to Bari Weiss www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 3d

also my first thought

Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 3d

art

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 3d

cabinet must have been galling for you then

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 4d

great minds bsky.app/profile/shon...

Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 4d

+1. Many, even most, opinion journalists aren't good journalists in the traditional sense of the term. Weiss rose bc her politics appealed to wealthy funders, not because she skillfully navigated the day to day of a busy newsroom. See Twitter Files debacle.

Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 4d

+1. Many, even most, opinion journalists aren't good journalists in the traditional sense of the term. Weiss rose bc her politics appealed to wealthy funders, not because she skillfully navigated the day to day of a busy newsroom. See Twitter Files debacle.

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 5d

I helped run BI’s London newsroom, a substantially smaller job. I felt, at all times, like I was riding a miniature unicycle with clown shoes while juggling flaming objects. Often that was fun; sometimes I set my own hair on fire.

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 5d

This touches on something I don’t understand about Bari Weiss/CBS - how is a glorified hot takes merchant going to actually *manage* a newsroom? This stuff is hard! Maybe the answer is - make it not a newsroom. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 8d

You will not convince me The Fold is chic. A fashion brand beloved by Kemi Badenoch and corporate lawyers? ☠️

Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 9d

that's quite cute, but why did you wear a Bugs Bunny tie?

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 9d

I find this a little hard to square with the absolute bloodbath that is the UK journalism jobs market rn. www.ft.com/content/c9f9...

AI is not killing jobs, finds new US study

Research shows little evidence the cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work

www.ft.com

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 9d

Personality socks are a tell.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

Just saw this comment with regard to Pete Hegseth's love for fun socks.

I will tell you why fun socks are bad in a tailored outfit. 🧵

In a thread about Pete Hegseth's fun socks, I write: "If you're wearing tailored clothing (suits, sport coats, tailored trousers), the safe, conservative option is to wear over-the-calf socks in a color that matches your pants. So grey socks with grey pants, tan socks with tan pants. Additionally, solid navy will always work with anything except black suits or tuxedos, which call for black socks."

Then someone on Twitter replies: "I really hope you respond to this:

I cannot see any problem with men displaying individual taste and style through their socks in the same manner as they would through their tie and/or a pocket square.

Please explain why this is wrong."

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 10d

I have entertained mad thoughts about carrying some sort of weapon so I can bash cars that don't stop on the zebra crossing on my walk home.

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 10d

This is good, and frankly less embarrassing results for me than our news quiz. Yes I know I work here.

Aimee lucido @aimeelucido.bsky.social · 10d

@bloomberg.com has a daily game! Alphadots is a word puzzle with a plot twist. Created by Jeff Chen, the puzzle is crossword-adjacent, but it's its own a totally novel concept. You can check it out here:
www.bloomberg.com/games/alphad...

Alphadots: The Word Puzzle With a Plot Twist by Bloomberg

One clue, one chart, one hidden phrase. Solve a new puzzle every day.

www.bloomberg.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10d

Analysis: wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in US areas located near significant data center activity (Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11d

London-based Evantic Capital, founded by ex-Sequoia VC Matt Miller, raised a $400M fund, with ~12.5% coming from 135 "legends", including CEOs, a novel strategy (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

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Shona Ghosh @shona.bsky.social · 11d

Why is the FT incapable of hiring op-ed writers who are both well-versed in internet culture and also not totally brainrotted, naming no names on the latter.
www.ft.com/content/2132...

The ‘tradwife’ fantasy

Economic stress is one reason traditional gender roles have a political and emotional allure

www.ft.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13d

German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing (Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14d

Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android (Bloomberg)

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