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A Post About The Washington Post
Tl;dr – another installment of the media focusing on everyone’s business but their own I cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post last week, along with lots of other people it seems. But I didn’t cancel because of owner Jeff Bezos’ last-minute decision that the Post would not endorse a Presidential candidate. The (lack of)…
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Platformonomics TGIF #56: June 28, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. The EU continues to embarrass itself at every opportunity. News Not Available in Europe: Apple Edition I really expected “tech companies withholding the latest and greatest from Europe” becoming a trend (n…
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Living in a Glass House: What is the New York Times?
As an everyday exercise in self-discipline, I try to resist commenting on the New York Times’ banal and tin-eared OnTech newsletter, despite its impressive daily attempts to maintain a monotonic function of being “the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard”. I previously suggested some ideas to perhaps make the newsletter more lively and self-aware, and hoped…