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I was in the process of booking a flight via @OneTravel. Trying to make me book ASAP, they claimed: "38 people are looking at this flight".
Whoa, 38 is a lot, I have to hurry up. But first I have to check how they came up with 38 >> pic.twitter.com/UaGhaiCQrR— Ophir Harpaz (@OphirHarpaz) October 16, 2019
This is a real chyron, I promise I did not photoshop it, I feel like that's an important thing to point out in this situation pic.twitter.com/hj6Tm77gZu— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) October 18, 2019
More of a retcon than a retrofit, but still...
Mark Zuckerberg just publicly retrofit the reason for founding Facebook from a tool that could rate the attractiveness of female college students to an attempt to right the wrongs of the leadup to the Iraq War. You can't make this up— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) October 17, 2019
The fake origin story of Facebook written for Mark Zuckerberg by the team of GOP political operatives who runs their DC office versus contemporaneous coverage of Facebook’s origins. pic.twitter.com/dUo7Yw4PrT— Matthew EEEEK!-lesias (@mattyglesias) October 17, 2019
This excerpt from an occurrence in Peter Thiel's Stanford class on startups is a classic example of how "culture fit" is just tech company code for discrimination.
Any rejection based on "culture fit" when candidate is competent is usually sexism/racism/classism. https://t.co/0Sr84HbEnf— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) October 19, 2019
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free https://t.co/T88U3WbA9i— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) October 19, 2019
Disney remains one of the best arguments against media consolidation.
ESPN is of course, owned by Disney, which has huge commercial interests in China. A senior ESPN executive specifically instructed ESPN staff to play down the NBA/China controversy when it first broke. https://t.co/yIDG7S8npn— Matt Schrader (@tombschrader) October 19, 2019
There is no defensible journalistic rationale for how differently these stories were played. pic.twitter.com/hodQ0H4AwU— Dan Lavoie (@djlavoie) October 19, 2019
Buried in this piece about the streaming rights for South Park likely selling for $500 million (!) -- Apple isn't bidding because they don't want to upset China. https://t.co/7OSVNrndYT— Adam Conover (@adamconover) October 19, 2019
I'm skeptical about the Apple/South Park/China thing. As Daring Fireball says (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/21/bloomberg-south-park), Apple does offer South Park on iTunes and isn't bidding on other existing shows.
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