The Onion hires Nostradamus and other Tuesday Tweets

CHECK THE DATE: Man Just Buying One Of Every Cleaning Product In Case Trump Announces It’s Coronavirus Cure https://t.co/np3Zb4gkau

— Russ Mitchell (@russ1mitchell) April 24, 2020

Explaining Elon.

Tesla has laid off and refused to pay hundreds of Silicon Valley janitors and bus drivers, while Google, Apple, and FB have kept their contractors on payroll

I spoke with some of these workers have no means to pay for rent, food, or medication this monthhttps://t.co/pyPKIkNn68

— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) April 24, 2020

 

Renowned physician, fresh off common cold diagnosis & chloroquine prescription, launches bold herd immunity beta test, substituting low-income factory workers for lab rats. $TSLA https://t.co/j34aTfRLhy

— Montanner Skeptic (@montana_skeptic) April 27, 2020

   

Important story by @alanohnsman: Elon Musk May Bank The Biggest Payday Of His Life During Global Pandemic via @forbes https://t.co/9XrPSMBLn5

— Russ Mitchell (@russ1mitchell) April 27, 2020

Meanwhile...

It might have been one of the easier decisions I’ve had to make in my career, but it was no small feat. It is incredible to see what we can accomplish in a short period of time when we focus our collective energy. https://t.co/KmwZg0KsBF

— Mary Barra (@mtbarra) April 27, 2020

Does this mean he's started telling people to drink Mercury?

Lol:

“It’s an approach in perpetual flux, thanks largely to a mercurial president...”

Oh, is that what we’re calling it? “Flux”. “Mercurial” https://t.co/6qR4EmDQfM

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 27, 2020

I was struck by their description of the majority of citizens who are not Trump die hards as "the masses."

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 28, 2020

 

And, no. It's not your imagination. The New York Times used to be a better paper.

Also v interesting to read this piece in parallel w famed J Anthony Lukas NYT Mag piece about Ron Ziegler, Nixon flack. https://t.co/TMKHhHS5rA

Now KM is “fighter” w “grudging respect” in the DC game

Lukas piece pointed out bluntly that Ziegler kept lying. Less normalizing

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 28, 2020

how many times does this have to happen before times management starts wondering if maybe, in fact, it is not their critics who are the problem https://t.co/U8P9yxx8RR

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 24, 2020

("Who funds the Federalist?")

The author of an article advocating for “chickenpox parties” to slow the spread of COVID-19 had submitted it to several medical and news sites. “They all turned it down with no comment,” he said. The Federalist accepted the piece, no questions asked. https://t.co/0rNknonDuX

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 28, 2020

  


As noted before, there may be a subtle flaw in the GOP pushing the seniors-are-expendable line.

Trump’s crisis mismanagement alienating seniors https://t.co/3chxP5Oh9z

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) April 24, 2020

 




From the "standards are for other people" file.

John Ioannidis, 2005: Most published research findings are false

John Ioannidis, 2020: Except mine ✌️

— Health "Physical Isolation" Nerd (@GidMK) April 28, 2020

So today the former dean of Harvard Medical School wrote an OpEd in a leading health publication about I'm "silencing" an endowed chair at Stanford Medical School by opining on twitter that his latest work is bullshit.

How's your day going?

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) April 27, 2020

I am digging in to the idea that it is more than ok to vociferously call bullshit on people who release a deeply flawed study with immediate life-or-death policy implications, and then go silent when criticized.

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) April 28, 2020

This one's unraveling even quicker than expected. https://t.co/GUpRN6qE5s

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) April 25, 2020

 


You're just lucky this wasn't a rererepost.

For years there's been a joke in tech: "we're hiring engineers to build a revolutionary communications platform that will make distance meaningless. Must be willing to relocate to Silicon Valley." 1/

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) April 25, 2020

 




And finally a damn good quote from Fallows.

A certain contrarianism-bias is built into our business. The theme of almost *any* magazine article is: "What you think about XXX is wrong." (Otherwise, why are you reading it?)

But contrarianism for its own sake, as a schtick, is a problem.

“See things steady, see them whole."

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 25, 2020