How is Elon Musk’s attempt to worm his way out of a pricey Twitter deal going? Not so great! After promising to fork over a fortune for the social media service, which he may or may not overhaul, he’s in the midst of being sued for reneging on the deal, thus jeopardizing the company’s earnings. […]
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Cesspool. Hellscape. Party. Those are a few of the terms people use to describe Twitter. I prefer the last one, by Amy-Willard Cross, an entrepreneur and a former journalist (@amy2pt0), at a book launch party I organized (yes, it was online). Let’s leave aside the topic of the Twitter-Musk tussle, now playing out in court […]
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Outrage Against Chuck E. Cheese Mascot that Ignored 2-Year-Old Black Girl Advertisement I grew up in the creepy, animatronic phase of Chuck E. Cheese, so I was never enthusiastic about the mouse. Though, the feeling of being noticed by your favorite character as a youngin’ meant the world for the few moments you had with […]
Read MoreExamples of Statuses. Twitter screenshot Twitter’s new “statuses” feature is showing some users a lot more than they expected: a whole lot of porn. This week, Twitter started publicly testing a new feature that lets some users add a trite little clickable phrase to their tweets. People can choose from over a dozen pre-set statuses […]
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Twitter is embroiled in a grueling legal fight with Elon Musk as he tries to back out of a $44 billion acquisition of the company. It has slowed its hiring as it grapples with a flagging economy. Its stock price has slumped. On Friday, Twitter revealed the toll from those challenges. In an earnings report, […]
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Keith Gessen, a friend of mine and the author of “Raising Raffi: The First Five Years,” said, “In defense of the dads, they are wherever it is that she’s seeing them, at drop-off or pickup. And dads of a previous generation would have been at the office. In that sense, this is the transitional generation. […]
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CWU’s organizers say there is nothing stopping Senate staffers from unionizing, but their organizing focus has mostly been in the House, where, in May, Pelosi raised the minimum salary for House staffers to $45,000 per year. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—who has a pay floor of more than $50,000 for staffers in her office—had been quietly leading […]
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In a sense, that wreckage has come about, but not in the way Musk’s critics and doomsayers predicted. Three months after Musk launched his gambit, Twitter hasn’t been ruined per se. But it is in a state of shambles. As The New York Times’ Kate Conger and Mike Isaac reported earlier this week, Twitter is […]
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