Blaming journalists for the systemic collapse of the ability to control the distribution of their work suggests they lack not only an understanding of the journalism, but the business itself.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
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Bezos offered a blunt response when Washington Post opinion editor, David Shipley, noted in fall 2024 that changing the editorial ideology could turn off some subscribers. “I don’t care,” Bezos said. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
NEW: The federal workforce shrank 10% in Trump's first year back in office, according to a @pewresearch.org analysis of more than 2 million individual employment records from OPM. Analysis looks at employment trends at individual departments and agencies: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Has public opinion on the US striking Iran shifted since the war started?
(@emgusk.bsky.social and Elizabeth Schreier, ABC News)
abcnews.com/amp/Politics...
Still thinking about this preprint. ~ 40% of Mechanical Turk responses were from AI bots. That means Mechanical Turk is now machines pretending to be people pretending to be machines.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
And they let me steal their graphics
@pewresearch.org found the largest partisan gap in abortion legality since they started asking about it in 2007
The Washington Post found a larger minority of Americans saying the U.S. should continue strikes on Iran than they found right after the first attacks.
Ipsos asked the same question when the U.S. first attacked Iran and then again about a week later and opinions did not shift abcnews.com/Politics/pub...
They gotta start planting trees right now if they want this view
Has public opinion on the US striking Iran shifted since the war started? Two polls tell us slightly different stories.
I flew in from Cancun last month and landed in a snowsquall at Dulles and it was less jarring of a shift. This time I haven't even gotten into a car!
@pewresearch.org: More Americans say data centers have a "mostly bad" effect on the environment, home energy costs and people's quality of life nearby than a "mostly good" effect.
More Americans say data centers have a mostly good impact on local jobs and local tax revenue than mostly bad.
the highs in our weather apps for the day were overnight last night
I left the house at 8:20 this morning and it was certainly colder than 75 then. I had a winter coat on. My weather app said it was in the 50s but felt like it was 33.
Yeah the high was midnight
I went out to eat last night and sat outside comfortably in a sleeveless dress and sandals and today it is snowing. I haven’t even left the District.
About half of Americans (51%) say it would be easy to get an abortion where they live; 45% say it would be difficult, a share that has grown recently.
73% of Americans who live in states where abortion is prohibited say it's difficult to get an abortion where they live
Similar shares of Dem men & women say abortion should be legal in all or most cases
More GOP men say abortion should be illegal than GOP women
Partisan gap is widest since it's been since 2007:
36% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said abortion should be legal, down from 41% in 2024.
84% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said abortion should be legal; at least 84% have said this since at least 2022.
New polling from @pewresearch.org finds 60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, down slightly from the last few years but on par with views right before the Dobbs decision
Yes, @awmercer.bsky.social & colleagues at @pewresearch.org have done great work explaining biases of opt-in panels. Here's one place to start www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Spring race season is going to be sweaty if it’s 86° on March 11.
"Should unexpected pallets of dip continue to appear around Philly, Deutsch said, “In this case, I do not recommend that restaurants accept this mystery dip."
oh yeah!
lol you probably have hundreds of times!!
I did notice that, too!
