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Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey needs Ann Feely, a 51-year-old wine marketer in California’s Bay Area, to keep posting about her favorite vintages if he’s going to convince investors that Silicon Valley’s once hottest startup has a future. The problem: Feely hasn’t tweeted since June. Twitter, she says, is corked. “It’s overwhelming,” says Feely, a…
Across the country, conservative politicians and police unions are voicing their outrage at Beyoncé, Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter movement. We hear rumblings that some police departments are going to refuse to provide security for her concerts. Other police chiefs are actually blaming her Super Bowl performance for police shootings. KING: CINCY COPS…
The world is a horrible place filled with terrible things; some we embrace, some we avoid, and some we push back against. Then there are the things, institutional forces and global circumstances, like ubiquitous chemical contamination or income inequality, that cannot be welcomed, evaded, or fought against as individuals, but merely resigned to as realities….
If you were confused before about what Medium is, its latest news won’t help make things much clearer. The Awl said today that it plans to migrate the entirety of The Billfold, its personal finance site, to Medium starting next week. The site’s URL, staff and overall editorial approach will remain unchanged, but TheBillfold.com as…
YouTubeBill Simmons.Media superstar Bill Simmons is starting a new site called The Ringer. While Simmons and his team have talked a bit about the new site, several key details have been kept secret. Here’s a new one to add to the mix. We have learned that Simmons will partner with publishing platform Medium on his new project. Medium has…
Photo Credit Megabus.com Yesterday was my first time taking Megabus, a discount intercity bus service that began in 2006 and quickly gained notoriety for advertising fares as low as $1 each way. Yesterday was also the first time I had to evacuate a bus as it was catching fire. I was just closing my eyes…
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By the time I walked down the aisle — or rather, into a judge’s chambers — in 2010, at the age of 35, I had lived 14 independent, early-adult years that my mother had spent married. I had made friends and fallen out with friends, had moved in and out of apartments, had been…
I’m not an expert on cyber warfare, nor do I play one on TV—or on Twitter for that matter. I have, though, published academic research about the cultural claims to legitimacy that policymakers have historically used when responding to perceived threats of youth hackers—work, I should note, that popular journalists have covered and properly attributed…
Photo Monish Shah, who was recently hired by the Japanese bank Mizuho, is as much a writer of code as he is a trader. Credit Cole Wilson for The New York Times HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The mood in the markets may be getting grimmer, but in the booming world of exchange-traded funds, people just want…