now: lawyer + politics phd candidate @ Berkeley + Fellow, Center for Law and the Economy, Columbia Law
Corp law + gov, political economy, democracy + money in politics, housing
past: physicist, tech writer, journalist
leguinian-taoist in SF
beware typos
Sarang Shah
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speaking as someone who has worked inside the media for almost my whole career:
I think there was a brief, very unusual period when mass media, for all its flaws, created a consensus view of reality shaped, at least in part, by earnest efforts at truth-telling, that is gone forever
Huh, did not realize you have to turn on chat settings on this app
To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app
Sarang Shah
Christopher Mims
We hope this piece informs further discussion and debate on how we measure affordability and how we can make the means by which we construct these measures more transparent and accountable through law and process.
it's remarkable how like, you can visibly notice how people who still use X regularly are either getting dragged to the right (if on the centre-left or centre) or just getting more toxic in general
