A Hasbro doll from the kids' movie Trolls World Tour was pulled from shelves, thanks in large part to a child sex trafficking conspiracy theory promoted by QAnon and Pizzagate followers: https://t.co/DDooIvqBV0— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson) August 7, 2020
Language matters. Maybe we shouldn’t say “history is written by the winners” but instead that “history is erased by the winners”. Maybe the latter framing would better remind us that historical fact is continually being suppressed, even as we go about our daily lives.— Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) August 8, 2020
Inspired by this @CodaStory article by @isocockerell I decided to take a look at what's poppin on the #Xinjiang hashtag at the moment on TikTok. It's not great! https://t.co/iqGjYCXP6k https://t.co/nirMTZvBQV— Matt Schrader (@MattSchrader_DC) August 7, 2020
I've got like quadruple the followers I had the last time I said this, so I'm gonna say it again. When all the camps in Germany were liberated in Germany after WW2, the captives with pink triangles got sent to prison to finish out their sentence because homosexuality was illegal— Mai is in Follow Jail //TODO - Add permanent name (@MaiValentrans) August 8, 2020
(Snopes on the topic.)
Club soccer in China is in crisis. Since last year’s season ended in December, 13 of the 64 clubs in the country’s three professional divisions have dissolved, either through bankruptcy or after being forced to close after failing to pay players.@Trefor1https://t.co/o0HRv8AHwT— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) August 8, 2020
One of the strangest subplots to the entire Trump-era pivot to a very hostile relationship with China is the centrality of Chinese gambling revenue to the Trump / GOP $$ machine https://t.co/BP8v4p04SW— Tom Gara (@tomgara) August 8, 2020
One thing I've learned to accept is that things like quality have never come from the company as a whole. Almost all the time, the quality you see is down to a small number of humans who gave a shit. And when those people leave, it's over. https://t.co/ZjJVCWVRUg— Marco Rogers (@polotek) August 8, 2020
This ended up being a really important shift in how I think about the reputation of brands. Companies are mostly incapable of producing high quality. But companies have always been good at accepting the unpaid extra labor of individuals and letting it accrue to their brand.— Marco Rogers (@polotek) August 8, 2020
When a brand's reputation starts to go downhill, I don't think "they don't care about quality anymore". Instead I think, "they let somebody awesome walk out the door, and they don't know how to replace them."— Marco Rogers (@polotek) August 8, 2020
The irony is that those who should be responsible for retaining this huge value to the business often don't recognize truly superlative work. They think anybody can do it. And often they don't even realize the work is that superlative.https://t.co/kEIuct2kQp— Marco Rogers (@polotek) August 8, 2020
Talkspace, a text therapy app made famous by Michael Phelps ads, keeps transcripts for about 7 to 10 years because they're medical records—and data-mines them, of course. But all the other stuff going on there was WILD. https://t.co/00FvGJTwzl— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) August 7, 2020
Talkspace was started by a couple whose relationship was “saved” by marriage counseling. He was a marketing guy, she was a software developer who studied psychotherapy & is now head of clinical practices there. But my story caused a change to her LinkedIn. Didn’t get that degree. pic.twitter.com/HBaNGn8C3O— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) August 7, 2020
Still a few days for @nytimes to endorse two veeps for Biden.— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) August 7, 2020