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Arthur Gies (probably?)
@aegies.bsky.social
Painter, tech editor @ wirecutter, author (I guess), various other things.
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There are a ton of working class Trump supporters but the voter data is right there. A ton of his support, including a lot of his most passionate support, is non-college educated upper/upper middle class whites.

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The lighting on my evening walk was very dramatic.

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yeah, it's unfortunately the one place where the 8GB apple silicon laptops can struggle. safari is better, but mostly you've got to close your tabs regularly. but hey, new laptops soon which means decent trade-in offers from apple!

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i think you should have to pass some kind of licensing exam to talk about the last of us multiplayer game that got canceled in just about any capacity, because the number of people acting like that was a standalone service concept from day one is going to drive me to crimes.

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oh i assure you being on east coast time meant *nothing* this time.

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i think this is a good, level-headed way to look at polling this cycle (and always). it can measure trends, but it depends on both multiple tiers of judgment calls on top of judgment calls, along with the unpredictability of basic human behavior. prospect.org/politics/202...

The Polling Imperilment
The Polling Imperilment

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?

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i think it predisposes people to view a publisher more negatively and when you have an at-best neutral image, big grifty social media pile-ons can really hurt you.

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a growing concern of even the slightest hint of antitrust enforcement. even if a government agency couldn't force changes at valve, an investigation/subpoenas could be embarrassing.

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yeah but you know it's tough getting leadership to walk away from what they feel like is free money with low lift. it's been hard for execs to get past the "they'll pay anything" mentality across the industry. this does make me wonder if they worked out a more favorable cut with steam.

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Arthur Gies (probably?)
@aegies.bsky.social
Painter, tech editor @ wirecutter, author (I guess), various other things.
1.4k followers135 following535 posts