We studied 100 popular accounts reinstated by Musk after being banned by Twitter. We found they played an important role in injecting them into mainstream discourse, often interacting with Musk himself & growing their followings exponentially since returning to X. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/t...

Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back?

Many users who were reinstated by X have continued to share the kinds of false narratives and conspiracies that once got them suspended.

JFC what a••hole would require their employees to risk their lives and report to work during a hurricane?

A storm surge of "only" 3 feet is incredibly dangerous and makes evacuation nearly impossible. A storm surge of 10-15 feet would be a catastrophe beyond reckoning. This video explainer only goes up to 9 feet, which is already terrifying.

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PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

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Spotted this near a local park filled with youngsters playing soccer. I feel sorry for the kid whose dad drives it.

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers pressured them to "delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves." (Via @propublica.bsky.social)

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to ...

The only sensible response to Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal comes from @martinsandbu.bsky.social, who asks the relevant question nobody else does: is there monopoly pricing power in groceries? And links to data showing that there is! Which would explain faster-than-inflation food price hikes.

A Reichstag Fireside Chat, if you will.