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Ellen Cushing
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I write about food and other stuff for @theatlantic and my email address is [email protected] 🌞
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Oct 25, 2021
    I combed through thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents. My overwhelming takeaway: The hate, abuse, and misinformation we see in the U.S. is only a fraction of what the ~90 percent of Facebook users in the rest of the world experience. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Mar 8, 2021
    i wrote about my quest to figure out why the pandemic has made me so dumb
    Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Sep 11, 2019
    i was the crying reporter sitting next to Jack. I was crying because it’s a video about people with disabilities overcoming challenges and also sometimes my face makes water whether I want it to or not??
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Mar 8, 2021
    It turns out prolonged boredom is really really bad for your brain. So if you feel like you’ve become dumber during the pandemic, you’re not alone:
    Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Jan 6, 2025
    please I am begging you
    Americans Need to Party More
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Dec 19, 2019
    news: starting in January, I’m The Atlantic’s ~special projects editor~, working on ambitious stories across the newsroom. Very jazzed about it!
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Sep 11, 2019
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    i ..... assure you i was not moved to tears by gadget specs
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    Ellen Cushing
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    May 14, 2020
    Excited and proud to show you Shadowland, a new project from @TheAtlantic about conspiracy theories:
    Shadowland
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    Ellen Cushing
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    May 14, 2020
    For our project on conspiracy theories, I tried to —really, earnestly—figure out why people believe in them, starting with ... my former self:
    I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Jul 1, 2020
    i'm back on twitter to share a PERSONAL NEWS which is that late next month I am moving to the big apple new york city. If you know about good apartments or how to make friends in a new city during a pandemic, please let me know!
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Jul 31, 2020
    I love this story about how ISIS turned Facebook into a global bazaar for looted artifacts, and the vigilante (!) archaeologists (!!) fighting back
    Facebook’s Looted-Artifact Problem
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Jun 22, 2021
    As long as I've been writing about technology, friends and strangers have been asking me what they, personally, should do about Big Tech and its growing power. My answer has always been the same: Cancel your Amazon Prime account.
    Cancel Amazon Prime
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Jul 12, 2022
    Amazon is dramatically reshaping our world, our brains, and our consumer culture for the worse, and its membership service is the engine that keeps it all running. I wrote about why you should cancel Prime: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
    Speed and convenience aren’t actually free; they never are. Free shipping isn’t free either. It just obscures the real price. Getting hand sanitizer and toilet paper and jigsaw puzzles and sex toys delivered to your door, contact-free, as a contagious disease ravaged the globe didn’t mean that no one was venturing into the life-threatening outside; it just meant you weren’t. Next-day shipping comes with tremendous costs: for labor and logistics and transportation and storage; for the people who pack your stuff into those smiling boxes and for the people who deliver them; for the planes and trucks and vans that carry them; for the warehouses that store them; for the software ensuring that everything really does get to your door on time, for air-conditioning and gas and cardboard and steel. Amazon—Prime in particular—has done a superlative job of making all those costs, all those moving parts, all those externalities invisible to the consumer.
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    Ellen Cushing
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    Oct 28, 2024
    canceling your Washington Post subscription defunds journalism. If you are angry with Jeff Bezos, cancel your Prime membership instead :)
    Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.
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