Boy you’d think a country that can equip every cop like a soldier could equip every doctor like a doctor
Jeff Bercovici
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Jeff Bercovici
@jeffbercovici
Deputy tech & media editor, WSJ. Previously @ SF Standard, LAT, Forbes, Inc. Author of "Play On." FAQ: bur-KOH-vih-see
Berkeley, CA
Joined July 2009
- For no reason I can decipher, The New York Times will never stop trying to retcon the etymology of "based"
- An Oakland man who recorded himself getting thrown out of a Palestinian-owned cafe has been celebrated for pushing back against anti-Semitism. But a history of public outbursts raises questions about his story.
- Replying to @jeffbercovici(if you're catching up, "based" in its current usage was coined by Berkeley's own @LILBTHEBASEDGOD, who never said anything about fact or reality)
- That is some kicker quote
‘He’s realizing that he could lose’: Harris’s people are confident. The Trump campaign is panicking ift.tt/2gstREu - Less than 24 hours after Elon pretended a swastika is an incitement to violence to make Kanye go away, Matt Taibbi is dropping the bombshell that Twitter execs make ad hoc content rulings to solve awkward political problems. Groundbreaking stuff.
- Seems like an apt moment to note it was invasion of privacy grounds that Peter Thiel, Musk's longtime colleague and increasingly his ideological ally, used to kill Gawker. That's the playbook.
- Let me get this straight: Elon Musk thought the Twitter algorithm needed to be more transparent. So now he has changed the algorithm to promote accounts that pay him while letting them hide whether or not they are paying him.
- hot take that's probably true: Peter Thiel finally relinquishing his Facebook board seat suggests he thinks Facebook's influence over politics and culture is on the wane for good
- starting to think the olds torpedoing Bernie wasn't just about Biden's electibility
- How did Bari Weiss become a member of Elon Musk's inner circle? We'll never know.
- A bunch of VCs begged Elon Musk to let them be part of the Twitter turnaround and now they're reduced to personally hawking Twitter subscriptions like they're Mary Kay products
- You don't see a lot of independent centrists playing the RINO card
