broke: plastic garfield phones mysteriously washing up on french beaches
woke: plastic rugrats dolls mysteriously full of mussels
shoshana wodinsky (she/her)
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shoshana wodinsky (she/her)
@swodinsky
frmr fed // views are my own, but that keyboard sure isn’t
- when yr editor cuts out several paragraphs of your Bad Writing from the final piece and yr just like
- i can't tell you how easy it is to mash together voter registration data, location data, and like, your credit card history in order to figure out who's buying misoprostol, who's walking into a clinic, and who's voting pro-choice. and how *profitable* it is, too
- the total academic failure from hassidic/ultra-orthodox schools that the nyt detailed is abhorrent for kids stuck in those religious enclaves, but *absolutely brutal* for the kids that leave i can attest, because i’m one of them! 1/
- this is, no joke, probably the best infographic i've seen that accurately describes the guts of the digital ad ecosystem
- yeah sex is great but have u ever had a political staffer reach out to say ur pieces are having a direct impact on the way congress understands tech monopolies, leading u to realize that u are, in fact, not a complete failure at ur job
- fuck the john mackey interview, fuck the nyt for letting his racist/classist/outdated arguments run without opposition, and fuck *the entire whole foods company* for operating under the guise that gentrification is the best solution to systemic economic inequality
- What a good good water boy
- tbh i hope some media scholar maps out how we got from “reading the news” to “consuming the news” to “consuming news related content” to just “consuming content”, bc i’m v curious about that timelineto commit to a "social first" strategy, whatever the fuck that means, is to see your audience not as readers or thinkers or people but consumers, seeking nothing more than 10,000 25-second videos that they will never remember, and that is such a dark outlook i can't take it
