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Marc Lajoie
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Corn on the cob
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Professing data journalism at George Washington University's @SMPAGWU. Ex-@barronsonline, @CBCRadioCanada, @SCMP_News, @WSJ.
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Marc Lajoie
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Corn on the cob
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Marc Lajoie
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I've long felt that candidate endorsements, telling candidates to end their campaigns, and similar prescriptivist activities, are paternalistic and beyond the scope of what newspapers should be doing. News orgs should be giving people info to make their decision, not trying to make it for them.
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Marc Lajoie
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As if there's anything crazy about being a cat lady. It's just the rational thing to be.
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Marc Lajoie
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If you can't appreciate the unlikely friendship between an orphaned boy and a captive killer whale, that's on you.
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Marc Lajoie
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Just give me bookmarks and I'll never go back
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Marc Lajoie
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It's more than just that the New York Times is failing to rise to the moment, it's like it can't even bring itself to take the moment seriously at all. It's downright nihilistic.
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Marc Lajoie
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Next the Brits will use their Brexit freedom to consume baguettes and croissants, a pleasure unknown to the mainland!
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hilzoy
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Why do people not realize that EVERY social movement gives rise to a certain amount of idiocy? If it's a good social movement it will also give rise to insight, but the idiocy is just part of the human condition. It is not remarkable, and it is absolutely not a reason to reject a social movement.
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Marc Lajoie
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Every time I see a sensible, pro-urban policy on my feed it turns out to be Montreal
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Marc Lajoie
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That was exactly what I thought!
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Marc Lajoie
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Governance SHOULD be dull--professional, competent, and organized--so the rest of our lives can be fulfilling and interesting.
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Marc Lajoie
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I've even been there, but remain unpersuaded.
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Marc Lajoie
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Eh, I don't buy it.
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Marc Lajoie
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Oh my god yes. I'm in Washington DC, which Americans describe as a walkable city. It's not. It's car hell.
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Marc Lajoie
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I mean, US bread is the worst (they also add sugar for some reason?) but UK bread is also pretty terrible.
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Marc Lajoie
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Sliced bread is actually the worst idea. Pre-slicing bread exposes far more surface area, causing the bread to go bad faster. This "innovation" is one of the reasons American bread is so bad. Manufacturers have to pump the bread full of bleaches and preservatives to compensate!
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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]
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These student journalists are braver than anyone, and my whole heart is with them in solidarity 💜
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Marc Lajoie
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Could you sort by a variable not present in the chart? Like "percent of a country's boundary that is coast"?
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Marc Lajoie
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Criticizing the increasing glorification of violence and cruelty at the highest levels of American politics is not a distraction.
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Marc Lajoie
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That's funny. It definitely seems to be the consensus in my feed.
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Marc Lajoie
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AWS is popular because it's stable, year after year. Who would trust their key infrastructure to someone as mercurial as Musk? This is definitely a domain where his personality is a huge negative.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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The whole backlash against CRT, DEI, student protest, everything is a backlash to 2020. Black folks keep pointing this out and I keep asking everyone else to please see and say this
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Marc Lajoie
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It's shameful what the Times lets her get away with on the regular.
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Marc Lajoie
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To join the RNC you must prove you're either a liar or an idiot.
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Marc Lajoie
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I think "you don't have to understand, just don't be an asshole about it" is also useful as general life advice.
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Marc Lajoie
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Me too. Full greys and grey tuxedos. Adorable.
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Marc Lajoie
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Absolutely not. She receives a great deal of criticism in journalistic circles for her approach to journalism.
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Marc Lajoie
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Grey cats are the best!
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Robert Simmon
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Journalists use satellite data in several ways, including to provide context: images that help readers understand the background or larger picture of a story as in this map by @cchurchili.bsky.social in the WSJ. Read more in: @datavizsociety.bsky.social
nightingaledvs.com/from-space-t...
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Marc Lajoie
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I never recognized cuphead's meme potential
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Marc Lajoie
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I, too, yearn for the bog
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Marc Lajoie
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Eww wtf
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Marc Lajoie
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Freelancer/open to full-time for right role
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Marc Lajoie
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It was always easy to lie with photos, well before Photoshop and AI. People viewing photos critically is a good thing. It's about time!
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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The reporting, images, and video are amazing:
restofworld.org/2024/riders-...
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Marc Lajoie
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Rando here. Hair looks awesome.
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Marc Lajoie
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Yes! And I worry that Kutcher's lies could have snowballing negative consequences as we move further in time from that film's release!
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Marc Lajoie
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Montreal. I was wondering how you got into the Charlebois!
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Marc Lajoie
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Are you from Quebec btw?
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Marc Lajoie
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Ok, we have very similar tastes in music
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Marc Lajoie
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Oh, you like ACDC? Then explain to me how alternating and direct currents function.
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Marc Lajoie
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If it's quadrants, why not make each square a 2x2 grid, and color the appropriate quadrant of that grid to indicate quadrant, and just have two colors, one for win, one for lose.
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Marc Lajoie
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Oh, I sussed it out eventually, but that was a tricky sentence to parse!
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Marc Lajoie
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Wait, if you lift an injunction blocking enforcement of a ban, do you end up in a pro- or anti-care position? My head is spinning.
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Marc Lajoie
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File this away somewhere for if you're ever feeling down about yourself. You make a difference.
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Faine Greenwood
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it is baffling to me how many news people are just trying to politely ignore Threads and Meta’s emphatic, repeated statements that the site is actively hostile to news
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Dave Levitan
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“I must regain the upper hand against the people I laid off without severance and left without healthcare”
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Marc Lajoie
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Yes! It's the circularity that's infuriating! But that circularity is a common problem in US political journalism. E.g. when they talk to a less well-known candidate and ask something like, "if you have such great ideas, why has your campaign gotten so little traction with the media?" Ugh!
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Marc Lajoie
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Sounds great, but needs more balconies. People need air dammit!
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Marc Lajoie
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It's not the conversational element that makes it better than letters to the editor, it's the colocation (and cotemporariness) with the article.
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