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Lisa Schmeiser
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ooh, I am here for this dissection of the Cool Mom, the maternal successor to the Cool Girl: halliehaglund.substack.com/p/its-cool-t...
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Editor in Chief, No Jitter & WorkSpace Connect; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of an intermittent Substack (lschmeiser.substack.com); parent/partner/Girl Scout Leader/community volunteer.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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ooh, I am here for this dissection of the Cool Mom, the maternal successor to the Cool Girl: halliehaglund.substack.com/p/its-cool-t...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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I feel like the issue is, there are entirely too many left-leaning voters who would rather be "smart" than be pragmatic, and you can by their idiocy during high-stakes discussions. Meanwhile, we should all be looking at how midwest Dems keep winning & taking some notes.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Democrats have to fall in love; Republicans only have to fall in line. (You'd think eventually Democrat politicians and voters would notice.)
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Lisa Schmeiser
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This moment calls for a cartoon of Zaslav standing on a road as an anvil labeled "shareholder value" is dropped on his head. Meep-meep!
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Reskeet if you're still mad at Nader voters from 2000.
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RainSurname
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I'm old enough to remember when news outlets weren't required to turn as much profit as entertainment, & so could pay beat reporters with actual expertise to spend a long time working on informative pieces. Hot takes are so much cheaper.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Re-reading Renata Adler's takedown of Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's book on the Supreme Court, "The Brethren" and her passage below stopped me short:
www.nytimes.com/1979/12/16/a...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Handy reminder: "softening language" is not the same thing as "softening intent" or "softening outcome."
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Rebecca Solnit: "It’s a dogpile and a panic, and there is no one more unable to understand their own emotional life, biases and motives than people who are utterly convinced of their own ironclad rationality and objectivity, AKA most of these pundits."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Amy A
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if it's not from the champagne region of france then it’s just called sparkling fascist tears
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Lisa Schmeiser
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shhh, don't interrupt the pundit class when they're busy cosplaying as Respected Statesmen.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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oh no thank you
www.vulture.com/article/how-...
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Tom Scocca
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Interesting story on how Louisa county, Virginia, boosted teacher recruitment & retention by offering childcare as an employee perk: www.hrdive.com/news/school-...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Organizing to pass school funding bond measures and making a hell of a white wine sangria are two surprisingly complementary skillsets.
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justin
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I don't know that this chart proves what it implies about the uniformly negative coverage of Biden, but I'm tempted to just post it under every NY Times and Washington Post skeet.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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UGGGGGH the forecast just adjusted itself for another hateful day of heat and I am not built for this.
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Aliya Danzeisen
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As a lawyer who worked in mass tort cases resulting from unsafe products, I would agree. Remember asbestos industry was unregulated, yet knowingly churned out unsafe. Old movies like Civil Action, The Insider, Erin Brockovich.. provide good examples why regulations and oversight needed.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Too many journalists read Hedrick Smith's "The Power Game" when they were impressionable adolescents and it shows.
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Karl Bode
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the supreme court just declared the president a king and obliterated the last vestiges of regulatory corporate oversight but the press is positively obsessed with the fact biden is an old man
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Lisa Schmeiser
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There is a thinkpiece in here about what it means that the architects of a heritage brand that embodied the dress code of the striving nouveau prep are selling $55 trucker hats for a made-up blue-collar company because status TV references are the new striver currency.
www.jcrew.com/feature/the-...
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Gillian Branstetter
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Must be nice to have choices
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Worth noting the requirement he whiffed was "actually has lived in Oregon for 36 consecutive months" and not something particularly arcane. Kristof had a New York driver's license & voter record a year before he attempted to run.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Maybe it's because it's hot & that makes me cranky but I am reading through headlines & it seems like a lot of Establishment Journalists (real & aspiring) are real mad nobody's paying attention to their election year takes, so they're getting ever more hyperbolic in hopes of engagement.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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All this woman had to do was retreat to her Scottish castle and roll around in her money, and her legacy as "first blockbuster children's author of the 21st century" would be secure. Instead, she's going to go down in history as a severe case of moral rot along with Graham Linehan.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia
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Underwater gardeners work to restore B.C.'s majestic kelp forests
bc.ctvnews.ca/underwater-g...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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TIL about the Pacific Coast Coalition’s Dairy Business Innovation Initiative, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service for small dairy operators, & how it's led to amazing ice cream in Humbolt county.
civileats.com/2024/07/02/b...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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I feel like so long as we're making presidents god-kings, now is the time for Biden to abolish the Electoral College and expand the Supreme Court. Why not? Nothing he does as president is a crime now!
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Lisa Schmeiser
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There's nothing stopping the current president from expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, right? One for each district? It's all totally legit since that same court has decided presidents don't do crimes, right?
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Lisa Schmeiser
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The advice round-up here is 😗. Taking a caffeinated THC gummy before a party is one of those things that can go horribly wrong or hilariously right.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Full Mental Jackass
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The money that could be shoring up bad highway bridges, running fiber internet to rural areas, paying for school lunch and preventive care and making sure the next pandemic doesn’t hit is instead being burned in bulk on made-up fantasy products from 90s syndicated sci-fi shows
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Lisa Schmeiser
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"oh no, you'll keep doing business as normal and I still get to work at home. Nooooo, stooooooooppppppp."
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Lisa Schmeiser
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That's them covering their ass for later, IMO.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Heads up! If you have not already told Meta they don't get to use your data to train their AI, you gotta do it today. It took me all of a minute to do.
Here are the steps to getting it done: deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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In post-truth America: "The simple fact is no one has died because it got too warm outside." Meanwhile in a reality based on provable facts: In 2022, more than 1,700 deaths were due to heat-related causes, according to an analysis of data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Another thing Dell may have to be mindful of: WFH tends to benefit historically disadvantaged ppl -- disabled, queer, non-white, women, parents. If Dell is tying its compensation & promotion opportunities to in-office people only, are they perpetuating bias on some level?
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Lisa Schmeiser
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There's research on this too! American workers have started thinking of commuting as time they deserve to be *compensated for*, instead of the cost of being employed. Employers already tie compensation to location; it'll be interesting to see how it gets tied to commuting & whether that takes off.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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I'm so old one of my first post-graduation roommates was a human indexer at Yahoo.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Waiting for some media watchdog org to clock how many articles the NYT writes about the NYC mayor's private email server in comparison to their 2016 coverage of Hillary Clinton's emails.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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We have so much research demonstrating that a) American workers prize control over their time, b) work-life balance matters to the American workforce, and c) employee engagement gains do not appreciably grow after 3 days a week in office. The outcome to Dell's edict was predictable.
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Sam
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Biden's age is the "But Her Emails" of the 2024 election.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Did I just pre-order this because in my household, we own everything both Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud create? YES I DID.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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"Here’s the thing: A newspaper has one thing going for it. Its credibility. That’s it; when that is gone, nothing is left."
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/a-post-mor...
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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)
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Two years later, the mainstream media is still failing to grasp how much Dobbs was a massive win for misogyny and theocracy. From 2022: presswatchers.org/2022/06/mass...
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Jill Krajewski
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as media implodes remember to save PDFs of all the stories you’ve written on staff or freelance. some “cost-cutting measure” could pull your bylines at any moment. don’t lose your work!
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Lisa Schmeiser
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I have no idea how the final score on Cinematrix works, but I am always pleased whenever I can rack up multiple "fewer than 10% of players picked THAT film" answers for the different squares.
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Lisa Schmeiser
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"Artists -- super great at thwarting Nazis!" is one of my fave history genres and this piece explaining how Marcel Marceau used his miming skills to smuggle French Jewish children to safety during WWII is a real Monday mood lifter: www.messynessychic.com/2024/06/21/s...
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Lisa Schmeiser
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Surprisingly, the McDonald's AI Hallucination Meal was not a summer sales success.
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Phil Lewis
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McDonald’s is ditching its drive-through AI ordering system after too many customers wound up with totally incorrect orders like a handful of butter, hundreds of chicken nuggets, and ice cream loaded with bacon
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Lisa Schmeiser
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The Overton window on bias in AI training data & training models will be moved to "expecting factual accuracy or non-discriminatory outcomes in AI is 'political'" & the highest priority in AI will not be outcomes based on provable, objective facts, but whatever boosts "engagement" and upsell.
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