Merry Christmas to you too. And as a free subscriber I ain't gonna feel cheated if you slow your output here. TwitterFiles are the news-landscape earthquake of our time and you should give it your full attention for the duration.
This might be a repost suggestion, but I shared A Class Divided with family last weekend right before seeing that you were working on the Twitter Files. First can I say, I have various opinions on different things Musk engages in and how he handles himself, but I really admire his taste in journalists.
I went back and found A Class Divided because it does such a good job of explaining why, and I can't think of a better way to say it then my teenager who brought it up, everyone seems to be "hating" on Musk. This moment seems to be emblematic of the tension between the PMC and the owners of capitol.
Merry Christmas to you too, Leighton! -- if that’s your thing. I was so excited to finally realize you had a substack (and literally just subscribed last month after hearing you on Trish Wood 😩). Excellent conversation. Your writing on and exposing the damaging drug policies and homelessness in the Bay Area have had on the area...so striking and disturbing. I went to Cal Berkeley 87-92 so I’m no stranger to either but having moved back to Nevada/California it’s hard to see up close. But I digress. Love everything you write but for now I will have to be satisfied with stalking podcasts you’ve been a guest on in the past! Love your open minded frankness and willingness to be honest no matter what you happen to be writing or speaking about. I look forward to reading what you have coming out here and anywhere else.
No problem. lt's the holidays anyway; I won't be surprised or upset if most of my Substack subscriptions go a bit quiet through New Year's.
So far I haven't heard anything about the Twitter Files that makes them sound all that interesting. Okay, so Twitter was run by a bunch of halfwits of the nice-liberal-progressive variety (as opposed to the halfwit of the non-liberal-progressive variety who owns it now) who thought it was in the public interest not to allow the propagation of things they considered "misinformation", though they lacked any sensible or consistent rationale for that determination... I think we knew that already. Sifting through the source material is still worthwhile, of course, but I'm not expecting anything all that revelatory.
One of the conditions of access was that the initial batches be published on Twitter, which is a format that lends itself to BIG SCOOP type sensationalism, whereas I think many of the insights from the Twitter Files that we've found so far are more subtle than that: about how groupthink happens in big organizations, about the privatization of the public square, etc. Eventually I hope to be able to write about these things in long form, where I think we can convey the significance more clearly. That said, there are some things we're discovering that I think *will* actually be big scoops. It's a massive amount of information we're sifting through, and discovering and publishing things in real time. So it's not as if we'd necessarily find the most impactful stuff right up front — much of that will take time to discover and flesh out. We've only penetrated the surface at this early stage.
due to the twitter files you and Lee Fang are officially conservative now, lol. I don't even think Lee is assisting, he's just commenting incorrectly on twitter.
Dump on you?? Are you kidding? Keep it coming - you're giving many of us hope that exposing this crap will help. Godspeed to you and everyone working on this. I'm sure the personal danger is not lost on you; you're handling the evidence up close of what these people will do to silence rational voices.
Congratulations on being on the scoop! Totally understandable you'd be focused on that. No need to apologize.
Wishing you and your family happy holidays!
Merry Christmas to you too. And as a free subscriber I ain't gonna feel cheated if you slow your output here. TwitterFiles are the news-landscape earthquake of our time and you should give it your full attention for the duration.
Congrats on #TwitterFiles! Can’t wait to read more
Patting myself on the back that I’m a paying subscriber to you, Bari, Matt & Michael. Clearly I have good taste in journalists
This might be a repost suggestion, but I shared A Class Divided with family last weekend right before seeing that you were working on the Twitter Files. First can I say, I have various opinions on different things Musk engages in and how he handles himself, but I really admire his taste in journalists.
I went back and found A Class Divided because it does such a good job of explaining why, and I can't think of a better way to say it then my teenager who brought it up, everyone seems to be "hating" on Musk. This moment seems to be emblematic of the tension between the PMC and the owners of capitol.
Here is the link to the article: https://open.substack.com/pub/leightonwoodhouse/p/a-class-divided?r=2niwe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Merry Christmas to you too, Leighton! -- if that’s your thing. I was so excited to finally realize you had a substack (and literally just subscribed last month after hearing you on Trish Wood 😩). Excellent conversation. Your writing on and exposing the damaging drug policies and homelessness in the Bay Area have had on the area...so striking and disturbing. I went to Cal Berkeley 87-92 so I’m no stranger to either but having moved back to Nevada/California it’s hard to see up close. But I digress. Love everything you write but for now I will have to be satisfied with stalking podcasts you’ve been a guest on in the past! Love your open minded frankness and willingness to be honest no matter what you happen to be writing or speaking about. I look forward to reading what you have coming out here and anywhere else.
No problem. lt's the holidays anyway; I won't be surprised or upset if most of my Substack subscriptions go a bit quiet through New Year's.
So far I haven't heard anything about the Twitter Files that makes them sound all that interesting. Okay, so Twitter was run by a bunch of halfwits of the nice-liberal-progressive variety (as opposed to the halfwit of the non-liberal-progressive variety who owns it now) who thought it was in the public interest not to allow the propagation of things they considered "misinformation", though they lacked any sensible or consistent rationale for that determination... I think we knew that already. Sifting through the source material is still worthwhile, of course, but I'm not expecting anything all that revelatory.
One of the conditions of access was that the initial batches be published on Twitter, which is a format that lends itself to BIG SCOOP type sensationalism, whereas I think many of the insights from the Twitter Files that we've found so far are more subtle than that: about how groupthink happens in big organizations, about the privatization of the public square, etc. Eventually I hope to be able to write about these things in long form, where I think we can convey the significance more clearly. That said, there are some things we're discovering that I think *will* actually be big scoops. It's a massive amount of information we're sifting through, and discovering and publishing things in real time. So it's not as if we'd necessarily find the most impactful stuff right up front — much of that will take time to discover and flesh out. We've only penetrated the surface at this early stage.
I will be interested to read about what you find whenever you're able to write about it.
The Twitter files are epic and historic. Congrats for being a part of it.
How dare you not fill my inbox with schlock?
due to the twitter files you and Lee Fang are officially conservative now, lol. I don't even think Lee is assisting, he's just commenting incorrectly on twitter.
Ha ha, Lee's a very close friend of mine; I think his takes are right on. And he is in fact in the room now. That's a recent development.
God bless you in your as long as needed rest period / holiday You deserve it and it will ultimately be very fruitful
Dump on you?? Are you kidding? Keep it coming - you're giving many of us hope that exposing this crap will help. Godspeed to you and everyone working on this. I'm sure the personal danger is not lost on you; you're handling the evidence up close of what these people will do to silence rational voices.
Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas from this Jewish guy!
Merry Christmas and congrats! Expose it all!
Eeek! I’m so excited for you! Can’t wait to read your thread 😀
Not ok with it. You're on probation