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James Appell retweeted
One of the worst things about US sports leagues continuously maximizing profit over passion is that the world’s best players don’t get to compete in environments like this. Real fans get priced out and the atmosphere at games becomes much less fun.
James Appell retweeted
A widow of a killed mobilized Russian soldier speaks to other war wives after visiting "the new territories" where her husband was killed.
"People here don't need it, they don't want us. Your beloved are dying here for nothing."
Whatever it takes for some of them to wake up.
James Appell retweeted
Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears bbc.in/3uLTTaR
James Appell retweeted
The stubborn reluctance of international women’s rights organisations to condemn the systematic rape and sexual mutilation of women by Hamas in Israel, has been shameful and inexcusable. It betrays a partisan agenda which wholly undermines the international progress that has been made to give women a voice as victims of sexual violence. There can be no hierarchy of victims in which Israeli women find themselves relegated to triviality.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-…
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BREAKING: State Department spokesman Mathew Miller says it seems that the reason Hamas refused to release all the women who it held hostage was because the terror group didn't want them to tell what they went through while in captivity in Gaza
James Appell retweeted
I just watched the roughly 45-minute footage of October 7th at a private screening in NYC. Here are my immediate thoughts minutes after watching it. 🧵
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I have never watched Don Lemon but it allows me to revisit the greatest sorbet-related celebrity interaction ever, by the great @taffyakner gq.com/story/don-lemon-ancho…
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Gregg Popovich asked whether any of us were carrying guns at the end of his pregame media chat.
"I just wondered because we have a governor and lieutenant governor and an attorney general that made it easier to have more guns. That was a response to our kids getting murdered.”
James Appell retweeted
When reporting on Evan's ordeal, avoid repeating the Russian narrative. The fact that he is a hostage is the story, not the supposed charges against him. Constantly humanize Evan.
Drop all our notions of competition and steel ourselves for a potentially long ordeal. #FreeEvan
James Appell retweeted
For years, Evan did everything he could to tell the story of modern Russia. It is now our turn to keep the light shining on him
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
James Appell retweeted
All of Evan’s reporting is now free to read. wsj.com/news/author/evan-ger…
James Appell retweeted
Top news organizations from around the world are calling for the release of our WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich, a trusted and experienced reporter arrested while doing his job. We are grateful for all the support as we seek his immediate release
cpj.org/2023/03/cpj-media-or…
James Appell retweeted
Wow. @substack experimented with pricing, reducing it by 1 cent, so e.g. instead of $10/month, do $9.99/month.
The result?
A significant decrease for the pricing ending with .99. Which goes against conventional pricing wisdom!!
Why it's worth running experiments!
ALT Open in app or online Product Lab Roundup: Feb-Mar 2023 Updates on AI-generated images, and "just-below" pricing JASMINE SUN, MIKE @ SUBSTACK, AND REID DERAMUS MAR 20 SAVE Hi Product Lab, Here’s a small update on what we learned in the Lab last month, and a look ahead at our product roadmap: 🧪 Experiment Updates AI-generated images Lead: Mike / Status: Experiment concluding and shipping soon Results: we’re running this experiment to understand whether writers would use AI generated images in their posts, and for creating publication logos, and we also wanted to learn about the effect of the AI model on our compute resources. We’re currently seeing about a dozen images generated per day, and we’re satisfied with our capacity to roll this feature out more broadly. $X.99 vs. round-number pricing PM: Reid / Status: Concluded experiment and did not ship Results: Compared to round-number pricing (e.g., $10.00), showing $X.99 prices led to a significant decrease
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In a conversation with @IChotiner, a social anthropologist discusses the connections between President Erdoğan’s leadership and the tragedy unfolding in Turkey.
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James Appell retweeted
“I’m against the war, but . . . People are biological creatures and have to adapt.”
I wrote about life in Moscow, where indifference to the death and misery Russia’s army is wreaking in Ukraine has been normalized – and where the champagne still flows.
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James Appell retweeted
2022 has been a lesson in never judging a book, nor a country, by its cover. At the end of February, while the city of Kharkiv was still under attack, I met 21 yo, Eugene Gromadskyi. At the time I had no idea what he, nor Ukraine, were capable of. bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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1/ There are a few people to whom I owe an extra special thank you.
First & foremost to @WHCOS @RonaldKlain.
You are a very good friend.
Ron was my first call after I informed our family of @GrantWahl's sudden death.
grantwahl.substack.com/p/a-n…
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Verizon is trying to establish itself as a neutral marketplace as it competes with YouTube, Amazon and Apple: “We don’t own a content creator, we don’t own a content-production company or network, we are a pure-play distributor here" wsj.com/articles/verizon-tea…
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AT&T’s $100 billion acquisition of Time Warner is hardly the first deal to have gone disastrously awry. But few mergers have stirred up such seething resentments and finger-pointing. It was a strategic miscalculation unrivaled in recent corporate history. nyti.ms/3Eoh8sy