DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

It would be good if more people aspired to be kinder than to be filthy rich.

I think we'd move toward media literacy and mass critical thinking skills a lot faster if we could undermine the human impulse to create visionary geniuses out of thin air and acting ability.

This ranges from young people who think their singer/songwriter heroes are breakthrough philosophers, to the recent fanboydom around Elon Musk.

It also gave us Harvey Weinstein, Ken Lay & Jeffrey Skilling, Elizabeth Holmes, and scores of other people who were the subjects of adulatory crap in the press.

Arizona voters limited their own power to legislate, told state lawmakers to butt out https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/122122_vox_voters/arizona-voters-limited-their-own-power-legislate-told-state-lawmakers-butt-out/
Arizona voters this fall made it slightly tougher on themselves when it comes to passing laws at the ballot box, but they also sent a strong message to state legislators – keep your hands off voter initiatives.
#Tucson #Arizona

You remember when the Alabaster Landlord first walked into Twitter and said, “Let that sink in”? Well, sinking in it surely is…

Tesla share price is now down to $137.96. That's down 7.95% in trading today alone and 65.5% since the start of the year. It hasn't closed below $138/share in over two years.

1. This high school English teacher is trying to ban 150 books from school libraries in Florida

I talked to her to find out why

Buckle up

This one gets a bit wild

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This is great. Postal delivery vehicles do a relatively small number of miles in a day and then return to a central facility every night. Obvious candidate for electrification https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/1220-usps-intends-to-deploy-over-66000-electric-vehicles-by-2028.htm

It looks like Trump's NFT trading cards were created using unlicensed images, some of them even still hade watermarks on them. So on-brand.

https://tyt.com/reports/7015be31e708f973a/f29081cbfa181843a

you know what? I don’t think I’m gonna let that guy put a chip in my brain after all

The TXO team on #Mastodon:

Editor in Chief Gabriel Arana @gabrielarana

Digital Editor Kit O'Connell @oconnell

McHam Investigative Journalism Fellow @josephinelee

Special Investigative Correspondent Steven Monacelli @stevanzetti

The business team:

Managing Director James Canup @jamescanup

Development Manager Lauren Benavides @laurencamilletx

#Journalism #nonprofit #Texas

Of course Hope Hicks uses "impact" as a verb.

Oh my.

@Mediaite conservative writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and said that the open source social media software was named after this imaginary person. https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter/

1. ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I participated in a Twitter space hosted by @katienotopoulos@twitter.com w/a lot of journalists

When I joined @jason@twitter.com, one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering @drewharwell@twitter.com, a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets

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This whole thread…
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RT @JuddLegum
1. ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I participated in a Twitter space hosted by @katienotopoulos w/a lot of journalists

When I joined @jason, one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering @drewharwell, a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets

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https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1603876025242378248

How The Washington Post has used flight data:
* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA
* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie
* To raise questions about Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X
* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M
* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0 via @drewharwell

I’m no billionaire, but if I wanted to be able to fly in a private jet without anyone knowing my location, it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to use a charter service instead of a plane that I owned and could be traced to me personally.
Of course, then I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the very lucrative tax breaks introduced in the 2017 tax bill, which allows people to write off up to 100% of a private plane purchase, including acquisition and maintenance costs. 🤔