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mia sato 佐藤みあ

5 years

Thread! conference call lines are the least personal mode of communication (like, does anyone enjoy them??). but for YEARS, Hmong folks have been running and participating in their own “radio shows” on the lines. Thousands of callers can be on at once

How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful

Reimagining the conference call line as a radio show.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

3 years

protect asian women, asian massage parlor employees, asian sex workers, asian nail techs, undocumented asian people, poor asian folks, asian people who don’t have security & networks and who can’t go to the police for protection. we have to protect us.

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The Etsy seller strike and boycott starts today. As of friday strike organizers told me over 13,000 shops had signed on to close their stores this week. To my knowledge it’s the largest action of its kind sellers have ever organized.

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@MiaRSato

2 years

New: 5000+ Etsy sellers are planning to go on strike by putting their shops in vacation mode on April 11, to protest changes on the platform like fee increases & marketing programs. They’re asking shoppers not to buy on Etsy from April 11-18.

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New: 5000+ Etsy sellers are planning to go on strike by putting their shops in vacation mode on April 11, to protest changes on the platform like fee increases & marketing programs. They’re asking shoppers not to buy on Etsy from April 11-18.

Etsy sellers will go on strike in April and want customers to boycott

Sellers are calling for a shopping boycott beginning April 11th.

www.theverge.com

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can we talk about the Y-axis tho lol

Elon Musk

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Recent trend is promising

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@sarafischer it feels really inappropriate to congratulate the person announcing layoffs while people are finding out they no longer have a job

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@scottgordonwi __smaller__ MEN

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*bernie sanders voice in chicago this weekend* “i want to thank.... CupcakKe... for the music”

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2 years

New: When news broke that CNET was publishing AI-written stories, readers had a lot of questions. But CNET staff are in the dark, too. Red Ventures, which owns CNET, is following a lucrative SEO marketing play. And it's at the expense of the journalism:

Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine

CNET employees are wondering: what’s AI and what’s not?

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

3 years

i’m v excited to share that on monday i start a new job at @verge ! i’ll be covering tech companies and the people who use their platforms. i can’t wait to shape my beat and learn from this fantastic team. send good vibes please!💮🎰

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2 years

New: I wrote about BuzzFeed's empire of virality, promises for media, and the state of the company now — sinking valuation, lawsuits, and diminishing returns from platforms it depended on. What's next for the website that once defined internet culture?

The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed stock has plunged more than 60 percent this year.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

3 years

stop blowing this tweet up and donate to the people doing the work to make sure tweets like this don’t have to get posted to begin with @RedCanarySong

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New from me @verge : I wrote about all the SEO tricks that people say are ruining the web. Table of contents, keyword-addled writing, all that extra text everywhere. The story has visuals that track a fake site as it morphs into a site optimized for Google Search, not readers.

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@MiaRSato

2 years

omg that woman y’all were pissed at bc she was reselling things she bought from goodwill sold the items for like $20-35 each aside from the leather coats?!! that’s extremely reasonable for vintage sourced and picked for you, photographed, and shipped to your doorstep.

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i spent much of 2020 knitting and it got me thinking about the reverence we give to “handmade” things. i wrote about the collision of craftiness and capitalism, and whose labor is erased in the process, in my first for @newrepublic .

The Empty Ethics of “Shop Small”

As economies crater in the pandemic recession, the call to buy “handmade” local goods has gained new force. It’s not that simple.

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@MiaRSato

2 years

New: One of the world's biggest ad agencies just recommended its brand clients pause ad campaigns on Twitter. Omnicom Media Group sent a memo around today citing the recent chaos on the bird app — 89% of Twitter revenue was from ads last year.

Another major ad agency recommends pausing Twitter ad campaigns

Twitter under Elon Musk isn’t safe for brands, agency says.

www.theverge.com

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9 months

Today @futurism reported that Sports Illustrated was publishing articles credited to fake, AI-generated writers. I did a little digging and found connections to AdVon Commerce — the company that was behind the botched Gannett AI reviews in Oct.

Sports Illustrated reportedly published articles from fake AI authors

The articles have ties to a previous AI dustup at Gannett.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

2 years

me making charts in google sheets in 7th grade

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new: i wrote about the "tech girlies" of tiktok and youtube who share glossy videos of their jobs in tech that essentially serve as free promo/recruitment for companies. they toe the line of what's allowed — and some have gotten fired for it.

Big Tech employees are TikToking on the job — and their bosses don’t always like it

Videos take viewers to offices, happy hours, and meetings.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

2 years

New: CNET's AI saga is just the most visible effect of being owned by Red Ventures, a private equity-backed marketing firm. Former staff told me about the breakdown of editorial firewalls at CNET, including being pushed to change stories for advertisers.

CNET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say

Staff say Red Ventures has breached CNET’s editorial firewalls.

www.theverge.com

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1 year

googled asian barbie dolls for some inspo and 😶

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@MiaRSato

3 years

@aafcollective

Pay Asian American Feminist Collective using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/aafcollective and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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I've heard from *so* many people in the last few days who've experienced AI obituaries crowding Google results after a loved one dies. When I flagged more than a dozen of these sites to Google, the company refused to say if they violated spam policies.

When a funeral is clickbait

AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

1 year

Just in @verge : In an internal memo, Reddit tells employees the API protest "will pass," the company "must ship" what it said it would, and that employees should be careful wearing Reddit gear in public:

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@MiaRSato

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i found it impossible to read this without feeling overwhelming and crushing rage and sadness. his lottery prize was a year’s worth of metro rides.

Everything was going wrong in his life. Then he won D.C.’s vaccine lottery.

He lost his job, his home and his van during the pandemic. He says the free Metro fare that he won when he got vaccinated will help him get back on his feet.

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@MiaRSato

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My latest @verge : "Drop servicing" is the new millionaire mindset side hustle: You buy cheap labor on gig platforms like Fiverr & resell it for profit. Jobs incl. social media marketing, copywriting, graphic design, etc. Clients/workers don't always know:

Reselling gig work is TikTok’s newest side hustle

Resellers buy gig work for as cheap as $5 to resell for profit

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🧵New from me: Dr. B, a pandemic-era health tech startup, promised to match people w/ leftover covid-19 vaccines nearby. But after collecting data from 2.5 million people, @drbisin is refusing to say how many actually got a vaccine through the service.

Vaccine waitlist Dr. B collected data from millions. But how many did it help?

Almost 2.5 million people signed up to Dr. B with the promise of getting leftover vaccines. Months later, the site won’t disclose how many doses it helped deliver—or what it plans to do with user...

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@MiaRSato

5 years

chicago 🤍 from the brown line going south

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@MiaRSato

2 years

off the record: not for use in a story on background: ok to use but not with a name on the record: ok to use and attributed to a name. PR people: learn it, live it, love it 🙂 the verge does not do on background for spokespeople 🙂 and rules are not different just for you 🙂

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New from me: GoFundMe campaigns for Gaza and Palestine are being flagged and placed "under review," slowing down fundraising and delivery of aid. People who have fundraised before say they've never experienced this kind of scrutiny.

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I went to a Shein event in NYC this month, eager to see how the company interacts w/ customers IRL. But I was kicked out 15 mins after the shop opened — I wrote about the illusion and secrecy of ultra fast shopping for @verge .

A strange, short journey through Shein’s world

Shein could be coming to a mall near you.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

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New: I wrote about the degradation of Google Search, the SEO arms race, and the small business owners who have to write for robots to find human customers.

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@MiaRSato

2 years

Update: in a staff call today with 100+ people CNET/Red Ventures leadership told staff it would pause publication of all AI generated stories across all sites "for now." I also now have more details on the AI that RV is using, an unnamed, proprietary tool:

CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy

Other Red Ventures sites will also pause the use of AI writing tools.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

2 years

New: When news broke that CNET was publishing AI-written stories, readers had a lot of questions. But CNET staff are in the dark, too. Red Ventures, which owns CNET, is following a lucrative SEO marketing play. And it's at the expense of the journalism:

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good morning! 🗣today is my first day at @techreview ! i’m joining the Pandemic Technology Project, reporting on COVID tech, contact tracing etc. i’m so thrilled to get started! tips, questions, thoughts on what i should look into? i’m at mia.sato @technologyreview .com

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@AyeshaASiddiqi confirmed by the reporter of the story:

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me as my story is going through fact checking

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truly no offense to either group but the semafor front page looks like the instagram intermediate photoshop flyers local DJs make for the events they have at their own house

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@MiaRSato

3 years

gofundme for randy park and his brother, whose mom was killed this week in the atlanta shootings 🖤

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4 years

all these virtual hangs, zoom drinking parties and mass group calls make me think of how hmong people have used free conference call lines as a primary mode of community building for years. i wrote about it for @verge last year. read + listen here:

How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful

Reimagining the conference call line as a radio show.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

3 years

From free donuts and fries to Broadway tickets and guns (?!) governments and private companies are dangling all kinds of incentives for vaccination. But consider this: What if we just gave everyone paid time off of work? I wrote about it for @techreview

The best vaccine incentive might be paid time off

States are using all sorts of tactics to convince more people to get vaccinated. But paid time off could be the thing that millions of hourly shift workers really need.

www.technologyreview.com

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@MiaRSato

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SI confirms my reporting that AdVon is behind the seemingly AI-generated authors/stories. This is the same company that Gannett hired earlier this fall to produce reviews — which ALSO led to accusations the work was AI-generated.

Sports Illustrated reportedly published articles from fake AI authors

The articles have ties to a previous AI dustup at Gannett.

www.theverge.com

Sports Illustrated

@SInow

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Today, an article was published alleging that Sports Illustrated published AI-generated articles. According to our initial investigation, this is not accurate. The articles in question were product reviews and were licensed content from an external, third-party company, AdVon

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behold the beautiful zines printed by @verge featuring my story on Hmong radio. one for my parents and one for me 🤘🏼🤪

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Over 25 years, CNET built a reputation as a trusted source for tech news, reviews, and recommendations. But since being acquired by Red Ventures in 2020, former staff say advertising and editorial have been blending in ways that would be unacceptable at most legit newsrooms.

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@MiaRSato

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it’s shameful that vox chose to lay off our colleagues in essential roles. we are in a moment when their work is needed more than ever, yet the erosion of newsrooms continues across the country. this is shortsighted, cruel, and a huge loss for us.

Vox Media Union

@vox_union

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A statement from the Vox Media Union on today's layoffs

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New: CNET employees are unionizing, citing the need for editorial independence and having a say in how AI technology is used at the outlet.

CNET staff are unionizing, citing editorial independence and use of AI tools

A “solid and dedicated majority” have signed union cards.

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@MiaRSato

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There are calls for more collaboration b/w social workers & law enforcement as people learn about & engage w/ police abolition. I wrote about the social workers pushing back, who imagine a world where social work in its current form is also dismantled:

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Very strange update to this: Sports Illustrated publisher confirms AdVon worked on this, but AdVon told them it's all human-made. "AdVon had writers use a pen or pseudo name in certain articles to protect author privacy," and AdVon partnership has ended. What do we think lol

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@MiaRSato

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Today @futurism reported that Sports Illustrated was publishing articles credited to fake, AI-generated writers. I did a little digging and found connections to AdVon Commerce — the company that was behind the botched Gannett AI reviews in Oct.

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@MiaRSato

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this is getting long and i’d rather you just read the story because it is an incredible picture of an immigrant community creating their own resources. it’s about what happens after immigration & how we stay connected to our culture.

How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful

Reimagining the conference call line as a radio show.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

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Media execs keep saying they're experimenting with AI because it will benefit journalists. But in multiple cases — most recently with G/O Media — reporters aren't the ones using the tools. I wrote about the slew of embarrassing AI "tests" we keep seeing:

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New from me for @ChicagoMag (thread): Japanese photographer Akito Tsuda captured the most intimate moments of Mexican American life in Pilsen in the 90s. He knew barely any English and no Spanish but took hundreds of photos of a community that welcomed him

Pilsen Time Capsule Seeks a Permanent Home

Akito Tsuda photographed the neighborhood pre-gentrification. Now he wants to help preserve what's being lost.

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TikTok’s new feature that “automatically” IDs items in videos and suggests similar products to buy appears to be barely functional. Example below. I wrote about the future we’re barreling towards, where all Content is just a way to get you shopping.

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@MiaRSato

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on my personal essay type beat... for @CatapultStory i wrote about wearing my mom's (amazing) old clothes and how inseparable clothes are to process & build my life. thank you to my editor @ortile 🌾

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@MiaRSato

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another thing: many shows and host or owner by women, rare in ANY media form/industry. here are two hosts I spoke to for the story: Miss Lee (left) and Mee Vang (right, recently quit). they consider their work to be community service — a way to give back to the Hmong community.

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I wrote about the recent Shein influencer trip, the current economics of being a content creator, and the brands that profit from promotion and then ghost when there's some sort of public response:

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@MiaRSato

5 years

i first learned about these shows while i was studying news deserts in Wisconsin at @wisconsinwatch . i wanted to know how Hmong Wisconsinites got their news, and a source mentioned “the conference radio.” i was like, ????? what???? but it makes so much sense.

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@MiaRSato

1 year

New from me and @jaypeters : Reddit is telling moderators of top subreddits to essentially open up or get replaced — and says it can help remove moderators who are "hindering reopening."

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

Reddit is trying to turn mods against mods.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

8 months

the next time i write about SEO i'm just going to not link to anything and wait for people to yell at me about how i didn't credit them :-) backlink timeout for some of you!

Eric Ravenscraft

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SEO people will spend years of their life reverse-engineering the "secrets" of successful work only to come up with stuff like "link to sources" and then claim it's a conspiracy if anyone does it without being paid to

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the topics are often subversive. they talk about taboo topics like love and relationships, discuss politics within the community, and so on. but there is also storytelling, singing of Hmong folk songs, cooking tutorials and so much more.

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@MiaRSato

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Also! i am very interested in doing more stories like this, especially around Asian (American) topics. i want to tell disaggregated, specific stories about all of our communities. my DMs are open if you have story tips, etc. !!

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@MiaRSato

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the funniest possible conspiracy theory to our SEO story is that we are getting paid for linking to.... the people and content that we are directly writing about? i am begging you to please touch grass. call a friend. read a book. then you can venmo me for giving you attention.

Martin MacDonald 🦖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇸🇺🇸🇧🇧 🏖️⛵

@searchmartin

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The new "anti-SEO" article on the Verge is possibly the most elaborate SEO linkdrop in history. I'll bet $5 at least one of the (many) anchor rich followed links, are paid:

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Hmong radio shows aren’t being saved. there is no directory of lines, contact info for hosts, etc. there are important efforts underway at @UWMadison by Prof. Lori Kido Lopez to study and take samples of the programs. her research in Asian American media is imp. to this story.

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some history: the Hmong people are a southeast asian ethnic group with origins in mostly laos, vietnam and thailand. during the “Secret War” in the 70s, Hmong Lao people fought communism alongside US military. an est. 1/4 of all Hmong boys and men died

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@MiaRSato

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in the mid-late 2000s, when cell phone companies started offering unlimited call plans, word was spreading in Hmong communities about radio shows entirely in Hmong, running 24/7. you just had to call a number to be connected. and it was free.

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@MiaRSato

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anyone with the number can call in, but a key part of the shows is that callers can *respond* to the host. they push a number indicating they have thoughts, and the host goes through and unmutes lines in order. imagine doing this with 500 people on the line!!!

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@MiaRSato

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I reported and wrote this piece for @verge . my editor is the wonderful @knguyen . @maiahibbett fact-checked me. the beautiful photos are by Annabelle Marcovici and Phyllis B Dooney.

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ALSO ALSO we made a whole podcast episode where you can hear the lines in action. Andrew Marino at @verge made the sick beats and pulled it all together for us.

Pirate Radio » Dial up!

How the Hmong diaspora uses the world's most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful. Episode two of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featur

podcasts.apple.com

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now there are dozens, maybe even hundreds of these lines. here’s how they work: a person or a group acquire a conference call line and set it up, with a welcome message and some info about their show. they then schedule “DJs” throughout the day with specific programming.

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most Hmong refugees that came to the US settled in Minnesota, Wisconsin & California, but the community is still small & scattered — there are under 300,000 Hmong Americans. written language is also relatively new to the Hmong: only since the 1950s. this is where radio comes in.

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@MiaRSato

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You see many of these tactics on The Verge. That long byline next to my name on my stories? SEO baby!! More broadly, let's talk about what 20 yrs of reliance on Google traffic has done to human creative output; what we lose when your work NEEDS to be visible on a single platform.

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@MiaRSato

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New from me @verge : I wrote about all the SEO tricks that people say are ruining the web. Table of contents, keyword-addled writing, all that extra text everywhere. The story has visuals that track a fake site as it morphs into a site optimized for Google Search, not readers.

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mind you this is from 1981 (!) and was the first asian barbie. 😭

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@MiaRSato

4 years

read to the end to learn how you can be an ally to garment workers right now (it’s not a boycott). many thanks to @kmcdonovgh for editing. featuring insights from @GarmentWorkerLA & the scholarship of @minh81 (how to make a mask, which i cite in this piece, is essential reading)

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Link to the story: Alt text for above: A lizard themed site’s images are compressed, alt text added, and design/theme changed be Google optimized. The site goes from quirky and clunky to the sleeker but less distinct style you’ve seen all over the web.

How Google perfected the web

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

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do you work at any of the many Red Ventures owned websites, like CNET, The Points Guy, Bankrate, etc.? I'd love to hear from you. mia @theverge .com; email for my Signal. off the record till you say so!

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@MiaRSato

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New: An anti-fraud measure on Etsy is holding up to 75% of seller’s money, including for longtime shops w/ good reviews. Sellers say it’s destabilizing their business— some have had to take out loans & use savings due to the sudden change.

Etsy sellers say a fraud protection program is destabilizing their businesses

Some sellers have thousands of dollars tied up.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

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Staff were asked to work on ads for companies CNET covers, leading employees to have to push back and refuse. On-camera video journalists have been asked to appear in sponsored content, too, blurring the lines between what is reporting and what is an ad.

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“It’s very demoralizing. It’s actually soul-crushing. All you want to do is your job and you’re being told, ‘Don’t cover this,’ because the revenue potential is not there,” a former staff member says.

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@MiaRSato

4 years

for @ToneMSN , i wrote about the outrage over the toppling of the “forward” statue in madison, wisconsin, the limits of our relics, and what is implicitly said when we prioritize a false promise over life, over people.

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@MiaRSato

1 year

hi #NewProfilePic

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@MiaRSato

8 months

the fact that this person cannot fathom a world where people are linking to relevant content and getting nothing in return tells you all you need to know about how they do business ;)

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@MiaRSato

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first time voting in ny :) waited 1 hour and 15 minutes in the rain but it was worth it! make a plan to vote y’all!

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@MiaRSato

4 years

we're excited!!! ✊🏼

Markup Union

@MarkupUnion

4 years

We have a union!

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@MiaRSato

2 years

@Evil_MoreTea it was in a hidden pop up that was only visible if you clicked the "CNET Money Staff" byline on stories. the acknowledgement came after news broke initially:

CNET Is Experimenting With an AI Assist. Here's Why

For over two decades, CNET has built our reputation testing new technologies and separating the hype from reality.

www.cnet.com

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@MiaRSato

2 years

CNET and RV leaderships' choice to use AI and chip away at editorial firewalls jeopardizes the people who work for them. Journalists need readers to trust them. These moves do the opposite.

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@MiaRSato

1 year

with love and light: please warn your friends about the scourge of public venmo transactions

Here’s a reminder to make your Venmo transactions private, courtesy of Clarence Thomas

Don’t be like Clarence Thomas’ aide.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

6 months

I'm not a royal family person but I was really curious about the "kill notices" being issued over Kate Middleton's botched Photoshop job. I learned that retractions like this are VERY rare, and signal a serious breach of protocol/trust:

The Kate Middleton photo scandal is a rare — and consequential — flub

Agencies like the AP, Getty, and Reuters retracted the image.

www.theverge.com

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@MiaRSato

4 years

i did not write much this year because its been pretty terrible in a lot of ways. but i did have the good luck of being published by some really fantastic outlets and working with amazing editors. a thread of my 2020 freelance writing:

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“[Leadership] gave no thought to what these unilateral decisions would do to the people working there,” @sarahmanyzz says. “We still have lives to live and careers to forge. And we can’t do that with something as damaging as this hanging over our heads.”

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@MiaRSato

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It’s ridiculous and hilarious that some SEO people think we sold links. We do rigorous journalism and I add (and remove) any links I think are relevant to readers. When I describe a table of contents, I imagine that a reader will want to SEE what it looks like IRL. That’s all!

Valerie Stimac 🚀

@vstimac

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To be clear because I'm sure my profile is getting a few more views than usual: 1️⃣ I did not pay for any links in The Verge SEO story yesterday. 2️⃣ I was never asked to pay for any links . 3️⃣ I was never told that I would be linked. As you might wonder, why do it then… (1/2)

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