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Rani Molla

@ranimolla

14 days

Americans are keeping phones, cars, and homes longer.

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2 years

My dog looks like he’s about to share a really bad political opinion

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Local Thai place no longer suffering fools

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Searches for “how to send a resignation email” rose 3,450% on Google in the past 3 months

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Imagine ordering spicy food then trying to return it because it’s spicy? Arrestable offense

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Google Search in 2004 vs Google AI Overview in 2024

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Google Search Google AI Overview in 2004 in 2024

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3 years

So good

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7 years

Why we need more people of color working in newsrooms in one article:

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My oldest man opinion is that headphones with cords are better

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More Americans approve of labor unions than at any point since 1965

Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965

Two-thirds of Americans approve of labor unions, marking the highest reading since 1965. Union membership among U.S. adults is steady, at 9%.

news.gallup.com

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Today I was laid off from a job I really loved at Vox while on maternity leave 🙃 They let go of a lot of amazing writers. I'm gonna take a beat to hang with my baby, but keep me in your thoughts for tech/data journalism jobs next year.

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How Sweetgreen sells $15 salads and still isn’t profitable by @ChiefChartmaker

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@bcmerchant New Slack away message: "distracted by diversity demands"

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2 years

He’s just asking questions

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Coronavirus making earnings calls into the weirdest reboot of MTV Cribs. Here is Netflix’s CEO reporting from what appears to be a child’s bedroom:

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Starbucks union says that only *3* of the 220 Starbucks stores that have voted to unionize have had their first bargaining sessions "due to Starbucks’ union-busting and delay tacts." @Starbucks @SBWorkersUnited

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4 years

you guys are dumb

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It’s happening

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“If I go into the office and there are people but none of them are on my team, I don’t gain anything besides a commute." — Mathew, payroll company, NJ

Why the return to the office isn’t working

“I don’t gain anything besides a commute.”

www.vox.com

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3 years

Pretty sure the only people my age who make phone calls are journalists

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5 years

Runs two companies, eats no food, needs an intervention. Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 wellness hacks:

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If you’re an AirPod owner, how many pairs have you owned? I suspect AirPods are actually a subscription business

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4 years

More than 69 million people early voted — about half the total turnout of 2016. Nice!

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Having grown up very poor I’m always startled by how many things are free only once you have money

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I should probably just give him my dinner right?

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6 years

Facebook's reorganized product team is led by more guys named Chris than women:

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5 years

Amazon just had its third quarter of record profit!* *This is what that looks like compared to revenue

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6 years

I’d argue the most effective politicians on Twitter are @realDonaldTrump and @Ocasio2018 for completely different reasons. Trump uses dog whistles and obfuscation while Ocasio-Cortez gives a clear and clear-headed look at what’s happening day to day in our government. Both work.

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“What makes this so frustrating is that my wife will send me a photo of her and my 10-month-old son going out for a walk. If I had a break at home, I’d go on a walk with them.” — Wells Fargo financial services employee in Iowa

Why the return to the office isn’t working

“I don’t gain anything besides a commute.”

www.vox.com

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5 years

I know it’s early but I’d like to nominate the dog in @rickygervais ’ #AfterLife for best supporting actress

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Bloomberg asking Adam Neumann on why Andreessen Horowitz invested $350M in his new startup after everything at WeWork: “That’s a question for Andreessen Horowitz”

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7 years

Twitter isn't that old @nytimes

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“If employees refuse to come in, it means the system isn’t working” — @I_Am_NickBloom I talked to a bunch of people who've had to return to the office about what it's been like — and how it could be better. 🧵

Why the return to the office isn’t working

“I don’t gain anything besides a commute.”

www.vox.com

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5 years

Remember that time when Amazon built AWS for itself?

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SCOOP: Amazon just launched Amazon Care, virtual medical clinics for its own employees. That includes pharmacy, virtual visits, and in-home care.

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2 years

Has a huge audience on Twitter but won’t shut about being cancelled

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6 years

I think Trump might be losing his thunder. Amazon's stock is up 2 percent this morning after this tweet:

Donald J. Trump

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The Fake News Washington Post, Amazon’s “chief lobbyist,” has another (of many) phony headlines, “Trump Defiant As China Adds Trade Penalties.” WRONG! Should read, “Trump Defiant as U.S. Adds Trade Penalties, Will End Barriers And Massive I.P. Theft.” Typically bad reporting!

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1 year

My sister's friend just got a job using a cover letter written by ChatGPT and I kinda think that's great because cover letters are dumb

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4 years

Rental car is trying some bullshit

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5 years

My friends who are watching my dog made the mistake of vacuuming

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4 years

Hello world! Baby Rio and I are on maternity leave. See you in October. Please send love but not email <3

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2 years

Level 3 was fine for our 2 year old, who ate it all without sending it back. Though, to be fair, he didn't pay.

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6 years

@AP New headline: “Rapist doesn’t like laws against rape”

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3 years

@mims The future of work is dystopian

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They got rid of all the friction to sign up for stuff but, by god, you will never be able to cancel

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6 years

Twitter lost 9 MILLION users last quarter — way more than ever

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5 years

I'm working on a diversity pandering BINGO board. Please contribute!

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4 years

Updated with new numbers. The US now has approximately 3,500 confirmed coronavirus cases — and a trajectory that's marching in lockstep with Italy @dylanlscott

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Amazon created a fake Japanese streetwear brand it sold on Shopify to get intel on competitors. Wild investigation from @WSJ

Amazon’s spy ops on rivals: shell companies, printed docs, and a fake Japanese streetwear brand

Some companies check out rivals’ websites, stores and public filings to stay abreast of the competition. Amazon made its own fake shell company...

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I'll probably update/edit/replace but here it is, folks: the Diversity Pandering BINGO Board. Thanks to everyone who made these excellent suggestions. Edits welcome!

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2 years

Can’t look away

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“I see ads for these teamwork apps — pictures of people sitting at a conference table and they have all sorts of things on the wall & they’re really collaborating. And I’m like, that’s not what we’re doing.” — Melissa, a government policy analyst in DC

Why the return to the office isn’t working

“I don’t gain anything besides a commute.”

www.vox.com

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I'd like to coin this awful trend "technorexia"

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6 years

My dog is a human, example 584

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Three sentences into WeWork's "our story" section of its IPO filings and I have no idea what it does: "Our mission is to elevate the world’s consciousness"

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2 years

@Aerocles Go straight to jail do not pass go

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6 years

I want to write a Tweet-sized opinion column called “Tiny Hills to Die On”

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7 years

Because of their strict moral compass and good looks?

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Weinstein, Trump and O'Reilly on the cover of this week's @TheWeek

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I don’t want to Twitter with Instagram friends. These are very different groups for me.

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Signal became one of the top 10 most downloaded social apps on iOS yesterday for the first time, according to data from App Annie. The last time Signal downloads ranked nearly as high was on the day of Trump’s inauguration.

From Citizen to Signal, the most popular apps right now reflect America’s protests

What app downloads tell us about how protesters are organizing.

www.vox.com

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Crime is going down but we’re worrying about it more. How fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors are making us afraid.

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In most therapist voice: Jack, this is just the *illusion* of control

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3 years

for some reason I imagined storming the capitol would be more difficult than just like showing up with flags

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I have not had a useful Facebook notification in about 2 years

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New data: SoulCycle boycott worked

One Trump fundraiser was all it took to slash SoulCycle’s attendance

New data shows attendance dipped in the weeks following the boycott.

www.vox.com

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4 years

Have been trying to put my finger on streaming service names for some time and I think I’ve got it

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5 years

Communication seems like a good thing until you have too much of it. It’s so easy to communicate with job software like Slack, Teams and Google Hangouts and Meet that we’re posting more messages than any one person can read.

Is Slack ruining our jobs — and lives?

Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.

www.vox.com

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4 years

I got catcalled on my run during coronavirus and while 7 months pregnant. Read the goddamn room, bro.

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6 years

@RudyGiuliani Did you try unplugging it then plugging it back in?

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8 years

Debate night drinking game: 1. Drink because this is the state of American politics.

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4 years

Not sure where this originated and don’t normally trade in memes but lol

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3 years

In this house we share toys

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So far @SBWorkersUnited has filed 125 unfair labor practice cases against @Starbucks . Following investigations, the National Labor Relations Board has issued *complaints* in 45 of those cases.

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A friend likened our wholesale use of social media to how people welcomed processed foods as the future in the 50s, and that feels right

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5 years

I’m no doctor but...this is not enough calories to live an active life

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4 years

My dog is a cat

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Here's the final diversity pandering BINGO board. Thanks for all these great suggestions!

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I have half a mind to catalogue tech leaders’ batshit diet and exercise habits but I’m afraid of spreading the crazy

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“People have adapted to remote work, and truthfully, the firm has done a tremendous job at adapting in the pandemic. But I think it’s more the returning to work that they’re struggling on.” — Andres, Boston law firm

Why the return to the office isn’t working

“I don’t gain anything besides a commute.”

www.vox.com

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Slack says 76% of knowledge workers want flexibility in where they work. Executives are nearly 3x more likely than non-executive employees to want to return to the office full-time. Woof.

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5 years

If Twitter can’t stop abuse of its CEO’s account, imagine how good it is at stopping abuse of regular people

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There's new tension brewing in the world of remote work between bosses and regular employees: Who gets to work from home

You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.

Bosses are ordering people back to the office from the comfort of their own homes.

www.vox.com

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@WSJ Equivalent of Trump’s signature: promising $50K but then only ponying up “a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter”

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7 years

You had me at leaving the White House

Donald J. Trump

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Leaving the White House for the Great State of North Carolina. Big progress being made on many fronts!

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I’m sitting in front of a tiktok influencer, something I know because he said he’s a tiktok influencer. Help.

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6 years

Tim Cook on what he would do if he were Mark Zuckerberg: "I wouldn't be in this situation"

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Crazy how all these tech companies are doing the right thing —*looks at watch*—way too late

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2 years

On Friday the Starbucks union had its biggest win yet: Its flagship NYC roastery voted to unionize. Here's a 🧵 from my piece on why the @SBWorkersUnited has been so successful and what union movement could learn from it:

They’re young, optimistic and they want a union

How a bunch of Starbucks baristas built a labor movement.

www.vox.com

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We ordered 3 for the baby

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LinkedIn data shows the transition in jobs from journalism and public relations to content and social media.

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I did it. I finally updated the media landscape chart. Send me praise. Direct your corrections/complaints to @pkafka

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4 years

Bird app throwing shade at this basic bird

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WTF does this even mean? “You have this very focused point of mind in terms of this drive.” Someone get this man a sandwich

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The hypocrisy is making workers angry and they're fighting back in the few ways they can: not showing up to the office or looking for work someplace else.

You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.

Bosses are ordering people back to the office from the comfort of their own homes.

www.vox.com

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5 years

Watch your back, WeWork, my neighborhood Indian place is coming for you

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The NLRB found that the Starbucks union *did not* threaten and coerce employees. On the other hand, the NLRB has issued 16 official complaints against Starbucks that include 70 charges and over 500 allegations of misconduct

Starbucks Workers United

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The NLRB dismissed Starbucks’ FALSE charges against union leaders in Phoenix, AZ. Starbucks claimed that union reps physically intimidated and berated customers & fellow workers. The NLRB investigated these charges and found no evidence to support Starbucks claims.

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@casualafro I lol’d twice: “She just got sick of us calling her out for sounding kind of racist, so she started with this ‘moderate’ shit.” And “Like, just call yourself a Libertarian. It’s the same thing,” Reed added.

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For the visually inclined, Tumblr then and now:

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WhatsApp is fighting fake news by limiting its virality. Facebook and Twitter might want to consider the same thing. Here's how it works: @KurtWagner8

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A lot has happened since I last made this chart. Disney bought 21st Century Fox, Apple came out with a new TV strategy and Oath lost its stupid name. Who owns everything in Big Media today: via @Recode with @pkafka

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A good way to hire more people of color is to hire more people of color

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Alphabet was a giant conspiracy to waste reporters’ time by forcing them to explain wtf it was every time before just saying Google for the rest of the piece anyway

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