Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mattjcarm Yup. And they tell you not to drink 30 minutes before so... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @keachhagey: The pandemic accelerated Google, Facebook and Amazon’s takeover of the US ad market. They now receive a majority of US ad d… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@TheDanBarrett Yes occurred to me immediately that there must be a subreddit at the very least. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@lea One shot down one to go. But wouldn’t matter. This is an hr/insurance thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

A nice young person just had to login to Google Meet and watch me spit into a specimen cup for a remote Covid test. So there’s a job that didn’t exist pre-pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

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@elizashapiro Still doing 10 day shutdowns with 2 positive tests? — PolitiTweet.org

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@frankpallotta Omg. See that movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@frankpallotta Thx but you are now disqualified from the discourse https://t.co/CPcMJFz3iC — PolitiTweet.org

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@frankpallotta You’re blowing up your own opsec here — PolitiTweet.org

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Miami Vice is one of my favorite great bad movies. I think I watched it 3 times during the pandemic. Apologies to the actual good movies I should have watched instead but I’m a fiend for good-looking fake-smart violence and incomprehensible dialogue. https://t.co/oBZKEvXDUQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@bmorrissey @MichaelDavSmith Ah Matt has just spelled it out on Twitter, of course — PolitiTweet.org

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@ntaylor963 Yes. But that’s just a marketplace where you are picking and choosing between different features/prices etc. - that is, what we have now. There’s no most. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShiraOvide @DelRey That part for sure but they are also very much codependent. I guess option 3 is that it’s such a big deal they keep kicking the can down the road bc no one wants to make a bad long term decision. But that seems like a stretch. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ntaylor963 Giving someone access to a lawyer/subsidizing their legal bills doesn’t strike me as a moat at all - just a service/feature that some writers will care about, others won’t but certainly something that competitors can offer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShiraOvide I can’t tell if the fact that no one else seems to know/care about this means that no one’s actually buying anything on Facebook or IG? Or that no one actually uses Apple Pay? Either answer seems meaningful cc @DelRey — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShiraOvide Regular reminder that Apple Pay does not work on Facebook/Instagram. Asked about this for years and the only thing I know is that it’s certainly not a tech problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bmorrissey @MichaelDavSmith 🤷‍♂️ Not really following. But I think in general we discount risk tolerance for all of this stuff. Easy to take on risk if you don’t have much to lose, or if you have so much you really don’t worry about losing. Often much harder when you’re in the middle. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bmorrissey @MichaelDavSmith But that same network and star power is what determines whether substack offers the deal. Don’t know any of the particulars but don’t discount risk profile. If substack gets it wrong they lose money and move on; if writer gets it wrong the downside can be meaningful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kevinmdraper Seconded. https://t.co/nHDBHQJ66O — PolitiTweet.org

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Substack, money, and the age-old publisher/platform debate. With input from @sadydoyle @espiers @mattyglesias @hamishmckenzie https://t.co/nRXofNrGLL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brettashtonsj: Wow, this is really, really good. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shanand @voxdotcom Amazon will produce it. Not sure if they’ll rent a crew or build their own. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jason_kint Amazon will produce the games. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jason_kint https://t.co/HKFWlkBwFU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @voxdotcom: Amazon’s $10 billion NFL deal is huge — and a sign that sports is staying on TV for a while longer https://t.co/GakuWYfxMK — PolitiTweet.org

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And Fox (also confirming it is out of Thursdays) https://t.co/mY4DR6pbCd — PolitiTweet.org

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And Disney — PolitiTweet.org

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NFL announcing its new TV deals in a few minutes. But here’s Viacom/CBS: https://t.co/JxSwT2IQeE — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballmatthew @RichLightShed Yes, the previously reported deals will be announced — PolitiTweet.org

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One big change for Amazon is that it will be producing the games itself instead of streaming broadcast TV coverage, as it (and Twitter) has done in the past. Will be interesting to see if Amazon goes plain vanilla with the games, to reassure league and viewers, or mixes it up. — PolitiTweet.org