Walt Mossberg

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@nattgarun @Bloomberg Congrats, Natt! — PolitiTweet.org

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Always an interesting show, both for the content and, especially now, for the production values. — PolitiTweet.org

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@susanthesquark @rachsyme Me too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mladenerjavec She kissed Kirk. First interracial kiss on American TV. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PsycGrad @MrSilva Yup. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fifty-four years ago today, the first episode of the first version of #StarTrek aired. Over the ensuing years, there have been multiple additional series and a bunch of movies. Today, @CBS has three different Star Trek series on its streaming service. Live long and prosper. https://t.co/6yPryjOG5k — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MissABalderas: @waltmossberg I’m a 3rd Grade teacher in South Texas and looking for help getting my 20 students a stylus pencil each fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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Some people in this book are famous. Others, just average folks. It doesn’t matter. All honored great teachers. The teacher who launched me on my life’s path was my high school social studies teacher in Warwick, R.I., Robert Shapiro, who died on this date in 2012. Who was yours? — PolitiTweet.org

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As school resumes in awful conditions, let’s remember and salute teachers. Some are risking their health. Others are struggling to make virtual education work. Here’s a 2002 book by David Shribman in which folks salute the teachers who shaped their lives. https://t.co/orUpSnFuHr — PolitiTweet.org

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@rpesce @tomhanks @YokoOgawaUNI @alexanderchee @bobpricejr Yup. Well done. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @carolmcc13: #RIPLouBrock One of the greats. https://t.co/bWO38Fq2RF — PolitiTweet.org

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@susanthesquark Ugh. — PolitiTweet.org

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@markemerritt At least it would isolate Fox as merely a Trump tool and not a respectable news organization. But I’d note that, surprisingly, their election night analysts have been remarkably independent in some past years. — PolitiTweet.org

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This 👇👇👇 is why the networks cannot pronounce a victor in the presidential race on election night. Like a lot of things, that practice has to change, at least for this year, due to the pandemic. Otherwise, chaos could ensue, with the apparent winner and loser changing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoannaStern @WSJTech Lack of Siri is a deal breaker for me, even though I agree with you that the current Apple remote should be replaced. But the worst outrage is that they only gave you three grafs to cover this important topic! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoannaStern: I wrote about one of the most life changing gadgets in this week’s @WSJTech newsletter: an Apple TV remote that doesn’t ma… — PolitiTweet.org

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@racheld Steve Jobs was a big supporter of the mainstream press, even though he got mad at reporters & stories he deemed wrong or insufficiently adulatory. He was a regular reader of the @nytimes & @WSJ. He was also a major liberal and privately furious at the Gore-Bush election outcome. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless The transition to USB-C - by the entire industry- is a disaster. Previous transitions, like moving from serial/parallel to USB 1st gen, or even Apple ditching all its proprietary ports, were much smoother. At the very least, USB ports & cables should be color-coded by function. — PolitiTweet.org

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I love @pick_song! Two very talented, serious musicians, sidelined by the pandemic, play songs you request for yourself or as gifts to others. They ask for a donation. Here’s an example of the pair doing a great Carole King tune on viola and piano. https://t.co/iCtqj4xCVx — PolitiTweet.org

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My Dad enlisted in the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor. He fought in the Pacific on small, wooden PT Boats (like JFK). His job was to fire the torpedos. He and his crew mates sunk Japanese warships and raided their bases. He wasn’t a “loser” or a “sucker”. He was a patriot. https://t.co/PQ42qgjpcO — PolitiTweet.org

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@simdude @TheoTrojan @Redistrict One day? The requests for mail ballots already look enormous. Most states are used to counting very few and even those very slowly. If the current trends hold up, it could take weeks. We’ve already seen this in some state primaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ For the future, states should commit to count mail ballots by Election Day. Some states already do that and some are talking about it. But it just won’t be possible or even legal this year for most of the country. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ As early as possible, @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC, @CNN, @MSNBC, @AP and Fox should put out statements pledging to refrain this year from calling the election until all votes are counted. — PolitiTweet.org

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@iMarc96 @trekologer @YouTube I think Apple should stay out of the online as business. I’d like to see them kill iAds altogether. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ We have long ceded the unofficial calling of our elections to the press. In normal times, that’s usually fine. But these aren’t normal times and the press has to cover this in a radically different way and refuse to call states until ALL the ballots are counted. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ In fact, in many states, the mail ballots could outnumber the in-person votes. Covering an election needs to change when we’re in a pandemic that alters voting practices. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ This year, the TV networks must stop their election night calls of winners. Pandemic voting changes things. No matter who is leading based on Election Day votes, there will be a vast number of uncounted mail ballots that could totally flip the apparent results, creating chaos. — PolitiTweet.org

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@iMarc96 @trekologer @YouTube I agree. A six month or nine month delay or whatever it is won’t make much difference to the consumer value of the feature. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mtfarnsworth Congrats, Meghann! They are lucky to get you on their team! — PolitiTweet.org

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Striking new Apple ad on privacy shows what it would look like if people shared the kind of personal data in real life that they do online via the Internet privacy theft industry. It’s meant to highlight iPhone privacy features. https://t.co/PgiKVYVuox via @YouTube — PolitiTweet.org