Ryan Mac 🙃 0 years ago

I helped cover Ross Ulbricht's arrest in Oct 2013 in my first full time job as a reporter. Now, here's the backstory behind his pardon. [www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/t...](

How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website, leveraged Presiden...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

Everything is dumb

Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

it's funny that the US keeps trying to invent new sports like pickleball and spikeball but the English are just like, "lads check out these fuckin DARTS."

Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

This is the supreme irony of the MAGA schism over H-1Bs. Many workers who stayed at Twitter after Musk’s takeover did so because their status in the US was contingent on their employment. They kept a site running that was then used by MAGA folks to question why they were here in the first place. RE:

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Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

Show Mike Tyson’s ass!!!!

Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

I don't think big pubs are beyond criticism and I realize I work for one, but the diatribes against "legacy media" from folks this week who wrote/reported their own stories or posts after a mainstream outlet broke the news is a little rich.

Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

Related to Musk playing fast and loose with government secrets, here's a passage from our book, Character Limit, in which he randomly tells a group of Twitter employees in Nov 2022 that he didn't think Russians would interfere with Twitter Blue because they had thus far failed to hack Starlink. RE:

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Big scoop from @kirstengrind.bsky.social, @ericlipton.nytimes.com and @sheeraf.bsky.social: There are at least 3 federal reviews into Elon Musk for...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 1 year ago

Big scoop from [@kirstengrind.bsky.social](

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NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang. Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using ...

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