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Ed Cone

@efcone
 Greensboro NC
Joined April 2008
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Kindness is an underrated management technique
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The State of North Carolina has nearly $5 billion in its rainy day fund. It's been pretty damn rainy. That's our money. Time to start spending it on rebuilding in the mountains. @NC_Governor @SenatorBerger @NCHouseSpeaker #ncpol
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What should national media be doing in the mountains of NC and TN? *Be respectful of people and their losses. *Understand that the region is huge and includes many places far from Asheville and even your new disccovery, Boone. 1/3
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*Use the skills and resources that allow you to get reporters into a cave in Afghanistan to reach remote places. *Support local media every way you can. *Find and amplify reliable social channels. Credit them. 2/3
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*Don’t forget the places and the people when the waters recede and the visuals are less dramatic. 3/3 @cnn @nytimes @WSJ @washingtonpost @CBSNews @FoxNews @NBCNews @ABC
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The national media is missing the scale of disaster in Western NC. This is a Katrina-level event and it deserves Katrina-level coverage but you have to scroll to find stories at the @NYT and @WSJ sites. Even weatherporn sensationalist @CNN has today's story below a recap of SNL.
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It's hard to get reporters on the ground and telecom infrastructue is badly damaged (a story in itself) but big media is failing a region in desparate need. And they need to look beyond Asheville, where it's bad at biblcial scale, but the situation is desparate far and wide.
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I'm actively in the market for an electric vehicle but do not wish to be in business with Elon Musk, so no Tesla for me.
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"The less valuable a system is to you, the easier it is to leave." Most of the folks I come here for are still around, but for how long? "Twitter got bought out by a low-attention-span, overconfident billionaire who started pulling out Jenga blocks..." doctorow.medium.com/social-q…
Social Quitting

Social Quitting

Forthcoming in the January, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.

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My Thanksgiving plan is to do what my sister and I were doing in this pic and ignore impending disaster for a bit, not suggesting a fulltime Don't Look Up strategy but hope you all can do the same for the holiday
Image from Ed Cone (@efcone)
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I guess we just thought that's what ships do? Our father was fascinated by the freighter's woes but we had our own agenda.
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It’s called White Lotus, T. It’s on HBO like our show but I’m still alive in this one. I finally get to have a midlife crisis now.
Image from socialist sopranos memes (@gabagoolmarx)
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Hospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients - The American Prospect

Hospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients - The American Prospect

A visit to a hospital in Europe is an eye-opener to the many ways monopolized U.S. hospitals pad their profits with unnecessary costs.

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im on the new social network, splorp. splorp has everything you like about twitter and facebook without any of the downsides. instead of tweets we have "gizzups" and instead of likes we do splorptangles. we're having a wonderful, delightful time over there. #poweredbysplorp
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Interesting report this morning from @RaleighReporter of @NC_Tribune. Quite the diverse set of political investments into NC from #FTX execs.
Image from David Capen (@DavidCapenNC)
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"I, a 28-year-old crypto scammer, believe I am the only one who can fight the Robot Apocalypse of 4265, and this existential threat is more important than anything else, so my efforts to personally amass all the wealth of the world are unconstrained by any other considerations."
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@atrios has a gift for cutting through the bullshit. Read the whole thing: eschatonblog.com/2022/11/onl…
My dad told me how the fabled Charlie Justice teams of his youth flamed out in all three of their big bowl games. I lived through the LT-era crash-and-burn at Oklahoma. So last night felt like tradition, not tragedy, for UNC football. Still, though, dammit.
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On the bright side my family left Tennessee several generations back so I didn't grow up a Vols fan.
#Whistleblowers and injured patients are turning to the courts to press allegations of #misconduct or other improper business dealings. northcarolinahealthnews.org/…
Sick profit: Investigating private equity’s stealthy takeover of health care across cities and...

Sick profit: Investigating private equity’s stealthy takeover of health care across cities and...

Two-year-old Zion Gastelum died four days after receiving root canals and crowns at Kool Smiles, a private equity-affiliated dental clinic.

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I saw The Apprentice as Trump's tacit admission of his obvious failings as a business leader and actually thought aw good for him, I had no clue much of America would see it as proof of the opposite and that would launch his political career.
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