Daron
@darontaylor.bsky.social
Mograph @washingtonpost.com
Just happy to be here
Just happy to be here
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Daron
@darontaylor.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Excited to lurk and never post over here now.
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Today, hundreds of our colleagues on the technology side of the company announced the formation of @wapotechguild.bsky.social (1)
April 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today, hundreds of our colleagues on the technology side of the company announced the formation of @wapotechguild.bsky.social (1)
Looks like it’s a good time for me to move to Hawaii and start farming cacao and vanilla orchids
Madagascar - one of the poorest nations in the world with gross domestic product (GDP) per head of just over $500 - meanwhile faces a 47% tariff on the modest $733 million of exports of vanilla, metals and apparel that it did with the U.S. last year.
Trump's tariff formula confounds the world, punishes the poor - www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
April 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Looks like it’s a good time for me to move to Hawaii and start farming cacao and vanilla orchids
A great interview with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social not least because of his casually dropped ~extremely apt~ poetry references. I can only aspire to having the same level of mental furniture in my brain wapo.st/3XvVEo3
John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair.
The author of “Everything Is Tuberculosis” is trying to find hope on the road as medical research funding disappears.
wapo.st
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A great interview with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social not least because of his casually dropped ~extremely apt~ poetry references. I can only aspire to having the same level of mental furniture in my brain wapo.st/3XvVEo3
We are so cooked.
Delivery app DoorDash has partnered with payment and commerce service Klarna to offer customers choices when they check out, including paying immediately, in four installments or deferring payments to “a more convenient time, such as a date that aligns with their paycheck schedules.”
DoorDash’s new payment plan lets customers eat now and pay later
The food delivery app has partnered with payment service Klarna. Some experts say “buy now, pay later” leads to purchases shoppers don’t need and can’t afford.
wapo.st
March 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We are so cooked.
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This investigation is the product of dogged reporting by colleagues from across the Post newsroom.
What we found is heartbreaking. But I hope it contributes to a conversation about ways to prevent this from happening again.
What we found is heartbreaking. But I hope it contributes to a conversation about ways to prevent this from happening again.
Erliene Kelly, 83, thought she was safe in West Altadena. But a Washington Post analysis reveals that officials knew fires were breaking out in her neighborhood for almost four hours before they issued an evacuation order.
By then, she was unable to flee.
wapo.st/3FtAsbU
By then, she was unable to flee.
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What went wrong the night Altadena burned
A Washington Post analysis shows that some officials knew of the fire’s westward spread hours before evacuation orders were sent to residents in western Altadena.
wapo.st
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This investigation is the product of dogged reporting by colleagues from across the Post newsroom.
What we found is heartbreaking. But I hope it contributes to a conversation about ways to prevent this from happening again.
What we found is heartbreaking. But I hope it contributes to a conversation about ways to prevent this from happening again.
Grey is the color of not making a choice. Purposely abstaining from any feeling or perspective that could alienate a potential buyer, meaning grey is the color of commodification. wapo.st/41GNkUM
The house color that tells you when a neighborhood is gentrifying
A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where markers of gentrification have spiked.
wapo.st
March 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Grey is the color of not making a choice. Purposely abstaining from any feeling or perspective that could alienate a potential buyer, meaning grey is the color of commodification. wapo.st/41GNkUM
Ezra Klein’s casting of the race for AGI as a “summoning an…almost interplanetary ally…but we don’t understand that ally” is the most lucid analogy of it I’ve heard. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | The Government Knows A.G.I. is Coming (Gift Article)
The Biden administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the U.S. government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Ezra Klein’s casting of the race for AGI as a “summoning an…almost interplanetary ally…but we don’t understand that ally” is the most lucid analogy of it I’ve heard. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
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Using my “personal liberties” to repost this
Here’s why some billionaires are going soft on Trump
February 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Using my “personal liberties” to repost this
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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just emailed the paper's staff to announce a "change coming to our opinion pages."
February 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just emailed the paper's staff to announce a "change coming to our opinion pages."
Hell yes to this 🌎
February 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hell yes to this 🌎
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Amazon's $40 million to license the Melania Trump documentary, two weeks after Jeff Bezos dined at Mar-a-Lago, was nearly three times the next-closest offer. The president's wife gets a 70% cut www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | How the Trumps Turned an Election Victory Into a Cash Bonanza
The first lady’s documentary deal with Amazon, the president’s legal settlements and other transactions near $80 million so far, with the Trump library a major beneficiary.
www.wsj.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Amazon's $40 million to license the Melania Trump documentary, two weeks after Jeff Bezos dined at Mar-a-Lago, was nearly three times the next-closest offer. The president's wife gets a 70% cut www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Now this, this is why I come here
February 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Now this, this is why I come here
Made this during the first Trump administration and didn’t think there’d be a need to post it again. But I guess we’re playing all the old hits youtu.be/_seO_BL5GJg?...
How to win a Trade War
YouTube video by Washington Post
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Made this during the first Trump administration and didn’t think there’d be a need to post it again. But I guess we’re playing all the old hits youtu.be/_seO_BL5GJg?...
Excited to lurk and never post over here now.
November 11, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Excited to lurk and never post over here now.
“During the crypto boom of 2021, Riot Platforms was raking in cash from bitcoin mining. Now the company is losing so much money that it's counting on energy credits from selling power back to the Texas grid to keep its costs under control.”
The invisible hand of the free market wants us to pay bitcoin miners $31.7 million to shut down during deadly heat waves so the energy they use can keep people alive.
Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
www.cnbc.com
September 7, 2023 at 2:49 PM
“During the crypto boom of 2021, Riot Platforms was raking in cash from bitcoin mining. Now the company is losing so much money that it's counting on energy credits from selling power back to the Texas grid to keep its costs under control.”
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O, I could divide myself and go to buffets
September 2, 2023 at 11:17 AM
O, I could divide myself and go to buffets
Aw man :(
It's the end of The Nib. I wrote about the great people I worked with who made the publication possible. mattbors.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
The End of The Nib
After ten years, the comics publication I founded shuts down this Friday.
mattbors.substack.com
August 29, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Aw man :(
A true legend
In an impossibly cool move, Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, has noticed his book about creating animation is out of print and massively over-priced on the second hand market.
So he's put it on his site for free.
joemurraystudio.com/books-by-joe...
So he's put it on his site for free.
joemurraystudio.com/books-by-joe...
August 23, 2023 at 1:45 PM
A true legend
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