This deck from today's Metro Forward board meeting is refreshingly direct about the tradeoffs involved in changing fares and service levels: wmata.com/about/board/me… For example, recognition of the fact that most rail costs are fixed, regardless of the actual level of service provided!

iOS dev friends: Come join me at Google DC! The Chrome team is hiring.👇🏻

Always love when NPR's Planet Money does a thing to learn about a thing…and this song is a jam.

"A convoluted way to ____" describes much about the NPR member station/mothership relationship... but I'm so encouraged and excited to see this long-planned collaboration coming to fruition!

Your local public radio station could do a lot more good with your $8 a month than a billionaire.

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The fact “verified user Keanu Reeves” is still active many hours after going viral is the biggest warning sign yet that this is all going to go to hell rather quickly (which is exactly Abner Pastoll’s point).

Here's what Twitter said they would do for the midterms. Feels pretty impossible to accomplish without a curation team and if 8 bucks is all you need to be verified. blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c…

We’re now officially the unofficial Twitter account for a defunct Broadway musical. Why is this allowed?

Editorial framing at work:

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Wow.

Still unsure about Mastodon, but set up a profile because it's good to have backup plans: mas.to/@CreativeNewman Now checking out pruvisto.org/debirdify/ to import the accounts I'm following on Twitter tha have already made the switch.

Nope. Come find me at instagram.com/creativenewman or linkedin.com/in/danielanewm…

Just a quick update that I’m pretty much exclusively on Threads these days… please leave this place behind and come find me (Daniel Newman is no longer posting here) over there.