@MikeIsaac

NYT tech reporter. tell me stuff at [email protected] or [email protected] / Text my signal username with tips: MikeIsaac.38

Oakland
Joined January 2009
some news: after 12 years and a lot of bylines, im leaving The Times it is bittersweet. i will miss my colleagues and am proud of the work we did together. im joining The Atlantic in December to cover Silicon Valley for the magazine! could not be more thrilled to get started
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one of my old man qualities is an unabashed love of grape nuts no toppings or add ins, cold whole milk, not heated the gravel of the gods
Due to connections I found about an American product called “Grape Nuts” which is a cereal that looks gross and has nothing to do with grapes or nuts. A strange people
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really tapped into grape nuts twitter with this one. had no idea we are legion
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33 years ago today, Homer Simpson ate 64 slices of American cheese in one sitting. #TheSimpsons episode “Rosebud” first aired October 21, 1993.
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rat king 🐀 retweeted
"It’s a giant loss,” a CNN on-air personality told me following Amanpour's announcement. “It’s what sets us apart. This brain drain will be hugely detrimental. And yes, everyone believes it’s merger-related. And that it won’t be the last defection.” zeteo.com/p/amanpours-cnn-ex…
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rat king 🐀 retweeted
Pope Leo declared free of cancer, says Vatican
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brought my own keiki meal
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Today, Brad Lander, rabbis, and other New Yorkers accompanied Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest. For that, they were detained by the Israeli government.  Harvesting olives is not illegal. The occupation is. I am thankful that Brad has been released. But other New Yorkers remain detained, and they must be released immediately. The same Israeli government detaining them has committed a horrific genocide against Palestinians, killing more than 74,000 people over the last few years alone.  The detention of these New Yorkers must end. The occupation must end. The genocide must end.
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man. the new fontaines record is excellent super impressed how such a young band can put out three killer consecutive albums in just a few years music.apple.com/us/album/dop…
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last day on da islands, i will miss you, aloha spirit and the insane foods 🤙 🌺 🌋 (first pic inside lava tube, yassified for anonymity at subject’s request)
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this tweet cost me so much money
You may have heard that a 24-hour Criterion flash sale has once again started today… Thoughts and prayers for your front line workers in the warehouse and (for the first time in Canada) in-store!!
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okay actually logging off now
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i put my cc in wrong and now the kubrick collection is on back order and i won’t get it soonagshdgshdhhshshdhshsh
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mfw i left my glasses in the car and twist my ankle in a wet lava tube
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if netflix was the sole distributor of “Chopped” and “House Hunters id be a subscriber for life the platonic ideal of hotel room viewing
Netflix has spent the last few years telling investors that it was excited about its foray into video games. Today's earnings update has zero reference to that business.
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a friend texted me about the anthropic s-1 and i replied with this
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“glanton gang escaping into the caldera”-ass landscape
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party in the USA cover #pigtracking on holiday
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“I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured…will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved…” 🤌
This past Valentine’s Day, 71-year-old Brad Reese, proud grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H. B. Reese, posted a scathing open letter to the manager of corporate brand and editorial at Hershey, accusing the company of unforgivably altering many Reese’s products by replacing real chocolate with compound chocolate — basically using vegetable oils instead of cocoa butter to lower costs and replacing real peanut butter with “peanut-butter-style crèmes.” “And Reese wasn’t alone in feeling like everything was getting worse,” writes Rachel Handler. “Everyone in my life I spoke to agreed that something was amiss, that Reese’s — and commercial chocolate in general — didn’t taste the way it used to.” Handler would spend the next several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex, encountering dozens of eccentric characters, all disagreeing about the fundamental question of what chocolate even is and who it should be for. “I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured has or will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved somehow.” For our cover story, Handler takes a deep dive into the molten belly of the chocolate world. Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/vKKky_
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