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Times

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Times is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 21, 2021 and November 05, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “That was the impression I got from the Times”; “I don’t think the Times would deliberately out trans people”; “I asked people to send the Times emails asking them not to publish the article”. It most often appears alongside California, Oakland, 7500 people signed a petition.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 21, 2021
  • Last seen: November 05, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Still Alive
January 21, 2021 · Original source
513,000 people read my blog post complaining about the New York Times' attempt to dox me (for comparison, there are 366,000 people in Iceland). So many people cancelled their subscription that the Times' exasperated customer service agents started pre-empting callers with "Is this about that blog thing?" A friend of a friend reports her grandmother in Slovakia heard a story about me on Slovak-language radio.
I got emails from no fewer than four New York Times journalists expressing sympathy and offering to explain their paper's standards in case that helped my cause. All four of them gave totally different explanations, disagreeing about whether the reporter I dealt with was just following the rules, was flagrantly violating the rules, was unaffected by any rules, or what. Seems like a fun place to work. I was nevertheless humbled by their support.
Before we go any further: your conspiracy theories are false. An SSC reader admitted to telling a New York Times reporter that SSC was interesting and he should write a story about it. The reporter pursued the story on his recommendation. It wasn't an attempt by the Times to crush a competitor, it wasn't retaliation for my having written some critical things about the news business, it wasn't even a political attempt to cancel me. Someone just told a reporter I would make a cool story, and the reporter went along with it.
Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
November 05, 2022 · Original source
According to an LA Times report, the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare West has been trying to unionize workers at California dialysis companies. Either the workers haven’t been interested or the companies have successfully prevented this from happening. In order to retaliate, the SEIU-UHW has been sponsoring these ballot propositions to over-regulate California dialysis companies so overwhelmingly that they would have to close many of their clinics. This would be a disaster for dialysis patients and probably literally kill many of them, but apparently SEIU-UHW thinks that is acceptable collateral damage. According to the Times, SEIU-UHW doesn’t especially care if they win or lose, they just want to make the dialysis companies spend so much money fighting the propositions that they surrender and agree to give the unions what they want. This explains why they’ve put the same losing proposition on the ballot three election cycles in a row, and why they keep doing it even when every doctors’ group, nurses’ group, and patients’ group insists it would be disastrous for Californians with kidney disease.
Inline links: an LA Times report
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-06/bonta-woodside-mountain-lions-housing
Inline links: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-06/bonta-woodside-mountain-lions-housing
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opinion/los-angeles-homelessness-affordable-housing.html
Inline links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opinion/los-angeles-homelessness-affordable-housing.html