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mia sato 佐藤みあ
@MiaRSato
reporter at @verge Tips: 📧[email protected] or miasato.11 on Signal/ proud member of @vox_union🌺 I don’t post here much, find me on Bluesky
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Nov 22, 2019
    Thread! conference call lines are the least personal mode of communication (like, does anyone enjoy them??). but for YEARS, Hmong folks have been running and participating in their own “radio shows” on the lines. Thousands of callers can be on at once
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    How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Mar 17, 2021
    protect asian women, asian massage parlor employees, asian sex workers, asian nail techs, undocumented asian people, poor asian folks, asian people who don’t have security & networks and who can’t go to the police for protection. we have to protect us.
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Apr 11, 2022
    The Etsy seller strike and boycott starts today. As of friday strike organizers told me over 13,000 shops had signed on to close their stores this week. To my knowledge it’s the largest action of its kind sellers have ever organized.
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Mar 30, 2022
    New: 5000+ Etsy sellers are planning to go on strike by putting their shops in vacation mode on April 11, to protest changes on the platform like fee increases & marketing programs. They’re asking shoppers not to buy on Etsy from April 11-18. theverge.com/2022/3/30/2300…
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Mar 30, 2022
    New: 5000+ Etsy sellers are planning to go on strike by putting their shops in vacation mode on April 11, to protest changes on the platform like fee increases & marketing programs. They’re asking shoppers not to buy on Etsy from April 11-18.
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    Etsy sellers will go on strike in April and want customers to boycott
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Nov 14, 2022
    can we talk about the Y-axis tho lol
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    Elon Musk
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    Nov 14, 2022
    Recent trend is promising
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Jan 20, 2023
    Replying to @sarafischer
    it feels really inappropriate to congratulate the person announcing layoffs while people are finding out they no longer have a job
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    May 22, 2022
    __smaller__ MEN
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Jan 19, 2023
    New: When news broke that CNET was publishing AI-written stories, readers had a lot of questions. But CNET staff are in the dark, too. Red Ventures, which owns CNET, is following a lucrative SEO marketing play. And it's at the expense of the journalism:
    A search query graph that flatlines
    Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine
    From theverge.com
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Nov 19, 2021
    i’m v excited to share that on monday i start a new job at @verge! i’ll be covering tech companies and the people who use their platforms. i can’t wait to shape my beat and learn from this fantastic team. send good vibes please!💮🎰
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Nov 16, 2022
    New: I wrote about BuzzFeed's empire of virality, promises for media, and the state of the company now — sinking valuation, lawsuits, and diminishing returns from platforms it depended on. What's next for the website that once defined internet culture?
    An old beat-up sign in the shape of the BuzzFeed logo icon in a desert setting surrounded by several smaller beat-up yellow signs that say “cute,” “lol,” “wtf,” and “omg” on them.
    The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Mar 17, 2021
    Replying to @MiaRSato
    stop blowing this tweet up and donate to the people doing the work to make sure tweets like this don’t have to get posted to begin with @RedCanarySong linktr.ee/redcanarysong
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Jan 8, 2024
    New from me @verge: I wrote about all the SEO tricks that people say are ruining the web. Table of contents, keyword-addled writing, all that extra text everywhere. The story has visuals that track a fake site as it morphs into a site optimized for Google Search, not readers.
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
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    Feb 22, 2023
    omg that woman y’all were pissed at bc she was reselling things she bought from goodwill sold the items for like $20-35 each aside from the leather coats?!! that’s extremely reasonable for vintage sourced and picked for you, photographed, and shipped to your doorstep.
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    mia sato 佐藤みあ
    @MiaRSato
    Dec 21, 2020
    i spent much of 2020 knitting and it got me thinking about the reverence we give to “handmade” things. i wrote about the collision of craftiness and capitalism, and whose labor is erased in the process, in my first for @newrepublic.
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    The Empty Ethics of “Shop Small”
    From newrepublic.com