Joshua Brustein

Joshua Brustein

@joshuabrustein

I work for the Technology section of the NY Times, and also sometimes read things on the Internet and then tweet about them.

New York City · http://www.nytimes.com/tech

Tweets

  1. 14h

    take it!

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  2. 15h

    More Moorepocalypse as AMD predicts the end for everyone's favorite dynamic in the transistor industry.

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  3. 18h

    It means assist. As in "he scored 24 and dropped 8 dimes." I had never heard it used another way.

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  4. 19h

    yes, of course. I just wonder how it merged to mean make an assist in basketball, which is what the term means today.

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  5. 19h

    definitely not ones that cost a dime.

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  6. 20h

    Am I the last to learn that the term "dropping a dime" comes from using a pay phone to tip off the cops?

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  7. 5 Apr

    BLS Twitter account had jobs numbers 2 sec before Bloomberg terminals did, showing why terminals are getting Twitter.

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  8. 5 Apr

    OK, can we PLEASE get back to discussing something important. Like a pseudo-monetary system that no-one uses? (No, not the Euro.)

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  9. 5 Apr

    here is innovation on social media: RT : ▂▃▁▄▄▃▄█▇▄█▁ My graph of U.S. monthly payrolls growth over the past year.

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  10. 5 Apr

    Twitter does the jobs report better than any other media - and maybe better than Twitter does anything else.

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  11. 5 Apr

    Smoking gun behind the weak report is in the hand of the payroll tax hike, not sequestration.

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  12. 5 Apr

    Good news on the LinkedIn partnership. You going to PSFK this year?

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  13. 5 Apr

    How Would You Feel About a Computer Grading Your Essays? Students, tell us here:

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  14. 5 Apr

    Sad for Cleveland: the Plain Dealer is cutting a third of its staff and going to three day a week home delivery.

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  15. 3 Apr

    Interesting piece on the unreliable databases of thieving employees used by retailers to blackball folks.

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  16. 3 Apr

    Mike Rice still has a career as the evil coach in the next Karate Kid movie.

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  17. 3 Apr

    where?

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  18. 2 Apr

    In which Farhad Manjoo tells Evgeny Morozov that his beef is not with Silicon Valley, but just with Jeff Jarvis.

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  19. 1 Apr

    I wonder if we could get jobs just running its Twitter account. I have some great ideas for it.

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  20. 1 Apr

    My piece on , a ride-sharing app in Brooklyn that I'm sure the black car industry will love.

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