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Theo Francis

@theofrancis@mastodon.online
mastodon 4.7.0-nightly.2026-08-14
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Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

940 Followers
428 Following
15 Posts
Joined November 07, 2022
WSJ articles:
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/theo-francis
Website:
https://www.theofrancis.com
Archive:
https://authory.com/TheoFrancis
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/theofrancis

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Apr 28, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Replying to @brohrer@recsys.social
@brohrer@recsys.social Presumably a function's true name is all of its properties and methods, with their parameters and defaults, such that it could be recreated from its name alone
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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Apr 27, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

Anyone in logistics or residential delivery: Tracking info for a major US delivery service said a package was put on a truck early Saturday morning and was out for delivery. Web & app still say it's on the same truck (same driver name!), still out for delivery, still being delivered Saturday (April 25), no failed attempts, never checked back into a depot. Clearly the info is wrong. Do these companies genuinely not have automated systems in place to notice when a delivery goes awry like that?

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Apr 20, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

@jimfl@hachyderm.io @gvwilson@mastodon.social As in "Lady of"

hachyderm.io

jimfl (@jimfl@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Apr 18, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Replying to @theofrancis@mastodon.online
That was supposed to be "Ux " designers. Whoops.
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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Apr 18, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

UC designers: When I tap or click a search button, I really expect to be able to type into a search field immediately. I don't expect a new grid of brightly colored things to tap or click on, with an idle search field somewhere among them that I have to tap/click on to use. Does anyone really want that?

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Apr 08, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

Major world event. U.S. politics. Non-sequitur.

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Mar 02, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

Spring, spring

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Feb 21, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

Why do online services hate their existing customers? Go to any of them, and they have giant text and graphics inviting you to sign up and subscribe. You have to really look to find the tiny link that says, "Already a customer? Sign in here." What's so hard about two big buttons!?? "Sign up" and "Sign in"

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Feb 20, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Replying to @natematias@social.coop
@natematias Thanks for posting — I've known anecdotally that board diversity wasn't as much of a priority as it was at many companies, but it was eye-opening to discover just how much it's the case. In case that link is paywalled, this should be a gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/dei-rules-that-changed-corporate-boards-are-vanishing-cab9ec12?st=kEPScG&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Feb 04, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

This article is worth revisiting now and again: "mass layoffs are a failure of leadership" — discuss.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/how-one-company-navigated-a-boom-and-bust-with-no-mass-layoffs-92ea9be4?st=XNwbAJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Feb 01, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online

I've researched and written about closely held companies — it isn't easy. This is some remarkable and remarkably detailed reporting by my colleagues at The Wall Street Journal:

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company / $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8?st=k8LSD7&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Jan 26, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Replying to @77nn@goto.77nn.it
@77nn Try: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=BuM21w
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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Jan 26, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Replying to @anarchademic@kolektiva.social
@anarchademic Try: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=BuM21w
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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Jan 26, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Replying to @theofrancis@mastodon.online
Sorry about that! Try this one: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=BuM21w
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Theo Francis @theofrancis@mastodon.online · Jan 26, 2026
Theo Francis
@theofrancis@mastodon.online

Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.

mastodon.online
Boosted by Matt Blaze @mattblaze@federate.social

My coworkers at The Wall Street Journal have analyzed video of Alex Pretti's killing. The link should be a gift link — let me know if it doesn't work that way.

Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. A frame-by-frame review by The Wall Street Journal shows a federal officer pulling a handgun away from Pretti. Less than a second later, an agent fires several rounds.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=mACwcp&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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