Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr, @bkcc), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Mail: buzz at https://xitter.cf/t.co/Acf3wgk0lo
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Joined July 2006
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Reminder that Twitter was nowhere near bankruptcy in May.
Q2 loss of $244 million. Around $2.7 billion of cash in the bank.
Obviously not a healthy biz. But not close to a bankrupt one.
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As always people should read @juliandibbell's MY TINY LIFE for a window into how this has been an active problem for *decades* before social media even existed.
Governance is not a technical problem, ever. *Everything* on the net started out technolibertarian. All of it evolved.
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I guess they were banned for revealing the location of where all the Twitter users are going.
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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
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Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it..
To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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More: Twitter apparently opted out of the @MissingKids roundtable just a few weeks ago, after having attended for the past decade
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Lawmakers have just added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act protecting Supreme Court spouses from having to reveal any outside employer, in the name of security. If it passes, Ginni Thomas’s professional entanglements would effectively be state secrets.
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On his Substack, Matt Taibbi tells his readers that he "had to agree to certain conditions" to do the Hunter Biden laptop thread for Musk.
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Offbrand Hari Seldon running the numbers on what he must do to prevent “civilizational suicide” and the math comes back with “steal some memes, maybe build a phone idk?”
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Elon Musk never cared if Twitter was a business failure – he wants a political win | Richard Seymour theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The entirety of Musk’s feed now is him interacting with right wing trolls, often antisemitic and racist accounts, validating each conspiracy theory they toss out about how all the algos were never “used on liberals”
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In today's newsletter, a secret, late-night text between the two men of the moment, SBF and Elon, and how we got here semafor.com/article/11/22/20…
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thinking of this most cynical ad ever made today
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Fifteen years(!) and two days after its original launch, I am re-launching istwitterdown.com
Blog post with more context: theryanking.com/post/is-twit…
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The king is fleeing the capitol and has thrown the Great Seal of the realm into the sea
linktr.ee/drilreal get at me . all accounts not on this page are fraud. fuck twitter
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From: @twittereng
To: @elonmusk
Subject:
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VCs have done an awe-inspiring job weaving a story that absolves them of any responsibility or consequences for their decisions.