Dreamer x Entrepreneur x Storyteller — CEO @ Modern Games
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As excited as I am about the products OpenAI is building, it would be a mistake to ignore the fact @janleike and @ilyasut both left within days of each other. The tension within OpenAI around safety is clearly an issue.
Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
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I wonder if @unity knows they single handedly caused @godotengine to be the top trending repo on Github?
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The Passage by @jccronin had me crying on a plane at 35k ft. So good!
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Twitter will always be Twitter for me. I turned off auto updates on apps and will be manually updating all my apps; except, Twitter, of course. We will see how long the pre-X app will continue functioning without an update. :)
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I just ran into my first paywall while trying to read a tweet. What really struck me is how similar the whisper/teaser text for the locked tweet is to @jasonfried’s tweet yesterday about AI and AR (Apple’s Vision Pro). 39 views and 1 comment on a paywalled tweet from @davemorin.
Ha! @hughhowey check out the latest Zillow listing for Silo Residences. :)
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This seems to fall into the bucket of, we could, but really shouldn’t. Oh, fuck it. Let’s do it anyway.
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This makes a lot of sense. And yet, the whole balloon ordeal makes absolutely no sense.
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The best way for Twitter to monetize is to publish everyone’s “Drafts” unless they subscribe.
Lol. I see the everyone who pays gets a blue check mark thing is working out swell.
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Hey look, Jesus Christ has a verified Twitter account. I guess @elonmusk was right, jokes are now legal on Twitter because Twitter is one big joke.
It’s like @elonmusk and the brain trust working with him on Blue realized they actually fucked this up, asked themselves how they could fix it without admitting they fucked up—only to fuck it up worse. Unbelievably terrible UX. Who cares about a blue check that isn’t verified?!
A lot of folks have asked about how you'll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue checkmarks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we’re introducing the “Official" label to select accounts when we launch.
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After this feature briefly launched on November 9, 2022, Elon Musk announced it was canceled and being rolled back. He then stated that the Twitter Blue checkmark would be the only "verification" badge.
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Because the macro economic environment has nothing to do with companies pulling back on ad spend or the fact other auto manufacturers may not want to support the biggest shareholder of Twitter who is also the CEO of a company upending their industry?
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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Multiple advertisers have confirmed they are pausing spending while they see what direction Elon Musk takes with the platform.
"The growing exodus of advertisers comes amid concerns Musk will scale back misinformation and security protections on the platform."
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I feel for all the Twitter employees who know tomorrow is going to be a tough day. Losing a job is bad enough, but the anticipation of the unknown building over weeks of speculation in the media makes it even worse.
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I don’t get all the layoff posts from people who don’t work at Twitter and weren’t laid off. Sure, some execs were laid off and paid millions, but a bunch of non-exec Twitter employees will likely be laid off and it will upend their lives. It’s bad form to joke about it.
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Gotta say, I’m pretty excited about the slate of books arriving in the coming months! Plus the recently arrived Across the Sand from @hughhowey
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Hey @shopifysupport we recently were flagged for a trademark issue that was invalid.
Your legal team responded via email two days ago that it was in error and nothing else was needed.
Now our admin access is cutoff for three stores.
