Susan*MacTavish*Best
@MacTavishBest
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Founder of Posthoc. We host salons too.
NYC, LA & Elk
Joined February 2008
Today’s front page story in @tmagazine , an article about our @PosthocSalons and my space in NYC. Take a peek inside —>
nytimes.com
Susan MacTavish Best’s New York loft gets fewer guests these days, but it’s still full of art and objects that tell stories of their own.
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This is the first AI cut. And it will send shockwaves. Remember: Jack is one of the greatest founders of all time. He created this platform that we’re all on, and has been early to many technological shifts. And Block was doing very well as a business. So, for him to cut 40% of
we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are
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We’ve removed the paywall on 26 Trades for 2026, our annual year ahead report that was published on December 17th, 2025. Check it out! https://t.co/qOaOPRdaIA
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A Thematic Watchlist for the New Year
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self help industry in a nutshell. its crack for middle class men in the same way rogan in their oprah.
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We @PosthocSalons ran a poll of 5000 people- HOW TRUSTWORTHY IS THAT CEO? Where would you trust a CEO more? Media interview? live event? In an ad? Didn't expect these results - 19% trust CEOS in the media. 18% trust CEOS in an ad. Live journalism, hullo. https://t.co/8GZqK6sK87
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LATEST SALON -- > The Geopolitics of Rare Earths: The Shadow War for Technological Supremacy ---- You can listen to my interview with Jim Kennedy about REES and America trying to play catch-up here: https://t.co/obBs25lNDM
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@alexrkonrad Pay-to-play rankings are the fastest way to erode brand integrity. There is no way the sponsorship dollars justify the loss of public trust. I've never understood the strategy here.
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This @tracyalloway . In the 80's if you had a friend from SF, they'd fly East with a loaf of sourdough as a cherished present. Then we entered Bay Area/SV culture creep for 25 years, with a final bready push during Covid. Same has not happened for cheese curds or scrapple.
@tracyalloway When San Francisco became the most admired city in the country. People also enjoy our “computers” and software and software and so a lot of our culture has been expropriated.
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Susan’s salons are the best (kept secret) of NYC!
@stevehou @TheStalwart @tracyalloway Or just come to a salon I host and you can star in your own photo … fit check nice suit!
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What a crock of shit.
"No one anymore, on the left or the right, denies that globalization has fractured the U.S., both economically and socially. It has hollowed out once-prosperous regions like the furniture-making areas of North Carolina and the auto manufacturing towns of the Midwest. It has been
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My man, I am from Appalachia, 6 gens deep. If you think there was EVER some golden age where ‘Appalachian communities’ lived in harmony and the children sang and the streets were painted with opportunity, you have been ummm misinformed. The only ‘equality’ was found in poverty.
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Uncanny Valley: Why Phoenix has become a laboratory for an invasion of robots
phoenixnewtimes.com
The 'bots are among us, including delivery drones, autonomous vehicles and service droids.
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Moreover, we are moving from an era of logarithmic tech innovations (initial growth spurt that fizzles out over time) to an era of exponential growth where growth accelerates over time for decades to come. In a world of exponential growth first mover advantages (US ahead)
To paraphrase Mark Twain: the reports of the US Dollar demise/death are vastly exaggerated as Tech Trumps Tariffs! While a slew of recent articles - in the NYT, FT, FA and now the Economist - warn about the risks of de-dollarization - driven from capital flight from the US
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The @slatestarcodex & @DKokotajlo episode. Scott and Daniel break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion. Misaligned hive minds, Xi and Trump waking up, automated Ilyas accelerating AI progress. I went in quite skeptical. But I learned a tremendous
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Some podcasters are going to get incredibly rich next year
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Fox is talking to potential acquisition targets in political media, particularly on the right.
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The Tsunami Warning has been canceled.
The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event. Refer to https://t.co/npoUHxX900 for more information.
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LAFD Major Emergency Fire in Hollywood. Video courtesy @CopterPilot Esteban Jimenez / @LAFD @LAFDtalk @LAFDAirOps @LAFD_Incidents @TELEMUNDO52 @KNBC4Desk
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