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@MikeIsaac
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NYT tech reporter. tell me stuff at [email protected] or [email protected] / Text my signal username with tips: MikeIsaac.38
Joined January 2009
hello. after spending most of my career writing about Facebook in some form or another, ive decided to do a book on the company and those who made it what it is. Would love to talk to employees over the years who wish to share their experience. emails in bio, DM for my cell #.
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would love to know which galaxy brain exec thought that murdering the free, unlimited user-generated marketing campaign would be a good idea.
Disney has started to remove Baby Yoda GIFs across the internet due to fear of copyright issues.
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i feel like it is okay for this to have had an influence on their evaluation??
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Orcas STUN in salmon hat trend
Airdropping this story to everyone at the bar tonight
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i think the world has too much stuff in it.
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me seeing any other bald guy: "hey brother".
Billy Corgan thinks there's a possibility he and Bill Burr are half-brothers since his father had 12 children out of wedlock โ
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There is an enormous demonstration going on at @Stanford Hospital right now carried out by staff, who are protesting the decision by higher ups to give vaccines to some administrators and physicians who are at home and not in contact with patients INSTEAD of frontline workers.
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currently an emergency twitter all-hands going on with Elon Musk answering employee Q's. Elon was asked: "How are you going to deal with the expected attrition and align everyone on a shared vision?". Elon Answer: "I don't know. we all need to be more hardcore.".
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so Elon spent six months in court saying Twitter was riddled with bots, was forced to buy the company, said he was going to create a moderation council for all content decisions, and has thrown all that out of the window for a "vox populi" poll that could be easily gamed.
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me at 23 on two hours of sleep: โwhew the ol internship is going to suck today!โ. me at 36 on 2 hrs sleep: โi need to go to the hospitalโ.
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lol they reinvented camel cash and Marlboro miles for zoomers.
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Metaโs new training manuals give some examples of what moderators are no longer allowed to take down on Facebook. important scoop by @samfbiddle
NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs with examples of posts now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," โJews are flat out greedier than Christians," and โimmigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shitโ
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never have i seen a more succinct telling of the AI relationship to culture. art has always been accessible my friend. what you lack is the constitution โ or the will โ to bring it into being.
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this is the funniest quote ever. โTo be clear โ we also have garbageโ.
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menswear guy just kendrickโd a dude who disagreed with him about wristwatches. his power grows by the day.
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all these "retvrn to antiquity" accounts are so funny โ . they rhapsodize about how culture is dead and we must save western tradition then post a video of the sculptural equivalent of a Bayonetta funko pop.
2. Benjamin Victor. Benjamin Victor is an American sculptor renowned for his work in classical and realist styles, notably being the only living artist with multiple sculptures in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.
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@dieworkwear please tell me this is real and you tricked two random dudes into fighting each other.
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if i have one consumer electronics recommendation it is to never buy a new tv again. new TVs serve you ads and require software updates and talk at you. my 2009 flatscreen had two ports and no internet and never broke and it ruled.
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the guy who handles US nukes got took by an aol-era instagram chainmeme
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80/20 odds at this point they put walz on hot ones.
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love to work at my job signing my name in the middle of a blank sheet of paper
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someone taught me the โput a wooden spoon over boiling pot and pasta wont boil overโ trick and it is the most life changing kitchen hack ive ever learned
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no amount of college Baudrilliard reading could have ever prepared me for โsovereign nation sh*tposts through full-scale invasionโ.
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Saturday Night News: Musk fired the companyโs entire senior staff โfor cause,โ an attempt to avoid paying out tens of millions of dollars in severance packages to the former CEO, CFO, GC and head of legal.
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do not sleep on the violence that unmarked, unidentified authorities are raining down on portland civilians right now.
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in a Q&A with employees, Mark Zuckerberg is expressing frustration about past leaks from company Q&As.
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Breaking: Facebook has removed Trump's video from the platform.
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praying for this googler who now has to work from home during these trying times
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has anyone written a piece yet on how it is slowly becoming impossible to know what Vanceโs real face looks like across the internet.
heres the deal. erm i give you one dum pop and you give me tree of your -ollipops thank you pwese
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BREAKING: Apple suspends Parler from the App Store indefinitely
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i love clicking on a stock Getty image and having no clue what the article is going to be about, great job.
Twitter/X has officially removed article headlines on links shared to the platform, now just displaying the image and website.
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the Rogan interview with Zuckerberg that dropped this morning is something to behold. basically him dumping years of anger at the media, the government, social discussion. clearly all pent up for years and now allowing himself to do it because of Trump coming to power.
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alternate headline: . facebook board member hangs out with alleged human traffickers.
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::throws voice::. hell yeah
Haley Joel Osment was arrested at a California ski resort and charged with public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance. Prior to his arrest, he attempted to board a ski lift with his helmet on backward โ and without skis or a snowboard โ
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โwe refuse to risk even one juggalo life by hosting a gathering during these troubling timesโ. โinsane clown posse, who are showing more urgent concern for public safety than many sitting politicians.
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BREAKING: Reddit bans "The_Donald" forum in a sweeping overhaul of its hate speech and harassment policies.
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musk getting ripped apart by programmers on Reddit โ which pretty much should be his own locked down voting block โ is probably something to pay attention to as he continues to tweet screenshots of SSDB data at random.
The otherwise politically neutral SQL reddit is not taking this shit sitting down
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they whooped peoples asses on bl**sky yesterday so hard that the team was compelled to ship a blocking feature in like a day
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weird how this isnโt getting the same amount of traction among the โSF is lawlessโ crowd as the previous stories.
EXCLUSIVE: Defense attorneys for the man accused of attacking former SF Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani say the person shown in this video bear spraying a homeless person in the face appears to be Carmignani. The video, taken in November 2021, is part of a trove of new evidence
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this is a real billboard in west LA right now. god bless Teenjus and god bless Uncle Baby Billy Freeman
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so my understanding is at twitter HQ, the folks running things in the โwar roomโ are Musk, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis (VCs/Elon pals) Sriram Krishnan (exTwitter/current a16z), Elonโs legal and finance head guys (Spiro, Birchall) and a fleet of Tesla/BoringCo engineers.
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hey. i thought things were bad but itโs worse than you think.
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this may be controversial but i think itโs fine for it to require time and effort to be good at something
AI is ushering in a new generation of creators that publishing should embrace, says Nadim Sadek ๐
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we are so deeply screwed.
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all the blu*ch*ck replies at the top of any viral tweet are guaranteed to be detached from reality or deeply unfunny. itโs as if low quality tweets that were previously algorithmically hidden are now being used to repel me personally.
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the moral indignation against reporting on DOGE employees is absurd. legal adults that have access to trillions of dollars and can directly affect the lives of every American citizen should by definition be scrutinized. in tech parlance this is called "entering the arena".
I think itโs fine if news outlets report on the identity of people who control the operations of the federal government of the United States.
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the twitter takeover loans were such a bad deal for investment banks that some bankers are getting their annual comp cut by nearly half because they cant offload them from their books without gigantic losses
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this is a complete mistranslation of whatโs occurring inside right now, warped to fit a brazenly careerist and self-serving narrative.
The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.).
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this is turning into a pretty good bit.
Photos show Mike Waltz literally checking Signal during the cabinet meeting (via Reuters)
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middle aged man question: does this mean good or bad.
kamala IS brat.
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anyone else been having insanely fucked up dreams for the past two months.
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thirty six years on this earth and it was only today i realized that the โSherlockโ in Sherlock Holmes is a name, not his title.
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itโs too on the nose that these guys reply earnestly to connor omalley vids
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i think it's safe to say it will be difficult to expect consistency from here on out.
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dude has had GTA 5 stars for 96 hours and the only thing theyโve found is a bag full of monopoly money . absolutely bananas.
MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money
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tom cotton spending the rest of his career trying to imprison an infected bat.
Sen. Tom Cotton release this morning: "We will emerge stronger from this challenge, we will hold accountable those who inflicted it on the world." What does that mean?.
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every thought leader in the valley is a libertarian until they need a government bailout of their startup bank.
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Also, Zelensky should just wear a freaking suit to the Oval Office. You arenโt on the front. Youโre not a soldier. Enough with the stupid military gear! Itโs disrespectful *in that office*.
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BREAKING: Facebook blocking the President from posting for 24 hours. FB spokesman:. โWe've assessed two policy violations against President Trump's Page which will result in a 24-hour feature block, meaning he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time.โ.
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the entire internet going back and surfacing years of walzโ old dadcore tweets is like the polar opposite of an Oppo research campaign โ wild to see
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BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Three-team deal that includes Utah.
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โfree speech maximalistโ.(this was the Elon jet guyโs personal account)
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the most boss move of all time.
the first winner of a million dollars was the best winner of a million dollars โ all-time favorite โMillionaireโ clip
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@mikescollins her finishing narrating the card going directly into the first blast of not even being able to play an actual chord always hits me like a truck.
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i occasionally wonder if C-suite training in biz school is just learning how to professionally infantilize a workforce.
zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
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this is unfortunately very accurate. one time i posted something about a coffee i was drinking and got soft cancelled for being anti union (i am in a union). in order for a social network to succeed it needs a minimum threshold of chill.
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it is truly breathtaking that theyโve managed to incite many of the most famous or highly followed accounts into tweeting anti-endorsements for twitterโs newest revenue stream.
Please note: I have NOT subscribed to Twitter Blue, though for some mysterious reason, my check mark is showing again.
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@isaiah_bb yah he mega woke. it's very funny b/c you immediately assume he's maga but he practically defines hashtag resist.
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pretty clear that Zuckerberg won this fight without ever having thrown a punch. the last three months have been a rehab of his image in a way that hasnt happened in maybe ten years. all because he had a foil that spent the past two years making a lot of people very mad.
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everyone watching mad men again or did young people discover it for the first time or is the algorithm just centering me on madmen content bc i fav it all.
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i feel insane reading this. in what world were people saying "oh yeah the media loved HRC, who also by the way had the juice".
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