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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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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: “whew the ol internship is going to suck today!”
me at 36 on 2 hrs sleep: “i need to go to the hospital”
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this is the funniest quote ever
“To be clear — we also have garbage”
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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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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 “put a wooden spoon over boiling pot and pasta wont boil over” 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 “sovereign nation sh*tposts through full-scale invasion”
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Saturday Night News: Musk fired the company’s entire senior staff “for cause,” 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.
My friend just sent me this pic that’s across the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Wonder what it’s for.
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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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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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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yeahhhhhh
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“we refuse to risk even one juggalo life by hosting a gathering during these troubling times”
—insane 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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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 isn’t getting the same amount of traction among the “SF is lawless” 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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so my understanding is at twitter HQ, the folks running things in the “war room” are Musk, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis (VCs/Elon pals) Sriram Krishnan (exTwitter/current a16z), Elon’s legal and finance head guys (Spiro, Birchall) and a fleet of Tesla/BoringCo engineers
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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
it’s as if low quality tweets that were previously algorithmically hidden are now being used to repel me personally
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this is a complete mistranslation of what’s 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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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 “Sherlock” in Sherlock Holmes is a name, not his title
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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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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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BREAKING: Facebook blocking the President from posting for 24 hours.
FB spokesman:
“We'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.”
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“free speech maximalist”
(this was the Elon jet guy’s 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 — all-time favorite ‘Millionaire’ clip
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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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it is truly breathtaking that they’ve managed to incite many of the most famous or highly followed accounts into tweeting anti-endorsements for twitter’s 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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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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what does it say about a platform that it must take down long-running features to make it less immediately harmful?
and conversely, when the election is over, why is it okay to turn the harmful feature back on?
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Facebook employees are now openly resigning in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's policies on Trump, and posting the evidence to LinkedIn, Twitter et. al.
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Liam Gallagher legitimately one of the best tweeters on here
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what are the odds this tweet winds up in the discovery process
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airbnb has created a mechanism in which you can....donate money to landlords....many of whom have overextended themselves by leveraging multiple properties which they rented out pre-covid, and are now going empty
it's like the mortgage-backed securities of the sharing economy?
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the problem with antagonizing your biggest advertisers in a series of tweets is that the lions share of ad budgets spent on twitter are minuscule compared to other platforms (GOOG, FB)
not a huge deal for them to walk from their smallest ad spend platform to avoid controversy
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imagine paying a quarter of a million dollars to get covid
Trump donors paid up to $250,000 to have a *buffet lunch* with him in the middle of the pandemic.
That evening, he disclosed that he had COVID-19. There are conflicting reports regarding whether he knew about the diagnosis at the time of the fundraiser.
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Rep.
@SteveScalise
+ his office using video of a disabled activist with ALS who can’t speak, altering it and literally putting different words in his mouth to try and drag Democrats
full blown embrace of misinformation from the state just weeks before an election
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@SteveScalise
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These are not my words.
I have lost my ability to speak, but not my agency or my thoughts.
You and your team have doctored my words for your own political gain.
Please remove this video immediately. You owe the entire disability community an apology.
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this is a big story with excellent internal sources
once a company gets to this level of leaking it is in trouble, because it means the executives have lost the confidence of the rank and file
NEW: We have reporting inside Twitter that explains why Jack hasn't "banned the Nazis:" Treating white supremacy like ISIS would mean autobanning some Republican politicians
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on the call, Musk was also asked about the company's financial runway and how it was doing in terms of the business
Musk mentioned that TWTR had "net negative cash flow of several billion dollars" and that he recently sold a bunch of Tesla stock in order to "save the company"
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Facebook employees are staging an internal walkout in protest of Mark zuckerberg’s decision to keep the President’s inflammatory posts up, despite the company’s policies on incitement to violence and voter suppression.
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@sheeraf
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NAACP Derrick Johnson calls for total advertising boycott on Twitter after meeting with Elon Musk. Statement below:
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Twitter securing that rarified "Taliban member endorsement" over meta's threads is the stuff marketing campaigns are made of
Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms.
The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn't have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.
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Airbnb lobbyists: “our platform has a negligible effect of driving up rental prices in cities”
Reality:
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i want to launch all the campaign email subject line writers into space
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the “yaaaaas qweeen-ification” of meme-on-meme cyberwarfare between nation states is giving me a brain bleed
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god bless whatever editor convinced this writer to cast this insane situation as a universal “it could happen to you” and that they need to put pen to paper for the common good
New York Mag is all bangers this week
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kind of weird that a Facebook employee's unencrypted laptop with payroll information and SSN's for 19,000+ workers was stolen and compromised last week and it barely registered as a story
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my dog does this thing now where if i am awake and on the couch past HER bedtime she cries until i make myself get in bed so that she can go to sleep
prisoner in my own home
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insane to me that the megarich choose to melt down on twitter
instead of like, hang out at bohemian grove or fly jet packs or hunt the most dangerous game (man) or literally anything else
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im sure this person is very nice but not hiring someone bc they didnt send a thank you note is some Patrick Bateman shit
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you float this when you want people to quit in droves instead of having to pay severance
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holy shit. notes app screen shot to shut down a company. not even a period at the end of the sentence
News: Ozy is shutting down. Here's the statement from the Ozy board
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Twitter and Facebook have the same basic policies around voter suppression and incitement to violence, and trump posted the same stuff to both platforms.
Some FB employees are beginning to wonder what line must be crossed for the company to act.
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it's this clip. employees are sharing this
@AOC
on the Zuckerberg all-hands Q&A stream in protest.
it is not going well
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work email greetings are so fucked up now
“i hope this finds you safe”
“May this find you well, considering”
it’s like wartime correspondence but with zoom meeting requests
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this is extremely funny because what the hell is Elon going to do with direct access to the firehose
New: Twitter’s board plans to comply with
@elonmusk
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@lizzadwoskin
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i would not recommend immediately reading twitter upon awakening
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sf dept of public works has deployed hand washing stations around the city for the homeless (good!) and some mystery man keeps filling one of them in my neighborhood with shrimp
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this is honestly a potentially reasonable index fund strategy
“wokeness arbitrage”
Developing an investment portfolio where I buy the dip on companies that conservatives are attacking and then sell a few months later when they’ve forgotten their outrage campaign
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BREAKING: FTC + 48 States attorneys sue Facebook, alleging the company illegally crushes smaller rivals and competition — They're calling for the SPIN-OFF of Instagram and WhatsApp, a move that Zuckerberg has called "existential" for FB
w/
@ceciliakang
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forget his politics
this tweet should disqualify him from guest editing anything, ever
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