He chose Medium. @ev is 3 out of 3 (and a podcast pivot).
What were the other 2?
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#32The title does this post a misservice. This is way, way more interesting than you might think, and I highly recommend following the link and reading the whole thing.
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#33Slightly off topic, but the fact that the world's richest man who owns a tech giant chose to publish this on a closed platform like Medium should be worrisome for the future of the open web. On the other hand, this might just be the biggest brand endorsement for Medium till date.
I mean, Amazon doesn't really have an associated "official" blogging platform, not in the way that Google has Blogger, Yahoo has Tumblr, and Twitter has Medium. Also worth noting that Amazon's spokesperson used Medium when writing a rebuttal to a high-profile investigation of Amazon's business practices in 2015: https://medium.com/@jaycarney/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t...
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#34The elite are really the only members of society who can successfully dismantle tabloid media like AMI, see: Peter Theil v. Gawker.
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#36Now this is Fuck You Money.
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#37I am glad that Jeff Bezos is aggressively going after AMI for their scummy behavior. I was also glad that Peter Thiel aggressively went after Gawker Media for their scummy behavior. Sometimes these badly behaving media outlets need to have a billionaire personally invested in stopping their bad behavior.
Ya, there's some real danger here with regard to precedent, but I agree, in both of these cases, the world is much better off without Gawker and AMI.
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#38Interesting attempt to blackmail someone (who in this case happens to be, you know, the richest man in the world), with information that is generally public already. All that would have been added were a few additional pictures. How much extra public embarrassment is going to come from that?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That gave me chills, and the phrase, If you’re going to shoot the king, you’d better be goddamned sure you’re going to kill him flashed through my mind. Well, they missed spectacularly, and now the man who has a rocket company for fun is clearly pissed.
You come at the king, you best not miss. Also, never take notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy ;P
It’s amazing how many people in Trump’s inner circle love quoting mob movies, calling people “rats” and “stoolies” but can’t seem to get down even the basics of being a half-decent criminal. I mean, Roger Stone literally told people to lie to Congress via an email.
One can quote mob movies all day but that doesn’t make them a smart criminal.