So did I, after a dozen years on the platform. I won't donate content or attention to a site that decides what I am allowed to read (they censor their search!).
Wait till you hear what your Macbook thinks of you!
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#972I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since c…
From the first comment in Twitter feed re: abandoning twitter for Pinterest, we got to start a new meme: I knew when it used to rock-n-roll. I knew when it used to do the pony. to tally software that started great but alas died on the vine.
Play on words from Nick Lowe song,
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#973I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since c…
> FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan Twitter don't even have an RSS feed let alone championing decentralisation.
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#974Coincidence? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-sing...
Oh wow, I had no idea. So if it's not a coincidence, does this mean that twitter will host the seditious ponderings of the 45th President again?
Strictly from a business pov, that couldn't be good for stability.
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#975A few reflections on this announcement. 1) Remember that CEOs of public companies are essentially unable to say what they think or want. The cost of doing it is being sued for damages, having to spend countless hours with lawyers, etc. Jack might think X, but he's only allowed to say Y, and he doesn't want to go beyond that because he doesn't want to fight that fight. Only people in a close circle really know what's…
> Facebook (sorry but I don't give a sh*t that its new name is Meta)
clearly, you do
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#976Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every company he starts/runs is to enable viable Mars civilization. SpaceX = get us there. Tesla = cash cow for SpaceX + Mars ground transportation. SolarCity = energy infra for a Mars colony. Boring = radiation protection for Mars habitats. Neuralink = moonshot cash cow, advancement of neural medicine for Mars colony. Trying to advance/safeguard humanity is the most funsies thing one can do.
If you definition of "X is for Mars" is so broad as to include "brain-computer interfaces just like on Earth, but done on Mars" then yeah I suppose pretty much everything is done in the service of Mars. For example, Google is working on having the best search engine available to use for search on Mars. Facebook wants to build the best social network, for Mars. Etc.
The reason an advanced Neuralink could be invaluable on Mars is because all the complex machinery required for diagnosis of brain-related ailments will be prohibitively difficult to set up on a Mars colony for a good while. The brain is the least understood ogran in our body - Elon is trying to accelerate development and generate awareness in the field by giving it an honest go with his own company. A BMI like Neuralink would also be a multiplier of human effort when there is a limit to how many colonists we can ferry per unit time.
Neuralink aside, you seem to not have mentioned the other companies - I wonder what you think of my theory regarding them?
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#977Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every company he starts/runs is to enable viable Mars civilization. SpaceX = get us there. Tesla = cash cow for SpaceX + Mars ground transportation. SolarCity = energy infra for a Mars colony. Boring = radiation protection for Mars habitats. Neuralink = moonshot cash cow, advancement of neural medicine for Mars colony. Trying to advance/safeguard humanity is the most funsies thing one can do.
I'll take two of whatever you're smoking because I want on this ride.
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#978Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was more drama than we know. This was brewing for a while. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-paul-singer-republi...
I fully agree here: Jack was sacked.
Yeah Twitter acted first out of belief that it's possible for the right to go too far. Any relevant business or publications fell all over themselves to sweep Jan 6 under the rug. Companies went back on their vow not to fund Republicans.
Zuck and Jack were alone but only Zuck is untouchable.
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#979OT: I am wondering about the 9:05 time. Is this a new thing to start meetings after the full hour? During the pandemic I noticed that many meeting are organized without any break in between. So at my company we tried to set the default end of meetings to X:25 and X:50 but it doesn't seem to help much (as everybody is used to running meetings to the full hour).
So I am wondering if setting the start to X:05 might help?
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#980Coincidence? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-sing...
Oh wow, I had no idea. So if it's not a coincidence, does this mean that twitter will host the seditious ponderings of the 45th President again? Strictly from a business pov, that couldn't be good for stability.
Doubt it, they just announced a citizen journalism ban.
Seems like Dorsey was standing in the way of some censorship and the board replaced him.
People documenting riots like Andy Ngo will be the first to go.