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• @robertiger Robert Iger on x

  Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to #SteveJobs! This is such a richly-deserved honor for a friend, a mentor & someone whose vision, imagination & creativity changed the world. https://twitter.com/...

• @ashleygjovik @ashleygjovik on x

  The White House announced Biden will posthumously award Steve Jobs the Prez Medal of Freedom The award recognizes people who made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the US, world peace, cultural or other significant endeavors.” Ummm h…

• @zollotech Aaron Zollo on x

  Steve Jobs receiving the Medal of Freedom for changing the world. https://www.whitehouse.gov/...

• @harrymccracken @harrymccracken on x

  Among other technologists not yet honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, BASIC creators John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz would be great picks.

• @ashleygjovik @ashleygjovik on x

  Also, even if you want to argue iPhones, Macs, etc are a “especially meritorious contribution,” why do you give a CEO the award? If you want to award tech, then give a tech award that goes to the actual engineers or something.

• @blmckean Benjamin McKean on x

  In 2010, conditions making iPhones were so awful that 18 workers jumped to their death from the roof of the Foxconn factory complex - Foxconn responded by adding nets to the side of the building. Steve Jobs defended them, calling the factories “pretty nice” and “not a sweatshop.”…

• @gartenberg Michael Gartenberg on x

  @harrymccracken Also, without being snarky but to put Jobs in the same category as war hero John McCain seems to be somewhat off to me. There are others at Apple who actually did the work, like Woz who would be more appropriate.

• @ashleygjovik @ashleygjovik on x

  @CarlaSchroder Might have been all the Superfund sites he had us work on too. That guy was probably marinated in hazardous waste fumes.

• @ashleygjovik @ashleygjovik on x

  This guy? [Links to her April 3 tweet quoting Gawker: “Remember that time Steve Jobs called a @nytimes reporter a “Slime Bucket”?"]

• @carlaschroder @carlaschroder on x

  @ashleygjovik oh barf. Jobs was a creepy psychopath, who died sooner than he might have because he thought he was smarter than his doctors.

• @masonpelt Mason Pelt on x

  He was the best at telling other people to build things. But seriously, without him I think Woz would probably have been more like Linus Torvalds. https://twitter.com/...

• @rfreling @rfreling on x

  Jobs definitely put a dent in the universe. https://twitter.com/...

• @reneritchie Rene Ritchie on x

  Steve Jobs (posthumously) will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom “His vision, imagination and creativity led to inventions that have, and continue to, change the way the world communicates—” https://www.whitehouse.gov/...

• @harrymccracken Harry McCracken on x

  Jobs should surely have shared this honor with Woz. https://twitter.com/...

• @gaberivera Gabe Rivera on x

  one more thing... https://twitter.com/...

• @petersagal Peter Sagal on x

  What an honor for these people to join a pantheon that includes Rush Limbaugh and Jim Jordan. https://twitter.com/...

• @nkulw Noah Kulwin on x

  This will whip inflation now https://twitter.com/...

• @stevekovach Steve Kovach on x

  President Biden will award a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Steve Jobs. https://www.whitehouse.gov/...

• @grahamstarr Graham Starr on x

  Big announcement from the Biden administration today: it will give Steve Jobs and John McCain posthumous presidential medals of freedom https://www.whitehouse.gov/...