Elon Musk appears to confirm that X deprioritizes posts with links in their main text, to stop “lazy linking”, and tells users to “put the link in the reply”
Anyway, here's the biggest loser of all, admitting to throttling links and blaming the user for wanting to link: — https://www.mediaite.com/... Bluesky: @davidjoffe64.bsky.social : More reasons to a...
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality
an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they risk a bank run trill...
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda
Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter should be taken privat...
Web3 notes from a sci-fi writer and “enemy” of the tech: it shows new protocols are still possible, but is expensive, undemocratic, and impedes ephemerality
he's an enemy and, full disclosure, so am I. https://society.robinsloan.com/ ... Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : “The money thing confounds evaluation; it's like trying to look at a star next to the sun. ...
A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture
By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years. Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province … Tweets: @yuanfenyang , @gaberivera , @mollymckew , @jchengwsj , @financia...
Behind the online battle between notable tech figures including a16z partners and Balaji Srinivasan, and the journalists who report, and tweet, on the industry
Late last fall, the New York Times was preparing a bombshell article about Coinbase, a financial exchange that had become … Tweets: @gaberivera , @damiencave , @jayhinman , @joab_jackson , @yudhanjaya...
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas , @vcbrags , @vcbrags...
Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic
Today Techmeme has begun publishing Topic Leaderboards, which list the top authors and publications covering 24 topic areas such as cloud computing, autonomous vehicles … Tweets: @tedgioia , @the_spin...
Rupert Murdoch suggests Facebook pay carriage fees similar to the cable TV model to recognize trusted publishers
How to Stay Safe from Killer Robots? Stand In a Puddle Siladitya Ray / MediaNama : Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay publishers for their content Todd Spangler / Variety : Rupert Murdoch: Facebook ...
How Techmeme continues to set the agenda for influential tech readers, without chasing scale or adopting the trappings of most media firms
Gabe Rivera was halfway through his lamb gyro when it became clear he'd been spotted. It was the middle of the lunch rush at a bustling upscale food court …