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David Frum

@davidfrum
42 posts
2025-04-09
The tiny screws that clamp together the iPhone are made in China.  Many of machines that makes the tiny screws are made in USA.  In a doomed chase for the basic industries we don't want, Trump will destroy the advanced industries USA has. www.theatlantic.com/economy/ arch...
2025-04-09 View on X
CNN

The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET on April 9 after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariffs

President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …

The tiny screws that clamp together the iPhone are made in China.  Many of machines that makes the tiny screws are made in USA.  In a doomed chase for the basic industries we don't want, Trump will destroy the advanced industries USA has. www.theatlantic.com/economy/ arch...
2025-04-09 View on X
9to5Mac

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump “believes” the US has the labor, workforce, and resources to build iPhones in the US

Trump's massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have a major impact on Apple and its supply chain.

2025-03-25
It's an ironic PS to the amazing @JeffreyGoldberg story that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic is more responsible with US national security information than any of the principals of the Trump national-security team. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2025-03-25 View on X
The Atlantic

Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.

2025-03-03
No taxpayer bailout for crypto scam artists
2025-03-03 View on X
CoinDesk

President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges

Crypto Braced For Another Trump Shock After Bitcoin, XRP, Solana And Cardano Price Boom CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About Trump's Crypto Reserve Plans Matthew...

2025-01-30
Inflation.  —  In 2017, Kuwait paid only $60,000 to bribe Trump. www.reuters.com/article/us-u... Today it cost Meta $25 million. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
2025-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers …

2024-12-14
Why would Musk settle with the SEC in December when he paid a quarter billion dollars to own it after January?
2024-12-14 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says the US SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after its Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or face numerous charges

www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/ 2... Elizabeth Lopatto / @lopatto : Musk also asked his AI, Grok, to draw a picture of Gensler.  The image depicted a snail in a business suit, seeming...

2024-08-08
If Elon Musk's mismanagement had not so radically degraded Twitter's reach and influence since he bought it, his disinformation campaigns on the platform would do much more harm. Rather considerate of him, if you think of it that way.
2024-08-08 View on X
Politics.co.uk

In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views

Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …

If Elon Musk's mismanagement had not so radically degraded Twitter's reach and influence since he bought it, his disinformation campaigns on the platform would do much more harm. Rather considerate of him, if you think of it that way.
2024-08-08 View on X
Financial Times

UK officials say X has been less responsive to removing disinformation than Google, Meta, and TikTok, as Elon Musk launches a series of jibes at PM Keir Starmer

Financial Times :

2024-07-18
The Trump message on foreign policy: “We will abandon Ukraine. We will auction Taiwan to the highest bidder. (Checks made out to Trump's personal account, please). We despise our NATO allies and want to be rid of them. But you can totally trust us to keep faith with Israel.”
2024-07-18 View on X
CNBC

Global chip stocks fell sharply after reports of tighter export restrictions from the US and comments from Trump, who said Taiwan should pay the US for defense

WATCH NOW  —  Global chip stocks fell sharply, with ASML, Nvidia and TSMC posting declines amid reports of tighter export restrictions …

2023-12-23
How TikTok has become a battlefield in Hamas's war on Israel, fascinating detailed report in @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-12-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Bots registered as 13-year-old users on TikTok were shown highly polarized content about the Israel-Hamas war in the For You feed, within hours after signing up

Imagine your 13-year-old signs up for TikTok and, while scrolling through videos, lingers on footage of explosions …

2023-09-08
Musk thwarted what might have been a decisive military operation to shorten the Russian war against Ukraine, save who knows how many lives, and put an end to the Russian food blockade of poor countries in Africa and Asia. All while a US government contractor.
2023-09-08 View on X
CNN

An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …

2023-07-31
NYT reports that Elon Musk personally thwarted a Ukrainian military operation he disapproved of. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2023-07-31 View on X
New York Times

Starlink's dominance of satellite internet raises alarms about Elon Musk's growing geopolitical sway; Starlink has 4,500+ satellites, or 50%+ of all satellites

The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology.  The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.

2023-07-05
A thought on my personal post-Twitter plans. I've weighed alternatives like Post and S*bstack Notes. I'm open to the new product soon expected from Meta. But my own expectation is that there will be no Twitter successor. The network effect will be lost. Twitter itself ...
2023-07-05 View on X
The Verge

Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web UI, offering an early look at what to expect before its July 6 launch; the service appears to have 2,500+ users

Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.

A thought on my personal post-Twitter plans. I've weighed alternatives like Post and S*bstack Notes. I'm open to the new product soon expected from Meta. But my own expectation is that there will be no Twitter successor. The network effect will be lost. Twitter itself ...
2023-07-05 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Amanda Silberling:  —  Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Po...

2023-07-04
A thought on my personal post-Twitter plans. I've weighed alternatives like Post and S*bstack Notes. I'm open to the new product soon expected from Meta. But my own expectation is that there will be no Twitter successor. The network effect will be lost. Twitter itself ...
2023-07-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US.  The app will be called Threads …

2023-05-23
New Twitter is fraud-friendly https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-23 View on X
VICE

Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped

and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentag...

2023-03-12
My late father served on many boards in the 2010s. He joked that his job was to ask CEOs 40 years his junior: “what if interest rates rise three points?” The CEOs would react as if he'd asked about mortality: they accepted it had to happen, just not now - and not to them. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

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 r...

2023-03-11
My late father served on many boards in the 2010s. He joked that his job was to ask CEOs 40 years his junior: “what if interest rates rise three points?” The CEOs would react as if he'd asked about mortality: they accepted it had to happen, just not now - and not to them. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Bloomberg

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

Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run!  —  SVB

2022-11-06
They are going to be teaching this completely self-inflicted fiasco in business schools for the next 100 years
2022-11-06 View on X
CNBC

Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021

- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …

They are going to be teaching this completely self-inflicted fiasco in business schools for the next 100 years
2022-11-06 View on X
Platformer

Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff

Hi 👋 - Third quarter earnings show that big tech … Rise & Shine ☀ : Twitter Layoffs: The lawsuit and Fears of misinformation Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media : Musk & Mayhem @Twitt...