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David Klion

@davidklion
12 posts
2025-04-28
While there are tons of specific details that are new to me, it's been clear since at least the pandemic that the big names on Twitter spend a lot more time talking to each other in private groups; some people are especially obvious about it.  Not just on the right, either!
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

Lots of great details in @semaforben.bsky.social's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right.  Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study.
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

Lots of great details in @semaforben's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right. Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study. https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

While there are tons of specific details that are new to me, it's been clear since at least the pandemic that the big names on this platform spend a lot more time talking to each other in private groups; some people are especially obvious about it. Not just on the right, either!
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

2024-03-29
25 years in prison is a long time but if you think of it as one year for every billion future humans who won't exist because of him, I guess it's fair
2024-03-29 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...

2022-12-16
The “free speech” stuff has always been pure projection. Bari Weiss started her career trying to silence academics she disagreed with, and now she's cast her lot with a megalomaniac who's purging any journalist who ever criticized him—something old Twitter mgmt would never do.
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

2021-03-26
Amazon's “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing” tweet is raising a lot of questions already addressed by the tweet https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-26 View on X
The Intercept

Internal Amazon documents show Amazon was aware of the practice of employees using pee bottles, identifying it as a “Tier 1” infraction that can lead to firing

In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders's scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive …

Amazon's “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing” tweet is raising a lot of questions already addressed by the tweet https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-26 View on X
VICE

Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” to a congressman

2021-03-18
Shorter Substack management: “It's not that we only give these deals to assholes, it's that only the assholes tell you about them” https://blog.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-18 View on X
Substack Blog

Substack shares details on its Pro program after criticism, saying 30+ writers with a “diverse set of viewpoints” have signed up, none of whom are anti-trans

a publisher, not a platform—but claims not to be one, which is a pretty shady dodge. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : It'd be nice to see all t...

2021-01-09
Thinking, as I often do, about the Krassensteins right now
2021-01-09 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says it has permanently suspended Trump's @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”

The president's preferred megaphone is gone  —  Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving four dead.

2019-11-03
Gonna start doing this when I get into arguments IRL, as part of a project to lose all my friends https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-03 View on X
New York Times

Trump has integrated Twitter into the very fabric of his administration, and, via more than 11,000 tweets, has reshaped the presidency

With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin.  “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught …

2018-01-30
Wow, grateful that Facebook's algorithm is finally promoting stories from trusted local news sites, such as... oh shit http://twitter.com/...
2018-01-30 View on X
Recode

Facebook to show more stories from local news sources in News Feed, will identify local publishers by looking at clicks in tight geographic areas

http://newsroom.fb.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Local news is often unifying and materially impactful to citizens, while world news can be divisive and numbingly distant...