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Elizabeth Spiers

@espiers
63 posts
2026-02-22
I read this earlier and of all the people in it, I think I like “Donald Boat” the most, and everyone else the least: harpers.org/archive/2026...
2026-02-22 View on X
Harper's

Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly “agentic” young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley

Tech's new generation and the end of thinking … Cluely and its co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee were intensely, and intentionally, controversial.

2026-02-21
I read this earlier and of all the people in it, I think I like “Donald Boat” the most, and everyone else the least: harpers.org/archive/2026...
2026-02-21 View on X
Harper's

Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly “agentic” young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley

Tech's new generation and the end of thinking … Cluely and its co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee were intensely, and intentionally, controversial.

2025-01-16
Sam wants you to know he only ever read Playboy for the articles [embedded post]
2025-01-16 View on X
Financial Times

UK's Ofcom imposes robust age checks on porn sites, which could include photo ID matching, facial age estimation technology, and credit card checks

Ofcom sets out new rules that could include photo ID matching and credit card verification  —  The UK media regulator will make it harder …

Sam wants you to know he only ever read Playboy for the articles [embedded post]
2025-01-16 View on X
Associated Press

During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u... Allie Shenkin / @shenkin : Not that anyone asked for a large experiment on the presumably-mollifying effects of porn on violence by teenagers, but l...

2023-10-17
And of course this self-aggrandizing nonsense is from @pmarca. If the 1% can convince you that their disregard for the potential harm they can buy themselves out of (but you can't) is about their brave risk taking and optimism, maybe you'll excuse it. https://a16z.com/...
2023-10-17 View on X
Fortune

Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto lists trust and safety, sustainability, and tech ethics as “enemies”, says AI is “our Philosopher's Stone”, and more

In a 5,200-word manifesto published by the venture capitalist and billionaire Marc Andreessen on Monday …

It's very convenient for billionaires to pretend that people are angry at technology and not the avarice of people who hoard wealth. Read this and substitute “wealth hoarding” for “technology” and only then is it somewhat accurate: [image]
2023-10-17 View on X
Fortune

Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto lists trust and safety, sustainability, and tech ethics as “enemies”, says AI is “our Philosopher's Stone”, and more

In a 5,200-word manifesto published by the venture capitalist and billionaire Marc Andreessen on Monday …

2023-09-14
This is cute and harmless but look at all the right wing blue checks in the replies losing their minds. I'd like to see them boycott woke Apple tho. They might give up Bud Light for five minutes but they ain't getting rid of their iPhones
2023-09-14 View on X
The Verge

Apple's environmental announcements, including its first carbon-neutral products, show progress but may be a red herring that distracts from its overall impact

a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress. [video] Andy / @andyakoto : I will take Apple seriously about their environmental efforts when they finally come to the rea...

2023-09-13
This is cute and harmless but look at all the right wing blue checks in the replies losing their minds. I'd like to see them boycott woke Apple tho. They might give up Bud Light for five minutes but they ain't getting rid of their iPhones
2023-09-13 View on X
The Verge

Apple's environmental announcements, including its first carbon-neutral products, are progress but may act as a red herring to distract from its overall impact

Apple announced its first-ever carbon-neutral products today, but don't get too excited about what that means for the planet.

2023-08-20
If Elon eliminates the block function, this site will become unusable. But this guy being mad about it will be funny. [image]
2023-08-20 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute

the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twi...

2023-07-07
It is very funny to watch the blue checks on this site whine that their posts are being suppressed on platforms where you can't buy your way into algorithmic prioritization and it doesn't occur to them that maybe their posts just suck.
2023-07-07 View on X
Semafor

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP

Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …

It is very funny to watch the blue checks on this site whine that their posts are being suppressed on platforms where you can't buy your way into algorithmic prioritization and it doesn't occur to them that maybe their posts just suck.
2023-07-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours

what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as...

2023-03-28
For context, Twitter Blue has made a grand total of $11 million so far. Next up: eroding the integrity of the platform, driving verified celebrities with millions of followers off of it, making recommendations and polls even more useless... profit! https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15

Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …

2023-03-13
Yes, it does. Retail investors are not worried that the FDIC won't insure deposits up to 250k. SVB's risk was concentrated almost exclusively in the tech sector—and partly because top tier VCs insisted their portfolio companies use them for banking. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-13 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

I found it. The dumbest SVB take. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-13 View on X
CNBC

Sources: long before its collapse, SVB remained technologically stagnant, including failing to integrate Stripe's tech and biometric authentication on mobile

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :

Yes, it does. Retail investors are not worried that the FDIC won't insure deposits up to 250k. SVB's risk was concentrated almost exclusively in the tech sector—and partly because top tier VCs insisted their portfolio companies use them for banking. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-13 View on X
Financial Times

Having perfected the art of using hype to move markets, VCs managed to hype their own rumors to collapse SVB, accidentally slaying a much loved accomplice

After more than a decade of venture capitalists insisting they provide more than just cash to their portfolio companies, the moment to prove that finally arrived.

I found it. The dumbest SVB take. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-13 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

2023-03-12
A thing I think a lot of people don't understand is that if you're a founder trying to raise money from top tier VCs, there's a lot of pressure to use certain vendors — banks, lawyers, etc — and it's a minor but not insignificant screening mechanism. 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
A thing I think a lot of people don't understand is that if you're a founder trying to raise money from top tier VCs, there's a lot of pressure to use certain vendors — banks, lawyers, etc — and it's a minor but not insignificant screening mechanism. 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

2023-01-26
So you're telling me CEO Free Speech McMoneybags doesn't actually believe in protection of critical speech and uses it rhetorically as a cynical ploy to normalize bigotry? https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
The Daily Beast

After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021

both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...

So you're telling me CEO Free Speech McMoneybags doesn't actually believe in protection of critical speech and uses it rhetorically as a cynical ploy to normalize bigotry? https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi