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James Fallows

@jamesfallows
15 posts
2023-03-06
Wonderful to see our good friend Garrett Gruener, founder of Ask Jeeves, featured in this piece by @cwarzel https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2023-03-06 View on X
The Atlantic

An interview with Ask Jeeves co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original conception was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build

Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic :

2023-01-23
1/x Good @nytimes front-page story by @trippmickle on diff generational experiences w layoff waves: https://www.nytimes.com/... Boomer era grew up w prosperity of 1950s-60s and all related benefits. And then had first-hand experience with job-loss downturns of ...
2023-01-23 View on X
New York Times

The recent tech layoffs highlight a generational divide between younger workers, experiencing their first downturn, and older workers, who have been here before

The industry's recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash. Tweets: @neilmunrodc , @jamesfallows , @aaron_renn , ...

2022-12-30
“Any headline in the form of a question, assumes the answer ‘No,’ ” part six zillion. But an interesting piece. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Analysts and sources detail improving iPhone output in China despite COVID-19 issues; Foxconn's main Zhengzhou iPhone facility is now operating at ~70% capacity

Main Foxconn facility recovers to about 70% of capacity and wait times for iPhone Pro models shorten

“Any headline in the form of a question, assumes the answer ‘No,’ ” part six zillion. But an interesting piece. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-30 View on X
The Atlantic

Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the complex iPhone components and assembly, driving production to near zero

Chris Miller / The Atlantic :

2022-12-29
“Any headline in the form of a question, assumes the answer ‘No,’ ” part six zillion. But an interesting piece. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-29 View on X
The Atlantic

Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the iPhone's complex components and assembly, driving production near zero

Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant …

“Any headline in the form of a question, assumes the answer ‘No,’ ” part six zillion. But an interesting piece. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

TSMC begins mass producing 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promises to build 2nm plants in Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains …

2022-12-05
Late to this, but superb job as questioner by @GStephanopoulos. —Can't think of a more self-damaging interviewee than this guy SBF. (All the others would have lawyers holding then back.) —Resists Madoff comparison, but... —How did people ever take this guy seriously? https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-05 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Bankman-Fried admits involvement in two of Alameda's largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance's FTX stake and pouring $4B into venture capital

Exchange's former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm  —  Speaking from his bed in Nassau …

2022-01-24
Last night I did Q-and-A post about airlines and 5G I've just done an extensive update to the post, with more leads and links, and answers to several Qs. (Like, “How will this end?” and “Why isn't it happening in Europe?") Updated version here: https://fallows.substack.com/ ...
2022-01-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How longstanding disagreements between the FCC and FAA over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the lead up to the 5G C-band rollout in the US

Longstanding disagreements between federal agencies over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the days leading to the 5G debut

Have you been wondering: what is the deal with 5G and the airlines? Wonder no more: https://fallows.substack.com/ ... by me
2022-01-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How longstanding disagreements between the FCC and FAA over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the lead up to the 5G C-band rollout in the US

Longstanding disagreements between federal agencies over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the days leading to the 5G debut

2021-03-06
Twitter-readers' loss is the US public's gain — and by about a million fold. Couldn't be a better choice for this job. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-06 View on X
New York Times

Tim Wu, an outspoken critic of Big Tech, is joining the National Economic Council as a special assistant to President Biden for tech and competition policy

Tim Wu's appointment to the National Economic Council would signal a confrontational approach by the Biden administration.

2020-09-18
I would like the “BIden has dementia” people to watch him on CNN right now, *and* compare him with what they heard from Trump today or anytime recently.
2020-09-18 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the alliance of convenience between Facebook and Trump admin as sources say Zuckerberg told employees that Facebook is likely to fare better under GOP

In late 2019, during one of Mark Zuckerberg's many trips to Washington to defend Facebook in front of Congress …Tweets:@juddlegum,@sarahfrier,@adamserwer,@juddlegum,@sarahfrier,@ja...

2020-08-07
1) Story worth reading. 2) Good for the FB employees who are pushing back 3) Histories of our time will note how much of the fate of democratic government depended on the one person whose shares gave him non-accountable control of a dominant firm. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-07 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages

Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.

2020-07-24
The “exit recording” by FB veteran Max Wang, embedded in this BuzzFeed piece, is 20 minutes long and actually worth listening to. It's about internal corp discussions even this month. Applies Hannah Arendt to FB! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-24 View on X
BuzzFeed News

An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built

Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www....

2020-05-31
2/2 To extend what @zeynep is arguing: if the Facebook “oversight” board does not convene, now, then it is fair to conclude that they are just decorative. If not now, when?
2020-05-31 View on X
@oversightboard

[Thread] Facebook Oversight Board says it is “working hard to set the Board up to begin operating later this year”

which implies that the company also did not rule out taking action on them. Will Oremus / @willoremus : I asked Twitter for comment on these Khamenei tweets that Trump's FCC chair ...

2/2 To extend what @zeynep is arguing: if the Facebook “oversight” board does not convene, now, then it is fair to conclude that they are just decorative. If not now, when?
2020-05-31 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …