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Jason Pontin

@jason_pontin
27 posts
2024-12-29
Let's bring the next 10 or 20 Vinods to the US. But it's not just future Vinods—the top 0.1%, as Vinod himself says (or, the top 0.001% to give Vinod his due). Bring the top 1% or even top 5%. We've room enough, and they will become law-abiding, productive, high-consuming
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Post

Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue

President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …

2023-11-20
What on Earth? Who, then, was the motivating force behind this governance farce?
2023-11-20 View on X
@ilyasut

OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever “deeply regret[s]” participating “in the board's actions” and says he “never intended to harm OpenAI” and wants to “reunite the company”

I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the compa...

What on Earth? Who, then, was the motivating force behind this governance farce?
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

2022-10-30
VCs like me still argue that. Constraints impose discipline; the constraints are instantiated in the rounds of VC, which get progressively bigger as the company runs its killer experiments and “retires the risk” (in the jargon). Big rounds, too soon, corrupt the whole process. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Amid a downturn, tech companies may shift their focus from “gee-whiz” projects, like self-driving cars and metaverses, to truly useful products that make money

History shows that downturns are when the industry shifts focus from flashy novelties to things that are truly useful Tweets: @mims , @wsj , @mims , @jessefelder , @tunguz , @fossp...

2022-05-09
The GAN Father is quitting Apple. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-09 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”

2022-05-08
The GAN Father is quitting Apple. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-08 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility...

2022-04-16
I could make Twitter much better with a half dozen simple design fixes. I could make it radically better—Utopian good—with another six architectural and business model reforms. Let me run the place in my spare time from finding, funding, and growing Deep Tech breakthroughs. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
New York Post

Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days

Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.

I could make Twitter much better with a half dozen simple design fixes. I could make it radically better—Utopian good—with another six architectural and business model reforms. Let me run the place in my spare time from finding, funding, and growing Deep Tech breakthroughs. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
The Verge

Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B

The billionaire made his first public comments about his Twitter takeover efforts at the TED 2022 conference

2022-04-15
Needless to say, this is almost certainly a publicity stunt. Twitter is not for sale to Elon Musk for $41B. The company's market cap is currently $45B. I don't know what “the Musk premium” is for Twitter's shareholder, but it's got to be at least 15%.
2022-04-15 View on X
The Information

Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid

Amir Efrati / The Information :

Needless to say, this is almost certainly a publicity stunt. Twitter is not for sale to Elon Musk for $41B. The company's market cap is currently $45B. I don't know what “the Musk premium” is for Twitter's shareholder, but it's got to be at least 15%.
2022-04-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to take Twitter private by acquiring all outstanding stock for $54.20 per share, in a cash deal worth ~$43B

not “cancel culture” — are ruining discourse Eugene Robinson / Washington Post : If Elon Musk wants Twitter, he's welcome to it Financial Times : How Elon Musk could fund his $43bn...

2022-03-20
Amen, with certain exceptions. “If crypto, NFTs, web3, and the metaverse really do take over the world, it'll be because of how much money their biggest boosters have and how easy it is to generate interest as opposed to anything of true social utility.” https://www.vice.com/...
2022-03-20 View on X
VICE

SXSW shows crypto and the metaverse are underwhelming, mundane, and pathetic; the biggest boosters are rich enough to generate interest but not social utility

The first SXSW in three years was taken over by crypto-mania fueled by marketing hype.  —  It did not really hit …

2021-05-17
I don't dispute the right of Apple to privately determine, “Man, this Antonio guy is beyond the pale; he doesn't reflect our values. Executive X, you can't hire him.” But this was terrible HR: pissing off employees, and trampling on the candidate, whom they should protect.
2021-05-17 View on X
@antoniogm

[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false

Surely we can all agree, whatever our politics, that companies can't be recruiting people, hiring them, and then very publicly firing them for best-selling books they wrote five years ago?
2021-05-17 View on X
@antoniogm

[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false

2021-01-23
Which of its big things has X actually gotten across the line? Glass, Toronto, Loon, even Google Cars—all failures. I'm sorry for Astro, whom I like. There's some flawed about the whole approach. Too much money; not enough market pull; too little discipline. Something. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-23 View on X
Wired

Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one

Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme.  —  DO you detect something missing?

2021-01-22
Which of its big things has X actually gotten across the line? Glass, Toronto, Loon, even Google Cars—all failures. I'm sorry for Astro, whom I like. There's some flawed about the whole approach. Too much money; not enough market pull; too little discipline. Something. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-22 View on X
Wired

Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one

Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme.  —  DO you detect something missing?

2020-06-25
He was a friend, and extraordinarily talented man. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-06-25 View on X
New York Times

Michael Hawley, whose work at MIT Media Lab helped lay the groundwork for IoT, and who helped Steve Jobs and Larry Page write commencement speeches, dies at 58

A man of manifold interests, his achievements ranged from developing ideas behind the so-called Internet of Things to publishing the world's biggest book.

2020-06-23
This will be extraordinarily difficult for technology and life sciences companies for the six months it remains in place. America produces around 3K biochemical engineering PhDs every year; labor demand is about a factor higher. We're not smart enough to turn away H-1Bs https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-23 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Trump's new executive order will suspend H-1B, J-1, and H-2B visas, be in effect until the end of the year, and not immediately affect workers already in the US

BuzzFeed News has reporters around the world bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus.

2020-05-22
Well, this might help. But I often think Twitter is blamed for the general awfulness of modern people en masse - and then asked to offer a design fix. A better social network would have to promote fundamentally different - *better* - social interactions. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-22 View on X
OneZero

Twitter's plan to let users restrict tweet replies may curb some harassment, but will allow some users to shut down criticism and will reduce random engagement

This could make the platform less toxic — and less magical  —  The Twitter “reply guy” — a user, usually male …

2020-05-16
Civil was the stupidest idea in journalism during its desperate period - and I saw a few. The only thing that will “work” are publications delivering quality, relevancy, utility - and readers paying for those things. There will be far, far fewer pubs and journalists. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-16 View on X
Patreon

Civil, which began with the intent to launch dozens of sites supported by a blockchain-based platform and the CVL token, fell short of fixing media funding woes

Allegra Hobbs / Patreon : Tweets: @studyhallxyz , @studyhallxyz , @dtunkelang , @harrysiegel , @jenniferbrandel , and @jason_pontin Tweets: @studyhallxyz : We are indeed in the “t...

2020-01-13
Nearly every conservative or libertarian I know in real life and on Twitter, thinks these projects designed to improve “healthy” dialogue are really a nefarious plot b Californian liberals to censor and suppress conservative voices. https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-13 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Twitter's head of product Kayvon Beykpour about how Twitter is trying to stop incentivizing toxic behavior, giving users a “troll score”, more

Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product, admits the platform can still incentivize toxic behavior. Tweets: @nxthompson , @ppmerino , @jason_pontin , @mattnavarra , and @jenlucpi...