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JA Westenberg

@joanwestenberg
20 posts
2025-01-19
The more evidence you present against Trump's narrative, the tighter the grip becomes.  Each attack reinforces the story: “See?  The establishment is trying to destroy what we believe in.”  This isn't about intelligence or education.  It's about identity.
2025-01-19 View on X
Slate

The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be

slate.com/technology/2... Nitish Pahwa / @nitishpahwa.com : one more from me for your weekend: I wrote about how the very politicians who've been pushing to ban TikTok for almost a...

The more evidence you present against Trump's narrative, the tighter the grip becomes.  Each attack reinforces the story: “See?  The establishment is trying to destroy what we believe in.”  This isn't about intelligence or education.  It's about identity.
2025-01-19 View on X
Washington Post

TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020

India's 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there.  But TikTok has proved more resilient elsewhere.

It's comfortable to believe that facts will prevail.  That one morning, millions of Trump supporters will wake up, rub their eyes, and suddenly see what we see.  That the scales will fall away, revealing truth in pristine clarity.  But tribes don't work that way.  🧵
2025-01-19 View on X
Washington Post

TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020

India's 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there.  But TikTok has proved more resilient elsewhere.

It's comfortable to believe that facts will prevail.  That one morning, millions of Trump supporters will wake up, rub their eyes, and suddenly see what we see.  That the scales will fall away, revealing truth in pristine clarity.  But tribes don't work that way.  🧵
2025-01-19 View on X
Slate

The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be

slate.com/technology/2... Nitish Pahwa / @nitishpahwa.com : one more from me for your weekend: I wrote about how the very politicians who've been pushing to ban TikTok for almost a...

2024-09-06
Gonna start posting engagement bait questions and limiting the replies just to really fuck with the algorithm
2024-09-06 View on X
Werd I/O

Meta not disclosing which select creators it pays to post on Threads undermines trust in everyone's motivations, as users assume others are “engagement farming”

It was a useful program, and the archival has merit, but publishers argued that the Archive overstepped, and the courts eventually agreed. Threads: @katienotopoulos , @cotyrosenbla...

2024-06-10
When you have over 100,000 followers, complaining about not being able to grow your account on Threads is absolutely a damn choice
2024-06-10 View on X
NOTUS

X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads

I deleted my Twitter account with 30k followers back when it was still called Twitter.  As a journo and writer, I have no interest in supporting Musk's propaganda machine.  I started again on Threads and Mastodon with zero followers.  I have worked every day to grow my audience all over again. …
2024-06-10 View on X
NOTUS

X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads

2024-05-03
The core problem the Rabbit R1 team faced: 1.  You need media coverage to launch a new product 2.  Tech media doesn't cover app launches To have the launch impact they wanted, they had to do hardware.
2024-05-03 View on X
The Verge

Rabbit R1 review: $199 is the right price, fun design, and a good mic, but the best features are all MIA, finicky and slow, and using a phone is better

2024-03-30
I find it hard to dunk on X/Twitter rolling out support for porn and adult communities.  Do y'all know how tough it is for sex workers to find an audience or build a business when social media platforms keep adopting puritanical content moderation policies?  I'm not saying Twitter is going to do a good job of this. …
2024-03-30 View on X
TechCrunch

X plans to soon filter all NSFW content in Communities by default and says admins can set an “Adult Content” label to avoid their content getting auto-filtered

It was Musk's intent, make X into a platform that props up his businesses, RW ideology … Bluesky: @mistersheridandj.bsky.social : Elon is *just* smart enough not to do a Tumblr.  [...

2024-02-24
What Twitter users want: fewer bots What they get: phone calls.
2024-02-24 View on X
9to5Mac

X starts rolling out audio and video calling to all users, after previously limiting the feature to Premium subscribers; users can disable calling in settings

The social platform X introduced a new feature last year that lets users make and receive audio and video calls, just like apps such as FaceTime and WhatsApp.

2024-02-05
The death of the writer has arrived. @verge have pretty much nailed it in their piece on self promotion.  In the social media era, writers must become podcasters, graphic designers, videographers, and conventionally attractive TikTok models to gain an audience. …
2024-02-05 View on X
Vox

How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts

2024-02-04
The death of the writer has arrived. @verge have pretty much nailed it in their piece on self promotion.  In the social media era, writers must become podcasters, graphic designers, videographers, and conventionally attractive TikTok models to gain an audience. …
2024-02-04 View on X
Vox

How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts

So you want to be an artist.  Do you have to start a TikTok?  —  When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal … Threads: @joanwestenberg and @jonathangarelick Mast...

2024-01-02
The data is clear - Apple is the market and perception leader in every category that matters.  But developments in Large Language Models have presented the first significant threat to Apple's hegemony in decades.  Tech Threads https://joanwestenberg.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
Joan Westenberg

With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that could develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards

Apple's emphasis on user privacy presents an opportunity for them to innovate in how LLMs are implemented.  They are one of the few tech companies that could develop legitimate new AI data usage and privacy paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards. |  cc Tech Threads https://joanwestenberg.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
Joan Westenberg

With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that could develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards

2024-01-01
Apple's emphasis on user privacy presents an opportunity for them to innovate in how LLMs are implemented.  They are one of the few tech companies that could develop legitimate new AI data usage and privacy paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards. |  cc Tech Threads https://joanwestenberg.com/...
2024-01-01 View on X
Joan Westenberg

With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards

Joan Westenberg : Threads: @parkert , @rstephens , @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @parkerortolani , @justinfineberg_ , and @hi.im.vijay . X: @andrewchen Threads: Parker Thomp...

The data is clear - Apple is the market and perception leader in every category that matters.  But developments in Large Language Models have presented the first significant threat to Apple's hegemony in decades.  Tech Threads https://joanwestenberg.com/...
2024-01-01 View on X
Joan Westenberg

With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards

Joan Westenberg : Threads: @parkert , @rstephens , @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @parkerortolani , @justinfineberg_ , and @hi.im.vijay . X: @andrewchen Threads: Parker Thomp...

2023-12-31
Apple's emphasis on user privacy presents an opportunity for them to innovate in how LLMs are implemented.  They are one of the few tech companies that could develop legitimate new AI data usage and privacy paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards. |  cc Tech Threads https://joanwestenberg.com/...
2023-12-31 View on X
Joan Westenberg

With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards

Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs, user-friendly interfaces, and a robust ecosystem.

The data is clear - Apple is the market and perception leader in every category that matters.  But developments in Large Language Models have presented the first significant threat to Apple's hegemony in decades.  Tech Threads https://joanwestenberg.com/...
2023-12-31 View on X
Joan Westenberg

With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards

Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs, user-friendly interfaces, and a robust ecosystem.

2023-12-23
For my audience of more than 5000, if I leave Substack, I'm going to wind up paying: - $116.50 AUD per month on Buttondown - $61.93 AUD per month on Beehiiv - $100+ AUD per month on Ghost - $46 AUD per month on Squarespace ...or spend more time and energy on self-hosting, adding another layer of work that I don't enjoy to my freelancing and writing. …
2023-12-23 View on X
The Popehat Report

Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money

Dealing With Nazis, Or Not, Can Be A Brand.  Substack's Monetizing It.  —  Substack has Nazis, because of course it does.

2023-06-05
The grift is real A key rule of thumb; the louder someone in an ecosystem is, the less their contributions actually matter. Signal v noise etc. https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-06-05 View on X
Forbes

Interviews, pitch decks, and internal documents suggest that Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque's recent success was bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims

Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people …