2024-07-18
Trump whinges about Taiwan, and top tech stocks — which are on US stock exchanges — fall. A company like NVIDIA alone is the reason for why the S&P 500 has been doing so well — and why 401(k)s (retirement accounts) have grown. I see we're back to stupid again.
CNBC
Global chip stocks fell sharply after reports of tighter export restrictions from the US and comments from Trump, who said Taiwan should pay the US for defense
WATCH NOW — Global chip stocks fell sharply, with ASML, Nvidia and TSMC posting declines amid reports of tighter export restrictions …
2024-05-06
Here's an idea! Using ChatGPT to prep you for very hard conversations. I'm going to try this! A super intriguing piece by @jeremyutley and @fromthekgb: https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How role-playing with an AI chatbot can help prepare for difficult conversations with family, friends, and colleagues, such as for terminating an employee
2024-05-05
Here's an idea! Using ChatGPT to prep you for very hard conversations. I'm going to try this! A super intriguing piece by @jeremyutley and @fromthekgb: https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How role-playing with an AI chatbot can help prepare for difficult conversations with family, friends, and colleagues, such as for terminating an employee
Role-playing with an AI conversationalist can prepare you to handle difficult subjects with family, friends and colleagues
2024-03-16
Well-meaning Americans who say this US bill on TikTok is anti-Asian racism / xenophobic appear unaware of the Global South's wariness of TikTok. India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, etc. — all have outright bans or limits on TikTok. These are Asian countries!!
New York Times
The TikTok divestment bill's progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor
Legislation to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the United States sailed through the House, but the Senate has no plans to move hastily.
Well-meaning Americans who say this US bill on TikTok is anti-Asian racism / xenophobic appear unaware of the Global South's wariness of TikTok. India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, etc. — all have outright bans or limits on TikTok. These are Asian countries!!
Techdirt
Banning TikTok is a performative, unconstitutional, authoritarian move that won't stop China from spreading propaganda or getting Americans' data
The same Americans saying the bill on TikTok is racist / xenophobic make no mention of China's ban of Google, Insta, FB, X, etc. Why this double standard of criticism? What about China's “racism” for banning US tech? Because this isn't about racism, it's about national security.
New York Times
The TikTok divestment bill's progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor
Legislation to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the United States sailed through the House, but the Senate has no plans to move hastily.
The US forced the Chinese entity owning the LGBTQ dating app Grindr to sell it. This kept people safe — Beijing is an explicitly anti-gay autocracy. That it had access to data of LGBTQ communities around the world could literally kill people. A TikTok divestment has precedent.
Techdirt
Banning TikTok is a performative, unconstitutional, authoritarian move that won't stop China from spreading propaganda or getting Americans' data
The same Americans saying the bill on TikTok is racist / xenophobic make no mention of China's ban of Google, Insta, FB, X, etc. Why this double standard of criticism? What about China's “racism” for banning US tech? Because this isn't about racism, it's about national security.
Techdirt
Banning TikTok is a performative, unconstitutional, authoritarian move that won't stop China from spreading propaganda or getting Americans' data
The US forced the Chinese entity owning the LGBTQ dating app Grindr to sell it. This kept people safe — Beijing is an explicitly anti-gay autocracy. That it had access to data of LGBTQ communities around the world could literally kill people. A TikTok divestment has precedent.
New York Times
The TikTok divestment bill's progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor
Legislation to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the United States sailed through the House, but the Senate has no plans to move hastily.
2023-04-06
Twitter labeling NPR “state-affiliated media” is terrible false equivalence to propaganda outlets like China's Xinhua or Russia Today. NPR gets ~1-2% funding f/ the federal government and has editorial independence. Xinhua denies a war in Ukraine and detention camps in Xinjiang.
Forbes
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception
Matt Novak / Forbes :
Twitter labeling NPR “state-affiliated media” is terrible false equivalence to propaganda outlets like China's Xinhua or Russia Today. NPR gets ~1-2% funding f/ the federal government and has editorial independence. Xinhua denies a war in Ukraine and detention camps in Xinjiang.
Semafor
Tests show that Twitter's “stay informed” labels, added in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia- or China-controlled media, no longer appear
Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform's own stated policies.
2023-04-05
Twitter labeling NPR “state-affiliated media” is terrible false equivalence to propaganda outlets like China's Xinhua or Russia Today. NPR gets ~1-2% funding f/ the federal government and has editorial independence. Xinhua denies a war in Ukraine and detention camps in Xinjiang.
Forbes
Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception
Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
2023-03-24
A social media app from Country X is popular among millions of citizens in Country Z. The leaders of Z watch with concern as citizens engage with the app. Z bans the app. I'm not talking about TikTok. I'm talking about what Beijing did to Facebook, Twitter more than a decade ago.
Bloomberg
Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.
A social media app from Country X is popular among millions of citizens in Country Z. The leaders of Z watch with concern as citizens engage with the app. Z bans the app. I'm not talking about TikTok. I'm talking about what Beijing did to Facebook, Twitter more than a decade ago.
Washington Post
A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok
“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issue...
2023-02-16
🇨🇳🇺🇸 TikTok isn't even available in China so this is some chutzpah from the CEO of TikTok: “There are more than 100 million voices in this country [USA], and I think it'll be a real shame if our users around the world are not able to hear them anymore.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
An interview with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew as he works to persuade US lawmakers that the app is not a national security threat, calling suspicions “misinformed”
In an exclusive interview, Shou Zi Chew said he's working to persuade lawmakers that TikTok poses no threat.
2022-10-05
Don't get how Elon Musk can push Russian talking points, obsess over creating an “everything” app he's compared to China's WeChat, and attempt a takeover of a social media platform in order to control the means as much as the message and folks don't see the autocracy there.
MarketWatch
Elon Musk claims that buying Twitter “is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”; in August 2022, Musk teased launching X.com as a social media site
Entrepreneur's first big hit was with X.com, an online bank that was acquired by PayPal; he re-acquired the rights … Source: @elonmusk .
Don't get how Elon Musk can push Russian talking points, obsess over creating an “everything” app he's compared to China's WeChat, and attempt a takeover of a social media platform in order to control the means as much as the message and folks don't see the autocracy there.
Bloomberg
SEC filing: in a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk revives his original bid for $54.20 per share, aiming to avoid a courtroom fight
Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, Bloomberg News reports.Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter …
2022-04-27
If Elon Musk thinks because he's the world's richest man that he can tell China to piss off if Beijing ever starts leaning on him about Twitter, he'll find out how efficiently the Chinese state can gobble up that Tesla Shanghai factory, taking with it as much IP as it can.
CNBC
Nasdaq closes down 3.95% to a 52-week low led by tech stocks, including Tesla down 12.2%, Coinbase down 5.9%, Netflix down 5.5%, Apple down 3.7%, Meta down 3.2%
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Tuesday with shares selling off into the close, as investors dumped equities on fears of an economic slowdown.
Elon Musk has a Tesla factory in China and he wants to sell more cars there, as many China observers note. What happens if Beijing leans on him about say, a Uyghur or Hong Kong activist account? Or about Chinese disinformation bots leveraging this platform?
Bloomberg
Filing: Twitter must pay a $1B termination fee for taking another offer or telling shareholders to vote against Musk, who would also owe $1B for ending the deal
Twitter Inc. will be required to pay a termination fee of $1 billion under certain circumstances if it ends an agreement …
Elon Musk has a Tesla factory in China and he wants to sell more cars there, as many China observers note. What happens if Beijing leans on him about say, a Uyghur or Hong Kong activist account? Or about Chinese disinformation bots leveraging this platform?
Bloomberg