Firebrand

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by Firebrand 6y ago
I get the feeling the Trump Administration’s lawyers are going to fumble the full ban lawsuit in November allowing Bytedance to retain control of TikTok. If this were an actual national security issue then you’d think they’d come up with m
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Although heavily redacted, part of their claim is that US user data is stored on servers leased by a PRC state owned enterprise located in Virginia (China Telecom?). TikTok has repeated said American user data is safe because it's stor
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Bethesda Games are not going not be exclusive to Xbox -- Confirmed by Todd Howard: >Like our original partnership, this one is about more than one system or one screen. We share a deep belief in the fundamental power of games, in their a
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by Firebrand 6y ago
>Let’s be very clear here. I am not a fan of TikTok. I had the misfortune of coming across it when it was still called Musically and I had to explain to a little girl that she, unlike her friends, was not allowed to dance for strangers.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
My mistake. I left out the investment firms like Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic and Coatue, which would put majority ownership in U.S. hands. That’s what the Trump administration wants all along anyway.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
What good is temporarily banning TikTok if Oracle and Walmart are taking majority ownership? The user base will see the headlines that it’s being banned and then they’ll move to a rival service again like they did during the first scare. Es
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Instagram’s Kevin Systrom has had preliminary talks about becoming TikTok's CEO(nytimes.com)
2 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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Kanye West to start a Y Combinator for the music industry(twitter.com)
30 points by Firebrand 6y ago|5 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Is there anyone that comes out worse from the U.S. + China TikTok saga than Kevin Mayer? He left leading Disney's streaming division after being passed over for CEO to become Bytedance's COO and CEO of TikTok, only to leave three
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by Firebrand 6y ago
> Mr. Martin did not appear before the board. In a statement released on Friday night, Michel Stern, a representative for Mr. Martin, said: “Mr. Martin and his wife are frankly in the midst of processing this disappointing news. They are
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by Firebrand 6y ago
>Oracle is set to be announced as TikTok’s “trusted tech partner” in the U.S., and the deal is likely not to be structured as an outright sale, the person said. Bytedance isn’t actually selling TikTok, and the White House gets its win.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Oracle becomes a trusted tech partner of Bytedance: “ByteDance started opening data centers in India and the US in 2019. This may be strictly for internal purposes, but its possible they plan to launch a cloud hosting service. ByteDance acq
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by Firebrand 6y ago
The algorithm is just a ranking of statistical probabilities—not some magic spell. Microsoft’s world class engineers could easily replicate that. I’m not so sure if buying only TikTok’s U.S. user base is worth it, though. TikTok’s switching
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by Firebrand 6y ago
> Our systems, together with our moderation teams, have been detecting and removing these clips for violating our policies against content that displays, praises, glorifies, or promotes suicide. We are banning accounts that repeatedly tr
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A Woman Taking over TikTok at the Toughest Time(nytimes.com)
1 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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A futuristic data policing program is harassing Pasco County families(projects.tampabay.com)
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by Firebrand 6y ago
I've been seeing a lot of low to mid-tier creators dropping out of the payment program lately after their view counts plummeted. It's speculated that TikTok only pays for video completion count while enrolled in the Creator Fund s
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Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students(theverge.com)
3 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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Prepare for the Roaring Twenties(theatlantic.com)
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Nineteen Children and Counting(washingtonpost.com)
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Isn’t this problem why Walmart is interested in TikTok? Teenager sees an article of clothing an influencer is wearing and then taps a button for it to be delivered with 2-day Walmart+ shipping in their size.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
If China wishes to block the sale due to AI interface technologies then just sell the brand and user base. Microsoft has world class engineers that could come up with a replacement algorithm that’s similar to Bytedance’s before the U.S. de
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College Is Everywhere Now(nytimes.com)
3 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
What’s frustrating about discovering Substack content is I would have no idea Simon Owens wrote about why Patreon’s business model is under threat if I didn’t see this post on HN. I’m unable to come for the topic, and then stay for the auth
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by Firebrand 6y ago
From TheWrap: >But the proposed deal is being complicated by a split between ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming and General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, two U.S.-based ByteDance investors with long ties to the Trump administration and Republica
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Not if Oracle and Sequoia have anything to say about that.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Sort of a Frankenstein’s monster situation Zuckerberg created for himself. He took Bytedance’s money so they could plaster TikTok ads all over Facebook and Instagram back in 2018. TikTok pays its approved creators around $0.035 per 1,000 vi
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Why did these YouTubers give away their son?(thecut.com)
1 points by Firebrand 6y ago|1 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
>They plied him with gifts such as a bottle of cognac and the Russian military uniform. > he traveled to Russia one last time in 2010, emphasizing to his handlers that he wanted to pursue business there but that his handlers encourage
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Long-Haulers Are Redefining Covid-19(theatlantic.com)
4 points by Firebrand 6y ago|1 comments

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