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by memish 5y ago
On the right, banning books means trying to prevent their kids from reading them. But on the left it often means trying to prevent anyone from reading them. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1515563419386191880
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by memish 5y ago
Why are Google and Microsoft enabling a small number of people with the power to dictate our language?
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by memish 5y ago
It's authoritarian and the new heresy, full stop. It's no different than evangelicals who try to impose their morality on everyone else. "That word is sinful. Here's the proper word and idea." They also think it&#x2
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by memish 5y ago
Why isn't "people of color" as offensive as "colored people"?
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by memish 5y ago
"Pregnant woman"
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Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”(twitter.com)
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by memish 5y ago
"It wasn't my fault your honor, a lobbyist told me to do it!"
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by memish 5y ago
Correct. Their interest is more aligned with cultural power and country club status. They also draw huge salaries for what amounts to a nice part time job. Elon's response to that: "Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so t
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Evidence That Musk Is the Chief Engineer of SpaceX(old.reddit.com)
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The harsh Shanghai lockdown is the end game(twitter.com)
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by memish 5y ago
It's a hidden, regressive tax.
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When I was fired in 2008 and made chair, the board took most of my shares away(twitter.com)
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The pressure to censor all layers of the legacy Internet stack is intense(twitter.com)
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by memish 5y ago
That translation is projection, nothing more.
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Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media(twitter.com)
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How Ideological Coups Happen(wesleyyang.substack.com)
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by memish 5y ago
Do we know that? There are internet rumors vs what he, his mom and brother say about him showering at the YMCA and only being able to afford one computer when starting Zip2. That's why I said "may have", because his mom and b
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by memish 5y ago
Is that what happened with Linux and Mastodon?
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by memish 5y ago
He may have started with less than the median American when he emigrated. Rich parent doesn't always equal rich kids. The ones that are mostly just consume. It's plainly obvious he's not some rich trust fund kid. Which is why
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by memish 5y ago
Transparency would be helpful. At the very least it would cut off the speculation about what did or didn't behind the scenes. Right now it's a black box.
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by memish 5y ago
A marketplace of algorithms and "pick your own algorithm" would be interesting. Is there any reason not to do this? Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's not crazy. Even Jack is pushing for it: "The choice of whic
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by memish 5y ago
The idea that his success is due to that is another olympic level contortion. He wasn't given millions of dollars to start, let alone billions. Even if he was, it would still be impressive converting that into Tesla and SpaceX, as oppo
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by memish 5y ago
I see Tesla cars all over the place. I saw rockets take off from SpaceX. What charade? Also he often publicly thanks, congratulates and credits the Tesla and SpaceX teams. Here's a sample: https://twitter.com/search?q=f
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by memish 5y ago
Paul Graham's response: I read @yishan's thread about Twitter and agree, as I think anyone who's run a forum would, that Elon is "in for a world of pain," or at least for a type of pain both much nastier than hard
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by memish 5y ago
For those blindly downvoting that, here's what Paul Graham said: "Either (a) Twitter is terribly bad at detecting spam or (b) there's something about Twitter that makes detecting spam difficult or (c) they don't care. Ba
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by memish 5y ago
That's like saying SpaceX isn't about going to Mars and Tesla isn't about reducing carbon emissions. At this point we can say these are mission focused moves. This is about free speech in the public square.
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Why? You don't have to agree with everything. That's fine. It's a separate point from the others.
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They have solved much harder problems than spam bots.
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by memish 5y ago
Some points from the All in Pod. 1. The Twitter board of directors has become a status thing. It's like a country club. They don't have real skin in the game; they don't own much stock. They're not aligned with the share
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by memish 5y ago
What would you say you do here?

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