Fri. 11/18 – Twitter: Not Dead At The Time Of This Posting

I’m here with you all as we wait for the end of Twitter together. Unless it doesn’t die. In which case, I dunno. Masa Son is actually personally in hock to the Vision Fund now that all its investments have gone pear shaped. A weird end of an era for Facebook. It’s not about status updates anymore. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter (The Verge)
• Tweet thread on why @peterclowes left Twitter
• Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout (FT)
• End of an Era: Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile (Gizmodo)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Tweet thread from @MosquitoCapital on the many ways Twitter could break
• Nvidia RTX 4080 review: performance, for a price (The Verge)
• 1Password wants to ditch passwords without locking you in to one platform (Fast Company)
• Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air (CNET)

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