Mon. 04/10 - Would You Believe Me If I Told You Elon Changed His Mind?

Twitter has stopped throttling tweets with Substack links in them, but only after Elon Musk denied they were ever blocked. About 270 US Apple Stores have held staff meetings about unionization risks in the past two weeks. A New York Times article about the environmental and economic impact of bitcoin mines has some crypto proponents up in arms. And the 2023 Dell XPS 13 is… fine. Just fine.

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Links:

• Twitter stops throttling tweets with Substack links (Engadget)
• Elon Musk Denies Substack Links Are Blocked On Twitter, A Claim That’s Very Misleading (Forbes)
• Apple (AAPL) Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores From Unionizing (Bloomberg)
• The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin (NY Times) 
• Crypto enthusiasts go after New York Times for its BTC mining report (Cryptopolitan)
• Rebuttal to the NYT article (Daniel Batten, Twitter)
• Dell XPS 13 review: Dell is coasting (and that’s fine) (The Verge)

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