Business and Technology Attorney Former Technology Entrepreneur Trust Company Director Elsewhere: https://nitter.gq/t.co/7oOnNl6LO6
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Douglas Barnes retweeted
Nobody talks about the secret ingredient to rapid 19th century industrial progress: round-the-clock community meetings to ensure the full, enthusiastic agreement of every stakeholder.
Douglas Barnes retweeted
0/10 The Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, controlled by Russia, has been destroyed. This brings humanitarian, ecological, and economic disaster to Ukrainians. Here are some guidelines for writing about this catastrophe.
If you've played Dwarf Fortress, you know that they have very elaborate, often very odd randomly generated descriptions of unique objects in the game. Some surprisingly good pictures emerge when you hook their autogenerator to an AI picture generator...
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Douglas Barnes retweeted
Right-wingers have absolutely beclowned themselves by turning on Zelensky, who has embodied their supposed ideal of brave virtuous manliness in defense of his people and country, as well as kicking the ass of America's most dangerous enemy.
What, exactly, was the DNC doing if not checking for this sort of thing BEFORE the election?
(Trump-backed Long Island congressman apparently faked most of his resume and engaged in what certainly looks like election fraud.)
Kamil Galeev -- my go-to source when it comes to studying the effects of living under despotic rule -- turns his toolset on the effects of despotic, arbitrary decisions being made on this site.
Wow.
@elonmusk, as a Twitter user I see this as a highly arbitrary decision. You may say: you don't care how I see it. Fair enough. Unfortunately, arbitrary rule affects everyone's personal strategies. If you are subject to it, you can't realistically plan anything long-term
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The various bans, suspensions, and other policy tantrums are value destroying and show poor judgement.
But I'm seeing lots of "this is illegal, Elno is going down" type posts from people who should know better. Here's a calm description of what's possible under EU law.
Some general points re EU law and Twitter policy 1/
The Treaty competition law rule against abuse of a dominant position applies already. The more specific provisions of the Digital Markets Act on this apply from May 2023.
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"A nearer analogy might be the manager of a Buffalo Wild Wings decreeing that customers are not allowed to talk about other restaurants inside his facility."
For my sins I’ve been on the internet a long time, but I can not remember seeing a forum—of any size—where the mod’s mother was posting about how his bad decisions are actually good.
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In which it appears that it's not just an overall bad market driving down Tesla stock.
I just finished doing a version of this vs NASDAQ. Same basic result. My take is that the variable delta between April 14 and Oct 2 reflected changing perceptions about whether the deal would happen. Oct 2 is when he agreed to close. Nov is "the madness of king Elno".
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Elno bans the main Mastodon Twitter account. Not sure if this is just pure petulance because of the post about the account following his plane being on Mastodon, or if it's the start of an anti-Mastodon crackdown.
Not content with Twitter, Musk is also the new owner of The Streisand Effect
#TheMuskEffect
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Just the facts about deep strikes by Ukraine on Russian territory from @walter_report
Also: first link I've read on Post. I've been waitlisted there, and you have to get five to sign up before you get off the list. Annoying, but here's my link:
post.news/?r=0wpDU
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Douglas Barnes retweeted
The Twitter Files is a good lesson in how you can report out the goings on of any decent sized organization, and if you use the right tone, cite “documents,” and make it seem like you’re breaking news, you can make even the most mundane shit seem scandalous to the right audience.
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It took a while, but we finally developed the technology to remove both students and professors from the university system, leaving only the part that's really important: administration.
So glad to see @timkmak posting from Ukraine again. Love the low-key, immersive and humane approach to sharing his travels and his process. Next best thing to being there.
Seven months ago I got a tip about a possible war crime.
A body had laid in the streets of a small village called Nova Basan - for a month.
So we started digging.
Today on Up First Sunday, the first part: NPR Investigates a Single War Crime in Ukraine
npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-f…
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