Ryan Mac 🙃

hate when that happens

This is a good q from Levy, and Dorsey claims he wasn't paying attention to what was going on at the company at the time.

But I know of former employees who tweeted and messaged Dorsey about Musk's mockery. It's just interesting to watch Dorsey dodge any opportunity to hold Musk responsible.

Also funny how Dorsey talks as if things just happen to have happened. He says "it fragmented the conversation across ideological lines."

Twitter has never been apolitical, but there is one person alone who has accelerated that ideological fragmenting of conversation... and he owns the place.

I found this to be a good interview, even if Dorsey offered little clarity. Dorsey said he's happy X is a private company and that Musk has "changed is business model" but last I checked, X is still heavily reliant on ad revenue.

Animals don’t event read

Animals are so dumb. They don’t event know the time changed and their automatic feeders already went off. That’s why humans are superior and I get to post about it and they won’t even know.

lol thanks Dave

Grok posts about Hillsborough, Munich and Jota deleted after Liverpool and Man United complaints Grok responded to users with a series of 'appalling' posts, including accusing Liverpool fans of causing the deadly crush at Hillsborough

one way to keep one of the biggest communities on your platform is by heinously insulting them with a robot www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Yes, towards the end of Sept. after some back and forth on negotiations, and negotiations seemed to be hitting a stalling point, Mr. Ringler called me up. He said, ‘I’ve been specifically told to convey a message to you. That if Mr. Musk were required to go through with the transaction after the trial, it would be World War Three til the end of time, for real.’ He said it specifically with respect to the officers and directors. It was a pretty vivid message and he called saying he was specifically delivering a message. I said, ‘Mike, we have known each other for a long time. Let me repeat exactly what you said to me.’ And I said, ‘Did you just say to me that you’ve been asked to convey that if this went to trial and Mr. Musk was required to buy the company, it would be World War Three?’ He said, ‘That’s exactly what I said.’ I asked to conference in Mr. Klein. I said, ‘Can I say what you said to me to Mr. Klein?’ And he said sure. I repeated those words. I said, ‘Mike is that what you just told me?’ And he said yes.

We also got pretty remarkable testimony today from Marty Korman, a layer for Twitter on the deal. Here's him describing a call he had with Mike Ringler, a lawyer for Musk's side, as they were trying to re-negotiate the deal in September. (rough transcript; these are my uncorrected notes)

And while Musk always has an axe to grind with OpenAI, I haven't seen him post about Bret Taylor in quite a while. Interesting that he focused on Taylor right before his testimony today. bsky.app/profile/rmac...

Musk's tweets/retweets about the trial have been an issue for the judge in this case. In court this morning, Justice Breyer raised the issue that these kinds of posts could bias the jury if they inadvertently came across them. Today he asked jurors if they had seen any publicity related to the case.

That is incorrect. Dorsey survived the Elliot Management shareholder activism and attempted ouster.

Also worth noting: Bret Taylor did not fire Jack Dorsey. Dorsey resigned after years of issues and did so while hand-selecting his own replacement.

Musk's revisionist history protects Dorsey, his friend and shareholder, and (wrongly) absolves him of any responsibility.

You can see that hero narrative here. Musk is implying speciously here that his purchase of Twitter helped reverse trends of people "identifying as transgender."

He's also going after Bret Taylor, the former Twitter chair, who was set to testify today in the trial, and framing him as the enemy.

Monitoring Musk's X/Twitter feed is interesting in these moments because it's a window into his Id.

He believes he "saved" Twitter by buying it. And he's justified the billions he spent on it by framing it to himself (and his followers) that he made a sacrifice that centers himself as the hero.

Last week, a trial began to determine whether Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders over his 2022 purchase of the co.

On X, he's been posting his contempt for the trial and praise from followers that "he lost billions of his own money so they internet could stay free."

(Twitter was alway free.)

Bluesky has a new leader

Spelling not required to become a “trillioniare”

Just like an AI company

*crying*

"yes hutt"

phew

hell yea this is what we need

It sucks man

i hate it!!!!

My best World Cup memories are being in a city in a host nation watching at a fan fest in a defined, central place (Rio's Copacabana Beach or Frankfurt's fest on the River Main). People become used to gathering there every day and watching. Making it a rotating place each day or weekend is stupid.

Los Angeles World Cup 26 Fan Zones - losangelesfwc26.com

It feels like every part of this World Cup planning process has gone wrong. LA announcing a rotating fan fest/watch party across the county that only pops up in certain places for a few days is so, so dumb.

losangelesfwc26.com/los-angeles-...

U.S. Crypto Exchange Kraken Settles With Treasury Dept. (Published 2022)

Iono man, seems pretty relevant to me... www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/t...

Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.

Bizarre to write this story about Kraken gaining access to major US government financial infrastructure without mentioning the company's past legal troubles, which include... being investigated for subverting sanctions and enabling transactions with people based in Iran.

www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

very nice of Arne Slot to contribute to entertaining premier league football

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.