Pinned
Ben Thompson
72.8K posts
Ben Thompson
@benthompson
Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @sharptechpod. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.
- Elon Musk has already made ~$750 million on his Twitter trade, which is approximately double Twitter’s net income for the last 3 years.
- Being a liberal with forbidden black friends under a censorious apartheid regime that denied its atrocities is a powerful origin story for Musk’s focus on free speech. So powerful, in fact, that this takeaway shines through a ham-fisted narrative insinuating the opposite.Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda. He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation. nyti.ms/3kG0TNY
- Marques’ reach is a function of telling the truth. He didn’t always have 18 million subscribers, but he had his integrity from the beginning. Expecting him to abandon that is the only thing that is “distasteful, almost unethical”.I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness. First, do no harm.
- 1975: Microsoft founded ~22 years later~ 1997: US v Microsoft filed ———————————- 1998: Google founded ~22 years later~ 2020: US v Google filed *************************** Apparently being sued for antitrust is like graduating from college for tech companies.
- The anti-nuclear movement is up there as one of the most destructive of all-time. The triumph of emotion over rationality, and we haven’t even started to truly pay the price. From: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
- Elon Musk is better at interviewing than at being interviewed, which actually makes quite a bit of sense when you think about it.
- Agree. It's 2016 and men in tech still mocking one of the most successful businesspeople in the industry. Hopeless x.com/CanadaKaz/stat…
- Praying for India 🙏
- 6 year-old son: Where do cows watch movies? Me: A MOOOOOO-vie theater. Son: No. Me: [Surprised] Then where? Son: MOOOOOO-Tube *** OMG I’m old 😵
- Imagine writing this four months after China forced a group of doctors to sign an apology for discussing a new coronavirus in a chat room.
- It’s pretty popular to write tweets mocking people starting podcasts. It reminds me of people mocking blogs. It’s all elitist gatekeeper BS. The fact the Internet gives opportunity to anyone anywhere is awesome.
- *who was in a control group and didn’t receive the vaccine Pretty staggering how irresponsible this is.Volunteer in Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial dies wapo.st/37sD32R
- I have now heard from multiple developers, both big and small, that over the last few months Apple has been refusing to update their app unless their SaaS service adds in-app purchase. If this has happened to you please email me blog @ my site domain. 100% off the record.
