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And to think that Apple stopped working on TVs because it was seen as a low-margin business

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Roku raises its ad revenue share for ad-supported streaming channels to 45% from 40% and requires linear channels to use Roku's ad insertion technology and CDN (@jank0 / Protocol) protocol.com/entertainment/ techmeme.com/220616/p38#a22

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This is like if Grandpa Simpson bought Twitter bloomberg.com/news/live-blog

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The majority of Musk’s *tweets* about the deal are negative! bloomberg.com/news/live-blog

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suggests “alley oop” and I think that’s the winner — tweets like this exist only to set you up for the dunk

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Replying to @CaseyNewton

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We need a word for this kind of (perfect) deadpan tweet that makes every single person think of the same joke at once

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Anna Sorokin, known for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from friends and businesses while posing as a German heiress, says she's trying to move away from the "scammer persona" and plans to launch a collection of NFTs. nbcnews.to/3y5B0Pn

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Wrote about the fascinating Facebook memo scooped by

@alexeheath

and the huge challenge the company has ahead of it: pivoting to the metaverse while simultaneously pivoting to fight TikTok. I don’t think FB has ever tried anything harder than this platformer.news/p/can-meta-man

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BeReal sends the notification every day within the same four-hour window. Boring! Try to catch me when I’m not in an office chair 😩

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Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto C.E.O.

Anyway we talk a lot about “Twitter brain” but imo we should also be talking about “Slack brain” because in terms of forces shaping the global economy it feels weirdly under-discussed!

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Say what you will about e-mail, but in those days tech CEOs typically would not set up listservs devoted to trolling the workforce

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Obviously this all starts with the CEO, but it’s really striking the degree to which Slack is a main character in every story about a workplace melting down

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Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”

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AJ

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Handed a date my phone so he could pick a place for takeout and Postmates showed him a huge popup that said I ordered soup dumplings 3 days straight then basically said I was the #1 dumpling orderer in the city and asked if I wanted to send a personal message to the restaurant

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Really taken aback at how good #DALL-E has been for making illustrations for my daily columns. Here’s “facebook logo inside a tornado, digital art.” Took about 15 seconds to make

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Alex Heath

@alexeheath

How Facebook plans to become more like TikTok

I got internal docs and interviewed the head of Facebook about how the app is going to become more like TikTok. The feed will increasingly show posts from accounts you don’t follow — a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here:

theverge.com

Get ready for more random videos in your feed.

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YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily

Somehow we got YouTube corrections before we got editable tweets. (This is great, thanks YouTube)

theverge.com

YouTube makes corrections a little bit clearer

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Samidh

@samidh

This is an idea I'd wanted to pursue at FB, but got distracted by, you know, other pressing stuff. Hope that other platforms will be brave enough to give it a try!

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In light of Spotify’s relatively weak new ‘safety advisory council,’ I talked to @metaviv about his idea for ‘platform democracy’ — putting key policy questions directly to users as part of a deliberative process. I love this idea platformer.news/p/to-build-tru

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Aviv Ovadya

@metaviv

This is an excellent piece which explores advisory boards, Oversight Boards... ....and my proposal for using a modern form of democracy to create a "platform assemblies" — a sort of "on-demand platform legislature". They seem to work(!) (Details: platformdemocracy.com )

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In light of Spotify’s relatively weak new ‘safety advisory council,’ I talked to @metaviv about his idea for ‘platform democracy’ — putting key policy questions directly to users as part of a deliberative process. I love this idea platformer.news/p/to-build-tru

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In light of Spotify’s relatively weak new ‘safety advisory council,’ I talked to

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Very good on LaMDA / Lemoine from

@readmaxread

: maxread.substack.com/p/is-lamda-mou

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Sadly saying goodbye to 1,000 members of the

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family today. Affected employees will be airdropped a GIF from the movie “Joker” to their personal phones. Thank you for being a part of this journey 💪

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So it’s going to tell them to stop watching TikTok?

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The Verge

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· Jun 14

Instagram will start nudging teens away from content they continuously browse through theverge.com/2022/6/14/2316

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Someone in my Discord’s DALL-E channel just requested “Little Victorian boy using an Oculus Rift” and he’s perfect

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The AI truthers are here. What happens next??? platformer.news/p/googles-real

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Adriana Porter Felt

@__apf__

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overheard a teenaged girl ask her dad to explain what started World War II. he tried to play it cool but I could see it in his eyes, this was the moment he'd been waiting for for fifteen years

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Check in on your friends who are sharing the Winklevoss twins’ band video

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Is anyone planning to announce web6 this week? It’s fine I just want to be emotionally prepared

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The answer to “is LaMDA sentient” seems pretty obviously to be “no,” but if they people safety-testing it believe that it is, so are a *lot* of the civilians who eventually get their hands on it

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Did not think we would be having the “is this AI sentient or not” conversation in June 2022. Great scoop from

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Wrapping up my plans for a magnificent new version of the internet that I’m calling Web 4. Now to take a big sip of coffee and open up Twi —

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Techmeme

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Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin-focused venture TBD unveils plans to build a "Web 5" platform focused on decentralized identity and data storage for applications (@mpmcsweeney / The Block) theblockcrypto.com/linked/151407/ techmeme.com/220610/p16#a22

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Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

Trump Is Depicted as a Would-Be Autocrat Seeking to Hang Onto Power at All Costs

Jan 6 isn’t just about Jan 6. In the full picture, Trump: 1. Claimed to win an election he lost 2. Pressured officials to throw out results 3. Urged a mob to storm the Capitol 4. Signaled support to kill the VP 5. Retained support of most Republicans

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As the Jan. 6 committee outlined during its prime-time hearing, Donald J. Trump executed a seven-part conspiracy to overturn a free and fair democratic election.

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Carol Leonnig

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Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show

NEWWWWW: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Arizona lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show

@emmersbrown

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The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged that state lawmakers “choose” presidential electors, a responsibility that belongs to Arizona voters under state law.

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Leo Kelion

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Great write-up of the machine learning art tool Dall-E by

How DALL-E could power a creative revolution

The cinnamon roll with mini-cinnamon rolls for eyes is v v clever. Tools like this challenge the idea that AI will pick up repetitive tasks but leave creativity to us humans...

theverge.com

Every few years, a technology comes along that splits the world neatly into before and after.

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RIP “play to earn” games (2021-2022) Great feature on Axie Infinity from

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