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John Battelle

@johnbattelle
78 posts
2023-11-18
Probably the most shocking thing about the OpenAI story this afternoon was that for the first time in recent memory, board governance actually mattered in Silicon Valley.
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-10-17
I Googled his citations.  They are....consistent in, er, political and social philosophy.  And ... well, this is a nice place.  I've said enough.
2023-10-17 View on X
Fortune

Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto lists trust and safety, sustainability, and tech ethics as “enemies”, says AI is “our Philosopher's Stone”, and more

In a 5,200-word manifesto published by the venture capitalist and billionaire Marc Andreessen on Monday …

2022-08-27
Sounds about right for peak Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...

2022-06-27
It's just the first inning. ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-27 View on X
New York Times

Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers

The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched.  They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …

2022-06-11
Oh my, this feels like it happened on purpose...Friday afternoon... yikes. https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-06-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: a Meta probe that began in Fall 2021 is investigating Sandberg's use of corporate resources for personal projects, including her Lean In foundation

Review focuses on the extent to which staffers worked on her personal projects  —  The lawyers investigating Facebook operating …

2022-04-18
The latest in the series is well worth the time spent reading. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-18 View on X
The Atlantic

Social media weakened the social capital, strong institutions, and shared stories that bind democracies, especially after 2009 when virality began to intensify

I had plans for the week-end.  Ambitious plans.  I was going to do my taxes. Christie DeLuca / Analog : Is Social Media a Crack House? Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic : Grand Hotel ...

2022-04-17
The latest in the series is well worth the time spent reading. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-17 View on X
The Atlantic

Social media platforms have weakened major forces that bind democracies together, especially after 2009 when the virality of social media started to intensify

What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction?  In the Book of Genesis, we are told …

2022-04-06
Opening line of Casey's NL today. @dickc “Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power” https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-06 View on X
Platformer

With Musk on the Twitter board, Parag Agrawal may struggle to balance his own vision against that of an unpredictable board member with a much louder megaphone

Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power  —  Today, let's talk about what Elon Musk means for the future of Twitter.

2022-02-16
Watching Web3 coverage is like watching Web1 coverage but on fast forward. It's amazing! It sucks! It's going to change everything! It's all fraud and bullshit! Wait, it might actually be useful! Nope, the tech is not ready! Wait, who's making money again?!
2022-02-16 View on X
VentureBeat

Roblox misses with Q4 revenue of $568.8M vs. $604M est., up 83% YoY, average DAUs of 49.5M, up 33% YoY, and average bookings per DAU of $15.57; stock drops 20%+

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :

2022-01-10
And @jeffjarvis here https://buzzmachine.com/... (which incorporates several others...)
2022-01-10 View on X
Moxie Marlinspike

How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses

And @jeffjarvis here https://buzzmachine.com/... (which incorporates several others...)
2022-01-10 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...

Let's argue about Web3, continued... love to see this kind of healthy debate. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-10 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...

2021-12-24
Damn Jack really has an @a16z bug up his ass lately. I mean, yes, “Eating the world” is super Dr. Evil level shit, but ... why now? https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-24 View on X
The Verge

Marc Andreessen blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets critical of a16z and Web3; Dorsey then tweeted “I'm officially banned from web3”

The venture capitalist blocked the former Twitter CEO, and Dorsey said he's now ‘banned from Web3’

2021-12-23
Damn Jack really has an @a16z bug up his ass lately. I mean, yes, “Eating the world” is super Dr. Evil level shit, but ... why now? https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-23 View on X
The Verge

Marc Andreessen blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets that were critical of a16z and Web3; Dorsey then tweeted “I'm officially banned from web3”

The venture capitalist blocked the former Twitter CEO, and Dorsey said he's now ‘banned from Web3’

2021-12-17
Related: @timoreilly on lessons from previous phases of Web nomenclature/hype bubbles (he knows a thing or two about a thing or two) https://www.oreilly.com/...
2021-12-17 View on X
O'Reilly Media

A look at the cycles of decentralization and recentralization, and why we won't understand what Web3 consists of until after the next bubble pops

There's been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I'm often asked to comment. Tweets: @oreillymedia , @amyjokim , @fredbenenson , ...

2021-12-09
Ummm if this takes you months to figure out you're clearly full of shit. https://www.engadget.com/...
2021-12-09 View on X
C-SPAN.org

Video of Adam Mosseri's testimony before a Senate Commerce subcommittee examining Instagram's negative effects on teen mental health

Instagram CEO testifies on impact of platform on young users before a Senate Commerce subcommittee.

2021-11-10
This feels like....part of a plan. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-10 View on X
New York Times

Meta aims to remove ad targeting options based on user interactions with content about health, race, political affiliation, religion, and more, by January 19

Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, said on Tuesday that it planned to eliminate advertisers' ability …

2021-09-30
And if you want to know why the free press matters, here ya go. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-30 View on X
The Verge

Facebook shares two annotated internal research docs about Instagram's impact on teen mental health, after being notified of WSJ's plans to publish the docs

The company shared the PDFs Wednesday night  —  Facebook has shared the internal research about the impact of Instagram … Source: Facebook and Facebook .

2021-09-18
Oh hai daily FB horrors. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-18 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages

foreign organizations that strategically target these groups for financial and possibly political gain. https://twitter.com/... Ella Dawson / @brosandprose : “In October 2019, all ...

2021-09-17
Oh hai daily FB horrors. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-17 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_...