mekkaokereke · TEXXR

@troyhunt “Go woke go broke” is a lie that racists tell themselves as they harm Black people and trans kids. “Go fash, lose cash” is what really happens. Brands don't want their products advertised next to racist memes, crypto spam, and other things Elon increased https://finance.yahoo.com/...

2022-11-23 View on X

Washington Post

Pathmatics: over a third of Twitter's top 100 clients, including Mars and Jeep, as well as 14 of the top 50, haven't advertised on Twitter in the past two weeks

all in the name of some grade-school version of free speech — enables amplification of hate, incitement, the old twitter cesspool. Seth Abramson / @sethabramson : (MORE) Musk canno...

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👍🏿Jacob Silverman wrote an article tying together all of the stuff I've been telling you about these dudes for years (and that these dudes have been trying to tell you about themselves). The fact that so many Black + Latin folk and women sign up to idolize these dudes is weird🤷🏿‍♂️ https://twitter.com/...

2022-10-19 View on X

New Republic

A profile of venture capitalist and former PayPal COO David Sacks, who is using his wealth and online clout to lead a reactionary movement against liberalism

Last month, Chesa Boudin, the former district attorney of San Francisco, spoke with the leftist podcaster and political commentator Katie Halper …

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Stop talking about the Will Smith slap. Apple will release that movie and it will do numbers, awards or not. Will Smith being ostracized from any potential Oscar win, says more about the academy than it says about Will Smith. Y'all still giving Polanski awards though. Trash. https://twitter.com/...

2022-09-19 View on X

New York Times

Sources detail Apple's dilemma over releasing Emancipation, the $120M Civil War drama starring Will Smith that wrapped earlier in 2022, after his Oscar's slap

The Civil War drama “Emancipation” finished filming early this year. Now, Apple faces a quandary on what to do with the movie.

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Nah. I've already made my prediction: he's going to bring back political ads and pump (what's left of) crypto. Just look at who's co-investing. Ask yourself how they plan to make money knowing that the real user base is shrinking and losing women and the troll base is growing. https://twitter.com/...

2022-05-08 View on X

New York Times

Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more

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Nah. I've already made my prediction: he's going to bring back political ads and pump (what's left of) crypto. Just look at who's co-investing. Ask yourself how they plan to make money knowing that the real user base is shrinking and losing women and the troll base is growing. https://twitter.com/...

2022-05-07 View on X

New York Times

Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more

Here's what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter's finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.

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No, it's really not funny that even a software engineer at Opensea and former Google engineer, was allegedly scammed in the Opensea event. It just shows how unrealistic it is to expect average users to not lose it all in an instant with no recourse. This is real people's money.

2022-02-21 View on X

CoinDesk

OpenSea says 32 users had NFTs stolen as part of a targeted phishing campaign that scammed them into signing malicious smart contracts

Emails purporting to be from the NFT marketplace about a planned smart contract migration may have been a phishing attack. Source: @dfinzer , @opensea , and @xanderatallah .

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🤷🏿‍♂️ Much more compelling than my version: “You and your family, your dog, your neighbour, your neighbour's dog, any neighbourhood cats, various rabbits, capybaras, and other cute rodents of the country side, then the corporate entity that pays you until you quit or are fired.” https://twitter.com/...

2022-02-16 View on X

Washington Post

Mark Zuckerberg outlines changes to Meta's corporate values, including “Move Fast Together”, “Live in the Future”, and “Meta, Metamates, Me”

Meta. Metamates. Me. — At a virtual all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Facebook escalated its attempts …

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🤦🏿‍♂ ️ Crypto bros really are doing a speed run of every known financial scam, huh? Shout out to everyone that still believes Block chain transactions are anonymous and can't be traced. Santa and the Easter bunny say hi. https://twitter.com/...

2021-09-16 View on X

The Block

NFT marketplace OpenSea acknowledges that its head of product, Nate Chastain, purchased NFTs he knew were going to be displayed prominently

On Wednesday the crypto marketplace … Will Feuer / New York Post : Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace admits insider trading incident Justina Lee / Bloomberg : Insider Scandal Shake...

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Regulators: Are you the CEO of whatever is going on here? Brian: Nope! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

2021-08-07 View on X

Bloomberg

Binance.US CEO Brian Brooks resigns just over three months after taking up the role, citing “differences over strategic direction”

- He cites ‘strategic differences’ in leaving crypto exchange — The former bank regulator joined trading platform in May

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Relevant. https://twitter.com/... More folk should pay attention to the good work that Quincy Larsen ( @ossia ) and the folk at @freeCodeCamp are doing.

2020-02-21 View on X

New York Magazine

Internal documents and interviews with former staff and students detail Lambda coding school's misleading claims about graduate outcomes and curriculum quality

One of the more popular pieces to hit … Tweets: @jason : I'm going to reserve judgement on this one, as I think the world is much better off with MORE educational options like ISAs...

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