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Max Burns

@themaxburns
51 posts
2025-08-26
While Democrats twist into pretzels to avoid even the hint of “socialism” in their message, Donald Trump and the @GOP are drafting a list of private companies they'd like to partially nationalize. It really is the upside-down. https://www.cnbc.com/...
2025-08-26 View on X
Stratechery

The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn in US industrial policy, but also the least bad option to make Foundry viable

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

While Democrats twist into pretzels to avoid even the hint of “socialism” in their message, Donald Trump and the @GOP are drafting a list of private companies they'd like to partially nationalize. It really is the upside-down. https://www.cnbc.com/...
2025-08-26 View on X
CNBC

Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could cause “adverse reactions”, like in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue in its past fiscal year

Intel on Monday warned of “adverse reactions” from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking …

2024-11-13
Nothing like appointing two attention-hungry, insecure people as co-CEOs to really maximize efficiency.
2024-11-13 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more

He's on the patio.  He's on the golf course.  Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.

2024-04-25
Hard to imagine China consenting to a sale of TikTok at this point, simply for reasons of pride...but also tough to imagine Biden plowing ahead with an outright ban given the political realities domestically.
2024-04-25 View on X
The Verge

President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20

The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move.  The company has an initial nine months …

2024-04-03
Amazon billed its “Just Walk Out” stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped. How insanely dystopian. https://gizmodo.com/...
2024-04-03 View on X
The Information

Amazon plans to remove Just Walk Out from most of its grocery stores and add more grocery stores with Dash Carts, which let shoppers scan items while they shop

and want you to scan all your groceries instead Gintaras Radauskas / Cybernews.com : Amazon phasing out “Just Walk Out” at its Fresh grocery stores Jak Connor / TweakTown : Amazon ...

2024-01-10
If you need any more proof that Carlson's whole game is an act, he's swapping pleasantries with a guy he called an idiot and said was too irresponsible and crazy to be allowed on the air. Meanwhile, Lemon is happy to offer thanks to a guy he called a white supremacist on air.
2024-01-10 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

X announces new shows with former CNN host Don Lemon, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and sports commentator Jim Rome, amid a push into video

welcome to the family!!! Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : Tulsi Gabbard, who once unsuccessfully sued Google for “silencing” her campaign's ad account, announces a video partnershi...

2023-07-31
So we're clear: - Kanye West can't monetize his account because he shared a swastika. - Dom Lucre CAN monetize his account after sharing explicit child sexual exploitation images.
2023-07-31 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West's account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won't be eligible to monetize it, and ads won't appear next to his posts

2023-07-03
[Elon Musk walks past rows and rows of empty desks where Twitter's developers once worked] MUSK: Very concerning! https://waxy.org/...
2023-07-03 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled  —  Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...

2023-07-02
[Elon Musk walks past rows and rows of empty desks where Twitter's developers once worked] MUSK: Very concerning! https://waxy.org/...
2023-07-02 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …

2023-05-31
It's difficult to overstate how swiftly and efficiently Elon Musk has destroyed value at Twitter. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-05-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Fidelity marks down its Twitter stake, estimating that Twitter is now worth about 33% of the $44B that Elon Musk paid, down from 44% in November 2022

Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …

2023-03-12
If you aren't up to date on the Silicon Valley Bank implosion, this is a great piece that offers answers for all of your questions. The first big bank run of the digital era. https://www.netinterest.co/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...

2023-03-11
If you aren't up to date on the Silicon Valley Bank implosion, this is a great piece that offers answers for all of your questions. The first big bank run of the digital era. https://www.netinterest.co/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run!  —  SVB

If you aren't up to date on the Silicon Valley Bank implosion, this is a great piece that offers answers for all of your questions. The first big bank run of the digital era. https://www.netinterest.co/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Net Interest

A closer look at the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest US bank whose unrealized losses snowballed from $0 in June 2021 to $16B by September 2022

Markets/Econ  —  General Sherman's memoirs about the Page & Bacon 1855 bank run in San Francisco. Mike / Nongaap Investing : SIVB: Held-to-Mortem Governance Tweets: Mike / @nongaap...

2022-12-10
The guy who was supposedly worried about Big Tech snooping on people has given Bari Weiss access to your DMs. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

The guy who was supposedly worried about Big Tech snooping on people has given Bari Weiss access to your DMs. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”

do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/....

2022-12-09
The guy who was supposedly worried about Big Tech snooping on people has given Bari Weiss access to your DMs. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”

Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter Inc. information …

2022-12-05
Anglin is currently a wanted man with a warrant out for his arrest. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-05 View on X
HuffPost

Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013

2022-12-04
Anglin is currently a wanted man with a warrant out for his arrest. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-04 View on X
HuffPost

Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013

Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants.  —  Andrew Anglin ― …

2022-11-22
No more layoffs are “planned,” but what exactly counts as a plan at Twitter 2.0? https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-22 View on X
The Verge

Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees

After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.

2022-11-21
.@elonmusk's decision to bring back Trump is simple: with mainstream advertisers fleeing the platform in droves, his last hope to raise money is by catering explicitly to Trump's network of MAGA-affiliated businesses and political orgs. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Donald Trump says he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter”, doesn't see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social

these decisions affect people and they shouldn't be up to @elonmusk's personal whims or a random Twitter poll about whether or not Trump, who incited a violent insurrection when he...