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Every Wait But Why drawing was created in Pixelmator. Apple better not ruin or discontinue (!) my precious little stick figure laboratory.

2024-11-02 View on X

9to5Mac

Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval, “to reach an even wider audience”

Apple is acquiring the popular photo editing company Pixelmator. The Pixelmator Team announced the news in a blog post …

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@AJamesMcCarthy I agree with everyone that the reversed ad is better, but I think they ultimately make the same point. And the thing is, people can still buy all the things in the ad! But now you can also access all those things a second (cheaper) way as well and take them all in your bag.

2024-05-10 View on X

Ad Age

Apple apologizes for its “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plan to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”

The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives

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I like the iPad ad. I find it thrilling how many things I can do with a little slab of glass.

2024-05-10 View on X

Ad Age

Apple apologizes for its “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plan to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”

The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives

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Relevant book excerpt. I can imagine a few moments of truth that happened at Google in recent months while decisions were being made around the rules for Gemini. It shipped the way it did because time after time, people who knew better stayed silent for fear of being unpopular. [image]

2024-02-23 View on X

Bloomberg

Google plans to “pause the image generation of people” via Gemini and “re-release an improved version soon” while working to fix its race inaccuracy “issues”

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Neuralink blowing my mind as usual https://twitter.com/...

2022-12-01 View on X

Bloomberg

Elon Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and details work on implants to treat paralysis and vision

Elon Musk's Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months …

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Refreshing transparency https://twitter.com/...

2022-11-01 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms

Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …

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It's true that on aggregate, the right has moved more to the extreme than the left in Washington. But the small group on the far left has become very *culturally* powerful & out of fear, the rest of the left has often allowed them to speak (and make policies) for the whole left.

2022-05-01 View on X

New York Times

Inside Twitter, frustrations mount over Elon Musk's moderation plans and his limited knowledge, ahead of the Brazil general elections and the US midterms

Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn't appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.

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Today, Elon tweeted this diagram by @SwipeWright, which sums up how a lot of people (including me) feel. Then a bunch of ppl responded w/ graphs showing that Republican politicians have moved farther right in that time than Dems have moved left. Here's what I think is happening: https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-30 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned

Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.

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To be clear, the phenomenon I'm referring to is mostly happening outside of Washington - in places like academia, medicine, media, and publishing. It's what's happening in those places that has alienated many people who used to feel at home on the left.

2022-04-30 View on X

The Atlantic

Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda

Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter sh...

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It's true that on aggregate, the right has moved more to the extreme than the left in Washington. But the small group on the far left has become very *culturally* powerful & out of fear, the rest of the left has often allowed them to speak (and make policies) for the whole left.

2022-04-30 View on X

The Atlantic

Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda

Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter sh...

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So even though the left hasn't moved that far left (as is shown by voting results), the left is in a sense being held hostage by their extreme wing, making a lot of people who enthusiastically voted for Obama feel politically homeless today.

2022-04-30 View on X

The Atlantic

Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda

Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter sh...

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Today, Elon tweeted this diagram by @SwipeWright, which sums up how a lot of people (including me) feel. Then a bunch of ppl responded w/ graphs showing that Republican politicians have moved farther right in that time than Dems have moved left. Here's what I think is happening: https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-30 View on X

The Atlantic

Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda

Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter sh...

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To be clear, the phenomenon I'm referring to is mostly happening outside of Washington - in places like academia, medicine, media, and publishing. It's what's happening in those places that has alienated many people who used to feel at home on the left.

2022-04-30 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned

Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.

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It's true that on aggregate, the right has moved more to the extreme than the left in Washington. But the small group on the far left has become very *culturally* powerful & out of fear, the rest of the left has often allowed them to speak (and make policies) for the whole left.

2022-04-30 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned

Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.

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So even though the left hasn't moved that far left (as is shown by voting results), the left is in a sense being held hostage by their extreme wing, making a lot of people who enthusiastically voted for Obama feel politically homeless today.

2022-04-30 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned

Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.

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In other words, maybe Elon is in for a world of pain should he become head of Twitter—but keep in mind that everyone assumed he was in for a world of pain, on a mission doomed to failure, when he founded SpaceX too. Because that's what had always happened in the past. https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-18 View on X

Techdirt

Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms

from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.

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I'm lucky to have gotten to know Tony Hsieh over the past few years. An endlessly generous person who treated everyone he knew like family. And a rogue original who thought about literally everything from first principles. There was no one quite like him - he'll be hugely missed.

2020-11-29 View on X

Footwear News

Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut

Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.

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I'm lucky to have gotten to know Tony Hsieh over the past few years. An endlessly generous person who treated everyone he knew like family. And a rogue original who thought about literally everything from first principles. There was no one quite like him - he'll be hugely missed.

2020-11-28 View on X

Footwear News

Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut

Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.

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