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Here's this week's episode of my @iHeartRadio / @coolzonemedia show Better Offline. It's about how career manipulators Adam Mosseri and Sam Altman got rich by steamrolling those who actually build things in Silicon Valley.

‎Better Offline: The Cult of Failing Upwards on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Better Offline, Ep The Cult of Failing Upwards - Apr 30, 2024

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I’m shocked they made this a category but I mean who else was gonna win it

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Dave Chappelle Wins Grammy for Netflix Special Condemned for Being Transphobic

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I think we really are underselling how cooked Facebook is. This is a 17,000 member group called "Facebook complaints center" made up of people that post like they recently got a concussion

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Skill issue

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Swedish King Adolf Frederick died in 1771 after eating 14 cinnamon buns

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Oh do you think

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Lmao at this headline

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Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

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Musk is going to kill Grok before the year is done

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Zuckerberg has snapped and has called Elon out for being all talk. This rules

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He’s going to change the website to like Xsocial or something. He’s going to remove the only valuable thing left for no reason

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Something is happening, it feels like something has broken here, it rocks.

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go off sean gunn

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Elon Musk bought Twitter to stop the woke mind virus, trained an AI on its data, and accidentally created the woke mind coronavirus

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Woaughhh….wouuuu…

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Very epic sir!

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Possibly his most egregious lie yet

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Perspective: A teacher plans to pay off every student’s meal debt at his school

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Lin Manuel-Miranda writing “Hip Hoppenheimer” in his notebook, an idea more deadly than he has ever conceived

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Elon truly has created his own personal hell: a website that burdens him with billions of dollars of debt and embarrasses him repeatedly

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Ah yes the metric we all know and love

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Just got an ad for money

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it's so funny that Musk deliberately pushed as much traffic to this video as possible, paying Mr. Beast $250k to say "it's a bit of a facade"

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MY FIRST X VIDEO MADE OVER $250,000! 😲 But it’s a bit of a facade. Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is prob higher than what you’d experience

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How do you hear this and think this guy is smart? What does any of this crap mean? "so, it would be by far the biggest...sort of...financial institution...just not in the way that people are used to thinking about banks...the most efficient database for the thing that is money"

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Elon Musk says if done right, X could become 'half of the global financial system'.

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Do none of these dipshits realise that abbey road is a real street in London?

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AI is revolutionizing graphics and photography. It's now possible to generate the entire rest of a photo in seconds. Here's how to edit a photo using AI for free (without Photoshop):

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Here is the thing nobody realises about this fight: this is the first time Mark Zuckerberg has looked happy in over a decade. He LOVES martial arts. This is his joy. And he now gets the chance to inflict pain on Elon Musk. He has hired 50x musk bodydoubles to fight already

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Holy hell this looks bad. That small ass turn signal

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Got this shot of a dirty Cybertruck prototype making a u-turn with rear-wheel-steering:

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"I ran out of money so I bought more" is a good summary of Elon Musk's life

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Brian

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@MattBinder Perfect CEO, someone that is hated and liked equally from left and the right ! Smart move Elon!!

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The cybertruck Reddit is so fun

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Ahhahahahah musk got so mad that his tweet had less views than the president that he threatened to fire his entire team if they didn’t create a system that made everybody see his posts. Loser! Loser shit!! Depressing!

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He GIFTS you and you INSULT HIM

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Grimes begging Musk to see her kid, really dark shit going on

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Mark Zuckerberg is going to end Elon Musk’s life with his fists. He is going to twist him into a pretzel

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New genre of post: twitter blue subscribers complaining that they aren’t famous enough to get verified for free

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Neil Degrasse Tyson watching the Planet of the Bass video and shaking with rage at every lyric

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It is really funny that Elon Musk managed to destroy the value of the checkmark specifically so he could sell it. It now means absolutely nothing. It doesn't verify anything. It isn't notable. I'm honestly impressed he worked out how to delete the legacy ones too

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This reads like someone is going to hit me with their car

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I've met people named Hamburger who own McDonald's franchises

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I am excited to see the responses to my "should we replace CEOs with AI?" piece from LinkedIn

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Beginning to wonder if Twitter Blue gives people lead poisoning

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It is really funny that Elon tried to get the twitter deal cancelled based on a totally made up bot problem, then proceeded to create an entirely real one that is on seemingly every third post on the site

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Seeing people pivot from crypto to AI is so funny. Absolutely zero domain expertise, just following the money

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Socrates was a classic poster. He just walked up to people and asked them what they believed in, then he’d say it was stupid and yell at them. He argued with everybody until he was legally compelled to kill himself. Not one of us has that commitment

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The stupidest thing about Musk's entirely made up 'everything app' idea is that Facebook already exists. You've already got a social network with chat, video, audio and payments where you can watch stuff. They already did it

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This is the ultimate form of the website

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I made this account months ago and took it private immediately before making this tweet. Twitter views are cooked

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Twitter users speculate that Elon Musk is inflating view counts to ‘trick advertisers’ (from December)

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This is like a Tim and Eric sketch

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Come on break the Cybertruck 💪🏻 #Cybertruck #Tesla #Optimus

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Not sure why this made me laugh so hard

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Eminem has sold his ape

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Eminem sold his Ape. It’s game over. GG’s

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Crypto Woman In Her 20s: I don’t like drinking :) Elon Musk: [sliding up next to her 2inches from her face] interesting have you ever tried Red Wine In A Glass

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Guess he’s given up on pretending

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There are teenagers in India posting joker memes with more nuance and grace than this guy

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love to receive my new cybertruck, glad I ordered the "mystery stains" package

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Just saw 2 Cybertruck delivered by Semi in Fremont.

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This Is The Kind Of Shit I Am On

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How

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i refer to this image in conversation at least once a month

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this is 100% him trying to set the stage for not paying several major creators

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Elon Musk had to create an AI to say nice things about him and it is possibly the saddest thing I've ever seen

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I love it when guys text other guys “yo what’s up we’re doing crime” and it gets quoted in a lawsuit

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Someone is going to tweet “being woke is the worst,” create a shell corporation, hire themselves, fire themselves, and then engineer a long con that ends with Elon settling for $250m

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Google needs to either admit they have no real control over how Google indexes stuff or kill off every company like this

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We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor. We got 489,509 traffic in October alone. Here's how we did it:

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Conversations are up 30%

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Super Bowl talk on X is 🔥. So far conversations are up 30% compared to last year's big game!!

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my man you cannot post a meme of your face

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Oh man that is really embarrassing dude

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Oppenheimer shouldve hooped instead of tryna kill ppl cause he tall as hell!

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@phalpern Oppenheimer had a reputation for being able to leap several feet from a stop and touch the ceiling

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[AITA] I (52/M) bought an unprofitable website and I keep making insane changes that everybody hates while losing millions of dollars a day, people keep making fun of me so I change the rules to upset them

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We are watching the internet die, anodyne business nonsense responded to with generative anodyne business nonsense to train models to create more anodyne business nonsense, an endless loop of inbreeding creating digital Hapsburgs everywhere

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I have created a monster 🤯 Engaging has never been easier.

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The "no thank you" here got me

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Trump's statement about Kissinger is going to be amazing he'll be like, "he was a man who lots of people didn't like, but some did. He did a lot overseas. Who's to say."

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Groimes oim gunna be ississinited

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CRTs are so beautiful. Crispy, incredible picture, extremely temperamental and even unplugged they can electrocute you to death. What a wonderful creation

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You know things are good at a company when their CEO has to say this

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no it doesn't

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You are not prepared for how she says it

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I didn't know Miss World was a thing still, but I've been watching how the French woman introduces herself for about half an hour

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How do stores like Gucci and Burberry make money in the airport? Is there really that much discretionary spending in travelers?

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This company is totally screwed. Elon isn't going anywhere and they all got swindled. This rocks. Burn in hell for funding this guy

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Banks that lent $13bn to Elon Musk to buy X/Twitter will hear from the new CEO next week, where she'll lay out her business plan. It's a critical meeting - the banks hope it will lay a path so they can one day sell that debt. w/ @OrtencaAl @MsHannahMurphy

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Here’s the thing. While Elon could potentially be trying to kill twitter I think the most realistic option is that something got messed up and he’s not sure how to fix it because he fired the people who knew how

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This is probably the most lucid or poignant he’ll ever get, fully acknowledging that his base has no coherent ideology or beliefs, just whatever shit they all agree upsets them at any given time. He hates them so much

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Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was"

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Why does twitter want to store a gigabyte of stuff on my phone? Is this how Elon saves money

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I love this. Surprised he didn’t do it earlier. Creates more problems while solving exactly zero of the other problems. A masterwork

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If this fight happens he is going to die

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Dude the rocket blew up what do you want them to say? Nice try?

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Yeah man blovo the ChatGPT for animals. Blovo the ChatGPT for animals. The chatdvd for air malls. The chart blimp for blamp blomp

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Every so often I see something at ces that begins to drive me insane

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Spending one hundred thousand dollars on one of ten thousand monkey pictures to blind myself at an exclusive and extremely shitty concert in Hong Kong

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POV: You bought an expensive JPEG and flight to Hong Kong to attend a festival and almost lose your eye sight. Yuga never disappoints.

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When people edit tweets it still shows it on the tl multiple times. There are more spam bots than there have ever been, to the point a major feature of the platform is unusable. They have lost 50% of their ad revenue. The site has weird bugs. But I guess the lights are on

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Is anyone still convinced Twitter needed 8,000 employees to keep the lights on?

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JORDAN PETERSON: the dogs are nowhere to be seen and [tearing up] these “baha men” are celebrating it

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We - with good reason - spend hours trashing Elon Musk for destroying Twitter. But I'd say that Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar Raghavan deserve a hundred times more bile for destroying Google Search, and have casually harmed society so that they can make Google over $100bn a year.

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Google does not give a shit about the quality of search anymore. "Tech Gate," a site entirely made up of plagiarized articles, is ranked higher on Google News than Wccftech, the actual author of the story they stole. Tech Gate gets 18k unique monthly visitors, promoted by Google.

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Oh my god Elon Musk launched his own epic bacon version of chatgpt that you get on Twitter blue. It's going to be so expensive to keep this running

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Announcing Grok! Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use…

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There are like 18 different cryptocurrency scams that have this marketing copy

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X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

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Good question???!

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I love being CEO of a once-$44bn company that is going through a sudden name change and not making a single comment

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Hahaha yeah sure you did dude

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JUST IN: Elon Musk said Twitter found secret code that shadowbanned accounts and prevented them from trending.

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It's so good when you as the owner of a company have to post this

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it's the latter. he raised $18m to fail to do something James Cameron had done 33 times in a submarine - albeit a smaller one - for $10m. Rush was a con artist and scumbag, a remarkable example of how venture capital can empower idiots and ruin lives

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And that, in microcosm, is the debate he's had with himself for the past year: Was Stockton Rush — the OceanGate CEO and Titan designer who died in the implosion — a bold innovator? Or was he a con man who cut corners to save money at the cost of his customers’ lives?

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I like how the whole thing kind of wobbles every time it moves like it's about to fall apart

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This is why you don’t remove the stalks. These fucking idiots are pressing the wrong button for the turn signal. $tsla

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I love doing my job at Twitter, where I am CEO. My job is liking the tweets of my CTO, who is also my boss. I have made no formal statement about my company effectively shutting down on a holiday weekend, and have left this up to my CTO/boss, who seems confused all the time

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it is really funny how bad google is as a search engine now

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For the second straight day, Cardinals’ QB Kyler Murray didn’t practice due to an illness. On Wednesday he wasn’t even at practice; today he returned, but did not participate.

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Usually don’t enjoy this guy’s posts but this is an incredible bit

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If you’re wondering why you’re rate limited it is not a bug it is Elon making it so you can only read 600 posts a day. The business master has performed his ultimate move

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The World’s Greatest Minds, At Your Finger Tips

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Okay so I just connected the dots on something and I feel insane. In 2020 google replaced Ben Gomes with Prabhakar Raghavan as head of search. Raghavan was hired in 2012 as a manager. His previous job was head of search at YAHOO from 2005 to 2012! This guy killed yahoo!

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i love that Tesla's cybertruck, which is ostensibly meant to be a tough, outdoorsy vehicle, is arguably the most sensitive vehicle ever made

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$TSLA Cybertruck owners .. 1) do NOT wash your car in sunlight and 2) do NOT tell Tesla SCs that you drove it through a car wash (like this guy) even if you turned on Car Wash Mode. They will void your warranty. 💀

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I love this mythological shit. No he didn’t!

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