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Kylie Robison

6 days

Today is my first day at the Verge! I <3 scoops so if you work in AI, send tips via Signal to @ kylie.01 or DM me here—and if you live in SF, let’s grab coffee ☕️

Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

12 days

So excited to announce I’m joining @verge as a senior tech reporter leading the publication’s coverage of AI!

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Kylie Robison

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1 year

an uwu trans polyam anarchist hacking their way into the united state’s no fly list and blogging it on their super cute website at (name) dot crime dot gay is the most biblically accurate depiction of hacking that i’ve seen in the 21st century

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me: social media is rotting our brains its a net negative for the world also me: :) dancing bears

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7 months

please look at these language options for my telehealth appointment lol

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26 days

venture capital

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1 year

SCOOP: Elon has emailed staff following the Twitter outage. “Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.”

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1 year

i saw many people and media folk surprised about the situation and the only reason i’m surprised is because they’re not a furry

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1 year

maia is actually therian (a tiny little kitten) which only further proves my point that this is canonically correct hacking!!

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1 month

5 minutes into watching Silicon Valley for the first time and i’m blown away by its accuracy

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7 months

🚨 SCOOP: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet

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3 months

why i divorced my husband and put $50,000 in a box to make america hang out again

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Kylie Robison

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1 year

Elon Musk is literally talking about how “popular” he is on Twitter, said he was perhaps the most interacted with account even before the acquisition, and legit checked to see how many followers he has during the Tesla earnings call.

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9 months

Scoop: X/Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service, stripping out the headline and other text so that tweets with links display only an article’s lead image, according to material viewed by Fortune.

Elon Musk wants to get rid of this headline

Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

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6 months

SCOOP: Inside Linda Yaccarino’s X all-hands after Elon Musk sued Media Matters: ‘By all means, put your heads together to bring new revenue into the company’

Inside Linda Yaccarino's X all-hands after Elon Musk's platform sued Media Matters

"By all means, put your heads together to bring new revenue into the company."

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

12 days

So excited to announce I’m joining @verge as a senior tech reporter leading the publication’s coverage of AI!

Kylie Robison Joins The Verge as Senior AI Reporter

She’ll lead the technology publication’s coverage of artificial intelligence, working closely with The Verge’s policy and tech teams.

www.theverge.com

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

6 months

i cannot believe i get to say this… i’ve been promoted to SENIOR tech reporter at fortune!!!!! 🥲🌟

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1 year

SCOOP: Microsoft’s CMO, who just cashed out $4.4 mil worth of stock, told employees angry about lack of salary raises that their best way to increase their pay is to make the stock go higher, according to screenshots of an internal convo seen by Fortune.

Microsoft exec tells employees to make stock price go up to increase their pay

Microsoft employees, upset about not getting raises this year, voiced their displeasure on an internal chat platform and got a response from the company's marketing boss.

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Kylie Robison

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6 months

laughing my ass off rn

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1 year

SCOOP: The Slack account of Twitter's head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, appears to be deactivated according to a screenshot viewed by Fortune.

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Kylie Robison

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1 year

@myfairjulia I WAS GONNA SAYYYY but i ran out of characters T___T bingle squad

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1 year

He sent a follow up email. “We should also pause on transitioning away from Sacramento, consolidating Atlanta and reducing GCP usage until at least next week.”

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1 year

@corvidillow I’ve written about this :p

Furries are developing vaccines, building your favorite apps, and crashing Microsoft meetings. The...

Furries have found a home in the tech industry, playing an influential role at Big Tech firms like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over the decades.

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Kylie Robison

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11 months

you guys, my mom 3d printed me a biblically accurate BMO to hold my switch

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6 months

Scoop: X, formerly Twitter, is now valued at $19 billion, based on the firm's employee equity compensation plan. The privately-held company, owned by Elon Musk, is giving employees RSUs at a share price $45 according to a source familiar with the matter.

X, formerly Twitter, is giving employees equity at a $19 billion valuation—source

The Elon Musk owned social media platform is giving employees a new round of equity compensation, in the form of RSUs, that values X at $19 billion.

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1 year

Here's the inside situation: A Twitter employee told Fortune that the engineering Slack channels are "going crazy" & the team is floating various ideas around as to why this error has occurred, from changes to the free API feature to a data center outage.

Elon Musk emails Twitter staff to pause ‘new feature development’ during glitch that told users...

Twitter users report that they can't tweet.

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Kylie Robison

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1 year

Details and email updated here:

Elon Musk emails Twitter staff to pause ‘new feature development’ during glitch that told users...

Twitter users report that they can't tweet.

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Kylie Robison

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8 months

Who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side. running product? @lindayaX said, and the entire room burst into laughter.

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5 months

This is a really interesting moment for other advertisers to see — FabFitFun tried to run a GoFuckYourself discount code in solidarity with Elon Musk (?!?) and ended up losing loads of customers because of it.

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Kylie Robison

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6 months

you here that? thats the sound of every tech reporter canceling their friday plans

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1 year

His reason for saying this was to explain that the attention increases the demand for Tesla cars.

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7 months

@ChaseMc67 well what do you think

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Kylie Robison

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1 year

no more emails. if you want to contact me you can reach me through the underground fungi network that connects the trees together

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

9 months

If you work at X, reach out to me on Signal 415-735-6829.

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Kylie Robison

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6 months

Please put your heads together and make up for the loss of advertisers, Yaccarino tells staff.

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1 year

Elon Musk's email to staff here suggests that the massive technical glitch that halted people from tweeting, following other users and messaging might be related is related to consolidating data centers and reducing GCP usage, which could be a way to reduce costs.

Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

1 year

He sent a follow up email. “We should also pause on transitioning away from Sacramento, consolidating Atlanta and reducing GCP usage until at least next week.”

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Kylie Robison

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1 year

Interesting … looking into it

Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch

Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January, or less than 0.2% of monthly active users, according to a document viewed by The...

www.theinformation.com

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1 year

someone came into my hotel room because the front desk gave them the wrong key and sent them to our room 👁️👄👁️

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

1 year

These details are in the story above, but for thread readers, Sacramento & Atlanta are data centers. I wrote a story earlier today about how over the last 2 weeks, Twitter has been cutting software licenses left and right, so the timing is interesting!

Elon Musk’s cost cutting at Twitter reaches the next level after layoffs and stiffing landlords....

Twitter’s cost cutting may include jettisoning Salesforce software, which employees use as part of their jobs.

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

1 year

Elon Musk's email to staff here suggests that the massive technical glitch that halted people from tweeting, following other users and messaging might be related is related to consolidating data centers and reducing GCP usage, which could be a way to reduce costs.

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1 year

i didnt expect this to blow up (its mostly cuz of the maia boost) so plugging a soundcloud you can follow the lovely main character here: @_nyancrimew

nyancrimew

cute kitten, famous hacktivist, questionable musician, okay dj, mediocre writer @wellsfargoreal @user-177606669 @sleepyzone @propylrecords @slumberpartyorg

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8 months

the salesforce mascots are attempting to mosh (?)

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

9 months

Without text, tweets will only show an image with the URL overlay, which could have major implications for publishers who rely on social media to drive traffic to their sites as well as for advertisers.

Elon Musk wants to get rid of this headline

Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

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1 year

One day you're young and hip then suddenly you're tweeting things like "Q4 earnings are out"

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10 months

the twitter clones will continue until morale improves

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Kylie Robison

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11 months

Elon Musk tweeted that he’s “up for a cage match” with Mark Zuckerberg. In response, Zuck posted a screenshot of Elon’s tweet on his IG story with the caption “Send me location.” Comment sent to me from Meta: "The story speaks for itself."

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Kylie Robison

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25 days

personal news… today is my last day at @fortunemagazine ! i’m not sure i can fit into 280 characters how much my time at fortune meant to me — especially thankful for my incredible editor @lexnfx and EIC @ajs for growing me into a better reporter (and human)

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Kylie Robison

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7 months

So excited to share with you all my first ever COVER STORY FOR @FortuneMagazine !!!! It was incredible to get to sit down with OpenAI CTO @miramurati alongside @mlevram 🌟

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9 months

hm well …. thats not good 🥲

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7 months

so i grabbed so many copies of this fortune issue (to give to my parents, grandparents, friends etc) and this was my mom’s reaction

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11 months

Amazing — Mark Zuckerberg just posted on his instagram story about cage fighting Elon Musk

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3 months

hey guys! so excited to announce that today is my first day as the person in charge of writing press releases at lyft :) wish me luckkk

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7 months

@dancow all my best scoops end up this way

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Kylie Robison

@kyliebytes

7 months

They confirmed my scoop! You can always read it first at Fortune: If you work at X, please reach out to me via Signal 415-735-6829.

Support

@Support

7 months

Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected. This…

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12 days

the verge did an incredible job with photos 😭 mayhaps new pfp but my current one of me on the fire escape of my old house in SF has been my pfp for so long

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1 year

Day 2 of Elon's securities fraud lawsuit. The judge is saying the court took on "great pains" to make this happen. "I'm not going to accept 150 pages of stuff every night," the judge said of objections. "Are you devoting any other time to cases? Yeah, I didn't think so."

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5 months

i’m genuinely asking here @lindayaX — why do you continue to defend the way elon treats your staff, your users, and your customers? what do these empty twitter platitudes do for who you’re employed to serve?

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Today @elonmusk gave a wide ranging and candid interview at @dealbook 2023. He also offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position. X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people. We're a platform that allows…

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8 months

I'll spend time writing this out, but its worth talking about now — Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth was a surprise guest at Code, just an hour before Twitter's new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, took stage. The dynamic that followed on stage ... is interesting

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30 days

Bit of a Friday scoop… Elon Musk wants to make Grok AI an option for X premium users to compose tweets. Musk told engineers do it a few months ago, and according to a source, the team is stalling.

Elon Musk wants to make Grok AI an option for X premium users to compose tweets

A source said Musk “wants people to sound smarter” on X, and he thinks AI could help.

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1 year

@MikeIsaac *touches earpiece and nods* yes sources are certainly saying oof

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7 months

a source at X/Twitter told me that staff really hate this update source added that it also makes very little sense because leadership wants users to stay on the app but this getting people to leave unintentionally (clicking link thinking its an image)

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7 months

re, what i scooped in august () elon has internally said he wants to reduce the height of tweets, thus allowing more posts to fit within the portion of the timeline that appears on screen i have so many thoughts but also, this tweet from yesterday

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18 days

holy forking shiet

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7 months

The company also published “Not-a-Bot Terms and Conditions” today outlining its plan for a paid subscription service that gives users certain abilities on their platform, like posting content and interacting with other users.

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8 months

shaq is a lot shorter in person actually

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6 months

"Yes, some advertisers may have temporarily paused but I do want to go on record, I had several really good conversations today. Some customers have still paused their investments because of some misleading or manipulated information in an article," Yaccarino said. "But the data…

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4 months

X claimed in the blog post that it has made advertising “more relevant and impactful,” resulting in a 22% increase in total ad engagements. Yet many users complain that many ads are from low quality marketers pitching counterfeit luxury goods.

Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus...

The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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5 months

Elon Musk said on stage during the @Dealbook summit, "If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go FUCK yourself," then called out Disney CEO Bob Iger in the audience, which paused advertising on Twitter. "Hi Bob!"

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4 months

NEW: Elon Musk’s X claims it’s now a ‘video-first platform’ as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus...

The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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10 months

ok cool this is where we’re at now

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@fentasyl Zuck is a cuck

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3 months

i havent been able to find THE sriracha in over a year, been trying to scrape by on one bottle (using it extremely sparingly) guess what i found at a local market today

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7 months

@Support Thanks for confirming our scoop! If you work at X, feel free to reach out to me on Signal at 415-735-6829.

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5 days

first day as a @verge reporter down 🤍

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1 year

If you're not familiar with today's topic, Elon Musk got Tesla tangled up in a securities fraud lawsuit for tweeting this. The funding was not, in fact, "secured."

Elon Musk

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Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.

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11 months

New: Salesforce is luring staff back to the office by donating $10 to local charities for each day they come in

Salesforce is luring workers back to office with $10 per day to local charities

A Salesforce executive told staff that for each day they come into the office from June 12th to June 23rd, the company will donate $10 to a local charity.

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1 year

new office!!!!! im going to eviscerate my paychecks by constantly getting dim sum nearby

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1 year

if microsoft was smart they'd integrate clippy into chatgpt

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2 months

i lived bitch

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2 months

my flight home is a boeing 737 max…. omfg 😭😭😭

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11 months

guys the kids are making nostalgia tiktoks about working at google in 2006 set to linger by the cranberries

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1 year

new linkedin pic just dropped

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7 months

But wait, there's more! Instead of playing along with what X would like us useless journalists to say, I wrote about what they're actually doing. This earned me an angry “comms” call and a block. This is what beat reporters have to work with. We hate you, write what we want.

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@kyliebytes

7 months

For today’s Datasheet, I wrote about Elon Musk’s secret PR machine at X. Musk hates the media, has voiced his distaste for PR, yet X’s “biz ops” is sending out embargoes to journalists about celebrity partnerships. What gives?

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1 year

musk said hes “a pro semite, if anything”

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1 year

👀🤔💭

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1 year

A new form of free access will be introduced as this is extremely important to our ecosystem – limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter.

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6 months

thank you sam altman now i can finally enjoy my vacation

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5 months

Elon Musk seems fully unhinged, lots of F-bombs at advertisers while also saying X will fail if advertisers boycott. Masterful gambit, sir?

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6 months

holy fucking shit news day holy holy holy

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11 months

just got this text from my property manager, absolutely devastating week to be out of town

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1 year

Right on cue, Elon is tweeting. The judge just finished talking about how he's tired of them objecting to the NYT article. "How many times do I have to rule on that," the judge said.

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Media want to control what you know, which is why citizen journalism is essential

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dude this account makes me insane its so clearly elon plz listen to this space

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6 months

this has been the craziest 24 hours on this job i’ve ever experienced

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7 months

first time seeing it IRL can’t believe it’s real 🥲🤍

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1 year

@kenklippenstein

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6 months

im a fully grown adult with a bachelor’s degree but i just woke up in a cold sweat from nightmares about overdue homework

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6 months

have fun with the invite code i have like 100 of them collecting dust

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1 year

Some of you may recall the SEC fined him $40 million in 2018 as a result, and forced him to step down as chair of Tesla’s board. Now, he's getting sued by investors who owned stock over a 10-day period (August 7th–17th) claiming the tweet cost investors "billions."

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4 months

sooo its official … i’ve been a tech journalist for 3 years now! i agree, it does seem like its been much longer, and the accomplishment are thanks to -- many sleepless nights, amazing editors, lots and lots and lots of incredible sources, equal parts luck and hard work (1/?)

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5 months

Incredible call by @andrewrsorkin to ask Musk about his mental state. Musk is now diving into how his mental state is admittedly stormy, not in a good way, and now he's getting philosophical. "My life is finite, really a flash in the pan in a galactic timescale," Musk said.

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1 month

just got to this part

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6 months

BREAKING: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been removed from his position, replaced by CTO Mira Murati. Story coming.

OpenAI announces leadership transition

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6 months

OpenAI is nothing without its people!!!! This is incredible to witness from so many OpenAI employees

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@kyliebytes

8 months

A source let me know that the company pushed a change to the web version of Twitter. Typically, you can get a list of who has liked or retweeted a post by clicking the like/retweet numbers. Now, its stashed in the upper right hand menu (example below).

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7 months

Scoop: Slack will pause normal business operations for one week on Monday because employees have fallen behind on internal training

Salesforce-owned Slack is taking a week off

Salesforce-owned Slack employees will take a week off starting Monday, setting aside their regular work duties in order to reach "Ranger Status" on Salesforce's proprietary online learning platform.

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4 months

splendid, looks like things are progressing normally

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