#AdriftBook
debuted on the
@nytimes
bestseller list...thanks to all of you.
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The viewership metrics were inflated by 150 to 900%. Whole companies shifted their strategy to video. Companies going bankrupt, people losing jobs, FB gets away with 0.18% of annual income ($40M / $22B), a slap on the wrist.
When a private citizen can pay $44 billion for a media company โ โthe worldโs town squareโ โ and both crash the civility of the discourse and incinerate 17 years of brand equity within 10 months โฆ. we have too much concentration of wealth in the hands of too few.
Message of the year:
How do you spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
๐
@GovPritzker
Letโs go out on a high note. This will be my last tweet for a while.
Congrats to ๐ฆ๐ท, and thx to twitter for 10 great years. ๐๐ป
You can find me at
โFree speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to humanity are debatedโ โElon Musk
The breakup fee for
@Twitter
is only $1 billion.
@elonmusk
didnโt buy TWTR, but a call option at $44 billion for $1 billion.
I donโt believe he will exercise (close).
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko defending his city. He is 6โ7โ & a multiple world heavyweight boxing champion. His brother, Wladimir, also a multiple world heavyweight boxing champion, 6โ6โ tall, is fighting as well.
Bari Weiss criticizes the ban on journalists. As a result, Elon unfollows her & accuses her of virtue signaling & wanting to keep โone foot in both worlds.โ
For a strongman thereโs only ever one point of view. You either agree completely & always,,,or you are shunned.
There is no data, or study (anywhere) linking teen depression to presence of trans kids.
This mocks a serious issue, and reinforces a GOP theme of demonizing our most vulnerable.
The opposite of leadership.
Nikki Haley discussing trans girls in kids sports: "How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room. And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
President Carter back to building for
@Habitat_org
a day after he fell, at 95 years old.
The epitome of humility and service. Wishing him & his family strength.
To sum up: 1) Facebook broke the law. 2) Cambridge Analytica broke the law. 3) Vote Leave broke the law. 4) LeaveEU broke the law. 5) Brexit and Trump were both won through breaking the law. 6) Facebook let it all happen and covered it up. โ
@chrisinsilico
LeBron James's school:
โtuition is free
โuniforms are free
โtransportation is free
โkids get free bikes
โbreakfast, lunch & snacks
โprogram for students' parents to complete their high school education
โkids who complete it get free tuition at UofAkron
Revenue generated each hour:
Amazon $29.0 million per hour
Apple $24.6 million per hour
Google $17.8 million per hour
MSFT $15.4 million per hour
FB $7.7 million per hour
Intel $7.6 million per hour
Netflix $2.3 million per hour
@JonErlichman
๐ฏ
@AndrewYang
โThe Democratic party unfortunately has taken on this role of the coastal urban elites who are more concerned about policing various cultural issues than improving [the working class] way of lifeโ
The Henichesky Bridge was blown up by Ukrainian marine engineer Vitaly Skakun. A Russian column was nearing Kyiv & there was no time to detonate the bridge remotely. Skakun radioed his unit and told them he would do it manually, saying goodbye. Absolute hero.
The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of
Wyoming
Vermont
Alaska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Delaware
Rhode Island
Montana
Maine and
New Hampshire
Yes, I said it.
If youโre a young person, you should be outside, at the office, at cafes, in parks, at coworking spaces, gyms, clubs, bars, friendsโ living rooms, making connections, risking awkwardness & rejection, forming friendships & work relationships and finding love IRL.
Eviscerating letter from Princeton senior about how rampant progressivism โ such as starting classes with preferred pronouns & land acknowledgments โ is pushing moderate students to the right & creating conservative firebrands
Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who defended the Capitol at great personal risk, escorting VP-elect Kamala Harris -- appointed Acting Deputy House Sergeant-at-Arms
The North Face becomes the first major company to boycott Facebook as the calls for advertisers to walk out of the platform in July intensify via
@businessinsider
โฉโTwitter has a very real chance of going bankrupt in the next 12 months, with no obvious path to escaping it. In a way, that might be the companyโs best hope โ it is probably the only way it will escape its current owner.โ
@jamesrbuk
Whenever I do this, I think of flight 93 (9/11). How did the passengers decide whether to rush the cockpit/hijackers, and attempt to retake control of plane?
They voted
End of an era:
--0 to $1.5t (nobody in history);
--Turned biggest cost centers into profit centers (nobody in history);
--Established recurring revenue relationship w/82% of US households (nobody in history); and
--Hired 500k+ people in 12 months (nobody in history)
#Bezos
Facebook has repeatedly given incorrect data on viewership and shares. They called the issue โmiscalculated metrics.โ
If your mistakes are consistently in your favor, then they arenโt mistakesโฆ theyโre lies.
#nomercynomalice
Justin Gallegos, a runner in Oregon with cerebral palsy, thought he was just finishing another cross country race. Little did he know, Nike was waiting at the finish line to offer him a pro contract. Another bold, authentic move by
@Nike
.
First toe/investment into Crypto today.
I bought Coinbase at 383 (open),,,and sold at 330. Think that makes me the first person (to-date) to lose money in Crypto.
That's something.
Generally speaking, men mate socioeconomically horizontally and down, women horizontally and up โย placing a higher bar on education, achievement, education & earning potential
@billmaher
@RealTimers
You constantly want to be upgrading your peer group. You want to hang out with smarter, more successful, more interesting, higher-character people because you will rise or fall to the level of your peer group.
#officehours
#ProfGPod
4/26
โข Real GDP is up 6.7% under Biden
โข we gained 4.5 million jobs in 2022
โข inflation over the past 6mo was <2% at an annual rate
The economy is doing better than most Americans think
Origin of the term "hangover" โย the Victorian "penny hang," cheapest overnight stay, if too wasted to be accepted elsewhere. For a penny you'd be allowed to hang over a rope (usually shoulder height). At 6am, owner unties the rope for a rude awakening.
This is Todd. He saved his human from a rattlesnake yesterday. A true h*ckin hero. Heโs expected to make a full recovery and has been rewarded our fifth ever 15/10
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight:
@Donie
O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's
@drewharwell
.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
I've joined forces w/
@PaneraBread
to donate $100,000 in gift cards to vaccination healthcare workers. We get through this together, & through science. Thx Panera for matching my donation for a $200,000 total in gift cards to hospitals nationwide.
Weโve tested 500 people in 6 weeks.
South Korea is testing 10,000/day.
We charge patients $3,000 to be tested.
Italy, China, South Korea test for free.
What could go wrong?
We're falling for this (shit), again:
--Altman, CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence (BBC) May '23
--Zuckerberg, We need a more active role for governments and regulators Oct. '20
--Facebook COO Sandberg calls for government regulation (CNN) June '19
We are thrilled to welcome
@profgalloway
to CNN as a host for
@CNNplus
, which will debut in Q1 2022. Scott's show will focus on the news and conversations where business and technology collide.
Please join us in welcoming Scott to CNN!
โI think weโre seeing the unwinding not of a company but of a person,โ
@profgalloway
says of Elon Musk and Twitter. โI think this is an individual who has demonstrated a total lack of grace, has no guardrails around him, and is going to see his wealth probably cut in half.โ