Status report of Twitter, mid 2024

Never imagined I would say this, but Zuck is the last person in the AI industry you can listen to for more than five minutes.

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Airchat is an emo night cruise for people who remember Klout. The worst, most basic college freshman dorm room-tier icebreakers from wear-a-leather-jacket-in-the-office millennials chasing the high of their first Foursquare check-in. Impressively bleak.
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Every startup thinks it's different until it needs to follow the money.

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In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️

In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎

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Too many people listen to too many VCs who feel entitled to comment on any conflict raging in the world.

It didn't require the wisdom of an oracle.
techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/ope…

Hilarious: A former tire company that rendered itself obsolete by betting on ringtone trademarks instead of touchscreens now wants to claim its part in meme culture.

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Right on time to give the U.S. election the plot twist it didn't know it needed.
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Brilliant episode 👇🏻

Who wants to be friends with people who think that replacing the fabric of human interaction with synthetic methodologies is beneficial for both sides?

Google is back on top.
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Over the past two weeks, I've been hammered by spam sent from ActiveCampaign . Stubborn CS is unable to acknowledge the issue because they think I am a customer whose emails are getting flagged.
Get your shit together Jason VandeBoom

Remember when Zune & Rio users made fun of the iPod?

theverge.com/2024/2/13/2407…

Arc Browser is a wolf in sheep's clothing, subtly undermining the Web's open fabric by weaving proprietary constraints, all while masquerading as the harbinger of Web liberation.

Every platform attempts to expand until it can stream wrestling matches.
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Happy Vision Pro launch day — I'm sure he would be proud.

As if exporting high-fructose corn syrup from the US wasn't enough.
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Since the advent of GPTs, UI people have lost their mind.

Why is the Chat button in close proximity to the pagination items? Bing

Christmas tech support for the family will evolve from fixing IMAP accounts to piecing together a dozen fragments of code that your uncle created for his SaaS startup idea.