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As the White House and Elon Musk point fingers at one another over who restricted Starshield to Ukraine, here are some of the real life repercussions for troops on the front lines.
From @siobhan_ogrady, @carlottagall and @antontroian
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/worldā¦
This is diversion ahead of the election. He may have offered the idea, but the cheetoh gave the final word. They're both guilty here. Disgusting.
Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
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Story here: Zelenskyy says Starlink speed limits in Ukraine are a āplanned operationā
w/ @fabrice_deprez @FT
ft.com/content/e26723df-9076ā¦
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The cover of the First Part of my MAINTENANCE book--in print and on Kindle in early December.
Available to pre-order. Link below.
Chris is the first call Iāll ever make when starting a new company.
Today, Iām thrilled to announce the launch of my new firm, Ritual Capital, a $38M seed-stage venture firm investing collaborative $300k checks in exceptional founding teams building iconic, enduring companies. ritualcapital.com
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Also: the amazing Alex Cherian, just wrote to me to say he recognized 27 year old Hunter S. Thompson (with a cigarette holder) listening in and taking notes during Stephan Leonoudakis' speech. #sfhistory
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Twitter/X started an ad campaign to attract more advertisers and users to the platform, but it didn't vet the tweets that went into the ad.
One included tweet is about Musk blaming his company's problems "on the Jews." Incredible.
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shoutout to whichever twitter employee snuck two tweets dunking on twitter and elon into their new ad
ALT roon @tszzl the timeline algo is dying fr itās becoming mediocre engagement maxxed on low effort repost accounts and dating discourse
ALT Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope Twitterās value has fallen by at least 50%, and Elon is blaming it all on the Jews. Masterful gambit sir Screenshot of Elon Musk tweet: Interesting. In our case, they would potentially be on the hook for destroying half the value of the company, so roughly $22 billion.
ALT Screenshot of Twitter ad showing the roon tweet scrolling past on a phone
ALT Screenshot of Twitter ad showing the RightWingCope tweet scrolling past on a phone
We do. It's called mayo.
Why donāt Americans put butter on their sandwiches? (@ArwaM - @guardian) redef.com/item/650b16e6f878eā¦
Robert Stephens retweeted
if youāre in SF and see a bumper sticker of an American flag with a thin orange line, itās referencing the fact that the good folks at Y Combinator are saving the city!
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Even as AI poasters and startup threadbois thrive here, it appears interesting and influential people are posting less.
Particularly reporters and news pundits.
Here's a chart showing changes at Twitter that contributed to this. Note that in 2022, Twitter was nearly all green.
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Displaying the Thin Orange Line flag on your home, business, or vehicle is a helpful way of showing support to Americaās newsletter writers who work tirelessly to bring our people the discourse they crave.
How often are you invited to collaborate with an author while they are writing their book? And it's @stewartbrand so... Also of note: Thanks to Stripe's @patrickc, @WorksInProgMag has developed a cool web collaboration tool to Read and Submit comments in-line. Try it.
Okay, we're LIVE with a new section of my MAINTENANCE book--"Two Assault Rifles"
It's on a "public drafting tool" that invites your Comments. Let me know where you're delighted, or puzzled, or question my account.
Just select some text and Comment.
books.worksinprogress.co/booā¦
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No advertising, no website, and a $70 magazine. Is this the future of media? fastcompany.com/90940777/no-ā¦
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The delay of him trying to smile is insane???
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INQUE issue 2 is out!
Stunning, weird and large format: new work from the world's most exciting authors and artists. Only 10 issues will ever be made. No ads, no digital version, only 1 issue a year. Unless we are lateā¦ Limited print run. Link to buy: inquemag.com
