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Again in April I paid $12 to “attend” a digital occasion with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Round 45 different folks registered for the Zoom, which was hosted by Manny Yekutiel, a San Francisco-based Democratic…

Why do it? Once I wrote about Musk’s tweeting earlier this yr, I leaned towards the concept Twitter itself had led him into this 280-character recklessness. I described Twitter as a superhighway out of your foot to your mouth. However…

Hello everybody. Welcome to Plaintext, the publication that’s cheaper than a blue examine mark—and assured bot-free!The Plain ViewThis was the month when Huge Tech acquired smaller. The chief within the shrinkage was a troubled Twitter,…

Hello, everybody. Life is nice as a result of the Phillies are within the World Collection! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just got no-hit. Booooo!The Plain ViewIn Could 1998, I visited Steve Jobs at Apple headquarters…

2012: Fb performs catch-up with cell. Not many individuals understand that Fb had an existential scare when the motion in computing shifted from the desktop to our pockets. This made Zuckerberg paranoid about being behind once more when…

Some folks have argued that the stunt discredited the broader local weather motion. I don’t purchase that for a second. As an alternative, I think it's much more more likely to produce a useful radical flank impact, making extra…

One other a part of the keynote was a scripted dialog between Meta’s vp of metaverse, Vishal Shah, and his boss, chief know-how officer Andrew Bosworth. After touting the number of digital environments folks have created in Horizon…

Hello, everybody. So now Elon needs to purchase Twitter, allegedly to help him build X, “the every thing” app. Candy of him to call it after his child.The Plain ViewFor a pair days in late September, nobody appeared clear on who owned…

Rock idols, film stars, and presidential candidates who quoted Bob Dylan—not tech giants—had been Rolling Stone’s inventory in commerce. Wenner knew Steve Jobs and famous some similarities—after they met within the early Eighties they…