Michael Whitmore

I'm a social animal 🤗 I 💛 sharing my experiences 🙌🏻💯 Interests include: architecture, fashion/style, adventures, friends, conversations & surprises 🫣🤩

[Brandon Butch @BrandonButch]

iOS 27 adds separate volume sliders for Ringtone, Alarms, and Alerts!

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

14 Ways Apple Is Improving Messages in iOS 27 https://t.co/kuXxhze6KV

[Apple Club @ApplesClubs]

iPadOS 27 is compatible with these devices

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

X is evolving, and so are we

A quick post to address some of the concerns raised about me, and more importantly, to lay out how we’re adapting to where the platform is heading.

Here’s what we started doing this week:

- We’re hiring on the ground journalists (again) for more original content in the form of investigative journalism. We did this before, but it became too costly. We’re restarting the initiative.

- More live interviews: I’m personally hosting 9-10 interviews DAILY, 7 days a week

- My content team and I will do reaction videos to tweets (using X’s new feature)

- We will continue trying our best to source/embed the RIGHT source, and correct whenever we get the source wrong

- For transparency and accountability, the name of our writers will be added at the bottom of each post (not the full name for opsec)

- Along with news coverage, we’ll also be incorporating more opinion and analysis, making sure it aligns with my own and my team’s shared perspective and voice.

And now, to address some concerns:

- No, I don’t write all my tweets. We’ve been doubling down on producing original content, so I’m in interviews for almost every waking minute. We have a team of incredible writers working 24/7, with 3 to 4 online at any given time, plus 1 to 2 news and fact checkers.

- We have a policy to ALWAYS source every single post. But since we get news/content from multiple sources (Telegram, X, Instagram, mainstream media), it’s almost impossible to always get the right ‘original’ source. Whenever we make an error, we either edit the post, or if it’s past the window to edit, we delete and repost, or source in the comment, and sometimes also repost the original source as a goodwill gesture

- We don’t use AI to write posts, though we do manually use it to fact-check them. Our writers personally craft each and every post. We experimented with LLMs in the past to improve efficiency, but ultimately moved away from that approach

- My team knows my opinions and stances, so every tweet is written in my voice. But I also give them the freedom to express their own perspectives. I believe this lets us speak to a wider swath of the audience, rather than just creating an echo chamber of the same ideas and beliefs.

My goal has always been, and continues to be, to build the world’s largest news platform on X.

Hope this clears the air and gives other creators some insight into our strategy moving forward ❤️

Big thanks to @nikitabier @_trevorholliday @alexabraham @nicoduc @alxkikalia @i_aliullov @allegrajacchia @z49547 @striedinger @geruk @k3shen @ZichengZhou10 @saurabhverma @LingyunGao4 @ZachWarunek for the non-stop innovation and experimentation. Exciting times!

[Gizmodo @Gizmodo]

Hims Unveils a New Affordable Weight Loss Membership Starting at $39 This Summer #deals https://t.co/YqcJVf9p0M

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

Most epic LOTR edit on the internet rn imo

That beat is just...

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

Moral character and genius are what we all strive for.

This account will stimulate both.

It's a must follow.

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

Daniel Kahneman compressed 50 years of Nobel Prize research into one book about the machine inside your head.

Here are 10 ways your brain betrays you every day, straight from "Thinking, Fast and Slow."

1) The confident answer is usually the lazy one

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger.

It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong.

You do them every day.
And you call them normal.

6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼

1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

'MacBook Ultra' May Drive Industry Shift to Hybrid OLED Laptop Displays https://t.co/aJ5lyS3SLR

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

Sponsored Content: Accessibility compliance isn’t just a mandate — it’s an opportunity to improve learning for all students. Get the framework your institution needs. Download the Title II Strategy Guide & Playbook: A Resource for Every Stage of the Accessibility Journey. https://t.co/CGavRvNMHw

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

A pioneering psychologist on the 3 elements of the good life https://t.co/hDx1OJj8Wl

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

As of the time of this post, almost no one is watching this video.

I found that very odd, after being alerted that it exists.

It seems to understand what I am talking about. Yet, I still have no idea who made it.

If you made this, please identify. Thx.

https://t.co/dU1t2T5FyU

[WIRED @WIRED]

The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series. https://t.co/L01v4Nw7ex

[WIRED @WIRED]

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype? https://t.co/Md1d1NpilR

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

A new book uses a single neighbourhood in Istanbul to tell a broader story about migration, urban development and authoritarianism. Register for free to read our review https://t.co/1CN7SJH1UM

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The bittersweet true story of the real-life peaceful bull who inspired one of the most beloved, most profound children's books of all time https://t.co/Bvbznp3ckb

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Vape shops can apply for skilled worker visas from the Home Office, the Telegraph can reveal.

Almost 80 different vape companies across the country are listed on the Home Office’s public register of licensed sponsors for worker and temporary worker immigration routes.

🔗: https://t.co/K0ZJGabHf0

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Spencer Pratt slams Nithya Raman and Karen Bass over the treatment of animals in city shelters and Skid Row, vowing to "put an end to this horror" if elected to LA City Council.

"There’s a reason Dog is just God, backwards; they share an unconditional love for mankind.

Both Nithya and Karen Bass ignore these poor animals being killed on Skid Row and in their city shelters."

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

We tend to think that status symbols start with high society and then trickle down to the rest of us. But a new trend seems to contradict this pattern. https://t.co/8QnRbmr7PP