Charging for the blue check moves it from a status symbol to a utilitarian one.
It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money.
Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadership to its staff, a week after Musk took over: a fun game where you get to find out if you're laid off or not based by 9am tomorrow, based on whether the email pops up in your Twitter account or personal account.
1/ Blockchains are not networks—they're cities. 🏙️
This simple mental model will help you understand why the L1 wars are evolving the way they are.
New blog post + short 🧵
https://t.co/a8282BN15C
Request:
Reply to this tweet with an article, podcast, or book that will break my brain when I read it.
Something that will make me unable to view the world the same way as I do right now.
The road to socialism via inflation:
• Print money, crash the reserve currency, destroy savers, and force them into inflated assets.
• Asset inflation leads to inequality. Demonize asset holders and tax the nominal gains, thereby confiscating the real value of the assets.
An *enormous thread* on alleged @Google@Facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed December.
Anything PURPLE is newly unredacted.
Yellow/Orange is just normal highlights.
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When you give an app on your phone permission to know your location, it might be selling your data into a $12 billion market of companies that harvest, analyze, sell and trade location data. Who are these companies, and how can you protect yourself? Read: https://t.co/xDzj2Y9S8I
Today, I've started adding all my UI design tips to https://t.co/IlMyRac8st! ✨
Yet there are still many tips to add, but it's so satisfying to see all my work compound over the past five months.
Following a 16-month investigation by the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, Congressmembers have proposed six bills that could rein in Big Tech.
Here's the breakdown. 🧵
Dark Patterns are unethical by design, aimed at tricking you into giving away your data, and ultimately stealing your freedom to choose privacy.
Can you spot one when you see one? Take this quiz from @alfredwkng & @sammorrisdesign to find out: https://t.co/ksJViPA1AC