Parth

Mostly in read-only mode. follow me for spicy RTs. work @whatsapp. previously @uber, @carnegiemellon.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

For the past five years, the antitrust movement has been focused on Facebook more than other companies.

But recently, we've learned that the true dominant monopoly in the tech ecosystem is Apple.

https://t.co/ji7sI1siqo

[WIRED @WIRED]

Spend some time this weekend discovering For All Mankind, a slept-on streaming banger of the first order. https://t.co/45XOpr8Cpz

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

TikTok doesn’t just see its users dance videos.

It collects search and browsing histories, keystroke patterns, biometric identifiers, draft messages and metadata, plus it has collected the text, images, and videos that are stored on a device's clipboard.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Monthly reminder to go hug someone

[Moxie Marlinspike @moxie]

It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger."

Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works:

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[Jack Soslow @JackSoslow]

2021 was the year of VR, and I have one stat to show you why:

This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxs.

This marks the beginning of ARVR's predominance.

A thread on ARVRs growth, use-cases, and future below:

[Patrick McGee @PatrickMcGee_]

Chart of the Day:

@Apple’s advertising business has more than tripled its market share in the six months after it introduced privacy changes to iPhones that obstructed rivals, including @Facebook and @Google, from targeting ads at consumers.

*A Thread*

[Balaji @balajis]

It is absolutely critical to fight Apple's attempt to surveil one billion people in the name of a higher cause.

[Balaji @balajis]

Apple is replacing end-to-end encryption with end-to-end surveillance. From dawn to dusk, every waking moment, your phone is watching you.

[Max Hodak @maxhodak_]

Apple's new end-user handset scanning is likely the most powerful tool for surveillance authoritarianism ever conceived by humans.

The most we can do for our children is to not go down this road.

https://t.co/pJwuod3SPT

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

I've tried hard to see this from Apple's point of view. But inescapably, this is government spyware installed by Apple based on a presumption of guilt. Though Apple wrote the code, its function is to scan personal data and report it to government.
https://t.co/OrkfOSjvS1

[Parth @parth]

From banning harmless cookies for personalized ads to scanning people’s photo libraries. And conspiring with the CCP.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Apple's ads about their commitment to privacy already had a big asterisk.

https://t.co/aMdcX7CJ9V

[Will Cathcart @wcathcart]

I read the information Apple put out yesterday and I'm concerned. I think this is the wrong approach and a setback for people's privacy all over the world.

People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Apple's ads about their commitment to privacy already had a big asterisk.

https://t.co/aMdcX7CJ9V

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever track & field gold medal, and he knew it the second he released the javelin.
https://t.co/jOjhyhuNdd

[Parth @parth]

Apple’s ride on the privacy high horse might be coming to an end.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Personalized ads are one of those things where stated preference and observed preference are almost total opposites. No one thinks that they do, but people really enjoy being catered to.

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

Uber is sitting on >$20B of equity positions in companies that will mostly be public by end of the year

• Didi: ~13% (~$9-13B)
• Grab: ~15% (~$6B)
• Aurora: ~26% (~$2.5B)
• Yandex Taxi: 33% (~$2B)
• Zomato: ~9% (~$0.5B)
• Joby: ~6% (~$0.5B)
• Lime: ~31% (~$0.2B)

[Dan Rose @DanRose999]

In my experience the best founders develop a fighter mentality. Mark Zuckerberg was a fighter, and without that mentality Facebook would never have achieved its full potential. Here’s what I saw over 13 years working for Zuck:

[Parth @parth]

@peterpham would be interesting to see data/trends from India where Ivermectin is being prescribed very broadly.