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Ex-Cofounder: Fashion/Food/Finance... Other Fs coming soon no doubt, non-Fs include Certified Therapist, Short Story writer

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@TuckerCarlson I just don't get it though, why not improve current population? Why scale what is already not working by increasing population?!

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@BillAckman People confuse zionists with Jews, hamas and palestianians... Not everyone knows or uses the right terminology... So a little patience, empathy guys...

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@iboy Perhaps the link to be made is that advertising isn't congenial to free speech... https://t.co/6V1xFnnhiY

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I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers.

@tiktok_us @instagram @facebook and others have enormous amounts of problematic content, antisemitic and otherwise, but the advertisers don’t boycott those platforms.

Musk is targeted because the other media organizations view @X as a competitor and any time his name is in an article about controversies, it draws clicks. MSM is incentivized to attack him as it actually drives attention to their sites and therefore more revenues. It is these attack articles by other media organizations that put pressure on the @Disney’s of the world to stop advertising on X.

If Bob Iger would carefully examine the facts, he would likely continue to advertise on X, but Disney caves to public pressure rather than do the right thing. Meanwhile Disney invests heavily on TikTok, likely alongside videos of kids teaching other teenagers to be anorexic and worse. I am sure Nelson Peltz can fix this when he joins the Disney board.

X presents the opportunity for advertisers to access an incredible global audience that is not available elsewhere. And it is cheap compared to other alternatives because of current circumstances.

On Musk and antisemitism:

After examining the facts, it was clear to me that Musk did not have antisemitic intent when he responded with the ‘actual truth’ tweet, and further clarified thereafter.

I thought he made what he meant extremely clear in the @andrewrsorkin interview, namely, that Jews are drawn to support ‘oppressed’ groups and causes through various non-profits due to our history of being an oppressed minority.

Musk points out correctly that a number of these organizations and their members support Hamas. And he is correct in saying that Jews should rethink support for organizations that seek their elimination.

Many Jews are doing that right now.

To use a Muskism, Earth is fortunate that @X is owned by an individual that is largely insulated from financial and other influence. That said, perhaps some form of very carefully governed trust would be a better forever owner than any individual.

@PershingSqFdn invested in the Twitter privatization in support of free speech. Whether we make a profit on our investment is not important to us as we never intend to sell our interest.

I am more inclined to like and support companies that advertise on the platform because I appreciate their support for free speech. I have actually bought products I learned about from ads on @X. I can’t think of another example of my responding to direct advertising other than on X.

Unfortunately, recent (and society’s long-term experience) with non-profit governance, see @OpenAI, certain private universities etc. should not give anyone confidence that a traditional non-profit would be a better owner of X than Musk.

Perhaps some day the ownership of X should be distributed to each American, one share for each American during their lives and one for each person born, with a charter which permanently vests the free speech principles by which it operates.

Until then, we all should be grateful that X is owned by Musk.

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Speak of the devil! "X paying legal fees of student to support his right to free speech, as promised in August." https://t.co/q9KGaDnlph

[X Daily News @xDaily]

NEWS: 𝕏's lawyers have come to the defense of an Illinois student being threatened with disciplinary action by his university over posts he made on the platform.

This is the first known example so far of X paying legal fees to support users' free speech, as promised in August.

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Wondering if documentaries/ docufilms about effective, peaceful and legal civil disobedience would be as popular (if not more) than murder/ crime ones...@netflix? I think we'd be surprise how big a dormant market that is

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... Reminds me of the website that facilitated/supported the filling of parking disputes... But also generally how do we know if we can be doing more 🤷?

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@kenklippenstein @jasonpjason As Buffett so eloquently put it... You can always someone an [insert profanity of choice here] tomorrow...

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@NavalismHQ @naval ...the measure of how uneasy you are with life is measured in your striving to quantify your choices?

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@jasonlk ... Employers

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Richard Feynman when talking about the existence of Black Holes, which Einstein himself wavered on as he struggled to imagine that nature could produce so menacing a thing, “the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man"

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@Rainmaker1973 Now o'clock!!!!! 🤯🥳🎉🎊

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@stats_feed Germany, France, Spain... Very surprisingly low

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@psychmag David Desola's The Platform perhaps does with a particular slant on distinguishing between structurally inhibiting pressures against free-will vs. "always there however small" individual free-will

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Are we experiencing the turning of employees (in this case civil servants) into lobbyists? https://t.co/9LC4nGDcAn shakers publish content, employees watch content, decision makers have to answer to employees lobbying a point in meetings,...

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.

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@NavalismHQ @naval I might suggest Self-esteem instead (see Nathaniel Branden - made up of Awareness/Consciousness, Acceptance, Responsability, Assertiveness, Purpose, Integrity)

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@RebeccaSeal :) @alexiadela

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Powered also by hustling content creators finding niches to break off from larger content creators.... # ebay being broken into subverticals as it evolved

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Come to think of it, it's perhaps readers that need to find value in getting content from many many voices valuable and force advertisers to spread budgets wide. Fattening the long tail as it were. Endgame being that the tail ends up waging dog #web3 #decentralised

[Suhail @Suhail]

@IYatharthShah I’ve never met someone with perseverance that wasn’t talented