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Comic book heroes and their dead dads — Part 2
In a previous iteration, I realized how the fathers, or father figures, or parents of most comic book heroes end up dead. And went about listing them. After speaking with my wife about it, I realized that the list did not include some notable instances. So here I am, with a follow up list. Mufasa,…
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Dads of most comic book heroes end up dead
Dads of most comic book heroes end up dead. This is a pretty grim take, even for me. But once I started making a mental list, it was hard to not pen it down. Consider… Batman’s Dad (and Mom) die. That is his origin story. Superman’s Dad (Jor-El) and adopted Dad (Jonathan Kent) die. That…
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No Hogwarts in Tech
(Posted originally here: https://post.news/article/2I0vhDmRMmfBWo3ZjEIDCOGqap2) I saw this tweet this morning by Elon, and I was immediately reminded of the part in Harry Potter, where there was a mass breakout of Deatheaters from Azkaban just as Voldemort was coming back to power publicly. That analogy has interesting parallels for anyone following Twitter’s latest happenings. You can…
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Even CEOs not safe in this market?
Update on this story below Just saw a tweet drop that suggested that Zuck was going to resign from Meta! Not sure how true this is, but wow! I guess he will join the 13,000 Meta/FB employees that he just laid off – only if this story is true. Obviously if this is true, then…
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Twitter needs a paywall
… so that I can stop opening it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It also needs that $8 paywall, to die as a business. It is a sure-shot way to drive down engagement on the platform and Elon, the white South African, will realize this soon enough. There are not enough $8/mo social-media users out there to sustain the…
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As predicted, Elon brings back Trump to boost Twitter’s DAU/engagement
I suppose the writing was on the wall. But I never imagined that it would be this blatant and transparent. I figured he would wait till FIFA getting over. What was I thinking? But this is a net positive move for Twitter, if its infrastructure survives the next month. And that’s not necessarily a big…
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Prediction: Elon boosts Twitter’s DAU by bringing back Trump
I mean, what else can he do to kick up the numbers here? The advertisers are fleeing. And even if the site’s most active users continue, you need to kick up the usage to stratospheric levels to throw a serious bone to those advertisers… all to get them back. He is already hoping to do…
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post.news: Pay-for-read, News-centric Social Network
Who knows if this will work. But this is the closest that any platform may have gotten to helping journalistic organizations monetize (written) content on social media – at scale. post.news seems to be on a useful mission. But like all things in social tech, it will come down to how the crowd uses this…
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Free speech means you host content that you cannot monetize?
Elon continues to prove himself to be an idiot everyday. But this freedom of speech vs reach is just about as stupid an idea that I have ever seen. Let’s assume that you have some magical way to filter out content that is objectionable based on an impartial billionaire’s whimsical definition of “objectionable”. Assuming you…
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Elon Musk is Joker
This GIFF has been playing in my mind all week. I am not sure if Elon planned it out like this, but he is effectively Joker from The Dark Knight. And I never thought it was possible to see money burn in real life. – vijay (get Outlook for iOS)
Winter Rant 