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Twitter's former head of engineering weighs in on Meta's Twitter clone.

Twitter says any advance notice on rate limiting “would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.” Curious if that rationale extended to not alerting employees 🙃

NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email saying the company needs to ship better features faster than ever. He doesn’t mention Threads, but of course the success of the new social network looms large…

I will abide by the results of this poll

Elon Musk says xAI will train on Twitter data but the future looks more like AI training on AI-generated data — I’m curious how this squares with studies that show synthetic data can cause generative AI systems to collapse. Anyone know?

An under appreciated part of this dynamic is that it’s making Twitter employees better at Twitter

Tough day for pmarca

More vandalism from Elon Musk. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014. x.com/search?q=From%…

From Zoë Schiffer and me: Amid new scrutiny from the FTC, internal documents reveal two top security concerns at X this summer: failing to delete user data on request, and inadequate controls around employee data access platformer.news/p/the-ftc-take…

Here's Zoë Schiffer interviewing Taylor Lorenz about her new book. Loved learning which social channel is driving the most sales platformer.news/p/taylor-loren…

The NLRB alleges X illegally fired Yao Yue, a principal engineer, after a tweet standing up to Elon Musk post- acquisition: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I talked to Yao Yue about being fired by Elon Musk over a tweet — and her success in getting the NLRB to file its first formal complaint against X: platformer.news/p/how-one-form…

From people to servers, Elon Musk is borrowing from across his empire to build Grok. Zoë Schiffer and I report: platformer.news/p/how-musk-is-…

Come talk about the promise and peril of AI with me and Jacob Ward next Tuesday at the Battery in SF! I have ~20 spots for those who'd like to attend — just DM me: thebatterysf.com/event/jacob-wa…