jack

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no state is the best state
primal.net/jackJoined March 2006

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We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. —David Clark, 1992
We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵
19 years
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jack
@jack
just setting up my twttr
Not true and not illegal. This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Twitter Pulls Trump Campaign Video of President Showing Empathy For Peaceful Protesters davidharrisjr.com/rich/twitter-p They are fighting hard for the Radical Left Democrats. A one sided battle. Illegal. Section 230!
Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me. Please leave our employees out of this. We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make.
Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.
I’m really happy Elon is joining the Twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it. Parag and Elon both lead with their hearts, and they will be an incredible team.
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Parag Agrawal
@paraga
I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.
I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?
Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened. 💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right.
the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.
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In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
i love tesla
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Tesla
@Tesla
Make things people love
bitcoin
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Bitcoin is my safe word
Square is considering making a hardware wallet for #bitcoin. If we do it, we would build it entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with the community. We want to kick off this thinking the right way: by sharing some of our guiding principles.
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A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.
End the CCP
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Selina Wang
@selinawangtv
Life in Beijing: relentless covid testing & health app that dictates where I go Green code is needed to enter public areas. Red means quarantine/isolation. Authorities track people's movements thru these apps. Concern is this surveillance will stay long after covid is gone @cnn
Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense. It’s easy to critique the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will.
Every administration, republican or democrat, has an opportunity to build trust with the public. Instead, every single time, they choose deception and zero accountability. It’s not the party, it’s the system.
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CNBC
@CNBC
White House says it expects inflation to be 'extraordinarily elevated' in new report cnb.cx/3uvYBGW
oh yeah
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Jon Erlichman
@JonErlichman
On this day in 2006: Jack Dorsey began programming Twitter.
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Oby Ezekwesili
@obyezeks
Hello World, Our @NigeriaGov of @MBuhari is killing our young citizens on the street on Lagos now. Join us to #StopNigeriaGovernment Now!!!
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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If the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without filter and let people judge for themselves? Including all discussions around current and future actions? Make everything public now. #TwitterFiles
not a slip up...it's truth.
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BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld
"The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq... I mean of Ukraine" Former US President George W Bush slips up and condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of "Iraq" bbc.in/3wD9PJB
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Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” is the right one. This is also ’s goal, and why I chose him. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path...I believe it with all my heart.
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones.”
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Andy Allen
@asallen
Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?
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truth vs lies
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Kendrick Lamar
@kendricklamar
meet the grahams youtu.be/2QiFl9Dc7D0
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A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.