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Very grateful for the opportunity to write about the Twitter whistleblower's astounding report for :
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nearly every line in 's 80+ page whistleblower report is fairly mind-blowing. read it here s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2218
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executives seemed to respond with indifference to foreign spies having infiltrated the company, like when the FBI told twitter they suspected a chinese foreign asset was on their payroll. “well since we have one, what does it matter if we have more?”
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the report also says that twitter didn't have separate dev, test, staging, and prod environments, which among other things meant that about 5,000 twitter employees—and anyone who had access to their machines via spyware—may have had access to sensitive company and user data
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the report claims twitter's database architecture was so flimsy that it almost permanently shut down in 2021. imagine—a key piece of the global information system gone, overnight. a multibillion-dollar company obliterated in an instant, the biggest 404 error in history
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in july, twitter's former security lead released a whistleblower report alleging that foreign spies were on the company's payroll & outside organizations could remotely access user data via spyware on employee laptops
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"So change the world, but be mindful of temptation, and make good use of your god mode powers while you have them. Because they never last forever."
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"We need to know which of our government agencies, if any, had content removed from the platform, and we need to know the nature of this content."
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"'Trust and safety' is a euphemism for political censorship, with 'expert' teams comprised almost exclusively of the most radical, joyless grievance studies majors you ever met in college."
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“The Fifth Estate is a fundamentally different kind of power …The true failsafe. Our ultimate reset. Tremendously empowering of tyranny in times of stagnation, technology is also our most powerful weapon against tyranny in times of innovation.”
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ngl i killed this one piratewires.com/p/the-fifth-es
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technology is the fifth estate
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Highly recommended reading
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ngl i killed this one piratewires.com/p/the-fifth-es
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technology is the fifth estate, yet unlike every other fount of power it is both disruptive of the status quo and self-replacing. from the twitter files, proof beyond doubt that power corrupts. but now we return to the industry's true nature: change.
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btw the thread mentions that vijaya gadde, then twitter’s legal, policy and trust & safety lead, is on record denying that they don’t shadow ban. she wrote that in a canonical post on twitter’s blog, which is still up.
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we're back again with another easier-to-read version of The Twitter Files, Part Two—this one by . we posted the tweet thread in order and converted the hard-to-read images to text.
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tonight tweeted the 1st installment of The Twitter Files, an amazing thread about twitter and political corruption. it was great, but the format was hard to parse. we fixed the difficult-to-read screencaps and embedded the tweets in order on PW.
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Powerful, important reporting by at on Philly's out-of-control trash problem, which reflects the city's crisis of local leadership.
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philly's problems are solvable, argues. but the people in charge are incapable of effective action. we reject these effete elites, and issue a call to make local politics cool again. along the way, let's burn this parasitic governance culture to the ground.
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“i’m waiting for something bad to happen all the time. i’ll be happy when i’m not mayor, and i can enjoy some stuff.” this is a quote from philly's current mayor jim kenney, after two officers got shot on independence day of this year.
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the problems are compounded by a major staffing shortage. and so far, one of the city's few responses has been to take 8 months and $200k to complete a pay scale study.
meanwhile, people will have to keep putting up with huge trash fires like this one that hit the city in 2018.
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state and local officials have known about philly’s junkyard and trash problems for decades, but they remain out-of-control. last year, six days after delaware valley recycling's yard passed inspection, it looked like this.
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six-story high junkyard fires and millions of pounds of trash in the streets, overseen by miserable local politicians who hate their jobs. welcome to philadelphia, PA. guests for PW.
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A deep dive into the municipal dysfunction underlying Philly’s junkyard fires and trash-strewn streets. Effeteness is killing our cities — time to make local politics cool again
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You don’t want to miss this excellent piece about from .
The battle lines are drawn. The war on free speech is on.
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legendary media meltdown, the death of twitter that never happened, and apple threatens tech civil war. check out ’s latest for pirate wires —
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it’s the age old tale of the girl who cried “stochastic terrorism”
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the advertiser boycott failed. the activist mutiny failed. now, as the hysterical crying of elon's most neurotic critics grows louder, and authoritarians panic, apple threatens the nuclear option: tech civil war.
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One of the strongest pieces from the Pirate Wires newsletter
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tech is facing a crisis of bullshit. important to ask yourself "am i really making the world a better place rn, or am i just building another SaaS company on a beach in bali." from @traestephens and @markiewagner: happy thanksgiving, choose good quests. piratewires.com/p/choose-good-
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“When Clooney sells tequila, Alba sells diapers, or Kylie sells lip liner, they’re all doing the same thing — leveraging their brands to make money in a commodity market. Instead of cosmetics & alcohol, tech celebrities do Enterprise SaaS and VC.”🔥 &
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tech is facing a crisis of bullshit. important to ask yourself "am i really making the world a better place rn, or am i just building another SaaS company on a beach in bali." from @traestephens and @markiewagner: happy thanksgiving, choose good quests. piratewires.com/p/choose-good-
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Who are the founders tackling the hardest quests? come to mind. Besides the obvious: and
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tech is facing a crisis of bullshit. important to ask yourself "am i really making the world a better place rn, or am i just building another SaaS company on a beach in bali." from @traestephens and @markiewagner: happy thanksgiving, choose good quests. piratewires.com/p/choose-good-
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History is defined by top players pursuing good quests.
Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley's best — our top operators, exited founders, and investors — are almost all on bad quests.
and I write about quests in
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tech is facing a crisis of bullshit. important to ask yourself "am i really making the world a better place rn, or am i just building another SaaS company on a beach in bali." from and : happy thanksgiving, choose good quests.
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"Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense. The market is overrun with luxury credit cards and task management tools. But the world is filled with good quests: semiconductor mfg, industrial automation, nat resource discovery, nextgen energy, low-cost/labor construction..." 🔥🔥
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1/ History is the record of TOP players completing GOOD quests. This is a moral imperative.
Check out the latest @PirateWires post by @markiewagner and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests.
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1/ History is the record of TOP players completing GOOD quests. This is a moral imperative.
Check out the latest post by and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests.
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