Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@cityofthetown Ps I took my first-ever YouTube shorts tour yesterday and it’s like 1/3rd Ben Shapiro clips. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@cityofthetown I think the dark thing is the feeling that the machine shows you what it wants and you can’t control it. Like an elevator door close button but malevolent. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@cityofthetown Certainly reasonable for a user to think it works that way. Related: I keep telling TikTok I don’t want to watch the jump rope lady - it takes multiple steps to do that and I do it every time - and they keep showing me the jump rope lady. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

A big advantage of watching sports now is that when your team sucks it’s easy to do something else for the next couple hours. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Great news and great candor from @CaseyNewton https://t.co/AoFyQZUOrQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@ShiraOvide For sure. I ask all the time. Depending on the person and the setting I ask in, rationale ranges from “hard to figure out how to allocate” (which seems v solvable?) to “we don’t think want to/don’t want to give up 50% of margin” which is reasonable until they decide they have to. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

(Also these will be podcasts you can hear soonish) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Today I got to fan out with two very different, very successful people whose work I’ve admired for a long time. What a gig I’ve got. (Pssst don’t tell my bosses that I’m getting away this.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@anildash @goldman Oh for sure. They’re not calling because everything’s *totally* cool. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@goldman I’ve noticed that the more competent school/camp people who call you unexpectedly start off with “This is so and so from kid’s school. Everything is fine…” and then you can feel your heart rate drop in real time — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

YouTube is still the only big video player that gives the people who make its videos a direct cut of the ad money the videos make. Now extending that to its TikTok clone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

This is about a Congressional tech hearing that happened today but could work for nearly all of the ones we’ve had since 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @lkmcgann: Prevailing attitudes toward bariatric surgery are overwhelmingly negative -- and they seem to be contributing to the very low… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@hunterwalk @pitdesi @zachweinberg Time Warner to AT&T is the same except of course they wouldn’t say so back then and only now say it in private. So, back to Zach’s original point. (See also: CEOs explaining why they’re no longer CEOs, etc.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Why Wall Street owns your favorite songs: A deep dive into the securitization of music, which has been booming. And a reminder that like other recent inexplicable booms, things seem very different now that money is no longer free. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@carloshasanax Very believable! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @TechCrunch: Patreon lays off 17% of staff, affecting 80 employees https://t.co/fAZkGLuDCt by @asilbwrites — PolitiTweet.org

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@RummaTumTums @RevDJEsq @richardrushfield No. This is just people searching for Yellowstone, period. If you replicate the chart on google trends you’ll see it includes people looking for show information and parks info. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Everyone I know (not really but still) watches Succession. I know a single person who watches Yellowstone. But that’s because he’s supposed to write about it for a coastal elite publication. Via @richardrushfield https://t.co/iQTFFSfLTV — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @rafat: This book is an instant buy for me, those of us creatures of media who grew up in the era of early rise of YouTube, looking forw… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @chafkin: the extent to which segments of the tech world have pivoted to what looks like irresponsible con-artistry (with lots of collat… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @myurow: The Athletic rolled out its first on-site ads https://t.co/wE5wlYfR91 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KBAndersen: Great reporting, important story. And New York taxpayers are footing the $250 million annual bill (plus the ongoing public… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@aysrick @JBFlint I oh know. But yesterday I had to text someone to understand a different subtweet and that’s not very efficient. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@JBFlint You should have a code in this tweets so we know which competitor you are subtweeting. I know that goes against the subtweeting premise but I’m sure you can pull it off. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@moth I think maybe it’s just the phone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@moth From what I can tell the parking lot is snap, and tt is tv. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

You’re probably already following @broderick but if not it’s a great day to start. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Oh man will I miss Shira’s stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @alexeheath: “Hello Mr. Iger, this is the Delaware Court of Chancery calling” https://t.co/HPAPQ0YRIG — PolitiTweet.org