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Agree with @chriswelch here: Atmos music is sometimes great, but a lot of it is a mess, and sounds less impactful https://t.co/d5At68xmB5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsilverman Right. Everyone wants to believe it, no one knows. And yet, foreign policy was made around it — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsilverman (We don't know this! It feels right but there is no proof either way that anyone has seen.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@teej_was_here It is the prevailing theory but no one has been able to conclusively prove or disprove it — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump trying to ban TikTok because he'd gotten it into his head that teens had disrupted his rally was a real lowlight of the pandemic https://t.co/cM1cgfSiUw — PolitiTweet.org

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@alborzdesign I don’t know that any of these measure “influence,” they certainly don’t work across every company, and in any case Twitter would still be the smallest — PolitiTweet.org

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As @backlon has pointed out, it’s pretty interesting that Apple has adopted an Android-style back button for tvOS, and doubly interesting that it is the one of the most important buttons in the entire interface — PolitiTweet.org

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@alborzdesign Sure. What’s the specific metric and how is it measured in a standardized way across these companies? — PolitiTweet.org

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@blackqueeriroh @BlakeleyHPayne I think there’s good reason to be very careful and specific about these things, especially in the context of government speech regulations — PolitiTweet.org

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This doesn’t mean we don’t get into the weeds on Decoder - the idea is to show people how quickly things get complicated! With Vergecast we’re like… HDMI special, it’s complicated from the jump but there’s gonna be jokes — PolitiTweet.org

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I love doing Vergecast interviews but we make them for Vergecast fans, who we trust to be deep in the weeds with us. Decoder is made to be much broader - our goal is to be interesting and informative for listeners who are coming in with no prior knowledge of the topics. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BlakeleyHPayne @blackqueeriroh I didn’t say it wasn’t influential, or even good. Just: not nearly as big as the other companies it is routinely compared to, by orders of magnitude — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CaseyNewton: That said: while I think these privacy features are mostly really good for the average person, it also bears watching just… — PolitiTweet.org

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@tnek46 @verge Pretty sure @tomwarren just went rogue. Which is basically our all-time plan for things — PolitiTweet.org

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@Gartenberg @verge That’s what everyone said when we started The Verge ;) — PolitiTweet.org

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A Clippy that’s like “It looks like you’re trying to be an influencer! Have you considered that the only asset this business can monetize is your personal time?” — PolitiTweet.org

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This story is important - social platforms all have an endless supply of young people starting fundamentally unscalable businesses, and there is no particularly good way out except to change our expectations about what these kinds of jobs are really like https://t.co/9J48C4D6L8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Telecommunications providers regulated as common carriers, you say — PolitiTweet.org

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@mtlittle Still doesn’t make it “big” — PolitiTweet.org

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@geekstrdad They do not — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter is very influential, but it is vastly vastly smaller than the companies it is routinely compared to — PolitiTweet.org

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Reminder that anyone lumping Twitter in with “big tech” is extremely confused; Facebook is almost a trillion dollars bigger by market cap. Google and Amazon each around 1.6 trillion bigger. Apple two trillion dollars bigger! — PolitiTweet.org

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Data breaches have become a sad, scary part of modern life. Using data from HaveIBeenPwned, @russellbrandom @GraysonBlackmon and @billiamjoel set out to make this invisible backdrop visible https://t.co/ndqncR2XCi https://t.co/N7xJDY5aqi — PolitiTweet.org

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We recorded this episode before a pair of YC founders were kicked out last week for important criticisms of the program. I asked Michael to come back and talk it over, but YC declined - twice. Can’t say I understand it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel tells me that one aspect of the crypto boom is that it’s peeling people chasing easy cash away from startups, which he thinks is a good thing https://t.co/3roKvYzG1V https://t.co/nKelEKbL0k — PolitiTweet.org

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@cyrulnik @stevesi @gruber @urbanstrata It is the opposite - I am militantly free market and deeply worried the monopolies threaten competition and innovation — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi @gruber @urbanstrata And I am arguing explicitly that those considerations are corruptive, bad for the economy overall, and should be eliminated — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tomwarren: Google Docs is the future of journalism — PolitiTweet.org

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@gak_pdx This was the entire Epic trial :) apple takes 30 on any digital transaction, but not for physical goods — PolitiTweet.org

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@gak_pdx Nope, Apple always takes the 30 — PolitiTweet.org