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Careful, you are giving off the desperate "I don't like the content, let me attack the way the content was delivered" energy of someone who is mad.

Great! Crisis averted! @wildcat09, please see above for how to go to the website for our your own reading.

"Miami nightclubs, which have been rocked by the absence of big-spending crypto whales amid the market’s deep freeze. Nightclubs in the city became a home away from home for crypto entrepreneurs, who—when times were good—would rent out venues for half a million dollars and order top-shelf Champagne to shower themselves with. That clientele (“95 percent men…with a kind of nerdy style,” according to one operator) has disappeared due to the crypto market collapse, according to a report by the Financial Times. E11even, a club that accepted payment in cryptocurrency, processed $6+ million worth of transactions last year. In the last three months, it’s taken in less than $10,000. Is Miami okay? Magic City went pretty much all in on crypto back when celebrities were scooping up million-dollar ape drawings, but things have changed. Crypto-promoting Mayor Francis Suarez removed laser eyes from his Twitter profile; Miami-Dade County asked a federal judge to end the Miami Heat arena’s naming rights deal with bankrupt FTX; and the city’s personal token, MiamiCoin, has dropped 99% from its peak value."

I copy and paste from an emailed newsletter. I don't have website links.

It will be interesting to see if Musk can recruit other big name CEO/companies to create a coalition to go against Apple. Fortnite and Shopify are premiere names in consumers minds: In taking the gloves off with Apple, Musk formed an alliance with other tech leaders who’ve been grumbling about the App Store:

This. Apple (and Google, the duopoly, but focusing on Apple here) is a beast because they own the mechanism and ecosystem in which people interact with their digital worlds. The downfall of social media we've seen lately has a lot of causes, but of the more underrated ones is Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) that has eaten everyone's lunch the past 12+ months. Total boss move.

Of course, and I understand. Consider yourself politely excused.

Now weave in the part where Briskettexan takes 30% of the house take on Boudin balls everyday whether Briskettexan wants to eat there or not. Because that's a not insignificant data point to the rigmarole and without it, the analogy fails.

I agree except for your first sentence which I would say the jury is still out. The thrust of my point (and the quoted piece) is NOT that other companies will be ham-handed, send out a mailchimp survey monkey "will you be hardxcore 80 hour employees with me, yes or no?" and sloppily halve their companies overnight. Elmo's very public torching of twitter could have a few unintended consequences (we've already touched on more pressure for apple's 30% mob cut, love it or hate it), and in the HR/RIF perspective, if Twitter wriggles their way out of this and can limp along more or less solvent, you could see a lot of activist investors and monied PE's start harassing businesses, from small to large, with the idea that "Hey, Twitter can survive with 1 of [these type employees], 3 of those types, only 6 of these, etc, why are you using 200, 300 and 1000 respectively." Or what have you.

I was seriously asking as I respect your opinion and think you have a level head when it comes to politics and the realities of politics, specifically. Lots of folks on here live in fantasy land when it comes to execution and delivery and think this stuff is so easy.

What is interesting about Elmo's machete cuts, as a precedent or lighthouse, is that other Big Tech (and most importantly Activist Investors!) are watching and waiting to see how this plays out. From the website The Information:

You are generally well-versed in market economics which makes this post even more disappointing. Or maybe you haven't heard the argument for how these two app stores on smart devices are a duopoly? An aside: Thanks for replies @Neonmoonand @atomheartbevo;makes more sense now.

Right. Which is why the guy's post in response makes no sense. Which I guess raises the question, why was it posted here? I'm possibly missing something that makes an obvious point so I'll just ask: What were you @atomheartbevotrying to illustrate? Simply making fun of the editor? Making fun that Elmo is wasting his time in foolish tweet troll wars instead of tending to his multiple business responsibilities?

Do you defend Biden here or do you think he mistepped?

Not to defend Elmo here, but more the English language and reading comprehension, but I don't think Phillips O gets it, which is weird because it looks like he's an editor. Elmo is clearly saying that his anti-dictator stance is an obvious (non-controversial) one and is so common and obvious as to be the opposite of a risky stance, thus needing no bravery either.

After he posted that I spent a solid 10 minutes looking for a Pumpkin Spice Latte Frappuccino app on the App Store, if that tells you anything about my major.

@THUJONEyou still writing? Published anything recently? Working on a bigger project?

On principle I always act in complete opposition to my financial interests-- do you even read my CR posts? Jokes aside, you are living the dream and I really respect you.

I am guessing you are right, but I think eventually, Apple will be forced to concede something at least due to a build-up of complaints and legal issues over their 30% vig. I'm not against Apple there, I think they created the ecosystem and platform and it's their value-add, but I also see the other side as well. As for me with an Android phone? I could never. Halloween season is over so let's dispense with the spooky stories and haunting visions.

It's amazing how technology as shaped us to where people are scared of the phone as the OP said he was reading about these new phobias. Maybe there are people that have always been and just now are accommodated, I don't know. Talking on the phone takes energy and work and effort. That's why we hate it. We like to be left alone to our own curious devices and we like to not have to focus or give 100% attention so we can be mediocre at multi-tasking. That's my theory anyways. That's uncouth. Someone should say something to this lady.

@RDCanecutterIf you link your Patreon page I'll donate something. Not because I love your art (I don't really get it, actually), but because I think you are a brilliant mind and want to keep you above ground for as long as is natural.

Just read that Flu hospitalizations have overtaken Covid hospitalizations in North Texas and this is the worst flu season in decades:

I said this yesterday and today I was reading where some business news analysts ( @wildcat09, the objective Ben Thompson) agrees that Apple might not want the attention Elmo is bringing, which is why Elmo is doing this: From WSJ (bold emphasis my own): From Ben Thompson (bold emphasis my own): and and from NYT: Apple is already being investigated for its App Store policies, including by the Justice Department. Meanwhile, Spotify sued Apple for rejecting its audiobooks app three times, accusing it of anticompetitive behavior. And Epic Games is still locked in a legal fight with Apple over forced use of the company’s in-app payment system. (Epic’s C.E.O., Tim Sweeney, backed Musk’s fight yesterday, tweeting, “Apple is a menace to freedom worldwide.”)

As we've seen with Qatar, corporations are whores who follow the viewers/users/money. Except B-corps and Patagonia type companies, but you know what I meant. Typical F500 stuff.

I think briskettexan nailed it (broken clock right twice a day etc.); sociopathic narcissistic tendencies fueled by awesome resources and wealth that has broken his brain, potentially. He’s what would happen if you gave an average 4chan troll a hot hand and billions of dollars.