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Hours into jury deliberations at social media addiction trial and they have questions. They want to see two research surveys that were presented as exhibits, and they asked about a “social media feedback loop” exhibit about when various platform features were introduced.
In case you’re wondering how his night is going, Musk is currently reposting Grok AI videos made by his fans including one of him kissing a random woman
"Missed boat"
www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...
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Someone put me in Liverpool’s best 11 bsky.app/profile/dave...
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This is a good q from Levy, and Dorsey claims he wasn't paying attention to what was going on at the company at the time.
But I know of former employees who tweeted and messaged Dorsey about Musk's mockery. It's just interesting to watch Dorsey dodge any opportunity to hold Musk responsible.
Also funny how Dorsey talks as if things just happen to have happened. He says "it fragmented the conversation across ideological lines."
Twitter has never been apolitical, but there is one person alone who has accelerated that ideological fragmenting of conversation... and he owns the place.
I found this to be a good interview, even if Dorsey offered little clarity. Dorsey said he's happy X is a private company and that Musk has "changed is business model" but last I checked, X is still heavily reliant on ad revenue.
Animals don’t event read
Animals are so dumb. They don’t event know the time changed and their automatic feeders already went off. That’s why humans are superior and I get to post about it and they won’t even know.
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one way to keep one of the biggest communities on your platform is by heinously insulting them with a robot www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...
We also got pretty remarkable testimony today from Marty Korman, a layer for Twitter on the deal. Here's him describing a call he had with Mike Ringler, a lawyer for Musk's side, as they were trying to re-negotiate the deal in September. (rough transcript; these are my uncorrected notes)
And while Musk always has an axe to grind with OpenAI, I haven't seen him post about Bret Taylor in quite a while. Interesting that he focused on Taylor right before his testimony today. bsky.app/profile/rmac...
Musk's tweets/retweets about the trial have been an issue for the judge in this case. In court this morning, Justice Breyer raised the issue that these kinds of posts could bias the jury if they inadvertently came across them. Today he asked jurors if they had seen any publicity related to the case.
That is incorrect. Dorsey survived the Elliot Management shareholder activism and attempted ouster.
Also worth noting: Bret Taylor did not fire Jack Dorsey. Dorsey resigned after years of issues and did so while hand-selecting his own replacement.
Musk's revisionist history protects Dorsey, his friend and shareholder, and (wrongly) absolves him of any responsibility.
You can see that hero narrative here. Musk is implying speciously here that his purchase of Twitter helped reverse trends of people "identifying as transgender."
He's also going after Bret Taylor, the former Twitter chair, who was set to testify today in the trial, and framing him as the enemy.
Monitoring Musk's X/Twitter feed is interesting in these moments because it's a window into his Id.
He believes he "saved" Twitter by buying it. And he's justified the billions he spent on it by framing it to himself (and his followers) that he made a sacrifice that centers himself as the hero.
