Sunday, April 09, 2023

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Elon Musk, Substack

Elon Musk Denies Substack Links Are Blocked On Twitter, A Claim That’s Very Misleading In reality, Twitter has put up numerous roadblocks for anyone trying to visit Substack posts, even displaying a warning that links to Substack may be unsafe. ..... Why is Twitter doing this? Apparently the company is upset that Substack is launching a short form content social media capability called Substack Notes, which Musk sees as a potential competitor. And Musk alleges Substack was trying to download information from Twitter to help build this new feature. ........ “Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted,” Musk tweeted on Saturday. ......... ubstack co-founder Chris Best denied Musk’s version of events on Saturday, writing that while Substack has used Twitter’s API for years, he doesn’t believe they were doing anything that was prohibited....... Major advertisers are even nervous about appearing with the billionaire in public. ....... Twitter responded to emailed questions on Saturday morning with a poop emoji, an automated response set up by Musk. The billionaire is notoriously hostile to media outlets and shut down Twitter’s PR department after he bought the company.

Do Kwon converted illicit funds from LUNA to Bitcoin: S.Korean prosecutors
Putin’s Twitter account resurfaces as Russia comes in from the cold Elon Musk’s social media site lifts restrictions on Kremlin-linked tweets

Introducing Substack Notes Unlocking the power of the subscription network ........ We started Substack in 2017 because we wanted the internet to be better for writers and readers. We were dismayed with the clickbait and content farms, the listicles and liars, the cheap outrage and culture wars. We thought there could be something better if writers and readers were given more control and treated as a higher priority than advertisers, and if culture makers could find financial dignity without needing to sublimate themselves to attention games and corporate marketing budgets. “We believe that what you read matters,” we said, and we meant it. .......... we set about building a system that fosters deep connections and quality over shallow engagement and dopamine hacks . ......... There are more than 35 million active subscriptions to writers on Substack, including more than 2 million paid subscriptions. Readers have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to writers on the platform. There has been a Cambrian explosion of great writing, and writers have been saying (unprompted, we promise) that Substack has changed their lives. Encouraged by this early progress, we’ve become excited by the prospect of pushing the subscription network into new territory. ......... while Recommendations lets writers promote publications, Notes will give them the ability to recommend almost anything—including posts, quotes, comments, images, and links. Our goal is to foster conversations that inspire, enlighten, and entertain, while giving writers a powerful growth channel as these interactions find new audiences. ........ While Notes may look like familiar social media feeds, the key difference is in what you don’t see. The Substack network runs on paid subscriptions, not ads. This changes everything. .......... In legacy social networks, people get rewarded for creating content that goes viral within the context of the feed, regardless of whether or not people value it, locking readers in a perpetual scroll. Almost all the attendant financial rewards then go to the owner of the platform. ........ By contrast, the lifeblood of a subscription network is the money paid to people who are doing worthy work within it. Here, people get rewarded for respecting the trust and attention of their audiences. The ultimate goal on this platform is to convert casual readers into paying subscribers. In this system, the vast majority of the financial rewards go to the creators of the content. ......... The goal here is not to create a perfectly sanitized information environment, but to set the conditions for constructive discussion where there is enough common ground to seek understanding while holding onto the worthwhile tension needed for great art and new ideas. It won’t feel like the social media we know today. ......... Many of us have grown so used to talk of hellsites and doomscrolling—while wondering if social media is driving us mad—that we have forgotten that the internet can be good. .......... By changing the rules of engagement—by creating a new media universe with different laws of physics—the internet can be better than it has ever been.



China’s PLA launches simulated precision strikes on Taiwan as ‘Joint Sharp Sword’ drills enter second day Drills come after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen defied Beijing’s warnings against meeting US House speaker in California Multiple PLA services maintained a posture of advancement while encircling Taiwan in drills directed by the Eastern Theatre Command, CCTV reports ....... The self-declared air defence zones include and extend beyond sovereign airspace. While the PLA sends planes into Taiwan’s ADIZ nearly every day, only some sorties cross the strait median line that marks the halfway point between mainland China and Taiwan. ...... For decades, both sides largely abided by the tacit understanding that neither militaries should cross the median line, but Beijing in 2020 said it did not recognise the line.



Do Kwon converted illicit funds from LUNA to Bitcoin: S.Korean prosecutors
Putin’s Twitter account resurfaces as Russia comes in from the cold Elon Musk’s social media site lifts restrictions on Kremlin-linked tweets .
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