Favorites October 31st 2022
www.tugboattoday.com
The guy is fine, but, wear your seatbelt, if only so this doesn't happen to you.
If you think this dude is going to save the world, remember that he couldn’t even cure the tsarevich’s hemophilia.
I would like to understand why tech companies have so much overhead. Twitter spends around $1.6 billion a year on research and development. What are they spending it on? It doesn't seem like the Twitter website is dramatically better than it was a year ago.
He also brings up Uber and Lyft, the platform takes half the money from each transaction! How much more are they really gonna scale?
Threads
• Thread of examples of the annual 'mundane Halloween' contest in Japan.
• Yglesias gets into detail about why charging for verification on Twitter is dumb. Now, bringing back Vine, that's an idea