notabit.bsky.social

notabit.bsky.social

@notabit.bsky.social

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When I write my op-ed columns, I routinely scold Democrats but give Republicans a pass for worse behavior. And when I drive, I routinely honk at confused old ladies but never at aggressive young men.

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Hunter Here’s the reality. No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination Pardon warranted

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We’re not accepting complaints about the Hunter Biden pardon unless you also complained about the Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort pardons.

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There's no longer any upside to Twitter over Bluesky. Twitter's engagement is terrible, it downranks external links, and you're subjected to straight nazi shit if you write even the most banal post. Why are we subjecting ourselves to this?

To try to compensate those investors, Musk has given them 25% of xAI shares. The startup that tries to compete with OpenAI or Anthropic is about to close a $5 billion funding round , which makes its valuation rise to $50 billion.

Among the personalities and entities that have received shares are Fidelity, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talaal, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, he did so with the backing of big investors. However, analysts say Twitter is valued at 80% less than it was when Musk bought it two years ago. Now, the tycoon has just compensated those investors, but he has done so in a unique way.

Banks such as Morgan Stanley and Barclays have $13B in debt outstanding after the deal, while venture capitalists invested $7.1B according to the Financial Times.That investment has continued to fall in value following Musk's controversial management, but now the tycoon has made a striking decision.

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Kat interviewed me for her new story on journalists moving to BlueSky. Give it a read!

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social

I talked to journalists and writers who have found a larger and more engaged audience for their work on Bluesky, without having to see “AI bots and Nazis” at the top of their replies. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

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I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.

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Kind of telling that rightwingers get furious when you mention leaving for Bluesky… but those on the left couldn’t care less if conservatives left our feeds. Almost like Republicans know that the value of a platform comes from having the left there.

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Bluesky, with a well curated follow list, has already replaced Twitter for me as the place to immediately see what's happening of relevance to me as a media producer in the independent media space

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DEEP DIVE for the weekend: Pete Hegseth's Army unit in Iraq was rocked by war crimes, leaving "an indelible mark" on them all. He wasn't involved, but went on to successfully lobby Trump for others facing similar allegations. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

washingtonpost.comPete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes caseDonald Trump’s defense secretary pick was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience influenced his advocacy for troops accused of war crimes.

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Hasn’t even been 20 days since the election and the amount of chaos, collusion, confusion and corruption we’ve already seen is staggering.. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the orange crusted, Russian speaking, diaper wearing, shit covered fecal iceberg..