Ryan Mac 🙃

I'm old enough to remember that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook started doing "privacy popups" in 2018 where they told people that they cared about their privacy and user consent.

Well, lmao.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

today was the first day spacex's stock closed under its IPO price of $135. it closed at $131.11.

if you bought the company's IPO shares, you are now underwater.

government is literally bombing another country right now and they’re displaying a giant LOVE banner

normalize booing

so much scoring happening in Miami right now
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pathetic www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

wait until he finds out how Balogun plays for the US

someone help square this for me

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spacex stock now falling in afterhours trading after that aborted launch. down nearly 4% afterhours after closing 3% down on the day.

FIFA taking in $8 billion in revenue but asking for balls back from the crowd like it’s a Sunday league game with three knockoff jabulanis around the field. Treat them like foul balls you cheap freaks.

I've always been annoyed by this framing — this time in @status.news — of news simply "emerging" or Thiel willingly telling everyone that he funded the Gawker suit (as they link to in this piece.)

The news "emerged" because we broke it at Forbes. And then Thiel had to admit to it.

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plop

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/b...

SpaceX Falls Below I.P.O. Price of $135

After soaring in its stock market debut, the shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company have been rocky.

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For all the platitudes and window dressing from the company over the years about safety, privacy and consent, it appears that it's north star is — as it has always been — growth, growth, growth.

Why not make an AI feature like this opt-in? Because it would hamper the spread of the feature.

"Hi, I'm a reporter that would like to cover your company's layoffs."

"Hi, uh, ok. What's your name?"

"Chip....Cutter."

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

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starship's test flight 13 also just aborted for the day as it was set to launch. unclear what caused the pause, but it's not happening today.

bad day for spacex and musk.

in case you plan a jan 6 style event on jack dorsey's new work collaboration platform

this is the dumbest shit ever

this is the dumbest shit ever

Kind of incredible that the company that wanted to use AI to help rich people combat unfavorable media stories has completely pivoted to essentially yelp for journalists, which is hardly a new idea

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi

oh yea for sure man the idea was *too good* that you had to completely pivot

Varaguay

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at tesla, musk got upset with the wild swings in the public market's valuation of the company. in 2018, he threatened to take the company private.

now that spacex is public, this phenomena will play out once again after days like today. the question is whether musk will resist the urge to lash out.

absurd. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

hens dedicate award to fox

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

The Axel Springer Award goes to the German tech billionaire Peter Andreas Thiel, whose most prominent qualification for the award came when he hired the son of the Axel Springer CEO to work for him. Which is how such things usually work. www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT

Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.

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Elon Musk pitched "Pravda" as a journalism ratings platform a few years ago, but nothing ever caught on. Why? Because the average person does not give a shit about rating random ass reporters. Seemingly the only people who do care are the powerful subjects of stories who seek to undermine them.