Something strange is happening in the world of cryptocurrencies. To the investor, the speculator, or the casual observer, the industry is in the midst of the “crypto winter” marked by dwindling public interest and stagnant prices after last year’s massive plunges. But to the engineer or the founder, it is an industry which has never […]
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The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz was in high demand this week. As a prolific journalist at The Atlantic and about-to-be member of Harvard’s prestigious Nieman Fellowship for journalism, that’s perhaps not surprising. Nor was this the first time she’s had a bit of a moment: Lorenz has already served as an in-house expert on social media and the […]
View More The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor LorenzJack Dorsey is recruiting his own personal bitcoin posse
If reporting directly to an eccentric billionaire and getting paid in bitcoin sounds like your cup of tea, then does Jack Dorsey have an offer for you.
On March 20, the CEO of both Twitter and Square made use of the former to announce a new and very specific job opportunity in the land of cryptocurrency. Specifically, Dorsey wants you to join his personal super crypto posse — saving the bitcoin-maximalist world one open source contribution at a time.
“Square is hiring 3-4 crypto engineers and 1 designer to work full-time on open source contributions to the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem,” he wrote. “Work from anywhere, report directly to me, and we can even pay you in bitcoin!” Read more…
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View More Jack Dorsey is recruiting his own personal bitcoin posseJack Dorsey records podcast with fitness writer who claimed “vaccines do indeed cause autism”
Jack Dorsey, known for making tone-deaf statements on the platform he co-founded, is in the middle of another controversy. This time it is for plugging a podcast he recorded with fitness writer Ben Greenfield. Greenfield has espoused anti-vaccination views on Twitter and other platforms, continuing to do so despite measles outbreaks in the United States. […]
View More Jack Dorsey records podcast with fitness writer who claimed “vaccines do indeed cause autism”Twitter co-founder Ev Williams to step down from the company’s board
Ev Wiliams is stepping down from Twitter’s board of directors effective at the end of the month, according to documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
View More Twitter co-founder Ev Williams to step down from the company’s boardTwitter considering a tweet ‘clarifying’ function
Clarification hasn’t always been Twitter’s strong suit. Fittingly, there’s a bit of confusion around the long standing succession that the service could add an “edit” button in order to save users from silly typos and, well, much much worse. At a Goldman Sachs event this week, Jack Dorsey clarified that, rather than adding a controversial […]
View More Twitter considering a tweet ‘clarifying’ functionThis Twitter interview with CEO Jack proves the platform is very confusing
It was supposed to be fun.
It was supposed to be an “experiment.”
Instead, it was a stinking mess.
Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey proposed that ReCode’s Kara Swisher interview him entirely over Twitter. The unlikely pair carried out the plan Tuesday.
Dorsey positioned the idea as a novel test of Twitter’s conversational features, which was odd to anyone who has ever held any sort of Q&A over Twitter. That’s, well, a lot of peopleWhy would the CEO need to test this out in so public a fashion?
I’ve never done this before. But it might be a feature we want to build so everyone can do it! So we get to test and learn in public.
— jack (@jack) February 8, 2019 Read more…
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View More This Twitter interview with CEO Jack proves the platform is very confusingTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey gives himself a ‘C’ in ‘tech responsibility’
Ah, the passing “C.” Also known as the white man’s “A.”
In a live interview conducted on Twitter, ReCode’s Kara Swisher pressed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about what grade Dorsey would give his company and himself at fulfilling “tech responsibility.”
Dorsey replied with the oh-so-humble C. In other words, he knows he could do better, but he’s really trying, guys! So he totally deserves to keep his job.
Myself? C. We’ve made progress, but it has been scattered and not felt enough. Changing the experience hasn’t been meaningful enough. And we’ve put most of the burden on the victims of abuse (that’s a huge fail)#Karajack
— jack (@jack) February 12, 2019 Read more…
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Jack Dorsey continues to string people along by teasing ‘edit tweet’ feature
Besides asking for permanent bans of the most vile Twitter users, the single most requested thing every user wants is the ability to edit tweets.
I want it. You probably want it, especially if you have ever sent a tweet with an embarrassing typo (rem…
Jack Dorsey floats how editable tweets might work
It’s a question that keeps popping up for Jack Dorsey.
In an interview with Joe Rogan over the weekend, the Twitter CEO floated how editable tweets, an oft-requested feature, would work on the platform.
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Mark Zuckerberg killed a goat and served it to Jack Dorsey … cold
Mark Zuckerberg had Jack Dorsey over for dinner and it was somehow even more weird than you might expect.
When asked about his most “memorable encounter” with Zuckerberg, Dorsey revealed that not only did Zuckerberg once invite him over for an (under…
Jack Dorsey’s footwear evolution: An investigation
At the last real day of CES (before Kanye showed up and tried to make the vacant halls of Thursday a “thing”), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey held a public discussion to clue us all in on his efforts to make Twitter better.
But hey! Forget the hate speech, Nazis, account-muting, and general directionlessness of Dorsey’s social media devil child for a sec. What the people really wanted to know about were Jack’s SHOES.
What are those shoes @jack? #CES pic.twitter.com/53pc4nkHDD
— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) January 9, 2019
Waiting for @Jack at #CES2019. Wondering if we’ll see his trademark thong-style sandals today..pic.twitter.com/D6gyvcK83Z
— Michael Nuñez (@MichaelFNunez) January 9, 2019 Read more…
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