Update (11/16/23): IBM released a statement to the Financial Times saying that it has “suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.” Media Matters will update if the other major companies in this report take any similar actions. | Media Matters for America
I get it. I totally get it. Every tech dude comes along and has this thought: “hey, we’ll be the free speech social media site. We won’t do any moderation beyond what’s required.” Even Twitter init…| Techdirt
Elon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship”| popehat.substack.com
Substack is raising $2 million from writers and paid subscribers.| www.newcomer.co
The newsletter company is on a mission to disrupt the attention economy away from “cheap outrage and flame wars,” drawing in literati from Patti Smith to Salman Rushdie. But its refusal to engage with hate and disinformation means controversy is never far behind.| Vanity Fair
(Not going to the metaverse...yet)| warzel.substack.com
Reflections on a relationship with a writer who loved and then fell out of love with Substack| hamish.substack.com
I am leaving Substack and using a new service called Ghost now.| luke.substack.com
Substack is a media platform for video, writing, podcasts, and creator-centered communities, all powered by subscriptions.| substack.com
The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.| niccolo.substack.com
Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication. It powers blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.| DigitalOcean
Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge| on.substack.com
Press Gazette has found at least five of the highest-earning Substacks generate $1m in annual revenue through the newsletter platform.| Press Gazette
This Week In Writing, we talk about Diffusion of Innovation Theory and dying platforms.| Justin Cox
Responsible Innovation Labs has brought together a coalition to define specific responsible AI practices in a protocol that can inform regulation and become a decision and accountability mechanism for startups building AI technology and their investors.| www.rilabs.org
A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.| NBC News
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"| davekarpf.substack.com
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.| Andreessen Horowitz
Turbocharging growth for writers; a universe of great writing for readers| on.substack.com
Searching for the better versions of ourselves| on.substack.com
3.1 Sending Webmentions| www.w3.org
The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.| The New Yorker
Chris Dixon must know better than this, right?| davekarpf.substack.com
Federal Funds Effective Rate| fred.stlouisfed.org
Substack didn't invent the paid newsletter, but the startup's early success with the model is enticing previous backers to more than double down on the media startup.| TechCrunch
The thinking behind Substack Pro| on.substack.com
A new way for writers on Substack to recommend each other and discover more great work| on.substack.com
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Those who are paid subscribers to our Substack are automatically entitled to full access to our written and broadcast journalism on Rumble and Locals| greenwald.substack.com
Twitter is a real-time microblogging platform, publicly launched in July 2006. At launch, its defining features were the tight limits placed on each post, known at a tweet. Originally, users could only use 140 characters, although that has been elongated over the years. Formed by former Odeo employees Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the site originally used SMS to send tweets onto the network. It received its first boost of users at SXSW 2007, when the founders showed al...| Business of Apps
It’s time you had your own private social network| on.substack.com
