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   Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 13:55:14 JST Mike McCue

   • Mike Masnick ✅

   Another classic, incisive post from @mmasnick Re: Elon’s supposed thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters:

   “So… within the span of about 2 to 3 pages we are told that Elon Musk and exTwitter are passionate supporters of free speech that allow “all viewpoints” to be shared and that Musk is filing this lawsuit to force Media Matters to take down speech that he admits is absolutely true, but where he doesn’t like how they portrayed things.”

   https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/congrats-to-elon-musk-i-didnt-think-you-had-it-in-you-to-file-a-lawsuit-this-stupid-but-you-crazy-bastard-you-did-it/

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     iquanyin (iquaanyin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 08:59:10 JST iquanyin

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @mike @mmasnick ive always wondered: why did you guys destroy zite?

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 08:59:10 JST Mike McCue

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     • iquanyin

     @iquaanyin @mmasnick looking back, that was a bad call. After we integrated all the Zite functionality into Flipboard we wanted to focus on advancing one product together. While it was indeed helpful for internal focus we failed to understand that people loved Zite specifically and didn’t care if we had those features in Flipboard. Lesson learned: people’s love for a feature or product is important to preserve and build on, even if it’s not ideal internally.

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 08:02:32 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     @MugsysRapSheet @mike 1. "Aspergers" is generally a disfavored term these days. 2. I believe he is still self-diagnosed, so I'm not sure it's true. 3. Blaming his failures at managing a social media site on the unproven claim that he might be on the spectrum is... not great?

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     Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. (mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 08:02:33 JST Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @mike @mmasnick
     People forget Musk has #Aspergers. He even praised #SNL when they invited "their first person with Asperger's to host the show."

     People with Asperger's (a form of #autism) have difficulty understanding normal human interaction. They feel the need to boil every social situation down to a binary equation, but fail to apply that same logic outside of social interaction.

     Someone with Asperger's has no business running a "Social Media" website (particularly one as big as Twitter.)