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Claire Diaz-Ortiz
Dec 9, 2022
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Oh HEY, it’s me, your occasional newsletter buddy, back to do some burning.

It’s already hot as hell in the Southern Hemisphere and on December 1, right on schedule, I got the annual message from the person in my life who writes every December 1 to say, “Happy First Day of Summer!” It goes without saying that I’ve never had the heart to break it to him re: the actual date of the equinox;(

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We had end-of-year parent teacher conferences for all the kids this week and on balance we were mostly just given instructions about how and why the children need to attend more birthday parties. This may or may not be due to my new parent-teacher-conference life hack: Give gifts to teacher DIRECTLY BEFORE THE FEEDBACK.

In other news, Lucia, 8, told me that she learned in school we are all “renovated” from monkeys, then went further to say that one of her brothers in particular, Mateo, seems especially “renovated” from them. “But there’s just one problem,” she said. “He doesn’t eat enough bananas.”

Dumpster Fires

Thank you as always to the bros for the compelling content.

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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08
Guess we're going to have to watch in real time as @elonmusk learns all the obvious content moderation lessons from the last decade. The fact that he's starting at "ban Hitler fans" suggests this is going to be a slow, painful process.
12:45 PM ∙ Dec 2, 2022
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Cold Blooded Shiller @ColdBloodShill
Full interview. Watch the absolute squirming at 1:37 and 3:55 when pressed on stealing customer deposits. Shook.
1:13 PM ∙ Dec 1, 2022
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good gollusk miss mollusk @molllllusk
she is a girlboss she is a war criminal she is a lunatic she is clinically insane & the next virgin mary & she is never going to die #WhiteLotus
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4:35 AM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Reading, etc.

The internet, but for hot people.

The concept of “Malign Creativity” is the internet knowledge item of the week — referencing all the bad shit people online come up with to make life hell for others. First debuted in 2021, Malign Creativity: HOW GENDER, SEX, AND LIES ARE WEAPONIZED AGAINST WOMEN ONLINE by Nina Jankowicz, Jillian Hunchak, Alexandra Pavliuc, Celia Davies, Shannon Pierson, Zoë Kaufmann and the Willson Center is a great, dense read for sleuths into internet hell who still have the optimism to try and make the space better!

What going off the grid really looks like.

18 gifts that will last forever (or extremely close).

The annual planner I’ve used for years is having a sale thingy.

Startups, etc.

Facts!

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Bloomberg Technology @technology
"He's starting to understand, okay, harassment might actually be a problem in a way.” @Claire explains what Elon Musk might be realizing now that he owns Twitter
11:29 PM ∙ Dec 2, 2022
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Unfacts!

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Claire Díaz-Ortiz @Claire
lies. i worked @Twitter 5 yrs + wrote 2 books on social media mktg. this is 💯 FALSE & @Twitter knows it. we never sold it on clicks, bc it is much lower on traffic than FB, LI, etc. twitter has other key strengths. (& mrkting is way more than clicks;) https://t.co/ie3ZZT3q7E
1:55 AM ∙ Nov 13, 2022
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Facts!

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Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  @jasonlk
VC funds need about $2B in “exits” for each $50m they raise Why? True average ownership of 10% fully-diluted x $2B = $200m. That’s 4x “gross” $50m or just about good enough today. So raise a $300m fund, you need about $12B in exits. Or better.
1:54 PM ∙ Nov 3, 2021
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Unfacts! (this was actually a shit post LOL)

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Emily Murnane @emily_murnane
LinkedIn really flies under the radar as the social media platform that’s absolutely the most unhinged
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5:35 PM ∙ Dec 3, 2022
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More PDF Download Facts!

  • January Ventures’ Annual Founder Sentiment Report is out!

  • The Latam Tech Report from Latitud is out!

Smiles

The World Cup, as it were, continues to chug along and Argentina remains, as of this writing, in contention. We made a blue flag-y cake that looks like hell for today’s game.

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Claire Díaz-Ortiz @Claire
MAY JESUS BE WITH MESSI 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
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2:32 PM ∙ Dec 3, 2022
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May God not abandon Messi in these trying times!

Claire

P.S.

My arm was hurting a lot from something I think called “iphone elbow” and Elizabeth Yin at Hustle Fund suggested ASync to help me DO TYPING.

Has anyone used either ASync or something better?

P. P. S. My week has been a complete and utter shit-show, but at least I’m the ringleader! Please send memes.

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Diane Peterson
Dec 9, 2022Liked by Claire Diaz-Ortiz

I've been following you since before you had children. Your posts with anything about them usually has me laughing so hard I cry. Now for the opining...I'm sure I represent a minority viewpoint compared to the rest of your followers. When you wrote your book, Twitter for Good, it seemed like it was in an era of healthy civil discourse. (Didn't you get the Pope to tweet?) Currently, I'm grateful for Twitter's drapes to be pulled back so some daylight and fresh air can come in...Matt Taaibi and Bari Weiss are not partisan players yet they personally are being attacked instead of the suppression and censorship of "other ideas". Today we find out that Twitter placed the account of the esteemed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University on a “Trends Blacklist,” preventing his tweets from trending because he argued the pandemic lockdowns were harmful to children. Americans always need to hear opposing ideas. This is banning critical thinking. God help us from a class of government minders who feel "they know better" and need to disseminate news and info without any challenges, or see what they don't approve as dangerous --that's censorship.

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