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7 Dec, 8 tweets, 8 min read
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz The first “receipt” was a link to a verge roundup including a daily beast story in which you were directly quoted about funding “shitposters,” so there was zip wrong with me retweeting it and asking if this is where your $ went to. Hardly controversial: thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-…
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz I’ve got plenty of money,” Luckey added. “Money is not my issue. I thought it sounded like a real jolly good time.”
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz And: “The American Revolution was funded by wealthy individuals,” NimbleRichMan wrote on Saturday. Luckey confirmed to The Daily Beast he penned the posts under his Reddit pseudonym. “The same has been true of many movements for freedom in history …
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz … You can’t fight the American elite without serious firepower. They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means.” You can’t say you were not trying to stir up shit with a straight face and then be offended that I found it juvenile.
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz As to the second one, to begin the rushing the stage thing was obviously a joke. I mean really. Come on.
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz As to me saying I prefer to debate @rabois is because we definitely beef but we also do so without getting all limp and weepy over normal disagreements. The dopey (gonna stick with this description) direct quotes of you from 2016 made me think you were a lightweight troller.
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz @rabois If Ryan misquoted you, I’m sorry to perpetuate that by retweeting, even if it sounded like earlier stuff you said. My bad. But I will say I prefer to deal with people I disagree with like @rabois, who can sustain a tough debate and even a minor insult. It’s TwitterTown, Jake.
@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz @rabois That is an old movie reference btw, not meant to mock you. It’s funny. In any case, I am very happy to talk to you about tech anytime. You are obviously an accomplished entrepreneur, even if I disagree with you politically. If this is not good enough, so be it.

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29 Oct
And they asked such tough questions like: Cool skeleton avatar, dude! When can I get one?
When I got to Silicon Valley, I was struck by the dudefest tone of reporting in which reporters (all male) ran after gadgets thrown by the tech moguls with the enthusiasm of dogs chasing tennis balls at the park. Some things never change.
This VR stuff might be cool, but it’s kind of besides the point in our currently stressed real world where there is also a pretty significant dumpster fire going on that seems invisible to some.
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4 Oct
This is from 2018, which is when FB stopped engaging with me after more than a decade of reporting. They deserved every word, none of which was meant to be mean. It was a plea for them to change: nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opi…
“The arms race metaphor is a good one, but not for the reasons Facebook intended. Here’s how I see it: Facebook, as well as Twitter and Google’s YouTube, have become the digital arms dealers of the modern age. All these companies began with a gauzy credo to change the world.”
But they have done that in ways they did not imagine — by weaponizing pretty much everything that could be weaponized. They have mutated human communication, so that connecting people has too often become about pitting them against one another …
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4 Oct
Again ⁦@nickclegg⁩ is making a false assertion that few do, which is that Facebook is responsible for Jan. 6: “The responsibility for the violence on Jan. 6 & the insurrection on that day lies squarely with the people who inflicted the violence … washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
… and those who encouraged them, including then-President Trump and candidly many other people in the media who were encouraging the assertion that the election was stolen.” Yes, Trump and the rioters, as well as Fox News, are all also responsible. Oh yeah, humanity sucks too.
But Facebook and it’s sloppy management and obsession with growth needs to belly up to the bar and admit its own culpability — as do many in tech — in all this. As I wrote in 2018x they have amplified, weaponized and then largely fake apologized.
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3 Oct
Clever Clegg, but no one thinks FB is the PRIMARY cause, tho size creates an amplifier of unprecedented power: “What evidence there is simply does not support the idea that Facebook, or social media more generally, is the primary cause of polarization.” nytimes.com/2021/10/02/tec…
These verbal gymnastics illuminate nothing, which is why I would love to have @nickclegg on for a substantive full hour discussion on Sway at this important moment. Unfortunately, we get persistent declines from FB, even as they book on press with less experience in this arena.
Come on, Nick!! If you can convince me, you’d benefit. You would only not come on if you thought you had a losing argument. Here are some folks who somehow survived me this week.
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25 Mar
My tips for a former President who wants to start a social network! You’re welcome, Donald! First, naming: Avoid MeinSpace and InstaGraft, for obvious reasons nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opi…
Also learn to love Section 230 and your fellow tech moguls. Yes, even Jeff Bezos. Hug it out.
Also, you should think about having a fresh kombucha station at HQ.
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9 Feb
1/Or maybe @cwarzel you don’t want to paint a rich VC’s fence by giving up your attention & analysis gratis. Reminds me of when Facebook was bugging everyone to do FB Live. Alls I could reply was: What is the actual benefit to anyone BUT FB?
2/It is certainly good for those who need or want to make a splash or as a place for new voices to emerge. The real benefit of the service to users imho is in the non-famous-for-SV groups that are creative and additive to life and work in some way.
3/The panoply of achingly dull “interviews” w/famed dudes is fine. Being in the same room, even virtual, is exciting, like being near a celeb at a cocktail party & you don’t care that a lot of it is retread remarks/PR. But it’ll get tired like those endless SV VC parties did.
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