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2025-03-11

Facebook Employees Would Lose Board Games Against Zuckerberg on Purpose, Former Executive Claims

In a new tell-all book, Mark Zuckerberg's former right-hand woman Sarah Wynn-Williams is claiming, among other things, that employees used to let the Facebook founder win at Settlers of Catan....

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[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on ChatGPT: “A Bullshitter That Misses the Central Point”

x.com/nntaleb/status/1898727843057606878 The post [X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on ChatGPT: “A Bullshitter That Misses the Central Point” appeared first on Nassim Taleb.

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: X Outage Exposes Musks Poor Digital Hygiene (3/11/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ What’s happening in tech today, March 11, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NFL Adopts Instant...

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The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming...

The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming out with a poetry anthology in May: Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons. 💬 Join...

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Evolving Intercom’s database infrastructure: Lessons and progress

An update on the progress we've made since launching an overhaul of Intercom's database architecture with Vitess and PlanetScale. Find out how PlanetScale Metal has changed the game, unlocking greater...

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New MLB Caps Are So Fugly They Make MAGA Hats Look Well-Designed

If these caps were a student project it’d get an F. Who thinks you can print one logo on top of another? They look like mistakes, like caps that got...

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New MLB Caps Are So Fugly They Make MAGA Hats Look Well-Designed

If these caps were a student project it’d get an F. Who thinks you can print one logo on top of another? They look like mistakes, like caps that got...

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0-$5M: When, Who, and How to Make Your First Sales Hire

Expert advice from Dropbox, Figma and Stripe on timing your first sales hire, finding the right candidate profile and creating effective onboarding to successfully transition from founder-led sales to a...

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Elon Musk Has a Major Problem: Tesla Investors Are Absolutely Disgusted With Him

Tesla investor dissatisfaction seems worse than ever as stock owners head for the hills over Elon Musk's increasingly toxic politicking. In a post on the r/TSLA subreddit during this week's...

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Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them....

Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Josh Marshall on Kevin Drum

Josh Marshall: I think more than anything I admired Kevin’s restraint and his caution. Blogging is a hustle and the incentives for hyperbole and breathlessness are endless. That makes most...

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Elon Musk Looks Like He's Trying Not to Cry When Asked About Tesla

Unelected White House advisor and president Donald Trum's closest buddy Elon Musk isn't too happy about having abandoned his businesses. The mercurial CEO has seemingly spent the vast majority of...

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Kevin Drum, Pioneering Political Blogger and Columnist, Dies at 66

Marian Drum, posting yesterday on Kevin Drum’s site: With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away...

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The Entire Internet Is Being Polluted by AI Slop

AI slop riddles practically every corner of the internet. Just look at Facebook, or what's become of Pinterest. But what about AI-written text? It may not be as flagrantly, well,...

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India Adds 4.7M Developers in 2024, Will India Become the Global Leader in Web3 Development by 2028?

India added over 4.7 million developers to platforms like GitHub last year, outpacing global peers. In 2024 alone, the country contributed 17% of all new Web3 developers worldwide. Indian Web3...

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How Much Do I Really Need to Know?

On Inauguration Day in January, Eliza McLamb wrote about her abstention from social media for a month and the challenge of keeping up with current events “without either turning towards...

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Here is NASA’s Contract with Clearview AI

The oversight and investigative body of NASA spent $16,000 on the technology, 404 Media previously reported.

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Humankind Has Infected the Moon With Imagine Dragons

In an effort to send the best of Earthen artistry, the private space company Intuitive Machines succeeded in some ways — and failed in others. During its botched mission that...

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Why Is Product So Hard?

Building great products — ones that deliver high value to the customers and to the company — is extremely hard. This is evident from discussions I hold with product people,...

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Will Tokenized U.S. Treasuries Drain Liquidity from the Crypto Market?

The tokenized U.S. Treasury bond market has surged past $4 billion, attracting institutional capital with 4.2% APY returns. This shift could divert liquidity from crypto, threatening DeFi yields and stablecoin...

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