Dave Lee

@daveleeFT
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US Technology Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York.
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@daveleeFT argues that social networks influence the behavior of their users by creating positive incentives and improving the quality of conversations, but #X (aka #twitter) is doing the opposite. He concludes that X is an app that exploits human misery and fuels online hostility.

Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x

#ElonMusk #socialmedia

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

Bloomberg
@Setok @Techmeme it could! I don’t think it will. Tho I like the idea of ActivityPub integration. Seems against Meta’s nature to do something that open, though, so we’ll see.

There's a boatload of design and UX jobs at the Financial Times rn:

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4183076101

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4186739101

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4127044101

Please DM me if you have any questions! The FT’s an awesome place to work, I’ve been there since 2016.

Director of Product Design and User Research

London

@tomcoates terrible news for the coveted “user seconds” metric

An investigation finds only ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the organization was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below $50M-$100M claims (Mark Harris/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/elon-musk-used-to-say-he-put-100m-in-openai-but-now-its-50m-here-are-the-receipts/
http://www.techmeme.com/230518/p10#a230518p10

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

Despite years of study around “healthy conversations”, the Jack Dorsey-backed BlueSky repeats many of Twitter’s mistakes https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-03/many-will-use-jack-dorsey-s-bluesky-like-they-use-elon-musk-s-twitter-badly
Bluesky Repeats Most of Twitter's Mistakes

The Jack Dorsey-backed social networking app is big on aspiration, but lacking in detail.

Bloomberg
Is anyone gathering data on the flow of AI expertise from academia to corporate?
@paarfi these are all really good points, thanks
Celebrations over at Bluesky as they reach 50k users. Mastodon at 11 million+ yet still written off as the post-Twitter platform. What am I missing?