Casey Newton / is on Nostr

Email salesman at Platformer and podcast co-host at Hard Fork. casey@platformer.news

Last Notes

2024-06-13 23:05:46

NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
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2024-02-16 01:03:37

Who killed Twitter — Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? @npub1c2e…hqs2 and @npub1699…lrzs, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each other about what they learned: https://www.platformer.news/kurt-wagner-battle-for-the-bird-interview-zoe-schiffer-extremely-hardcore/

2024-02-13 01:06:03

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@npub1rh0…sjsf we did ask about AT Protocol vs. ActivityPub but I think some of it got cut during editing

2024-02-09 15:39:09

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on our decentralized future. Plus, how Adobe's failed acquisition of Figma shook up Silicon Valley ➡️ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/podcasts/hard-fork-bluesky-figma.html

2024-02-07 01:08:50

Now that Bluesky is open to the public, I hope developers and publishers give it a second look. It has a lot of good ideas about the future of social networking: https://www.platformer.news/bluesky-public-opening-jay-graber/
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2024-01-12 15:22:49

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Kevin grills me about leaving Substack. Then, WSJ's Kirsten Grind joins to talk about Elon's drug use, and researcher Felix Wong tells us how AI may have discovered a new treatment for MRSA https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/podcasts/hard-fork-substack-controversy-musk-drugs.html

2023-08-15 00:14:16

I wrote about Elon Musk's disturbing spiral.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musks-creep-show
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