Consider this the morning edition of Charged Tech, with Frederique, Owen, and Zach recording with coffee instead of wine. Is Twitter's moral compass the reason they can't launch things? Jack announced a thing that might fix it—if you can read it in the screenshot of text he put on Twitter.
Here's everything to get clicking on for this week's episode:
- 29 °C is 84 °F
- Instagram has a trippy video calling thing now
- Instagram Lite
- Snapchat is racist and tone deaf quite often
- Bloomberg Businessweek design changes and how it got boring
- Facebook's drone planes that they shut down
- Myanmar's election ruined by Facebook
- Google X: Project Loon
- Jack Dorsey tumblr post about users
- Twitter reorg / Jack's tweets with Notes
- How Twitter got its wings back
- Jack rumors DM app
- The Atlantic: Twitter is the CMS for young people
- The secret Discord link for joining the community
- Smyte acquisition
- Racist bot, Microsoft TayBot
- npm using Smyte to reduce abuse
- Elon Musk is losing it
- Big Dick Energy
- Google Podcasts on Google Home
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