She’s the first artist to own all top 10 slots, according to the mag. (There’s a PhD thesis in how this list diverges from the actual track listing of Midnights. Or at least a really intense Tumblr post.)
Thinking a lot about these former Elon Musk superfans who say they’re over it now — the common thread is that the more Elon talks, the more he breaks the myth.
Among these former fans, there’s an overarching sense that they would respect Musk more if he said less. Most give credit to Musk for his contributions to the EV and space industries — the problem they see is his tendency to stride into other conversations as if he’s an informed authority, whether it’s opining on how many Covid cases there would be by April 2020 or how to run a social media platform.
[Vox]
Darin Fisher has worked on every browser from Netscape to Firefox to Chrome. Now he’s at The Browser Company working on the Arc browser, and he said some blunt things to David Pierce about the reality of Chrome:
Chrome exists in large part to put a search engine front and center, which Fisher describes to me as like “a brick wall” for all kinds of browser innovation.
“...because rockets don’t talk back.”
As you enjoy your weekend, don’t miss this episode of The Vergecast covering exactly what Elon Musk has gotten himself into now that he owns Twitter.
Ransomware attacks still plague our healthcare system. Steve Cagle’s cybersecurity company is trying to prevent them.
Pretty funny to say you are buying Twitter to help humanity when you burned a hundred million dollars in legal fees trying to get out of the deal, my man.
Here’s John Gruber following up on a post by Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hanssen, who argued that Twitter’s huge size compared to its revenue and userbase is the source of its dysfunction, and that Elon’s plan to reduce headcount by nearly 75 percent isn’t a bad place to start.
Everyone I know who has (or still does) work [at Twitter] has told me the same thing: the company is lousy with do-nothing employees and layers of bureaucracy to support their preposterously high headcount and needless managerial fiefdoms.
[Daring Fireball]
I love tracking the wireless industry’s machinations, and it sounds like there’s already a small battle brewing over who will write the 6G specs. The main fight? Whether network vendors will keep shipping closed hardware, or whether they’ll move to “Open RAN” which... well, we did a whole Decoder episode on it.
Batra told Fierce that open RAN came into existence because the standards weren’t moving fast enough for disaggregation in the previous generations. A certain set of operators – AT&T being one of them – decided to create the Open RAN Alliance in 2018.
[Fierce Wireless]
Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.
