Nilay Patel

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.

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.

It’s $1,500, and you can get one on Meta’s website, Best Buy, and other retailers. Alex Heath, Adi Robertson, and I all have review units, and on a first impression: it’s an incredibly refined piece of hardware, but the display isn’t as much of an improvement over the Quest 2 as you’d expect.

You can use a mouse with any Android phone just by plugging it in but let’s take a moment to applaud this entire situation. Hard to say exactly what phone we’re looking at here but there’s a holepunch front camera on the left side, so our best guess is either a OnePlus or Oppo. Tweet at me if you figure it out!

We were promised self-driving cars doing robot surgery in rural America, but so far 5G has mostly been meh. That’ll change next year, according to AT&T’s CTO Jeremy Legg.