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Mailbag: Adobe and Antitrust, Engagement Quality vs. Quantity, The Cult of Musk, Porcupine Lore Sep 22, 2022

Mailbag: Adobe and Antitrust, Engagement Quality vs. Quantity, The Cult of Musk, Porcupine Lore

Adobe-Figma antitrust questions, the pluses and minuses of ignoring user complaints, how Twitter hype led to real infrastructure at Tesla, a word about porcupines.

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Adobe Tumbles After Deal to Buy Figma for About $20 Billion — Bloomberg

Adobe Acquires Figma, Figma’s Disruption, The Figma OS — Stratechery Update

Launch Follow-Up, Figma Feedback, More on Antitrust and Acquisitions — Stratechery Update

An Interview With The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel About Building a Destination Site — Stratechery Interview

It's a Tesla — Stratechery

Mistakes and Memes — Stratechery

What the Fox Knows — 538

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Introducing Sharp Tech Sep 20, 2022

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The Greatest of All Talk, an NBA podcast — GOAT

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What AI Is Today and What It Might Be Tomorrow Sep 13, 2022

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The AI Unbundling — Stratechery

AI Bundling Follow-Up, iPhone Follow-Up — Stratechery Update

‘An engine for the imagination’: the rise of AI image generators — The Verge

DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content — Stratechery

OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too — The Verge

Midjourney — Midjourney

DALL-E — OpenAI

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Google-as-Government and Netflix vs. HBO Max Aug 24, 2022

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A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. — The New York Times

Google, Machine Learning, and CSAM; Takeaways and Tradeoffs; Apple’s CSAM Controversy — Stratechery Update

Rights, Laws, and Google — Stratechery

Apple and Property Rights, On Google’s Non-Response, The Facebook Oversight Board — Stratechery

House of the Dragon and Creative Programming, The Big Ten’s Deal, Disney’s New Prices — Stratechery

Formula 1 and Netflix, Netflix and Sports, YouTube TV vs. ESPN — Stratechery

‘House of the Dragon’ Is HBO’s Top Debut With 10 Million Viewers — Bloomberg

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Apple's Privacy Power Play and TikTok Concerns Aug 17, 2022

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Apple and Facebook’s Pre-ATT Negotiations, Timing and Documentation, ATT’s Impact — Stratechery Update

Data and Definitions — Stratechery

The TikTok War — Stratechery

On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms — The New York Times

Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China — Buzzfeed News

China’s Plans to Win Control of the Global Order — Tablet

TikTok Works on Its Trust Deficit — Platformer

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Meta’s Murky Future and the Transformed New York Times Aug 11, 2022

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