🐦 Elon Musk becomes Twitter's largest shareholder

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Elon Musk buys 9.2 percent of Twitter amid complaints about free speech. Tesla CEO Elon Musk now owns 9.2 percent of Twitter according to a 13G filing released today, Bloomberg News reports. According to the filing, Musk purchased the stake on March 14th. Musk has long been one of Twitter's highest profile users with… (Jon Porter / The Verge)

nilay patel @reckless

Elon about to learn that content moderation at scale is a harder problem than launching rockets and landing them again. One of those two things is impossible.

theverge.comElon Musk buys 9.2 percent of Twitter amid complaints about free speech‘Is a new platform needed?’ he asked last month.

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The Future of NFTs Lies With the Courts. SuperFarm touted the sale as “a groundbreaking landmark—both for the crypto space and the broader music industry.” The newly minted NFT of Jay-Z's debut album Reasonable Doubt would, it said, “provide ownership of the… (Jessica Rizzo / WIRED)

Jessica Rizzo @JessicaRizzo19

My latest for WIRED on the first cases involving NFTs to hit the dockets:

WIRED @WIRED

The legal battle over who owns the rights to a newly minted NFT of Jay-Z’s debut album ‘Reasonable Doubt’ is just one of an influx of NFT-related litigation. https://t.co/M6gzdgj6zz

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How Amazon Workers in New York Became First to Unionize. For about a year, Chris Smalls has stood almost daily near Amazon.com Inc.'s largest warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., campaigning to bring the first union to the tech giant's sprawling U.S. operations. A former employee at the facility, Mr. Smalls… (Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims 🤌 @mims

How the persistence of Chris Smalls, a man whom one Amazon exec once declared in a memo “not smart or articulate,” has led to Amazon workers in New York becoming the first in the U.S. to unionize wsj.com/articles/how-a… wsj.com/articles/how-a…

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The metaverse will fuel massive innovation (and Facebook isn't the metaverse). Here’s a hot take: The metaverse is not what Mark Zuckerberg says it is. It’s not a place or alternate reality we will all migrate into. It’s not a game. It’s not a land grab (although that is happening). And it’s not just a massive branding opportunity. (Faisal Galaria / VentureBeat)

faisal galaria @fais_4

The Metaverse will fuel massive innovation and Facebook or Meta is a Miniverse not the Metaverse

John B. Sheldon @JohnBSheldon

The #metaverse will fuel massive innovation (and Facebook isn’t the metaverse), by Faisal Galaria (@Fais_4) in @VentureBeat https://t.co/Uh6VOH6DMM

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How one company embraced the four-day week - and actually made it work. This Friday, most Americans will be hard at work, counting down the minutes until the weekend finally arrives. But almost all of the 700 or so employees at Bolt, a tech startup based in San Francisco, will be taking the day off. Some will be… (Aki Ito / Business Insider)

Aki Ito @AkiIto7

Employees at @bolt have been working a 4-day workweek since September. I dug into their experiment to ask: could this work across corporate America? My answer is YES. But it requires a far bigger rethinking of the way we work than you might expect:

businessinsider.comHow one company embraced the four-day week — and actually made it workBolt gave every employee Friday off. Forever.

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