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The withering email that got an ethical AI researcher fired at Google
"Stop writing your documents because it doesn’t make a difference": Timnit Gebru's final message to her peers
Casey Newton
Dec 3, 2020
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🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning
Casey Newton
Apr 28, 2021
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🚨 How Basecamp blew up
Inside the all-hands meeting that led a third of the company to quit, and an executive to resign
Casey Newton
May 4, 2021
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🚨 Instagram walks back its changes
Say goodbye to the full-screen feed, and at least some of those recommendations — for now. Adam Mosseri explains why
Casey Newton
Jul 28
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🚨 The battle inside Signal
The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding…
Casey Newton
Jan 26, 2021
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Elon Musk joins the Twitter board
Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power
Casey Newton
Apr 6
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How Microsoft crushed Slack
And why the era of worker-centered work tools may be over
Casey Newton
Dec 3, 2020
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Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt
Casey Newton
Jun 9, 2021
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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you've ever seen
Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)
Casey Newton
Sep 3, 2021
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Elon Musk buys Twitter
What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions
Casey Newton
Apr 26
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What I learned from a year on Substack
Your questions about Platformer, answered
Casey Newton
Sep 17, 2021
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Ev Williams gives up
How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk
Casey Newton
Jul 13
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