Why am I still on Twitter?(therectangle.substack.com) Every day, no matter how hard I try, I succumb to the same habit: picking up whatever device is nearest to me and browsing Twitter. Or — if you have brainworms — the site known as X.
Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI(electrek.co) Elon Musk, who already suggested Tesla invest in xAI, is now setting the stage for the public company under his control to grossly overpay for xAI, a private company under his control that just absorbed Twitter (X).
Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in a bizarre hacking campaign(techcrunch.com) Someone is making precisely that tantalizing, bizarre, and clearly sketchy job offer. The person is using what looks like a series of fake accounts with avatars displaying photos of attractive women and sliding into the direct messages of several cybersecurity professionals and researchers on X in the last couple of weeks.
Bluesky isn't just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes social media(crazystupidtech.com) I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users. I stopped using it.
MCP – Flash in the Pan or Future Standard?(langchain.dev) Model Context Protocol (MCP) is creating quite the stir on Twitter – but is it actually useful, or just noise? In this back and forth, Harrison Chase (LangChain CEO) and Nuno Campos (LangGraph Lead) debate whether MCP lives up to the hype.
My deleted Twitter account was instantly taken over by crypto scammers(ycombinator.com) A few months ago I deactivated my Twitter/X accounts because I got tired of the community there. After the expiration date has passed, the username was immediately snatched, gone through the “blue checkmark” process (I never had one) and started posting cryptocoin pumping content.