Keenen Charles
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Keenen Charles
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Making @inboxreads.co
Writing @ http://keenen.xyz
MUFC 🔴
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A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington, this morning, protesting against the company’s cloud and AI contracts with the Israeli government. Full story here: bit.ly/3H4i9uJ
May 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
No idea what's going on in this trailer but I can't wait
March 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
With all the tech companies going mask off, I wrote about the good parts of the internet and how we need to grow them

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The "Good" Internet
In the past, I've been negative about the prospects of the world moving to decentralised social media platforms. The average person doesn't care if their data is being misused or locked in. Not enough...
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March 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We can't all save the world in a dramatic way, but we can each make our small difference, and together those small differences add up. The question is: What kind of impact do you want to make?"

– Jane Goodall
March 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Fabulous 🇺🇸💥
February 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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1. Zuckerberg announced he was getting rid of Meta's fact-checking program, one of several moves designed to curry favor with Trump

Fact-checking itself is important but Meta's program was very bad. It was always just a PR operation. When it stopped serving that purpose, it was killed
Meta goes MAGA
On Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to how the company will handle content moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Zuck isn't letting Elon take his crown as most evil tech CEO without putting up a fight
"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S," Mark Zuckerberg announces

He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
January 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Stuff you could do in 2025 that will increase your luck surface area:

- Podcast
- Give a talk
- Take a course
- Go to meetups
- Promote your work
- Go to a conference
- Publish on YouTube
- Create a side-project
- Write a blog/newsletter
- Attend a founder retreat
- Build something in public

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January 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Can't believe it's been 5 years of writing this report on the state of email newsletters and trends in the industry based on data from @inboxreads.co
🚀 The State of Newsletters in 2024 report is here! A.I newsletters are growing. Substack leads the pack but @beehiiv.com is catching up! Check out the full report #newsletters #emailmarketing

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December 18, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Echoes a lot of my thoughts on the direction Substack has been going in.

Newsletters are great because you own your audience and you're not tied to any platform. I'm weary of any one trying to change that.
substack continues to pivot its strategy at the expense of its publishers

it's dark patterns for darker incentives all the way down
Death by a thousand substacks
If you’re not a breadwinner, you’re the yeast.
mail.bigdeskenergy.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:20 AM