6. ICYMI, my pre-news piece on the deal: www.techpolicy.press/who-will-own... and the FT seems to have the most detailed coverage of the memo: www.ft.com/content/7a77...

5. So, IMO it's too early to assume that content policy will change if the deal does in fact go through.

But has almost every stage of this saga been terrible from a free expression and good governance perspective?

Absolutely.

4. We don't know who will be on the "seven-member majority-American board of directors" that will appoint the new management and have the final word on content policy.

3 cont. (And once Trump has declared the deal a triumph, will he want to critique his handpicked winners?)

3. The other two named investors (Silver Lake, MGX) now owe Trump, but are not so ideologically aligned. Their primary responsibility will to be to increase the value of their investment, so they will balance maintaining the current successful operations of their platform with political concerns.

2. The only confirmed owner with strong ideological ties to Trump is Oracle. Oracle will own just 15%, and although Ellison controls it quite tightly, it's a public company and drastic moves that alienate TT users could expose the company to shareholder lawsuits.

1. It's unclear what impact Oracle retraining the algorithm using US data will have or what opportunities there will be for "manipulation"--from either China *or* the new controllers. (Will BD/TT Intl. no longer push weighting updates?)

I imagine you can find one that will cater to your particular tastes. It's always ok to ask - you won't be judged (unless you're into that as well)

I hear there are more efficient services than Solar Bears fandom for those who are into pain

No fair that the militant Islamists get fundamentalist zeal and we don't!

Thanks! They don't say so in the passage at hand (90), though maybe they're just imprecise here. There is another place where they talk about threat actors who "leverage private groups and pages" (23), and a specific mention of using CSEA detection on "most surfaces, including Groups and Pages" (71)

So curious

Any US law they could possibly be referring to?

Yeah. Now that I'm thinking about it, there's probably very little genuine kid writing in the training data. (Nightmare edtech data play revenue opportunity!)

Maybe some of the others just knew to add "in the style of a pretty average 6th grader" into the prompt? @yossihoffman.com

🫡 thank you for your service

Did you get a heads up or have you been hitting refresh every 30 min since Thanksgiving?

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