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alexwilhelm.bsky.social
I help host This Week in Startups and write Cautious Optimism! @alex over on twitter
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The hbo app, or max app whatever, on Roku fucking sucks

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

oh boy @alexwilhelm.bsky.social really brought the heat today in his newsletter 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Protection money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 84 days ago • 72 comments

Who are Melissa and Doug and how did they corner the child toy market

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Rhode Island tis a silly place

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

This goes hard

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

New kettle who this

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Man being sick (spouse and I) with two tiny children all weekend is a lot

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Fucking 23 degrees Fahrenheit this morning it’s bullshit

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 108 days ago • 11 comments

Mauve?????

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 112 days ago • 99 comments

Quick, everyone. Form a protective circle around Betteridge's Law of headlines www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this." Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?

submitted 109 days ago • 407 comments

Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split

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Taking a break from your relatives

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

Happy thanksgiving we’re installing the new tv idk why today but we are

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Via @alexwilhelm.bsky.social https:// if you have to ask its a religion open.substack.com/pub/alexwrites/p/is-that-a-stock-or-a-religion

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Our holiday cards are gonna bang this year

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I have purchased @leolaporte.me’s son’s cookbook

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Is this the worst hack in U.S. history? 🤔 @leolaporte.me, Patrick Beja, @wesley83.bsky.social, and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social tackle the hack, SCOTUS on broadband, Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, and Zuck’s age-verification plan. 🎧 twit.tv/shows/this-w...

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Mexico is Texas’s biggest trade partner.

submitted 113 days ago • 18 comments

What’s the most money it makes sense to spend on a croissant

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

submitted 113 days ago • 277 comments

Sources: Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for about a 5% stake in the past year; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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