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Good write-up on why Andor feels so different from other Star Wars shows (and why it’s more accessible to non-fans)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/andor-star-wars

@RomanSndlr Andor starts out really slow. Most people who stick out past first few eps end up liking it.

@justinvincent Miles better than the other recent series.

@charlierward Love it! Well done! 🙌

Anyone need a Ruby, Rails, Elixir, or Phoenix dev?

I know someone great who has some availability.

DM me. 👍

Anyone have Ruby, Rails, Elixir, or Phoenix work?

I know a great dev who has some availability.

DM me. 👍

@earthlingworks @OvercastFM @marcoarment Time to start!

@surjithctly @OvercastFM @marcoarment 📁 @TransistorFM is podcast hosting (we host your audio files, generate your feed, and help you submit to Apple Podcasts, etc)

📱 @OvercastFM is a listening app (similar to Apple Podcasts). It's good! If you're on iOS you should try it. 👍

I remembered @Shpigford asking about this a few moths ago.

Josh: this exists now!

https://twitter.com/Shpigford/status/1210257990009446402

@mjwhansen 😍 love seeing podcast stickers!

@valsopi 🙌 nice!

@AlbanBrooke ❤️🏄‍♂️🏔

@TransistorFM @via_benjamin This was a fun one! 🙌

@iChris We had Chris Enns in mind when we designed this workflow.

@bchristman30 @TransistorFM Ecamm Live

@Teooooos @JordanGal Still there! Open, decentralized tech like TCP/IP is still the foundation of the internet.

Platform independent, distributed, flexible. It’s not centrally controlled or managed.

It beat alternatives from Novell, Apple, Microsoft to become universal!

https://www.nfon.com/en/get-started/cloud-telephony/lexicon/knowledge-base-detail/tcp-ip

@JordanGal The idea and demand for decentralized, federated networks was around long before crypto.

FidoNet started in ‘83. It was a way of sharing public and private messages, and was quite popular by the time I was a teenager in the 90s. It’s similar to Mastodon in many ways.

@5harath @TransistorFM It looks like @ApplePodcasts supports it:
https://podcasters.apple.com/support/2482-using-chapters-on-apple-podcasts

@p_millerd @TransistorFM A few off the top of my head:

- @OvercastFM
- @pocketcasts
- @PodcastAddict

@ianlandsman I hope these wild requests from Elon aren’t actually a “canary trap”

https://twitter.com/ElectronComm/status/1593651293469691904

@derrickreimer As CEO of Tesla, he also has a duty to Tesla shareholders to maximize share value.

My guess he’ll “leave” Twitter shortly (with a bare-bones team in place).

@harsh_vardhhan Nah. It was a @hankgreen joke 😜

@rachelandrew I’m @mijustin@mastodon.social on 🐘

Would love to connect with you there too!

@mijustin" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@mijustin

@AlbanBrooke Also:

(It’s actually really fun there) https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1593449029601734656

@AlbanBrooke just in case 🤞

@panphora Thx 🙏 https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1593449029601734656

@JustinFineberg that elon avatar tho

@dohertyjf Yup! The indie podcasters/bloggers I've seen actually earn revenue use a mixture of these tactics:

https://transistor.fm/make-money-podcasting/

As mentioned in the thread, affiliates have been a good one for me in the past as well. We have a nice program here:

https://transistor.fm/affiliates

@petecodes 🤣🤣🤣 so good

@EmmettNaughton Sending you and the fam lots of ❤️

@chrisfosterelli I actually really like that jacket

@sanderfish Haha. Oh that looks fun.

@yongfook I think it's pretty good!

@chrismoye_esq Thanks!

@davidfuesser @DarrenShaw_ How do we actually know usage is up?

(Aside from what Elon is telling us)

Any verified sources on that?

Also, how do you know nobody has left?

@petersuhm We don’t know what % of advertising revenue Twitter has lost (advertisers have reportedly been pausing campaigns since April, when the deal was announced).

At his Nov 10 meeting (after layoffs) Elon told remaining employees that “the economic picture ahead is dire.”

Good analysis on Twitter’s debt situation.

(These are estimates, but show you the variables at play) https://twitter.com/EnergyCredit1/status/1591873061149614106

@davorminchorov I've compiled all of the events so far to help folks see the full picture:

https://justinjackson.ca/is-twitter-done

@ryanseanbadger @Apple Yup. This new one looks a bit better in that regard?

(I still have the old Apple TV)

@jeffSARRIS @Stoniphantom @TransistorFM Thanks so much for using Transistor, Jeff!

Means a lot to a small indie team like us.🥰

@raae @Ad4mWood @philhawksworth Mastodon gives every user profile an RSS feed as well:

@mijustin.rss" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@mijustin.rss

@mattwensing Happy birthday 🎉

@_duncanmcclean I’ll invite you

@misterparker @kylegawley @itsurboyevan Search-based advertising is a lot different than social. (Intent based)

Reddit hasn’t ever been profitable:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4477033-reddit-unprofitable-despite-growth

@finereli Have you read Incredible Doom yet? https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1569120509455138817

@finereli YES! I was a BBS kid. 😊

@ianlandsman "During the event, Wheeler tried to get Musk to talk about brand safety and content moderation, but he mostly only wanted to discuss product."

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/10/twitter-loses-two-more-top-executives

It seems to be confirmed now that the two execs on yesterday's Spaces call with Elon have left Twitter.

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/10/twitter-loses-two-more-top-executives

Listen to that audio again: this was a last-ditch effort to save Twitter's advertising business.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGlabMNOgJL?s=20

@noahwbragg They were the two primary people on the Spaces call with Elon yesterday.

@mjwhansen I'm @mijustin@mastodon.social

@mijustin" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@mijustin

@davenguyencode 🥰 Join my newsletter as well!

http://justinjackson.ca/newsletter

@jamesjgill @DescriptApp @TransistorFM Love the topic/mission of this! Subscribed!

@mattwensing Yup!

We’ll also have to see how much advertising $$ they’ve lost.

@freekmurze Thanks Freek! I appreciate you sharing it. ❤️

@jessethanley @aplusk Got it.

I hope you're not accusing me of tweeting about this stuff to "chase growth" because it most assuredly makes me lose followers. 🤣

I tweet maybe 1-2x /mth about climate change, and it always results in lower engagement than "biz tweets."

I do it because I'm concerned.

@ArqNunoAntunes There's a comic for that! 😉

I understand the desire to avoid negative feelings: the inner lives of humans are already fraught; grappling with more can feel overwhelming.

However, it's better to face those feelings. Ignorance may be bliss for a short while, but the repercussions catch up with you.

/6

@CasJam @ianlandsman Once you get used to it, it's actually pretty fun.

@jwbaldwin @JackEllis Folks point to Musk and his previous successes with Tesla, Space X...

But even massively successful companies like Apple (Ping) and Google (Google+ and Buzz) have tried and failed.

FB had a hit with Instagram's acquisition but hasn't been able to make WhatsApp profitable.

@JackEllis My point is these businesses are really difficult to run.

Even Apple (Ping) and Google (Google+ and Buzz) failed; despite all of their resources, acumen, and success in other categories.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/01/itunes-ping-launched-10-years-ago-today/

@valsopi It all depends who you’re polling. 😉

(@robfitz would remind us that people will frequently say they’ll pay for something, but not follow that up with action)

@MattGiovanisci Google + YouTube

@taylorotwell 👀

@stephenrobles @tedhosmann These are great!

Most of my photos were from the past 1-2 years I think.

@MJB_SF Not the real Elon

@itsurboyevan Really good analysis Evan!

How do you think a "reimagined feed" would incentivize creator behavior?

What so many of us love here on Twitter is all the value we're capturing (as creators).

@shaisc Lots of things worth worrying about.👍

If I find a skin spot that looks like cancer, it's worth worrying about enough that I seek treatment.

If the climate crisis is causing massive fires in my town, it's worth worrying about enough that I act (and galvanize others too as well)

@benjihyam @TransistorFM Nice! 🎉

Thanks for using Transistor. 🥰

@rbluethl @philosopher1923 Thanks for the kind words. 🥰

Writing a longer piece on this right now.

@secos @Shpigford @levelsio @elonmusk ☝️ this. There’s nothing “bad” about pushing back on an idea.

I don’t think the ethos being described here applies to most of Elon’s work

(and I don’t think that ethos will work particularly well for something as big and complex as Twitter)

Probably works for small projects 👍

@phuctm97 @queue_so Nice work! 🍻

@JoelKlettke It’s really wonderful. 🥰

@5harath This was a good one! 🙌

@jessethanley @aarondfrancis I've unsubbed to Blue multiple times because it hasn't proven valuable enough.

(I most recently resubbed so I could fix a typo in a tweet)

But unsubscribing from Blue previously just meant I'd lose a few features.

It's Ok that I don't want to pay (ongoing) for verification.

@jessethanley @aarondfrancis Originally it was $20/month.

Then he replied to King? "what about $8?"

I'll probably continue to pay for Blue so that I won't be impersonated on Twitter? 🤷‍♂️

The form doesn't match the function here.

All of this feels desperate (and won't solve Twitter's money problems).

@mjwhansen It's interesting to read this critique of Volker: that he didn't stick to his guns and lowered the federal funds rate (by 7 percentage points) too early.

https://www.ft.com/content/45ab5a45-6f32-49b3-be5d-9193071de970

@jonrojas I’m not sure the “majority of Twitter users” are using Twitter as a promotional tool.

Lots of users outside our bubble who use it just to chat, gossip, catch up on news, follow interesting people.

@Shpigford The underlying problem (for Elon, and his new team) is this isn’t fantasy baseball.

He acquired a terrible business. Twitter is a money-losing machine. Social has tons of other inherent problems.

This “throw shit at the wall” approach isn’t strategy for them; it’s desperation.

@kylegawley My friends who have way more followers and engagement than me aren’t verified.

@mattwensing Do you have a source for that number?

I'm always interested in quantifying this stuff.

The "there are 5 million PHP devs" figure gets thrown around a lot, but I've never been able to find an authoritative source.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/810520047747813376

@wassimdotco That’s not true.

You could still, foreseeably, have economic growth and reduce emissions.

Some sectors (like oil and gas) would be adversely affected, but other sectors (carbon capture) could thrive.

@r00k @tuple @daringfireball 👀 eager to hear about this. I’ve considered it a few times but I’ve never pulled the trigger!

@adamdavidson Perhaps relevant to a present-day innovator/businessman/celebrity?

When you discussed jobs of the past (that involved back-breaking labor) and jobs of the present (humans as micro-controller) it seems like trade work involves both of these features, but there’s been very little technological replacement of this type of work.

3/x

@jamesm @adamwathan Y’all seeing a movie or just eating the snacks? 😄

@thedigitalyenta I would check the podcast search engines listed here:

https://transistor.fm/podcast-search/

- Listen Notes
- Podchaser

are both good general purpose podcast search engines.

@ericsandy Be sure to watch the follow-up video:

https://youtu.be/L1xH0rVRFRI

@freekmurze Congrats! Upvoted on @ProductHunt! 🙌

@TheOmarZenhom @TransistorFM More details here: https://justinjackson.ca/team-retreat

@NicolasHoferer As long as they’re hosted on @TransistorFM, I’m happy. 😉

@janetacarr 🤣

(Wait... are you an AI? 😳)

@thethoughtcard @WOCPodcasters @Afros_and_Audio @GirlGetVisible Love this photo!

@abhinavsohani @PaddleHQ Stripe: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
Paddle: 5% + $0.50 per transaction

The annual cost to be on Paddle would be significantly more than Stripe + annual compliance costs. 😞

@anthilemoon @JurassicWorld Wow! 😮

I want to go!

@AlbanBrooke @jonbuda @TransistorFM Yes! 🙌

@julianweisser @every It’s great!

@FarisZacina THIS

@nbashaw VCs chasing that AI scent...

@chrisbowler Folks were free to go to bed whenever!

The only mandatory thing you really had to be at each day was the group discussion at 11am.