Jean Baudrillard (UK: /ˈboʊdrɪjɑːr/ BOHD-rih-yar,[13] US: /ˌboʊdriˈɑːr/ BOHD-ree-AR, French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as simulation and hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, gender relations, critique of economy, economics, social history, art, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.[14][15][16][17] Nevertheless, Baudrillard can be also seen as a critic of post-structuralism[18] and has distanced himself from postmodernism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time (cf consensus reality) . Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving force behind popular culture is mass appeal, and it is produced by what cultural analyst Theodor Adorno refers to as the "culture industry".[1] Heavily influenced in modern times by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.[2] However, there are various ways to define pop culture.[3] Because of this, popular culture is something that can be defined in a variety of conflicting ways by different people across different contexts.[4] It is generally viewed in contrast to other forms of culture such as folk cults, working-class culture, or high culture, and also through different academic perspectives such as psychoanalysis, structuralism, postmodernism, and more. The common pop-culture categories are: entertainment (such as film, music, television and video games), spectator sports, news (as in people/places in the news), politics, fashion, technology, and slang.[5] Popular culture in the West has been critiqued for its being a system of commercialism that privileges products selected and mass-marketed by the upper-class capitalist elite; such criticisms are most notable in many Marxist theorists such as Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Antonio Gramsci, Guy Debord, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton, as well as certain postmodern philosophers such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, who has written about the commercialisation of information under capitalism,[6] and Jean Baudrillard, as well as others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture

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Max Read: Elon Musk won't fix Twitter (but he won't kill it, either). It has a core of extraordinarily dedicated users, who spend hours a day creating and sharing content for the site, and yet many of those users would agree that the product is broken and the experience of using Twitter sucks ass. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover. (Musk Buys Twitter) Before and during Mr. Musk’s breakneck takeover of Twitter, a close-knit group of libertarian-leaning activists and businessmen have been encouraging him to get involved. This group includes the so-called PayPal mafia—former executives at the online payments company who include Mr. Musk, the investor Peter Thiel and entrepreneur David Sacks—as well as ancillary figures like the venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor who once served on the auto maker’s board; and Mr. Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk, a Tesla board member (more)

Let's talk about Bluesky. A couple of years ago, Twitter announced that they were working on a decentralized social media protocol. Shortly after that announcement, dead silence. Coincidentally, after Elon Musk buys 9.5% of Twitter (Musk Buys Twitter), Bluesky pops their head out, announces to the world that they're still alive, and finally detail what they're working on. 2022-04-06-BlueskyASelfauthenticatingSocialProtocol (more)

Erik Hoel: Elon Musk's Twitter and the "crisis" of scientific misinformation. (Musk Buys Twitter) Let’s say you are a psychiatrist. A good one, renowned in your field, although you aren’t a public name. At some point, you begin to suspect that there is something rotten within your discipline—a rot that goes beyond misapplications or misdiagnoses. No, something is wrong with the foundations of psychiatry itself. Particularly around depression. (more)

Bluesky: A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol. Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. (more)

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Parag Agrawal (born 21 May 1984)[1] is an Indian-American software engineer who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter. Agrawal held research internships at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research prior to joining Twitter as a software engineer in 2011.[13] In October 2017, Twitter announced the appointment of Agrawal as chief technology officer following the departure of Adam Massinger.[14] In December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Agrawal would be in charge of Project Bluesky, an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol.[15] In November 2021, Dorsey announced that he was resigning as CEO of Twitter and that Agrawal was replacing him immediately.[16][17] As CEO, Agrawal was awarded annual compensation of $1 million as well as stock compensation worth $12.5 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parag_Agrawal

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Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra (born 14 June 1969) is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014.[1][2][3] Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.... On 11 November 2015, Vic Gundotra announced on his Google+ profile[12] that he was joining AliveCor as its CEO.[13] On 17 January, 2019 it was reported that he was stepping down from AliveCor for personal reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra

Michael Leggett says I founded Google Inbox with Keith Coleman and lead design for 4 years while also managing the Gmail Design Team. The project was an amazing exploration of managing information and communication across many products. In 2012, Sundar Pichai asked us to narrow our focus to email. (more)

Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972[1][4][5]), better known as Sundar Pichai (/ˈsʊndɑːr pɪˈtʃaɪ/), is an Indian-American business executive.[6] He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google... Pichai joined Google in 2004,[8] where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010, Pichai also announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw. Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO Larry Page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

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