“Swisher’s memoir, #BurnBook, (yes, it’s a reference to the classic teen film, Mean Girls) was released early last year in the US, but in light of what’s going on in America now, it’s more pertinent than ever.

While it’s a memoir of Swisher’s career as a #journalist who was practically embedded in Silicon Valley from the industry’s earliest days (with a contact book that featured everyone from #SteveJobs to #Musk), Burn Book also offers insights into the entrepreneurs and investors, and the backstories behind companies including #Amazon, #Yahoo and #Google, notably detailing the dysfunctional tech bros behind the scenes. She’s regarded as Silicon Valley’s “most feared” but also “most liked” journalist.

Burn Book is also, Swisher says, “a warning, in many ways” of what’s happening in the US now.

And just what the hell is going on? “It’s a constitutional crisis – that’s what we’re calling it here,” Swisher says.

She is shocked by Musk’s new role.”

Bugger I missed Kara talking at my Alma Mater, guess this article and the book will do.

#KaraSwisher / #startup / #SiliconValley <https://smh.com.au/culture/books/kara-swisher-on-tech-s-sad-little-victimised-arrested-development-men-20250224-p5leny.html> #PayWall

Leider #Paywall

#journalism #press #meme #mamema #memes #paywall

wann lernt Ihr und alle anderen es, Artikel hinter einer #paywall kenntlich zu machen? 😠

CNN sending our subscription marketing emails so you can read their articles behind the CNN #Paywall, which includes fact checking. $3.99 per month, $29.99 per year. You would think a news service would include fact checking as a standard service and not an add-on. #journalism #enshittification #profit

This is the first marketing email I have received from #CNN in a long, long time, if ever.

"Why do I have to pay to read articles on CNN?
Users get a limited number of articles for free, but subscribers get unlimited articles and bonus content. By subscribing, you also help support the trusted journalism you rely on daily."

sorry, #paywall inzwischen

Versuch das iwi zusammenzufassen:

- die #USA wenden aktuell bereits 3,5 % des #BIP allein für #Zinszahlungen auf

- mehr oder weniger nur noch die #FED hat zuletzt US-#Staatsanleihen gekauft, und das stellt sie jetzt auch ein

- #Trump wird versuchen seine #Steuersenkungen für #DieReichen über #Kredite zu finanzieren

- #Musk kann nie & nimmer so viel Geld "einsparen" (das Staat & Armen wegnehmen)

- internationale #Investor_innen werden das Vertrauen verlieren

🫡 🇺🇲

Hey #Science Bubble.
Nature hat hier (hinter einer #Paywall) die Frage gestellt, wie toll Bluesky nach der Flucht von Xitter ist:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00037-y

Die Umfrage selber kann man hier auch ohne Paywall durchführen:
https://static-enhanced-content-live.storage.googleapis.com/interactive/2025/bluesky-poll/index.html

Eventuell will ja jemand in die Freitextfelder scheiben, wie schön wir es hier im Fedi haben. :)

#academicChatter

What's with people complaining that #journalism is behind a #paywall?
Do these people say anything about #music or #films behind a paywall?

(#Spotify #Netflix #Max #Tidal #Paramount #Deezer #Wired)

Links to lot of paywalled articles are trending in the #fediverse recently.

I would be nice to be able either to start using some hashtags, when linking to paywalled #media, like:

#paywall or #paywalled

or maybe to have chance to store database of paywalled URLs on each instance and give users chance to display some warning or even slightly hide the paywalled links.

Obviously, no one of us will ever have accounts on ALL paywalled media, home or foreign, and I also don't really remember which huge media sites are paywalled and which not. So adding some automation and integrating database of paywalled sites into Mastodon would save me quite some time...