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🐱🇺🇸 Memes for President

Mike Bloomberg’s late entry into the race for the Democratic nomination wasn’t why he was the talk of the Twitter town. It was his meme game. Bloomberg hiring the top meme accounts to post seemingly embarrassing screenshots of chats has to be one of most massive acts of self-deprecation in political (world?) history.

💀👼 HQ Trivia Is Dead. Long Live HQ

Remember HQ Trivia, the viral trivia gameshow that garnered hundreds of thousands of concurrent players at its peak? After a series of tragic and unfortunate events including the death of the former CEO and a mutiny against the new CEO coupled with declining user growth, the company decided to call it quits:

SKKRRRRRRTTTTT…. (that’s a record scratch sound). Turns out HQ isn’t dead after all?

Maybe this was all just a scheme to drive usage?

📖🤓The future of education

I’ve become increasingly convinced that my children won’t be going through the same education system that I did. David Percell paints a picture of what that could look like.

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ What’s Facebook’s responsibility?

Partners at YC and Founders Fund, among others, partake in the age old debate of social media company’s level of responsibility for the awful shit on their platforms.

💰🤑Show me the money

Heather Doshay who did doctoral research on salary negotiation and comp strategy at two distributed tech companies shares her thoughts on comp amidst a huge debate on the subject that was spurred by people sharing their comp openly.

⚔️🔥Tech vs Media

Balaji caught a lot of heat from the journalism community for calling out a bad narrative in a story in the context of a larger trend of unnecessary hit pieces against tech companies. Balaji responds to the blowback by fact checking the offending journalist’s piece to shreds.

Kara Swisher, former editor of Recode (the offending publication) responds:

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