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Mark Allen
@markallen.io

This is the same guy who, when Louis CK was trying to rehab his image with a self-released standup special, spent more time writing about how the video supported AirPlay than asking if we should be giving Louis attention. A strong moral compass was never part of the Daring Fireball brand.

John Gruber@gruber.foo

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

daringfireball.netX Once Again Marks the SpotIf you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.
Mark Allen
@markallen.io

Also his takes outside of the narrowly defined space of Apple products are almost universally bad. His LLM watermarking ones being the most recent example.

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Mark Allen
@markallen.io

Gruber (and all of us) would be well-served by applying Sartre's "eye of the least favoured" test here, at least as a thought exercise. Is X really a better place now for marginalized people than it was pre-Elon? If not, should you be there? bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Allen@markallen.io

I learned about this concept in Sarah Bakewell’s excellent book At the Existentialist Café. Her interpretation: