363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/23/22
•135m
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Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell to score Taylor Swift tickets.
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Links:
- Christina Warren on Twitter, a website that still exists at this writing.
- Bob Iger returns to Disney as CEO.
- Yours truly: “Twitter Tumult”.
- Elon Musk asks engineers for weekly emails with code screenshots.
- Vice: “Twitter Employees on Visas Can’t Just Quit”.
- Disney books:
- Disney War, by James B. Stewart — “The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.”
- Walt Disney, by Neal Gabler — “The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.”
- Speaking of James B. Stewart, his recent epic story on AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition for The New York Times: “Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?”.
- Puck — excellent new subscription Hollywood/media/Silicon Valley news site.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash
November 18, 2022
•134m
Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.
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Links:
- “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
- Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
- Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
- Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
- Glitch.
- The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
- Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
- Anil’s blog.
- Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz
November 30, 2022
•141m
Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.
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Links:
- iPhone 14 production hit by Chinese protests.
- Me, on Twitter-Apple drama and Musk baiting Tim Cook.
- The Washington Post: Musk claims Apple threatens to remove Twitter from App Store.
- WSJ: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
- Macstodon: Mastodon Mac client for 68K Macs.
- “Sleep Baseball” podcast.
- Tim Cook’s gag tweet sent minutes before the start of the 2018 event introducing the iPhone XS and XR.
- Fedifinder.
- “The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime.
- “1899” on Netflix.
- “Dark” — from the creators of “1899”.
- “Andor” on Disney+.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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