kate conger
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co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
lunch vindicated is pretty good
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
lunch vindicated is pretty good
we got a toy :) bsky.app/profile/kate...
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
we got a toy :) bsky.app/profile/kate...
I’ve never been more invested in VC twitter tbh
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I’ve never been more invested in VC twitter tbh
lol if you saw my mistakes, no you didn’t
November 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
lol if you saw my mistakes, no you didn’t
this are my confessions
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
this are my confessions
I do find the giant photo really funny, like a new character has entered the chat
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I do find the giant photo really funny, like a new character has entered the chat
I dunno if you sought comment from Sherman but I kinda think she would love this
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I dunno if you sought comment from Sherman but I kinda think she would love this
I wrote about all this and how Wikipedia is getting squeezed by the AI industry generally if you’re interested www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I wrote about all this and how Wikipedia is getting squeezed by the AI industry generally if you’re interested www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
Another big Musk gripe: His relationship with former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who recently settled his severance lawsuit against Musk. Agrawal's wiki is a basic overview. His Grokipedia is a play-by-play of Musk's fights with him.
![Disputes over bot accounts and platform transparency
During Elon Musk's attempted acquisition of Twitter in 2022, Parag Agrawal faced significant scrutiny over the platform's estimates of fake and spam accounts, which Twitter reported as comprising less than 5% of its monetizable daily active users (mDAU).[50] In a detailed Twitter thread on May 16, 2022, Agrawal defended the methodology, explaining that Twitter employed a multi-step process including human reviews, machine learning models, and behavioral analysis to identify spam, while suspending over 500,000 such accounts daily before they became visible to users.[51] He emphasized that the <5% figure represented a conservative upper bound for undetected spam within mDAU, excluding accounts already proactively removed, and noted quarterly refinements to the estimation model based on internal data.[52]
Musk publicly contested these claims, estimating that fake and spam accounts could exceed 20% of users—potentially far higher—and argued that Twitter's SEC filings, which relied on the <5% assertion, undermined the $44 billion deal's valuation.[53] He dismissed Agrawal's explanation with a poop emoji in response, demanding independent verification and later seeking access to Twitter's full "firehose" of raw user data to audit bots personally, a request Twitter partially denied citing privacy risks and tool limitations.[54] [55] In August 2022, Musk escalated by challenging Agrawal to a public debate on the bot percentage, asserting that proving the <5% claim would resolve the issue.[56]
Agrawal maintained that Twitter's anti-spam efforts were robust, reporting in July 2022 that the platform suspended approximately 1 million spam accounts daily amid ongoing enforcement.[57] However, external analyses cast doubt on the figures; a June 2022 GlobalData study concluded that about 10% of Twitter's active accounts engaged in spamming behavior, exceeding the company's estimate.[58] Further complicating transparency, Twitter…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5siz7r23475fek2mj6p5zhzw/bafkreihp6oobccn7qyomqwf23ffpdpx6ioloei532b3woptudtbud7muz4@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Another big Musk gripe: His relationship with former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who recently settled his severance lawsuit against Musk. Agrawal's wiki is a basic overview. His Grokipedia is a play-by-play of Musk's fights with him.
getting LLMs to say what you want them to is harder than it appears dot gif
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
getting LLMs to say what you want them to is harder than it appears dot gif