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Ryan Mac 🙃
@rmac.bsky.social
NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit

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ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com

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Hello to the new followers and folks here. I'm a tech reporter for the NYT. It's going to be an interesting time to report on tech, and more specifically Elon Musk as he extends his power into the White House.

If you work or have worked for him and want to reach me, hit me up on Signal at rmac.18.
you can tell when musk is mad when he 1) uses the 🤣 emoji or 2) goes on a tweet rampage where he mentions the person he's mad at multiple times.

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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
97 percent chance Zohran just cussed out Dan Ballard
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What Mikel gave the boys at half
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ANNE HATHAWAY JUST SCREAMED
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Wowoowwoowowowoowowowokww
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not sure how to explain it but that Spurs United result is both very spurs and very united
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I didn’t go to business school can someone tell me if this is bad
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”

That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
this is like the third or fourth iteration of the James Damore situation at Google and it's interesting how consistently it happens at the company www.theinformation.com/articles/goo...
Google’s $2.7 Billion AI Hire Tests Company’s Speech Limits With Inflammatory Posts
This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company’s internal discussion forums, in response to a post about how Google employees could support their transgender and non...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time."

This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There are a few ways to look at Musk's $1 tril pay package. Yes, there are a lot of milestones he has to hit to get it.

But in a world where Musk's net worth already floats around $500 bil, and where he's bought a whole public co and financed a presidency, imagine what would happen if he does...
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Musk just called his robot program, Optimus, "an infinite money glitch" for the wealth it will bring Tesla and urges his shareholders to hold on to their Tesla stock.

One way or the other, we'll likely revisit this quote in the future.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Musk gets his $1 trillion compensation package approved by Tesla shareholders.

Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The polls are now open at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting.
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"this is not about compensation" says the man who made sure he had a guaranteed sale price for his twitter shares when he pledged them to musk's twitter takeover
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Cashier: Welcome to Pret, what can I get you?

Me: I'm an Arsenal fan.
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm a little worried he's leaning into this a bit much, but at the same time he's acting exactly as I would if I got incredibly famous overnight
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
realizing there's a nonzero chance Mamdani watched Max Dowman become the youngest every CL player on his phone while canvassing on his way to the mayorship
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
when I think I do a good skeet
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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thanks, dad
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Mikel Merino isn't the step father. He's the father who stepped up.
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
oh ok case closed then
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
when you definitely, absolutely, 100% don't know a guy's name
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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They did not.

No one coulda not predicted.

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There are already too many videos of Waymo robots not dodging Dodgers celebrations last night to detail or post, here's a thread w samples. These are different robots AFAICT. Did Waymo bet the bums would lose?

OP: tiktok.xavuirs
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Me tonight
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I hope they turn Waymo off in LA…
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM