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NYT tech reporter. msnbc contributor. my book on Uber for out 9/3/19. preorder below! Mike.Isaac@nytimes.com or mjisaac@protonmail.com.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 26

    hi everyone... after 18 months of reporting and writing, i am thrilled to present to you my book: “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” — coming to shelves Sept. 3rd. Available now for pre-order:

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  2. 6 hours ago

    i promised myself i wouldnt get in any fights this week and i failed before 9am

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    6 hours ago
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    Paul built an accelerator that he located next to Stanford and MIT. It’s not that anyone can’t start a startup, but even he implicitly acknowledges that privilege disproportionately predicts that you will start one VCs will fund to IPO.

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    6 hours ago

    Homelessness surges in San Francisco while tech's richest grow richer

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  5. 15 hours ago

    salt, fat, acid, twete — a memoir

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    20 hours ago
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    This happens at a lot of companies. One dude passed out at the Google sales conference years ago and did a #2 in the hotel hallway. Everyone started calling him the Poogler, and he resigned a few weeks later.

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  7. 22 hours ago

    good god what is it about *some* uber employees that they cant keep it together the moment booze enters the picture youre rich! youve already won! have some tonic water ffs

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  8. 23 hours ago

    strong first single after a decade-long hiatus

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    May 18

    In San Francisco, an attack on press freedoms and echoes of autocracy | By for

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  10. May 18

    rainy day writing: facebook and the impermanent internet

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  11. May 17

    im millennial

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  12. May 17

    so now that the IPO went awry — the whole reason they brought Dara in in the first place (other than to settle the drama), the onus is on the CEO to prove Uber’s best years are still ahead of it

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  13. May 17

    the upshot, to me, is that while FB continues to make advances in AI and how that can serve content moderation, There are very severe limits and it is not a salvo Image recognition is one thing. But How can computers keep up with the ever evolving whims of language and context?

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  14. May 17

    earlier this year, I was thinking a lot about Facebook‘s proposed solution to content problems, which FB answered by a repeated phrase: Artificial Intelligence me and did a profile of FB’s CTO, but the story is really about the limits of AI

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    May 17

    In March, when an Australian man shot and killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, he live streamed the attack on Facebook. A week later, and I asked Facebook's chief technology officer about the video:

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    May 17

    Mark Zuckerberg has said A.I. can solve Facebook's toxic content problems. For months, we've tried to ascertain the limits of that promise. Now Facebook's CTO tells that even with A.I., toxic posts are "never going to go to zero."

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  17. May 16

    🧛‍♂️

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  18. May 16

    ran into some uber execs today as i was downtown near the civic center, in my gym clothes, holding an ice cream cone in the rain at 11 o'clock in the morning they definitely respect me

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  19. May 16

    finally, sanity

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    May 16

    Today is a sad day. Federal homeless counts, done once every other year, all across the Bay Area have reached staggering highs. At more than 8,000 people, San Francisco now has the highest numbers since the Willie Brown-era, or right around when took office.

    San Francisco's homeless count swells by 17% in two years. Tops 8,000 for the first time in 15 years. "I can make no excuses. These numbers are bad and we have to own that." -- . Eye-opening story from .
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  21. May 16

    i hate it here

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