And twitter hasn't launched one single meaningful anything since.
If your definition of success is 'let's keep the codebase running and make sure servers don't go bust' then yes twitter is doing great with fewer people
> And twitter hasn't launched one single meaningful anything since.
Longer tweets? Analytics? Premium? Grok? AI autogenerated news summaries? Livestreaming? I honestly have a harder time trying to think of features launched between 2011 and 2022, besides spaces.
(He later doubled down on the decision to erase any mention of the racial segregation black US soldiers were submitted to while serving in the army during WWII.)
Pinterest is such a fascinating product. I've tried to use it a few times over the many years the product has been out. Never ever saw a point of sticking around. Constantly getting annoyed at some Google search pinterest links and that's about it.
With AI now filling it up, I completely fathom to understand what this is good for
Completely arrested? I don't. But it appears to be arrested in ways that matter for mental acuity, for now. I've taken care of a parent with Alzheimer's, and helped several other caregivers over the years with their own family's journeys, and one thing I can tell you is that I have never, ever seen an actual halting of the progression for this long. The descent is usually a stairstep pattern, but the steps are on the matter of weeks to a month or two. My friend has been stable for a year.
This is all new. There is research hinting at Alzheimer's subtypes, some of which are more likely to respond than others. Even halting the decline is a huge potential breakthrough.
That's 4–6 months in the 18 months the trials lasted for, i.e. about a 30% slowdown of progression. The open-label extensions suggest this relative slowdown seems to continue at least to the 4-year mark (at which point it would have bought you over a year of time): https://www.alzforum.org/news/conference-coverage/signs-last...
Time will tell if the 30% slowdown continues beyond four years, and/or if earlier treatment with more effective amyloid clearance from newer drugs has greater effects. The science suggests it should.
The way I’ve watched Alzheimer’s work in a family member is that it’s a step down function rather than gradual. And once something is lost, it doesn’t come back. So anything that can delay the next step even just for months is a win right now.
What a shit name
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