Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, April 7th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Shenanigans from some Elon companies.

Twitter looks like it's blocking

substack, not just links to substack, but even mentioning the name, the

word substack in some cases. Oh, and Tesla employees apparently like to view

videos from your car and share them with each other internally.

Last quarter was especially bad when it came to venture investing and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. Shenanigans. Substack is telling its writers Twitter quote

unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets from

sub-stack on Twitter.

Not great for sub-stack writers.

Twitter is maybe the main platform most sub-stack writers use to promote their work.

But wait, there's more.

Twitter seems to have disabled likes and retweets for tweets with sub-stack links as well,

so even if you're not a sub-stack writer if you tweet a link to a

sub-stack post your tweet might be hobbled. Also some people are reporting

that even tweeting the word sub-stack could affect your tweets. I guess Elon didn't take kindly to the launch of

that Twitter clone by sub-stack, quoting the verge. The issue could cause problems for

writers who want to talk about what's going on with Twitter in their newsletters or about things that are happening on the platform

While screenshots of tweets could work in some cases they're less trustworthy because they don't provide a direct link to the source.

Screenshops also won't help you if you're trying to say embed a video that someone

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