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putin, I'm going to #sleep. As I lay here #immobile and in my #dream #world, where I would normally have fun, I will dream of your end. I will dream of you promptly exiting a #spaceship directly into a #blackhole. I will dream of your #carcass #disintegrating slowly in the #gravitational tidal #waves.

I will dream of George Carlin's perfect #Payperview show about your #upsidedown #crucifixion and #trebuchet of your #disfigured #head on to a #concrete wall...for points! You suck #putin!

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@indieauthornews

I don't think he is any unique savior. Post.News is already doing this, just as one example.

Not to mention advertising-based publishing is soon threatened by big upcoming changes in search.
forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/202

I actually DO think this is a big issue, I just think inflating Musk's already bloated ego by suggesting he is somehow showing the way or saving the day is not a good approach to talking about it. It sidetracks into hot button personality issues and misses the ubiquity of the scope and the number of other players exploring this.

See also some notes (at links below) that I wrote at post.news before I stopped blogging there about a different way to think about micropayments. (TL;DR Direct pay per article in advance is problematic. I'd rather pay ahead into a pool that later gets divvied out by formula tracking my use frequency and my decisions to highlight articles I ended up valuing.)

See "On the Managing of Micropayments" by me on Post at post.news/@/kentpitman/2JbqCKu
and, in particular, the included post "A vision of Post subscriptions" by me on Post at post.news/@/kentpitman/2JYjq2h

ForbesGoogle Is About To Turn The Online Publishing Industry Upside DownBy Matt Novak