Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his political evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Donald Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o... Jan-Werner Mueller / @jwmueller-pu : “The E.U. is, as you know, regulating itself to death. And they're damaging themselves mostly, but what they're also doing is dama...
A look at Mastodon's “antiviral” design and culture, where users push back at features and behaviors that promote virality, and embrace things that add friction
for some—much better than twitter (though not for everyone) On anti-viral design https://uxdesign.cc/... Julia / @thalassa_14 : About the antiviral design of Mastodon. Tbh I'm really looking forward t...
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Mark Z...
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @markyarm , @yaso , a...
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients
AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language. Tweets: @strwbilly , @timsowula , @pomeranian99 , @carolhtucker , @giano , @funnymonkey , ...
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor
and a reminder that “Indian Ocean, Present Day” was in fact a very long time ago https://twitter.com/... Clive Thompson / @pomeranian99 : Wonderful piece by @sarahfallon in @WIRED about the guys who c...
Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level
we just don't use the ‘S’ word around here.” 🤦🏿♂ ️ https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @dhh : Holy fuck. The word dystopian is not nearly strong enough to describe the fresh hell...
Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70
the under-$100 desktop PC you didn't know you needed Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC : Raspberry Pi 400: A computer for the coronavirus age? Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Raspberry Pi 400 Is Literally a Comp...
A GPT-3 AI bot posing as a human went seemingly undetected for a week on r/AskReddit, answering one question per minute on various topics including suicide
it didn't end well Tweets: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : This is great https://twitter.com/... Clive Thompson / @pomeranian99 : A bot based on GPT-3 was answering questions on Reddit for a week, and ...
Google's new look for desktop search results blurs the lines between ads and search results, leading many critics to identify it as a dark pattern
is it a problem? [Poll] Deanna Ting / Digiday : Google's latest search results change further blurs what's an ad Doug Turnbull / OpenSource Connections : Opening up search is an ethical imperative Nat...