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YouTube video by The Verge A-lister antics and Schedule A shenanigans | The Vergecast

This is such a great example of how just giving new people a platform opens up such interesting ideas. I always like The Vergecast, and I read tons of stuff by @miasato.bsky.social + @franhoepfner.bsky.social but this lens on celebs using online platforms is brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74M...

YouTube video by The Verge A-lister antics and Schedule A shenanigans | The Vergecast

I'm hosting the Vergecast today!! 🎧 Had so much fun talking with Fran Hoepfner at Vulture about the vertical video media circuit and and @design-law.bsky.social about This One Weird Trick for IP enforcement online. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74M...

In 2022, I was obsessed with a song called "Sneakers" from an unknown artist I found on TikTok. This year, I hung out with that artist on the first day of his first headlining tour — and wrote about Knox's thoroughly modern path to rock stardom www.theverge.com/music/701539...

Time for a summer of parental leave! I am deleting social apps, I have declared email bankruptcy, be nice to each other, see you in a while

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

Sure, you've read about people falling in love with AI. This story takes that to a whole new level...and is hilarious, thoughtful, and dystopian, all at the same time.

It's hard to pick a fave character, but gonna go with Eva, an absolute chaos monster of AI romance.

www.wired.com/story/couple...

Oh no! DM me your email, I’ll get it fixed

Sure sure sure whatever whatever can I tell you about this new app I've been trying

This definitely looks like some other issue… you’re in safari, right? I’ll send this to the team

Listen, every once in a while I’m right about something

OMG this is amazing, thank you for sharing it! I have to look into this for sure

This is EXACTLY what I'm looking for!

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Will check it out!

Oh I agree! And you’re probably right about the form… if you want to try and convince her, lmk, she hears me talk about notes apps and just glazes over

Yeah, also requires convincing my wife to use notion. Which ain’t happening

My hazy memory of the last kid was that the doctor wanted to know, like, a LOT of this information in the first couple of months — we ended up doing it for longer than that before realizing it was totally pointless

Last baby: annoyingly complicated spreadsheet for tracking poops and feeding

This baby: vibe-coded a tracker, AI is good sometimes

Ah, fuck

I feel like if the president is allowed to say fuck, we're all allowed to say fuck, you know? Fuck

The US Supreme Court rules that there is no law and there is no constitution

It was early in the week, cutting through the night not yet advisable

Nah I think we’re way more likely to just get a watch without one

I am so sure I’m dead last on the list at this point

Spectacular, give me 14 of them

Extremely good switch spot! (Hope everything is okay!)

I think the most important question in AI, the one we should have asked more often about phones and social media and so much more too, is not “does it work” but “DO WE WANT THIS”

A picture of my stupid face looking sort of like I'm about to sneeze

One nice thing about doing more video podcasts is how cool and great and normal I always look in the thumbnails

Thanks for calling in! Was a super fun one

Ah good to know! I feel better not buying it now, even though it’s super adorable

The new version is so fun!