retro
Nokia’s Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had
The Nokia Design Archive contains thousands of designs, pitch decks, presentations and prototypes from the turn of the millennium.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: The TikTok Ban and Joyless AI
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss joylessness in the AI industry and the TikTok ban.
Opting Out of Gmail's Gemini AI Summaries Is a Mess. Here's How to Do It, We Think
On Wednesday, Google pushed various Gemini capabilities to business and enterprise customers, including the ability to summarize the contents of emails.
TikTok
Donald Trump Has Mark Zuckerberg By the Balls
A TikTok ban is a massive prize that Zuckerberg has been laying the groundwork on for years. Will Trump let him have it?
retro
Nokia’s Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had
The Nokia Design Archive contains thousands of designs, pitch decks, presentations and prototypes from the turn of the millennium.
News
Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations
Multiple experts drew comparisons between Meta's recent changes around immigration and what happened in Myanmar in 2017, where Facebook contributed to a genocide by allowing the spread of hate.
News
Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
FTC
FTC Sues John Deere Over Its Repair Monopoly
Deere "has illegally restricted the ability of farmers and independent technicians to repair Deere equipment, including tractors and combines."
avn
Porn Performers Conflicted Over Crossing the Picket Line to Attend AVN
Porn workers joined hospitality workers to march down the Las Vegas strip, as the adult industry prepares for its biggest event of the year.
Podcast
Podcast: Total Chaos at Meta
Employees inside Meta threatening to quit over the recent speech policy changes; thousands of apps hijacked to steal your location data; and lots of stories around the LA fires.
News
Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic
A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.
FOIA
Our New FOIA Forum! 1/23, 1PM EST
Come learn how to pry government records from the new Trump administration.
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."