Horrifying.

Has everyone lost the plot? So little attention either to the actual war in Gaza or all this?

Some students being foolish seems minor compared to a nationwide crackdown on protest—in red states but not just.

What rights will people miss under a Trump presidency?

Facebook is serving people AI-generated images of mutilated and starving children as part of low-grade engagement scams. I don’t get how this isn’t an existential crisis for Meta, the company doesn’t appear to care. 404media.co/ai-images-of-d…

In today's edition of You May Also Like, I wrote about why two identical skirts for sale on eBay have completely different brand tags youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/instagram-re…

In the latest edition of You May Also Like, I wrote about how Instagram is building its own version of the TikTok For You page. Sign up for my (free!) newsletter here: youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/subscribe

It was refreshing to chat with Lizzie O'Leary about the TikTok ban and what it really means. I feel like I've made the same points hundreds of times at this point, and it was great to finally step back and look at what has changed over the last 4 years slate.com/podcasts/what-…

About that TikTok ban …
With ⁦Louise Matsakis⁩ and TikTok’s own Dadchats. slate.com/podcasts/what-…

SCOOP: Meituan is working to debut its food-delivery app in the Middle East with Riyadh as the first stop. Launch could come in months bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Sarah Zheng Jane Zhang Bloomberg Technology

Kind of says a lot that this is the first rule of r/Landlords

What will the impact be on creators? “This is my livelihood, this is how I am going to feed my child, this is how many people are feeding their children,” a TikTok creator told WIRED today.

Read more: wired.com/story/senate-v…

For WIRED, I wrote about how TikTok isn't the same app that Trump first tried to ban in 2020. The platform has completely transformed since then, and the implications of getting rid of it have changed too wired.com/story/senate-v…

A dose of actual sanity from Charlie Warzel: 'The case for TikTok is debatable, but the path the government has taken to determine its fate is unquestionably sloppy and short-sighted.' theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

If you add 'reddit' to the end of search terms so that you can find posts by a real person, I have bad news: AI is beginning to poison Reddit in an effort to game Google results

404media.co/ai-is-poisonin…

Begging some of y’all to check your translations before uploading videos of your conversations with Chinese people.

This one guy translated the typical “Is your hair naturally curly like that or is it permed” question asked to people with very curly hair as “is your hair

tbh Elf Bars are better designed than the Humane pin lol

this was so fun!!!