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Archives for October 2024

Apple’s Disclaimer uses sex and scandal to shape your perception of reality

Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer is a gripping erotic thriller about the power stories have over us.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
WoW, that’s a novel way to attract young Democratic voters.

The latest tactic in Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign feels directly inspired by TikTok’s Subway Surfers attention stimulation gimmick.

Tim Walz’s Arizona rally yesterday was broadcast on the campaign’s Twitch account in a split-screen view, with commentary and live World of Warcraft gameplay provided by streamer Preheat playing alongside it.

A screenshot taken of Tim Walz’s Arizona rally being livestreamed to Twitch.
For folks who want some raids to accompany their rallies.
Image: Twitch / Kamala Harris Campaign
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
That was fast.

Applications for Nintendo’s mysterious online playtest filled up basically instantly. In our Slack, we were seeing that Nintendo reached its limit of 10,000 participants within a minute of opening at 11AM ET.

If you were trying to get in, hope you were one of the lucky ones!

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
AI is enabling job seekers to think like spammers.

With so many job applications now being reviewed by automated AI software, it’s little wonder some people have embraced using bots like AI Hawk to apply to thousands of roles on their behalf.

AI Hawk co-founder Federico Elia told 404 Media that he created the project to “balance the use of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process” and help re-level the playing field.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Meteorologists are getting misinformation-fueled death threats.

Rolling Stone reports that just like FEMA, meteorologists are dealing with more pushback than they’re used to — one is quoted saying “ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream.”

CBS Morning meteorologist Katie Nickolaou also tweeted one example of what she’s seeing (below).

The impossible dream of good workplace software

Can AI actually change our love-hate relationship with our tools?

Nilay Patel
Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
“Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world extends far beyond WordPress,”

writes David Heinemeier Hansson, the CTO at 37signals and creator of the open-source framework Ruby on Rails.

DHH says it “occasionally irks” him to see companies failing to contribute to Ruby on Rails, but that’s the rules:

None of the major licenses, however, say anything close to “it’s free but only until the project owners deem you too successful and then you’ll have to pay 8% of your revenues to support the project”. That’s a completely bonkers and arbitrary standard based in the rule of spite, not law.

Garmin Fenix 8 review: only kind of smart

7

Verge Score

The Fenix 8 adds smarter features, but they don’t quite make up for the price hike or lack of LTE.

Victoria Song
The best deals you can grab before October Prime Day ends

Some deals are gone, but you still have time this week to save big on some of our favorite gadgets and goods.

Sheena Vasani, Quentyn Kennemer and 1 more