With Elon Musk seemingly on the verge of owning Twitter, the platform’s having a bit of a nostalgia moment, remembering all the Good Tweets that once were. This prompt from Ben Collins brought in thousands of responses, and you should really just stop working and read every single one.
iPads: they’re complicated! We got into the weeds on which one you should buy, how you should use it, and why Apple seems so confused about its future. Also: what cryptozoologists think about cryptocurrency, and the surprising stuff they have in common.
You could make a pretty compelling case that the whole NFT/Web3/all-blockchain-everything craze wouldn’t have happened at all without Andreessen Horowitz’s money. It funded seemingly everything in the space over the last couple of years. And it’s, uh, not going so hot!
Just please bring me along so I can also ask executives a lot of questions about HDR, Dolby Vision, and why it’s so hard for us to have nice things with names that make sense.
Altimeter Capital’s Brad Gerstner also told Mark Zuckerberg he should slash headcount and start caring about Facebook again:
Meta’s investment in the metaverse, while smaller than the AI investment, has gotten the most attention and has led to much confusion. Perhaps it was the re-naming of the company to Meta that caused the world to conclude that you were spending 100% of your time on Reality Labs instead of AI or the core business.
Every week is Cybersecurity Week, y’all! We spent an hour answering your Vergecast Hotline questions (866-VERGE11, keep ‘em coming) on all things passwords, VPNs, baby security, and bad websites. We also accidentally learned too much about random number generators.
If you don’t watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and listen to The Always Sunny Podcast, you should. But no matter what you should watch this long story (starting about 3:51) about Glenn Howerton’s insane and terrible experience just trying to get into his Tesla. Buttons, people! Buttons!
