Including some breaking, mid-podcast Elon news! It’s been a busy week, and we got into all of it. Including the deep, deep disappointment we all felt upon hearing Chris Pratt’s Mario voice.
The latest installment comes from Kashmir Hill at The New York Times, who had some interesting and deeply weird times in Meta’s (not very good) Horizon platform:
“Oh, that’s me. I sleep in my headset,” said Sam, a redhead in a blazer, one night in the Soapstone. “Imagine waking up in the most amazing place in the universe.”
[The New York Times]
Google has been right about wearables for nearly a decade. Now, the company swears it’s serious about them, too.
Come check out Google’s latest phone — and its first smartwatch
This is great read from John Hermann on the boringly low stakes of Musk’s “everything app,” but also on what makes Musk so alluring to so many people:
He really does mislead and misdirect sometimes, but to write him off as a grifter is to fail to engage not just with the scale and influence of his companies but also with how his ardent supporters and casual admirers actually experience him: as a guy who talks about the future in a way that isn’t exclusively depressing.
[Intelligencer]
Musk’s new offer letter didn’t sway the court in Delaware, and it looks like the trial is still on. After months spent threatening to go to court, that now appears to be the last thing Musk wants — but it sure looks like he’s going to get it anyway.
Elon Musk has big plans for Twitter, and they include people paying money to tweet, bots getting the boot, and a social media network that doesn’t care what you say as long as it’s legal.
Reading Tim Cook’s thoughts on what the metaverse is, I couldn’t stop thinking about Hank Green’s tweet from January. And I think he’s right. The always-on VR metaverse? No thanks. The non-VR metaverse? That’s just... life now!
