Elizabeth Lopatto
Sick of your smartphone?
Forget the Humane AI pin, what you want is a dumbphone. One advantage of a flip phone, by the way, is slamming it shut as a very satisfying way of hanging up.
The Dumbphone Boom Is Real
[The New Yorker]
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Kraken founder Jesse Powell wanted to contribute to a recall campaign for Gavin Newsom without having his identity exposed. It didn’t work out that way, and he was publicly listed as one of the top donors to the recall. Now he’s suing, saying he was deceived.
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Tell us what you really think, Barry Diller!
Trump Media is “a scam, just like everything he’s ever been involved in is some sort of con,” says Barry Diller, the legendary American businessman. Furthermore, the people buying the stock are “dopes.”
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AutoCAD maker Autodesk is investigating its own accounting practices.
Oops?
The San Francisco-based software maker received information that has prompted “an internal investigation with the assistance of outside counsel and advisors,” Autodesk said in a filing late Monday. The probe involves accounting practices around free cash flow and non-GAAP operating margin practices, the company said, while noting it doesn’t believe the review will affect previously issued financial statements.
The wild expenses, shady deals, and greed that ruined Vice.
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England’s... redwoods?
“At the moment they’re some of the tallest trees in the UK and they are starting to poke above the forest canopy,” says an expert. But they’re still just babies by redwood standards. The Victorians brought back a bunch of redwoods from California and they’re starting to do what redwoods do: get real big.
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I chatted with Marketplace about the Reddit IPO.
Many of the Redditors I spoke to did not care for the IPO. I went on Marketplace to talk about the usefulness of Reddit as an online community — and why that may just be really difficult to make profitable.
Pitchfork exploded as the music industry changed, then was cut down to size by another wave of technological change. Was that it?
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