Elizabeth Lopatto
Mission accomplished.
I wrote this on Thursday because I wanted someone to say “skeeted” on CNN and known poster Jake Tapper absolutely delivered,. Thank you, Jake. 🫡
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The cult hit web comic sprawled in literary scope, pushing author Chris Onstad to burnout. Now, he thinks an AI might help him manage it.
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The venture capital firm was known for hyping its portfolio. But in the era of tech skepticism and rising interest rates, is it still ahead of the curve?
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How’s that Celsius bankruptcy going?
Celsius promised to unbank its users, and boy did it ever. The now-bankrupt crypto lender’s court proceedings — as well as those of Voyager — are a circus.
Alah Shehadeh, who invested $80,000 on the Voyager platform, was thrown out of a key hearing in March after repeatedly interrupting the judge, lawyers and witnesses. At one point he shouted, “You are a terrible judge. You are robbing us. This is a crime.”
Celsius, Voyager Creditors Battle Bankruptcy Bureaucracy
[Bloomberg.com]
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The rise of social media feeds means a lot more staged “street style” photos.
Turns out celebrities are just fancy influencers, and those “street style” shots are just unmarked ads:
“We approached somebody for a campaign recently who is a top, very well known person. And for a campaign, that was a million dollars,” Carmona explains. “They wouldn’t even start talks with us for less than a million.” But for these types of street style images, if you’re going out to a group she calls the “seven heavy hitters,” who guarantee you an almost instant return on your investment — Hailey Bieber, Gigi and Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Kaia Gerber, Olivia Wilde and Emily Ratajkowski — expect to pay $500,000, at least.
The photos spread through TikTok and Instagram, and have upstaged the red carpet and Vogue as valuable marketing.
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AI chatbots are for suckers, crypto edition.
The fine folks at Protos had a little talk with Binance’s AI bot and... listen, parting chumps from their money is a novel way to monetize AI.
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“I do TikTok to rip people off.”
Caveat emptor, but especially on TikTok. There’s a moderation problem for their ecommerce business, The Financial Times reports:
Three TikTok employees said cleaning up fraudulent content on the app and monitoring its ballooning number of merchants seemed to have fallen by the wayside amid a frantic push for growth.
Cottage industry of Chinese scammers target TikTok
[Financial Times]