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Is X suppressing New York Times links?
Semafor has a story saying that could be the case.
Shares of New York Times stories on X have plummeted since mid-July, while competing outlets haven’t seen the same trajectory.
It’s not confirmed that the dip is X’s doing, but it wouldn’t be out of line: the company throttled links to the Times and a few other websites in August.
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VR school is here — and it’s not going so great.
The New Yorker stepped inside a VR school, where students wear headsets for two to three hours a day.
Here’s how a virtual field trip to a mountain went for some sixth graders:
One [student] suggested that we should all be quiet to prevent an avalanche, and then started screaming to demonstrate what not to do; a teacher quickly muted him. As the exercise got under way, the kids grew increasingly frustrated. “My teleport’s broken!” one of them shouted. Another couldn’t find the next chair in the line up the mountain. ...the whole group kept falling and getting reset to the beginning of the activity.
Virtual-Reality School as the Ultimate School Choice
[The New Yorker]
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One Medical’s CEO is leaving, just six months after Amazon bought it.
He’ll step down “later this year” and be succeeded by One Medical COO Trent Green, according to The Washington Post.
Amazon has lost a lot of executives lately: its hardware leader, the founder of Ring, the CEO of Twitch, the founder of Whole Foods. (And, of course, Bezos, too.)
One Medical CEO departs one year after Amazon acquisition
[The Washington Post]
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Great news for the island of Anguilla — also known as the place behind the .ai domain.
A lot of people want to buy their domains these days. See this chart from Bloomberg:
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Spring Breakers director: TikTok is better than a lot of films right now.
Variety spoke to Harmony Korine, who’s about to debut a new movie shot on thermal cameras.
“Watching a lot of this shit, you really feel the algorithms,” he says the day before receiving the Pardo d’onore Manor prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Whereas, “I’ll see a clip on TikTok that is so inexplicable, so outside the realm of what I even imagine someone creating. Like, I can have an experience with a 30-second clip that goes so far beyond” what movies do for him.
He’s also obsessed with a TikTok radio station right now. “It’s the greatest radio station I’ve ever heard,” he told Variety.
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