Kevin Nguyen
Everyone is talking about Sora.
So impressive!
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It’s hardcore Tuesday.
Zoë Schiffer’s Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter, expanded from her extraordinary reporting at Platformer and The Verge, is out today. There’s an excerpt in Vanity Fair, and a glowing review in the Washington Post. The book is available wherever you like to buy books!
Kevin Nguyen
The food movie to end all food movies.
The Taste of Things, one of our favorite films of 2023, finally makes its way into limited release this weekend — and just in time for the most romantic holiday of the year. (By which I mean Lunar New Year, of course.)
Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
How big is each company’s content moderation workforce?
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) pushed for hard numbers. Here are the replies he got.
Meta: “40,000”
X: “2,300”
TikTok: “40,000”
Snap: “approximately 2,000”
Discord: “hundreds”
The dream of the early internet is alive in PI.FYI, a new app spun out from Perfectly Imperfect.
Kevin Nguyen
2023 was good for big movies, but maybe even better for the small ones
Kevin Nguyen
Michael Mann’s biopic of the Italian sports car maker feels at home in the director’s canon of obsessive men.
Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
“I got magical raccoon dog testicles on CNN.”
If you missed Sarah Jeong’s piece about the right wing’s coordinated harassment campaign against her (part of our very special Twitter series), you can enjoy it as a TikTok.
Kevin Nguyen
The bird is freed (and the book is available for pre-order).
Verge alum Zoë Schiffer just announced her new book, Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter, which will expand on her reporting from Platformer, New York Magazine, and of course, this very website. Here’s what Bloomberg’s Matt Levine has to say about it:
Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhaps the weirdest business story of our time. A fast-paced and riveting account of a hilarious and tragic mess.
The book comes out next February. Pre-order it!
