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Mia Sato

Mia Sato

Features Writer, The Verge

Features Writer, The Verge

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    I remember that differently.

    Powerful AI tools are changing how people work and play — and in the future, maybe all our AI editing will leave us with a half-true, picture perfect unreality of our lives.

    My colleague Allison Johnson recently wrote about the new AI photo tools coming to the Google Pixel 8 and the philosophical questions surrounding them. Would you use these tools? How far is too far when it comes to optimizing your precious moments?

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    Mia Sato
    Substack has a clever workaround for missing headlines on X.

    X is now filled with contextless links to articles after Elon Musk removed headlines from link preview cards earlier this month. But some Substack links now include the headline right in the image (spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra).

    I was able to replicate it below with a newsletter I follow — it’s a good idea! So far it seems limited to Substack blogs with a custom domain, and the headline doesn’t appear in the image on other platforms like Facebook.

    A Substack link on X, with the blog’s headline appearing in the image card.
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    TikTok virality can put sellers in a pickle.

    Especially if they’re selling tens of thousands of products on TikTok Shop without the infrastructure to fulfill orders.

    An Insider report on the viral products sold on TikTok (like a $44 pickle jar sweatshirt) suggests sales ebb and flow — merchants are sometimes overwhelmed with orders, and other times working through dry spells.