Nilay Patel

Nice one, Adam.

Talk about dropping a bomb. (Sorry, I’m sorry.)

Mosseri ran through the now familiar list of upcoming Threads features (edit button, following feed) in his weekly video, but added “web presence” to the list, which, well obviously that’s coming. But hey, here’s a prompt: fascinating that after all these attempts to run mobile apps on laptops that “web version” is 100 percent synonymous with “desktop,” right?

I don’t care, I want them. More on this $1.3m 19-units only Diablo restomod from Eccentrica Cars at Autoblog.

Elon is suing the law firm Twitter hired to force him into buying the company for “unjust enrichment,” and the complaint contains this email from former board member Martha Fox to former Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett upon receiving the $90m legal services bill for approval just before the Elon deal closed. $84m of the money was wired moments before Elon fired the former executive team. Which, given Elon’s history paying bills… smart!

I actually used staff fave Doug Demuro as an example of this cycle on the Vergecast last week… and here he is saying it out loud. Being a creator really isn’t a long term sustainable career, even for the most successful in the game.

I love the iPod modding scene so much.

Here’s G/O Media, which owns Gizmodo and Jalopnik and the rest, saying it will head down the same sad road as CNET in publishing AI-written content. I don’t know how much more loudly I can say this, but the problem isn’t making more stuff. It’s that distribution on the web is broken. Facebook doesn’t send anyone any traffic anymore, Twitter never really did, and Google traffic has been declining for ages and getting weirder for a host of reasons.

Alex Heath builds on reporting at Insider in this week’s Command Line, noting that Google’s interest in AR / VR after jumping out to an early lead with Cardboard and supporting 360 video in YouTube is... meh.