Nilay Patel
Here’s a Super 8 camera flying around on a drone.
Perfect.
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After controlling how information has been distributed for the past 25 years, Google Search faces a set of challenges that will change the company — and the internet — forever.
Nilay Patel
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Well, here’s the Zoom app running natively in a new Mercedes E-Class.
The new E-Class has an updated version of Mercedes’ MBUX infotainment system that runs Zoom... and TikTok. Gaze upon the future of transportation.
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The best takedown of Elon’s plan to let publishers charge per-story you’ll read.
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab, summing up Elon barging in to two decades of conversation about media micropayments. (emphasis mine):
Nearly all news sites will let a random web user read a story (or two, or five) for free. It’s only after a given number of clicks that the wall goes up.
If you want to think of that as “news sites already offer micropayments for those first five articles — they’ve just set the price at $0,” be my guest. And for those times when someone really wants to read just one article, that free allotment allows all the paywall workarounds that the savvy digital news consumer knows about. (We’re all adults here; we can talk about incognito windows.) If most paywalls aren’t that hard, there’s little pressure for a paid product to get around them on a single story.
Nilay Patel
The Supreme Court takes a case with huge implications for tech policy.
The Supreme Court is about to take a case with enormous consequences for how the federal government works — potentially shifting the balance of regulatory power from agencies like the FTC and FCC to the courts themselves. What’s fascinating to me is how many crypto people I’ve seen flag this case, since it would defang the SEC as well. Wild times ahead.
Former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith on what’s next — and his new book, Traffic.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Well, here’s 55 TikToks of AI Kanye singing country songs.
Everything about AI music is incredible disrespectful to everyone involved, including the listener, and it’s never going back in the bottle. I love it.
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Here I am on Today, Explained, talking about Fake Drake.
Sadly, I was not able to work Laser Bong into this episode, but I’ll keep working at it.