Nilay Patel

Twitter is now threat-selling verification, which is very funny.

Searching for “Substack” still results in a search for “newsletter,” though. This is the dumbest chapter in content moderation history.

Imagine being the engineer assigned to being this much of a baby! I discovered it because it’s implemented so bluntly: even the word “substack” in a URL slug is blocked, so searching for this piece this morning didn’t work. Truly, this is free speech at its most democratic.

This tweet gets funnier every day. Jack really played Elon into cashing him out for $44 billion dollars with this wacked-out hippie cringe game, didn’t he?

Mark this moment, media historians: Donald Trump’s arraignment prompted MSNBC to use live cable television to promote a live text blog of the exact same event. Live blogs forever! (Disclosure: NBC is an minority investor in our parent company, Vox Media.)

I have been in endless meetings today, but all I’m thinking about is when I can be done so I can play Gran Turismo 7 VR on the PSVR 2 review unit that I borrowed from Adi. (I play with a Logitech G923 wheel, the go-to wheel for first-time simracers.) It’s the single most compelling VR thing I’ve ever done; yesterday I crashed in the middle of a race because I was so distracted at how real the plastic in the car looked with the light glinting off of it. Sean has a great write-up — if you’re already a GT7 player, the PSVR 2 is absolutely worth it.