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The unbearable flatness of being online.

on the rise and fall of skeuomorphic design.

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Two kinds of runs. 

on Starbucks' siren NFTs, and Terry Nguyen on the Silicon Valley bank meltdown. 

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TikTok vs. chatbots

The future of search

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Some choice words from Sydney.

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AI gone wild

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Is Google in trouble?

on the new Bing, tiered AMC seating, and Hermes vs. MetaBirkins.

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on the invite platform Partiful and the decline of spontaneous party invitations.


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It can't do hands.

on the copious number of fingers in the uncanny valley.

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AI's art school problem

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on nostalgia for the social media-like interface of a popular 2000s adventure game.

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