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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Starbucks Odyssey

Two kinds of runs. 

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

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Bank for your buck

Perfect Blue Internet Browser

TikTok vs. chatbots

The future of search

We are all Theodore from Her. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

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.

Bada Bing!

Partiful 2

No RSVP necessary.

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


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Midjourney girls

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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LF > wholesome escapism

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

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