caseynewton

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

There are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Normal app behavior from a company that has enough engineers working on it

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

I realize this won't be a popular opinion around here. But of all the Twitter clones so far, Threads has the most juice. I wrote about why ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/p/five-reasons-threads-could-still

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

The obvious next step for Twitter is to announce that if you subscribe to Blue no one will be able to block you

caseynewton, 9 months ago to random

The chronological feed is making a comeback. Users mostly hate them, but regulators are increasingly requiring them. Why? https://www.platformer.news/p/how-the-chronological-feed-is-making

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

What does “good” coverage of AI mean to you? I wrote about how the disparate views that very smart people have about existential risk are making it hard to calibrate how to cover advancements in artificial intelligence.

https://www.platformer.news/p/why-im-having-trouble-covering-ai

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Twitter is dying :)

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

Platformer is leaving Substack https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

Anybody in SF have experience with Monkeybrains as an ISP? Curious how the setup was and how it compares to Comcast if so!

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

Let’s get clear on what Twitter’s rebranding to X really is: a political project from a right-wing reactionary. https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

We might be about to see a whole lot of employees leave X. https://www.platformer.news/p/is-x-bracing-for-exodus

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

This will be familiar to anyone who has been watching the rapid unscheduled disassembly of Twitter https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1649045802332073986?s=61&t=Vqm9FnxVwEfRYYt9aGnAeA

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

A partial list of the bread-and-butter posts of today’s digital media companies that, I think, are about to be automated away by mediocre AI tools.

Which ones did I miss?

And what should newsrooms do with AI?

https://www.platformer.news/p/what-should-newsrooms-do-with-ai

caseynewton, 9 months ago to random

Three years of using expensive note-taking software doesn’t seem to be making me a better thinker. I wrote about why that is — and whether a new generation of AI tools can help https://www.platformer.news/p/why-note-taking-apps-dont-make-us

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

Some lessons from the Reddit blackout. https://www.platformer.news/p/what-were-learning-from-the-reddit

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

I talked to Instagram chief Adam Mosseri about Threads, a radical new social network where you can view more than 600 posts per day, totally free of charge https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-unspools-threads

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

One reason I think Apple’s Vision Pro could succeed over the long term: people actually really want heads-up displays like the ones they’ve seen in sci-fi. https://www.platformer.news/p/apple-has-a-vision

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

New, Substack-free website just dropped https://www.platformer.news/

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

Did tweet previews stop showing up for you in iMessage today too?

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week Kevin and I ride in one of San Francisco's new robo-taxis, and Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt stops by to pitch us on a self-driving future https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/podcasts/googles-ai-bonanza-and-driverless-car-talk-with-cruise-ceo-kyle-vogt.html

caseynewton, 9 months ago to random

I wrote about Elon Musk's disturbing spiral.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musks-creep-show

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

After a period of relative stability my Sonos speakers have once again begun blinking in and out of connection with my home network, as part of a long-running campaign to drive me insane

caseynewton, 5 months ago to random

Some news: Substack will remove some Nazi publications, it tells Platformer. It insisted this is not a reversal of its previous stance but a fresh interpretation of its existing guidelines https://www.platformer.news/p/substack-says-it-will-remove-nazi

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Someone should make a joke about Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon working together on a new show

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

The Taylor Swift harassment campaign on X is a warning. These same tools are already being used to harass average people across lots of platforms, and the response from tech companies and lawmakers hasn't been nearly good enough https://www.platformer.news/taylor-swift-deepfake-nudes-x/