Tag: media platforms

• Sunk cost

  September 3, 2024

  ) } const containers = document.querySelectorAll(“.w-full figure.w-full”); containers.forEach(container => {const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(container); root. https://www.theverge.com/24161573/opensea-crypto-nfts-workplace-rise-fall more ›

• Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

  August 28, 2024

  ten years ago, WIRED published a news story about how two little-known, slightly ramshackle encryption apps called RedPhone and TextSecure were merging to form something called Signal. https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/ more ›

• A New Language for Photography

  August 25, 2024

  M. H. Rubin Critiquing and discussing photography, particularly for novices, can be difficult. Most critique is exceptionally subjective — various nice ways to say you don’t like something, and some… more ›

• No one’s ready for this

  August 23, 2024

  An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds… more ›

• How Digital Art Has Fared since the NFT Boom

  August 22, 2024

  Hannah Nijsten, installation view of “Squares Cubed,” at Outernet, London, 2024. Photo courtesy of Outernet. Earlier this year, Taschen published On NFTs, an essay collection commemorating the 10 years since… more ›

• 9 Takeaways from the Vision Pro After 6 Months

  August 16, 2024

  Direct allocation may overstate or understate this allocation, though the latter is more likely. XR R&D likely exceeds that on, say, MacBooks or iPads on a dollar-per-patent basis. https://www.matthewball.co/all/applevision2024 more ›

• Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From

  August 7, 2024

  Gyan Abhishek is standing in front of a giant touch screen, like Jim Cramer on Mad Money or an ESPN talking head analyzing a football play. He’s flicking through a… more ›

• Runway Ripped Off YouTube Creators

  July 26, 2024

    A highly-praised AI video generation tool made by multi-billion dollar company Runway was secretly trained by scraping thousands of videos from popular YouTube creators and brands, as well as… more ›

• Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI 

  May 25, 2024

  Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal at VivaTech in Paris to go over the… more ›

• When Online Content Disappears

  May 20, 2024

  A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible. https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/ more ›