Only 400 more? Pffft! Don't talk to me unless your season renewal has a comma. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

If you are a person who cares about the difference between 24-bit / 44.1kHz and 24-bit / 192kHz audio, you probably already left Spotify. Spotify knows that, they also figured out that's why they couldn't charge more for lossless.

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Hmmdash: The internal monologue a person has after seeing an em dash used. 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘐? 𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘩𝘮𝘮𝘥𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘴.

Flew out of there at the Speed of Sound

EU is demanding that every site use age verification technology, while insisting it do things it cannot do, and behave in a manner it cannot behave. This is not policy making. This is wishful thinking, with a side of "we'll just blame the tech companies for not waving their magic wand."

A reminder as Emmy voting opens up today, The Rehearsal is nominated this year, and you should not hack the Emmys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_e...

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If Apple or Garmin came out with a display-free band with GPS, Whoop would be in serious trouble trying to charge this much per month. For now, Whoop is able to play against the downsides of a smart ring, which suffers badly for weightlifting/battery life/etc.

I don't think journalists should get up in arms about being blocked from this hearing, provided there is a backdoor that they can use.

I know we are all heartbroken about this news, but don't get down! FBI: CIA, is still in development at CBS www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

Could be the launch of Tim Cook's Phil Collins tribute band

Best feed on here if your Bluesky is noisy. bsky.app/profile/did:...

"Oukitel says the Titan’s massive battery can let you talk on the phone for up to 289 hours" So it is a device for torture...

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Next time Jeopardy

Earnings call simulator •Provide some color on that •Tailwinds, headwinds, oh my •Quarters: terrific, excellent, amazing

One thing is for sure, SCOTUS just raised the stakes for the cage match on the inauguration dais

I can't imagine Google and Apple are going to keep TikTok on their app stores, even if Trump claims he won't enforce the ban - there is no upside.

There are obvious red tape reasons why officials can't recommend residents download Watch Duty, but they absolutely should.

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Holding out for ChatGPT by semaphore telegraph

This is Garmin's biggest long-term weakness. The company needs to cannibalize its InReach offerings to push this tech to the wrist. Further out, glucose monitoring is going to be a mainstream training metric that will push Apple ahead. Now, if only Apple could make the Watch battery decent...

OpenAI allows ChatGPT Pro users to remove the watermark from Sora videos. Changing a symbol that signals something is AI-generated to a sign that you didn't drop $200/month to remove it.

Few experiences in life are more transcendent than throwing a ball back over the fence to the jubilant cheering of schoolchildren

Thoughts and prayers Jensen www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/d...

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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Bluesky to spin off Starter Packs

Strava just shot itself in the foot. Brilliant Elon-level Twitter API gambit.

Amazon tried, and failed, to make livestream influencer shopping work. Turns out it might not matter that much if consumers are conditioned to buy hauls with little expectation of quality.

I wish the writers of this season would drop the will-they-wont-they between ActivityPub and AT Protocol

With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we’ve carried out the work in a way I don’t think he fully understands. Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been, but the design of atproto allows it to feel familiar and easy to use.

Air Bud reboot time

We reached 1,000,000 users! blueskyweb.xyz/blog/9-12-20...

Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

You can have the best text post, but a picture of a cat is going to win 10 out of 10 times.

The Bluesky Team feed no longer shows posts from individual devs/staff, only the official Bluesky accounts.

In news that will surprise no one, the value of Starbucks NFTs (Odyssey) has bottomed out. NFTs that were trading for hundreds are now worth ~$20.

Mad Libs for companies in 2023: [Your company name] CEO: ‘We’re going to build AI into every platform we build’

Little known fact: spring water companies are legally required to IPO during the spring. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/liquid-death-hires-goldman-sachs-aiming-for-2024-ipo

Happy T&C Season y'all!

You're on Twitter having your DMs limited I'm on Bluesky politely asking people not to read skeets without first checking if your name is on it

Updated Betteridge's law of headlines: "X is dead" = Only when narrowly defined https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/vr-is-dead/

I wrote a thing about Bluesky, trust & safety, and communications. I expect some people will yell at me about this. Because people always yell about this. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/20/trust-safety-and-communication/

Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59 (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Tour de France highlight is this man offering up a fresh pizza

Slugs in my garden think this is the App Store and they are entitled to 30% of my produce.

Wrote about the racist user names on this website and how the issue reveals one of Bluesky's core challenges: building world-class content moderation for an app and business model that were never really designed to support that https://www.platformer.news/p/bluesky-threads-and-the-decentralization

a brief explainer about what went down on this app this weekend: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/bluesky-racial-slurs-banned-list-usernames/