Every journalist, pundit, and entertainer in the country that doesn't want to bend the knee to Trump needs to figure out a way off corporate platforms ASAP www.garbageday.email/p/petty-powe...

I wrote about how social media enabled Charlie Kirk while making our politics ever worse. www.platformer.news/thursday-new...

may I speak with the primary poster in your household?

ChatGPT will soon alert parents when their children express thoughts of self-harm. Will that protect them — or simply drive them elsewhere? www.platformer.news/openai-teen-...

I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social. The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.

What a joke www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After all that hand-wringing about the dangerous Chinese TikTok algorithm, it appears that Trump is going to let the new American TikTok just license it from China. Whatever!! www.platformer.news/tiktok-deal-...

iOS 26 is out now and I recommend updating immediately. If it bricks your device you don't have to work today

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Happy 20th birthday to the indispensable @techmeme.com! @gaberivera.bsky.social only writes about once every 10 years, so I pay close attention when he does. Great discussion of the current state of tech media news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...

The FTC's investigation into chatbots and children suggests that Republicans are *this* close to having an epiphany about AI safety www.platformer.news/ftc-chatbots...

I have appointed a Roomba named Pierre as my primary care physician

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

Trump is gonna be so mad when he finds out the DOJ still has a civil rights division

He did WHAT www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The AI as Normal Technology guys are back with a good new post on why they think AI transformation of society will take decades. I'm a fan, but had to ask — doesn't the effect AI is *already* having on education suggest things may go much faster? www.platformer.news/ai-normal-te...

If you're going to show up in the group chat a full day later to heart a post ... don't bother

NEW: Google tells me it will re-file a legal brief in which lawyers said "the open web is already in rapid decline" to clarify that they were only talking about open-web display advertising. (The open web is still in rapid decline, though.) www.platformer.news/google-open-...

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Google’s position is now that the open web Is thriving but open web ads are in rapid decline… because of course all the attention and money leaving a platform is irrelevant to its health lol

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Well, well, well: in a court filing, Google finally admits 'the web is in rapid decline.' Sharply at odds' with executives' public comments this year www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

I predict Atlassian will write off this entire acquisition within five years techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/a...

If you work at OpenAI this is the funniest thing you can do www.ft.com/content/1107...

Yabba Dabba Do Not Resucitate

Everything Mark Zuckerberg has gotten from Donald Trump so far, by Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social / Platformer www.platformer.news/trump-zucker...

Bad news for teenage Meta AI users ... you will no longer have access to Nasty Nancy (via @mzeff.bsky.social) techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/m...

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Waymo co-CEO Takedra Mawakana tells us the company will be doing 1 million rides a week by the end of next year. That's quadruple the current number www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/p...

A year ago today, Trump threatened to jail Zuckerberg for the rest of his life. Today, Trump is helping Meta win regulatory battles around the world. I wrote about everything that Zuckerberg has gotten from Trump 2.0 so far: www.platformer.news/trump-zucker...

(Borat voice) MAI-Voice-1

The chatbot mental health crisis is here. No one is ready for it www.platformer.news/chatgpt-suic...

Today Taylor Swift accomplished something no AI researcher ever could (made an announcement without posting on X)

Every time I see a reporter talking into their phone camera for a short-form video I think of this tweet

Can Musk sue his way to the top of the App Store? I asked Stanford Law Prof. @marklemley.bsky.social about Musk's new lawsuit against OpenAI and Apple www.platformer.news/musk-sues-ap...

Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...

This is pathetic (Grok was No. 1 in the App Store just a few months ago) but it *is* a good opportunity for Apple to change Grok's 12+ rating to something more appropriate given that xAI is now a sexbot company

xAI is now officially a public detriment corporation

I found this piece disappointingly dishonest, given that it fails to mention at all the actual two reasons people like her still use X (vanity and business promotion) www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: the AI bubble, @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social on Meta's child-romancing chatbots, and a filthy song that is NOT the no. 1 country song in America right now www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/p...

If a judge forces Google to stop paying Apple $20B a year for default search placement but Google then powers next-generation search anyway except this time Apple pays GOOGLE ... then Sundar will be having a very good year

I agree with @caseynewton.bsky.social who writes the Platformer newsletter. "The best productivity hack in the world is simply liking your job." For 30 years as a college teacher I told my students: If you can't wait to get to work because you're so into what you are doing then you did it right.

"[T]he best productivity hack in the world is simply liking your job. If you enjoy what you do, you will find ways to do it, and in 2025 almost any software remotely suited to the purpose will be more than good enough." - @caseynewton.bsky.social www.platformer.news/productivity...

It's my annual productivity post! What I'm still doing, what I stopped doing, and what I'm trying. Plus, the mundane and non-transformational ways I am using AI www.platformer.news/productivity...

A couple months ago I made an unusual request to my editors at @wired.com: I asked if I could go work at a tech company for a few days to learn how to vibe code. Then, for some reason, the $10 billion dollar startup Notion agreed to let me embed with them. 🧵

I wrote about the seeming contradiction in two new survey findings: 71 percent of Americans fear AI will take their job; and 95 percent of AI tests at companies are failing to generate money. www.platformer.news/ai-job-loss-...

my children very politely asked if they could just please read their own books tonight rather than listen to me read. which is fine btw. it's only been every night for 9 years. with voices. some people might mind but not me. GOOD voices too, with real drama. but it's fine of course,

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right