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what the zuck
Jan. 13, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Companies Need More ‘Masculine Energy’ The Meta CEO told Joe Rogan that he finds corporate America “pretty culturally neutered.”
screen time
Dec. 31, 2024
Meta’s Big Bet on Bots Meta says to expect AI “profiles” on Facebook and Instagram.
celebrity relationships
Nov. 13, 2024
Sure, Why Not a Mark Zuckerberg Cover of ‘Get Low’ The CEO of Meta goes “’til the sweat drop down his balls” to celebrate his 21st anniversary with his wife.
screen time
Nov. 10, 2024
Who Needs an AI Doppelganger? Is AI supposed to do work for you, or as you? So far, Meta’s attempt at digital cloning is more like performing a bad impression.
John Mulaney Stars in SNL Promo About SNL Promos The show’s newest writer, Bob Dylan, just can’t seem to nail the tone of bite-size commercials.
screen time
Oct. 22, 2024
the power issue
Oct. 21, 2024
Can the Media Survive? Big tech, feckless owners, cord-cutters, restive staff, smaller audiences … and the return of print?
screen time
Sept. 12, 2024
AI Wants to Be Free Or at least very, very cheap.
screen time
July 15, 2024
What Messing With Chatbots Tells Us About the Future of AI A memorable exchange about catapults shows that chatbots still break, but they’re getting better at not taking the bait.
screen time
June 26, 2024
The Internet’s Biggest Mystery How many regular users do the likes of Facebook, Youtube, and Netflix even have anymore?
getting around
June 6, 2024
“I Don’t Think There’s a Plan B” Confusion and fury (and Andy Byford) at MTA headquarters as the congestion-pricing news came down.
Instagram Discovers New, Annoying Place to Put Ads This is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a SEO farm or a porn site.
screen time
Apr. 21, 2024
Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With You The company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere.
The Five Most Dramatic Moments From Congress’s Social-Media Hearing During the hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham told CEOs of the top social-media companies that they have blood on their hands.
AI Is Coming for the Influencers Now, brands are paying to advertise with AI-generated content creators. Will it work?
screen time
Nov. 14, 2023
How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AI We’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
screen time
Sept. 16, 2023
Social Media Drops the ‘Digital Town Square’ Routine Every platform used to be for everyone, but those days are gone.
Can Sarah Silverman’s AI Lawsuit Save Us From Robot Overlords? “That’s part of what these cases are about: Let’s open the black box. Let’s see what’s inside.”
office apocalypse
July 17, 2023
The Teetering Tech Office Meta and Twitter are shedding square footage, while Amazon and Google aren’t giving up the dream.
screen time
June 22, 2023
Why Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Quit Twitter He once tried to buy it. Now he’s creating a knockoff — and talking about a cage fight with Elon Musk.
How Mark Zuckerberg Led the Tech Industry Into a Metaverse Wasteland It began with his incentives and his weird psychology. Then came COVID.
unentangled
Apr. 27, 2023
the money game
Apr. 26, 2023
How Zuck Got His Groove Back It’s been a very good year for Meta and its CEO. (Less so for the thousands of people he laid off.)
life in pixels
Mar. 15, 2023
Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
silicon valley
Mar. 14, 2023
10,000 People at Meta Will Lose Their Jobs After Meta lost $700 billion in market cap last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced a mass layoff to make sure this is its “Year of Efficiency.”
Tate-Pilled What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate’s extreme male gospel.
A TikTok Ban Would Make for an Incredibly Strange Day on the Internet While it might not be the most probable course of events, it definitely could happen.
on with kara swisher
Jan. 30, 2023
Kara Swisher on Mark Zuckerberg’s Never-ending Trump Problem She reflects on more than 15 years of covering Facebook and why bringing back Trump is a lose-lose.
screen time
Jan. 26, 2023
How Much Does Unbanning Trump Really Matter? On the internet, you can never really go back home.
screen time
Jan. 19, 2023
Elon Musk and the Sad Mod Theory of Social-Media CEOs You may technically run the place, but most of your users just see you as a glorified moderator.
The E.U.’s Judgment Against Meta Could Be a Big Deal The company was fined over $400 million for violating users’ privacy in a decision with far-reaching implications.
screen time
Oct. 26, 2022
It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster The dismal quarterly results make it clear that the company formerly known as Facebook is an absolute and total mess.
‘I Don’t Think Anyone Should Buy Land in Any Metaverse Right Now’ Chatting with Jessica Stocker, Winter House ’s skeptical virtual real-estate agent.
screen time
Oct. 13, 2022
Why Your Boss’s Boss Wants You in the Metaverse Understanding the metaverse as a set of software tools that you might be told to use isn’t exciting — but at least it makes sense.
just asking questions
Sept. 30, 2022
Will the Metaverse Really Transform Our Lives? Venture capitalist Matthew Ball on the virtual worlds that may define the future.
celebrity weddings
Aug. 22, 2022
Sheryl Sandberg Got Married This Weekend She and Tom Bernthal had a western-themed wedding in Wyoming.
life after roe
July 1, 2022
Are Social-Media Platforms Censoring Information About Abortion? Facebook and Instagram have been restricting and removing posts intended to help people seeking reproductive care.
Sheryl Sandberg Leaned on Tabloid to Drop Story on Ex: Report The Meta exec reportedly pressured the Daily Mail twice to drop reporting related to a restraining order filed against her former boyfriend.
Facebook Is Now Allowing Itself to Be Weaponized Meta’s decision to explicitly allow violent rhetoric against Russian soldiers and Vladimir Putin raises some very uncomfortable questions.
RT America Shuts Down Amid Russian State-Media Bans RT America released a memo today announcing layoffs in New York, L.A., Miami, and D.C.
Russia Puts Up an Information Iron Curtain Putin’s Kremlin banned Twitter and Facebook and effectively criminalized critical journalism, prompting an exodus of foreign press.
2022 midterms
Feb. 7, 2022
Peter Thiel to Leave Meta Board to Focus on Giving Republicans Money The conservative billionaire is pivoting to become a benefactor for Trump supporters he used to employ.
the internet
Feb. 4, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Has a Groping Problem The virtual-reality platform has implemented a four-foot personal barrier between avatars because of the behavior of some obnoxious users.
Meta’s Virtual-Reality Arm Is a ‘Flaming Bag of Sh*t’ The company is running into several problems at once, as evidenced by its plummeting stock price.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Disaster Is Taking Silicon Valley With It Hundreds of billions of dollars disappeared overnight, and it may get worse.
last night on late night
Dec. 24, 2021
Let Jimmy Kimmel Introduce You to Zuck on a Truck You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, here’s Zuck on a Truck.
no thanks mark
Oct. 29, 2021
Facebook Once Again Gives Us Something No One Asked For Yesterday, the corporation announced it would be rebranding as Meta.
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