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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...

We added Bluesky buttons at techmeme.com! Hover over a post (on desktop) to reveal this button. The button sends you to the corresponding @techmeme.com Bluesky post, where you can reply, quote post, etc. Leave no story un-take-ified!

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