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David Pierce @davidpierce.xyz · 23h

For episode 2 of Version History, @joannastern.bsky.social, @reckless.bsky.social and I went deep on BBM, the legendary messaging app that was right about everything and lost the battle anyway. Such a fun episode! www.theverge.com/podcast/7986...

How BlackBerry Messenger set texting free

Before there was iMessage and WhatsApp, there was BBM.

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 1d

www.theverge.com/2024/8/26/24...

Hello, you’re here because you compared AI image editing to Photoshop

The implications could be significantly worse, actually.

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 2d

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 3d

Well to be fair I’m sure the Google ads team has never talked to the Nest hub team

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 3d

lol hell no www.theverge.com/report/79767...

Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show

Alexa, stop the ads.

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 4d

No but you can filter them on the homepage with our following features

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 4d

www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 4d

These are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

Look mad

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

Was at a dinner last night where a fancy reporter who should know better said Biden admin censored the Hunter Biden laptop story because no one knows who was president in 2020

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 5d

Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020?

Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist,
Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...

LIVE: Ted Cruz Leads Senate Hearing About 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

www.youtube.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

Oh it’s not that - I’d love to just like fork Mastodon and build a new site on that, but the open-source license is so restrictive we’d end up open-sourcing our ad stack code. Bsky is better but in many ways it was just faster and easier to build our own thing while atproto matures

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

We haven't gotten that far mostly because our own identity project for disparate subscriptions, mailing lists, comments, etc is still being unified but once that's done I think we can find a way to let people connect through? It's fun to think through at least

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

it's our own and we will relay to both in the end. the licenses for mastodon and even bsky were too restrictive for a big commercial publisher with a complex tech stack, which i suspect is holding back adoption generally

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

hearts

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

hm we've only had them less than a year and it hasn't come up? we obviously moderate comments but i do feel like "kicked but you can keep paying us" is fine

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

ooh that's fun -- we are eventually going to shift quickposts and comments to the new social platform that runs the Feed on sb nation sites and we'll make that interop w bsky and mastodon so lots of ideas there

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

what we've built here is a community, people

eke @eke.bsky.social · 5d

the verge's comment section has some shooters

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5d

just going to speak this into the world: I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for her first meeting with standards and practices. if you know anything, I'm very easy to reach xo

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 6d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

i knew you'd like this one ha

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 5d

this is correct

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 6d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 6d

is that ... the monster mash but about epstein

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Michael Pusateri @cruftbox.com · 6d

I've been an exec in corporate TV for 30+ years. This is a harsh, but accurate take on the challenges facing Bari Weiss by @lopatto.bsky.social.

Leading a large team, creatives, and navigating the corpo world without years of experience is exceedingly difficult.

www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 6d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6d

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/business/793...

A photo of Bari Weiss over a headline: "Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed"

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