Here’s a very fun thing I just got to do: the first-ever federated Verge quickpost! You should be able to see this on The Verge or lots of platforms, and reply here and there and everywhere. The open social future rocks. (But also, just, like, tell me if you saw this, okay? We’re testing stuff.)
At this point, when you open TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, or any other social media platform, you should assume that every single thing in your feed is paid for in some way. Some of it is clips; most of it is marketing; all of it wants you to think it’s just regular ol’ content. All the views are lies. (Gudea, which shows up a bunch in this NYMag story, is… complicated.) Some of it is real! But at some point the only thing you can do is not trust a bit of it.
[New York Magazine]
AI is empowering a generation of vibe coders to build exactly what they want. The personal software revolution is here.
