Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
Michael Calore: Yep. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë? Zoë Schiffer: My total screen time. I actually looked it up before and I think it’s like three …
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. As of Tuesday, there are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great …
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had just been banned from Twitter. …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Becomes First Person To Pass 1 Million Followers On Bluesky
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has become the first person to gain more than 1 million followers on the social media site Bluesky, saying “it’s not rocket science” why tens of …
Rep. Ro Khanna Urges Democrats To Stay On Elon Musk’s Platform Amid X Exodus
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said he has no plans to leave X, formerly Twitter, even as the rightward turn the social media platform has taken under the ownership of billionaire …
Russia Says Don’t Mind The Toxic Odor And Biohazard Suits, Everything’s Fine On The ISS
Image: NASA We’ve all had a problem roommate at some point in our lives, but probably not in low Earth orbit. Roscosmos received an unmanned Progress resupply spacecraft on the …
Axios CEO Flips Out Over Elon Musk’s ‘Bulls**t’ Claim That X Users Are Replacing The Media
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei got fired up over Elon Musk’s claims that users on Twitter-turned-X are replacing legacy media. While delivering a fervent speech at the National Press Club last …
Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up
Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented, “I don’t know how …
Even Tesla’s Twitter Account Is Only Kept In Check By U.S. Regulators
Remember back in April, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Tesla it could no longer call its semi-autonomous software “Full Self-Driving,” and that it had to throw a …
Kara Swisher Predicts Musk’s X Will Merge With Truth Social
Tech journalist Kara Swisher just envisioned how Elon Musk’s X could evolve now that Donald Trump has secured a second term as president. Swisher appeared on CNN on Wednesday morning …