in a time of change, there will always be holdouts. Instagram tried to ditch cursive but S and R refused
erin griffith
@eringriffith
New York Times reporter // Startups and VC
🦄 Writing a book about the startups in the ZIRP era🦄
- $56 million for the couple behind EcommerceBytes. eBay had tried to silence their coverage with a harassment campaign, including sending shipments of live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask. A portion of the $$ will go to First Amendment charities
- Librarians hosting anti-AI workshops say "the anti-AI movement isn’t about rejecting technology altogether so much as it is about advocating for more control, agency, and freedom in how people use technology"
- Midjourney is buying astrology app Co-Star. Here's one of my favorite headline/illustration combos from covering Co-Star and other astro-verse apps in 2019:
- A $75 billion IPO for SpaceXXxAI would surpass all money raised by U.S. IPOs last year
