Facebook brings back the Poke; The Government comes for Apple.

Finite Scroll #5

We've made it to week five of my lil newsletter of links. This one's a bit long, and I'd apologize for that, but I'd rather not edit down the number of links I'm sending your way because they're all so so so so so good. Anyway, here goes. ✨

You can read any/all of these today, over the weekend, or treat them as orphaned tabs you open in the background, only to come back to close in a few days. 🤳

• The Government finally comes for Apple.
• Facebook's Poke feature is back, and Gen Z loves it.
• DirecTV to allow customers to opt out of local T.V. stations in special package.
• Why are parents on TikTok so angry?
• How Instagram got its mojo back.
• How Alix Earle climbed to the top.
• MrBeast strikes Amazon deal for biggest competition series in T.V. history.
• X's new video strategy is a pivot to nowhere.
• SXSW Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great A.I. is.
• An oral history of LimeWire: the little app that changed the music industry forever.
• The text file that runs the Internet.
• Universal, Republic launch Boombox music player on Roblox – and all streamed tracks will count towards Billboard charts.
• The place to buy Kurt Cobain's sweater and Truman Capote's ashes.
• Why the big winner in the Reddit IPO is… a magazine publisher.
• Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media publishes case study on branded gaming experience on Roblox.
• LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform.
• Scientific journals are publishing papers with A.I.-generated text.
• Apple is in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone A.I. features.
• Damaged undersea cables disrupting Africa's Internet will take weeks to repair.
• A new chapter for Sports Illustrated, with plans to keep print.
• Now featured at beauty stores: teens driven by social media.
• Inside Sterling Ruby and OTW by Vans' skatewear-inspired collaboration.
• Don Lemon calls Elon Musk the most 'sensitive and touchy' person he's ever interviewed.

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