Touching grass during the Totality; Vision Pro for work?; TikTok wants your photos.
Finite Scroll #8
Did you know that the total solar eclipse cost business owners over $700 million in lost productivity from workers stepping away from their computers to look up at the sky for a few minutes? Oh, that's right. Who cares?
Anyway, it didn't cost you, my beautiful readers, any risk of missing a new edition of Finite Scroll. So, that's a win. Have fun clicking around and reading some links I saw this week that I couldn't get off my mind. ✨
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. 🤳
- Content creators ask Meta to reverse politics limits on Instagram, Threads.
- Netflix, Disney, and other Hollywood studios will work with Congress to crack down on digital piracy.
- Apple wants you to work in Vision Pro. But will your boss even care?
- How The Village Voice changed journalism.
- Total Eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada.
- Dimension 20 heads to New York for live Dungeons & Dragons' how 'Gauntlet at the Garden'
- Spotify Premium users can now turn any idea into a personalized playlist with AI Playlist in beta.
- Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging.
- TikTok is pushing brands to post photos instead of videos.
- Gwen's Sweet Escape (Ed. note: welcome back, NYLON).
- YouTube is switching to read-only comments for kids in supervised experiences.
- The celebrities have returned to Chateau Marmont.
- Hey Google! What happened to my assistant?
- Refusing to drink the corporate Kool-Aid, half of Gen Zers would turn down a job that doesn't align with their beliefs.
- 'AI Instagram influencers' are deepfaking their faces onto real women's bodies.
- Inside X's latest efforts to make advertisers believe it's a platform that's safe for brands.
- Meet the 25-year-old who TikToked his way onto RFK's campaign team.
- Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' faces an uphill battle for mega deal: "Just no way to position this movie"
- NCAA Women's Championship most-watched hoops game since 2019.
- Meta's testing a bonus program for Threads creators to stimulate growth.
Let me know what you're reading or checking out this week or if you're enjoying this newsletter.
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