Yahoo is buying Artifact; Teens love vinyl; Facebook's full-screen video player.
Finite Scroll #7
More links, more links, more links! Another edition of Finite Scroll is upon us, oh ye faithful. 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. 🤳
- The ‘Beastification of YouTube' may be coming to an end.
- How the Atlantic went from broke to profitable in three years.
- Transparent Vice.
- Facebook takes on TikTok with a new, vertical-first video player.
- Even Beyoncé is in on the Bushwick look. But what exactly is it?
- Influencers are pranking their loved ones by claiming ExxonMobil has invited them on an oil rig brand trip.
- Here's how generative AI depicts queer people.
- Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders.
- Teens love vinyl. They tell us why.
- 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza.
- MIT tool shows climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080.
- The celebrity chef who beat the U.S. military at getting aid into Gaza.
- Hunter Schafer on art, love, ambition—and life beyond Euphoria.
- After low attendance, Whitney Biennial releases open call for "controversial" artwork.
- How Gen Z is becoming the toolbelt generation.
- Transgender athlete Cat Runner is changing the sport of climbing one remarkable step at a time.
- Gen Z is spending nearly half of their disposable income on travel.
- Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk's reputation dips.
- 'SNL' sends up the NPR Tiny Desk with an intern who pleads, 'keep the ruckus down.’
- The most dazzling eclipse in the universe.
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