Amanda Silberling

Hahaha, the founders of Calmara are now insisting it's a "lifestyle product, not a medical app" and are "updating the communications to better reflect our intentions right now." Thank you @amanda.omg.lol for reporting on this for TechCrunch.

do not send dick pics to an AI pls techcrunch.com/2024/03/22/c...

They should teach passive aggressive hyperlinking in jschool

now that’s a lede

more new pots!

new pots !

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instead of making computers that can put anime tits on the mona lisa or kind of write a limerick they should instead invent an ai dryer that can fold my god damn laundry

maintenance phase knowing about razzlekhan is the unexpected crossover I didn’t know I needed

Did TechCrunch send me video equipment, including tripods, to make TikToks? Yes. Am I still using a Tupperware on top of two books on top of a blender on my ottoman? Yes.

you know when it’s the 1 year anniversary of your friend dying and you just have to Be Normal and Do Normal Things

you can buy a yahrzeit candle on gopuff

grief is so alienating bc it’s like. if you haven’t lost someone close to you in a very unexpected way when they’re still so young, you just can’t know what it’s like?? and yet I am constantly afraid that I am being over dramatic when I talk about it to other ppl but like I’m just so angry still

if you play dnd on 2/29 you should get a free use of misty step

experienced the full breadth of nyc today (guy with an acoustic guitar came in the train at 9 am, guy reading Jeffrey eugenides on the train now)

if I were a man I would be so toxic. I love Radiohead. I write poetry. I strategize about my credit card points.

doors 8 show 9? in this economy?

listen i know it's a common latin turn of phrase but that doesn't mean we need to keep saying it and/or bolding and hyperlinking it

This is so not the point of the post but it’s so funny how Sweetwater will legit call you and be like “so how’s that amp treating ya??? what kind of music do you play??”

I've received 12 phone calls in the last 7 days. 1 was a scheduled call with my agent, 1 was the music store Sweetwater, 10 were from scammers. We've completely ceded a former primary form of communication to fraudsters.

my toxic trait is that whenever I’m playing switch and see that my friends are playing hades I text them “hadeez nuts”

I am training for a 5K and have made significant progress by taking things slow and being nice to myself and actively working to have a positive relationship with fitness as opposed to my previous Not Positive™️ experiences

i think everyone should post their Ws today

looking to talk to reddit users about whether or not they wanna invest in the ipo! hmu [email protected]

content moderation on tumblr has spiraled out of control techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/t...

Tumblr CEO publicly spars with trans user over account ban, revealing private account names in the process | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Tumblr owner Automattic, is supposed to be on sabbatical. Instead, he’s arguing with Tumblr users over an individual content

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For Vice veterans worried about being able to keep access to their stories or get clips, I've got what I think may be a nearly complete index and links to some Internet Archive/Wayback Machine archives of the stories. Please share with anyone who can use it. rebrand.ly/vice-archives

first planter of this term’s pottery class has exited the kiln 🫡

official ted cruz acct incident when

one of the things we havent done on here yet is cancelling somebody for "liking" a post. feels like that's coming

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Today I'm so excited to announce the launch of a Rascal. This project with @lincodega.bsky.social and @chasecarter.bsky.social has been truly one of the brightest and most exciting of my life, and we're going to do some incredible things. Please subscribe so we can make TTRPG journalism sustainable

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@techcrunch.com's @amanda.omg.lol covers the controversy over @snarfed.org's Bluesky-Mastodon bridge: "Barrett decided to “discoverable opt-in” so users on either side of the bridge have to request to follow accounts from across the bridge."

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.