How a tiny 4-person startup, Supaglue, caught Stripe’s eye
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What is Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and how does it work?
You might’ve heard of Grok, X’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s a chatbot and, in that sense, behaves as you’d expect — answering questions about current...
Exploring The Messy Process of Grief
Welcome to Read this Book, a newsletter where I recommend one book that needs to jump onto your TBR pile! Sometimes these books are brand new...
The final countdown: Early Stage 2024 ticket savings end tonight
The final countdown is on! Today, March 29, marks the final opportunity to grab your early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 — a one-day event...
Telegram Block Averted For Now But Escalating Threat is Far From Over
For almost a quarter of a century a subset of internet activists have equated certain types of piracy mitigation measures to censorship and attacks on free...
How Public Libraries Are Targeted Right Now—It’s Not “Just” Books: Book Censorship News, March 29, 2024
Book bans in public libraries continue to increase. Per numbers released by the American Library Association (ALA) this month, there was a 92% increase in requests...
Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever
When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get...
Transformative Solidarity Can Empower Ordinary People in This Terrible Time
“Impediments to unity are so common and copious,” write Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, “they appear as an ordinary, even intractable, aspect of life.” But for...
How to Submit to Electric Lit
We’re thrilled to announce that Electric Literature is opening for submissions across all categories on Monday, April 1st. This includes our acclaimed literary magazines, Recommended Reading,...
7 Novels Inspired by the Bible
The Bible and fairytales are the oldest stories we have in the West. They serve as our culture’s myths, providing a familiar, guided path for centuries...
