ridehome

Longread Links from The Ride Home Podcast

This collection is no longe being updated regularly. I still update it from time to time because this is the entire Long Read archive and I don’t think everything transitioned to the site. The Ride Home now has a proper web site and RSS feed.

Thursday, December 22

• How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis (NYTimes)
• How the algorithm tipped the balance in Ukraine (Washington Post)
• Bob Gottlieb Is the Last of the Publishing Giants The 91-year-old editor waits for his 87-year-old star writer, Robert Caro, to turn in his book. (Vulture)

Friday, December 16

• Spotify’s grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project  (TechCrunch)
• YouTube Stars Cash In Video Rights for Millions of Dollars  (WSJ)
• ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment  (Ben Evans)

Friday, December 16

• Spotify’s grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project (TechCrunch)
• YouTube Stars Cash In Video Rights for Millions of Dollars (WSJ)
• ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment (Ben Evans)

Friday, December 09

• How AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugs  (WSJ)
• The Hype Around Esports Is Fading as Investors and Sponsors Dry Up  (Bloomberg)
• Programmable Ink  (InkAndSwitch)
• How CoinDesk’s FTX scoop left a hole in its corporate overlord  (The Verge)
• Enter the wind tunnel  (Driving Conformity)
• 36 Hours - Wellington, New Zealand  (NYTimes)

Friday, December 09

• How AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugs (WSJ)
• The Hype Around Esports Is Fading as Investors and Sponsors Dry Up (Bloomberg)
• Programmable Ink (InkAndSwitch)
• How CoinDesk’s FTX scoop left a hole in its corporate overlord (The Verge)
• Enter the wind tunnel (Driving Conformity)
• 36 Hours - Wellington, New Zealand (NYTimes)

Friday, December 02

• Generative AI: autocomplete for everything (Noahpinion)
• Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI (The Atlantic)
• The Grown-Up Art of Andor (The New Republic)
• A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s (New Yorker)

Wednesday, November 23

• The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare (The Atlantic)
• Robert Iger Returns to Disney Facing Radically Different Streaming Landscape (WSJ)
• America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone (Washington Post)
• The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Flying in One Day (WSJ)

Friday, November 18

• Tweet thread from @MosquitoCapital on the many ways Twitter could break
• Nvidia RTX 4080 review: performance, for a price  (The Verge)
• 1Password wants to ditch passwords without locking you in to one platform  (Fast Company)
• Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air  (CNET)

Friday, November 18

• Tweet thread from @MosquitoCapital on the many ways Twitter could break
• Nvidia RTX 4080 review: performance, for a price (The Verge)
• 1Password wants to ditch passwords without locking you in to one platform (Fast Company)
• Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air (CNET)

Friday, November 11

• Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad (Vox)
• Can Crypto’s Richest Man Stand the Cold? (Bloomberg)
• Matter is here, but it’s still a long road to the simple smart home (The Verge)
• Twitter alternative: how Mastodon is designed to be “antiviral” (UXCollective)
• Unfollow? Block? And who gets custody of the WhatsApp groups? How to break up in the digital age (The Guardian)

Friday, November 04

• Bored Ape Yacht Club tell all: The untold story of the $4 billion crypto startup  (FastCompany)
• The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech  (Wired)
• The Race to Be Figma for Devs: CodeSandbox vs. StackBlitz  (TheNewStack)
• The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet  (Wired)
• Inside the weirdly competitive industry of robots writing letters in human handwriting  (FastCompany)

Friday, November 04

• Bored Ape Yacht Club tell all: The untold story of the $4 billion crypto startup (FastCompany)
• The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech (Wired)
• The Race to Be Figma for Devs: CodeSandbox vs. StackBlitz (TheNewStack)
• The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet (Wired)
• Inside the weirdly competitive industry of robots writing letters in human handwriting (FastCompany)

Friday, October 28

• Smartphone Storage Space Is the New Turf War for Game Makers (Bloomberg)
• The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now (The Atlantic)
• The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame (NYTimes Magazine)
• The Crypto Story (Matt Levine/Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Which AI Creates the Best (and Most Terrifying) Art? (PC Mag)
• The Fantasy of Instant Delivery Is Imploding (Bloomberg)
• The beginning of the monster Game of Thrones Twitter Thread (Ben Schwartz)

Friday, October 21

• Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review)
• How Gamers Beat NFTs (Bloomberg)
• The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ)
• I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance (The Atlantic)

Friday, October 14

• WhatsApp is now a spammers’ paradise in India (Rest of World)
• The GIF Is on Its Deathbed (The Atlantic)
• Can Kickstarter’s new CEO help the company get its mojo back? (Fast Company)
• The computer errors from outer space (BBC Future)
• How the Glengarry Glen Ross “Coffee Is for Closers” Scene Got Made (Vanity Fair)

Friday, October 07

• Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere (Bloomberg)
• The Illustrated Stable Diffusion (Jay Alammar)
• Swiss Dropout Worth $14 Billion Moves Startup Away From Porn (Bloomberg)
• The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car (WSJ)
• How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive in 2022 (Planet of the Paul)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Wikipedia)

Friday, September 30

• Google is trying to reinvent search — by being more than a search engine  (The Verge)
• Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer  (Bloomberg)
• Here’s Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)  (SlashFilm)
• Someone is pretending to be me.  (Connor Tumbleson)

Friday, September 23

• The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire (Bloomberg)
• How a Quebec Lithium Mine May Help Make Electric Cars Affordable (NYTimes)
• Unauthorized Shein boutiques are popping up across Mexico (Rest of World)
• College Dropout Turns Thiel Fellowship Into a $2 Billion Figma Fortune (Bloomberg)
• Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On? (WSJ)

Friday, September 16

• The AI Unbundling  (Stratechery)
• Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers  (WSJ)
• The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion  (The New Yorker)
• The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books  (The New Yorker)

Friday, September 09

• With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again (ArsTechnica)
• They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down (Rest of World)
• Inside the World’s First No-Coiner Conference (Decrypt)
• Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits (The Atlantic)
• The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse (The Guardian)
• Apple’s features graveyard: Once heavily marketed, now gone (Apple Insider)
• The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia (HayKranen.nl)

Friday, September 02

• An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes.  (NYTimes)
• Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum  (Noahpinion)
• Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator  (Waxy.org)
• The Rise of Tech Blogs in the Mid-2000s  (Nirit Weiss-Blatt)
• Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit  (BuzzFeed)
• AMAZON’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER IS SMALL-SCREEN HIGH FANTASY DONE RIGHT  (The Verge)

Friday, August 26

• The Crypto World Can’t Wait for ‘the Merge’ (NYTimes)
• Ethereum Overhaul Risks Creating a New Class of Kingpins (Bloomberg)
• TikTok, Hospitals And Tutoring Apps: The Many Tentacles Of Chinese Tech Giant ByteDance (Forbes)
• After the Zodiac Killer’s ‘340’ Cipher Stumped the FBI, Three Amateurs Made a Breakthrough (Popular Mechanics)
• ‘BlackBerry’: Story of Doomed Smartphone Company Casts Jay Baruchel & Glenn Howerton, XYZ Films Boards Sales for TIFF (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)

Friday, August 19

• Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari (WSJ)
• The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars (Intelligencer)
• Streaming Is Starting to Look A Lot Like Cable TV (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
• Woman Pictured In The Viral ‘Girl Explaining’ Meme Explains The Origins And Her Reaction To Sudden Internet Fame (Know Your Meme News)
• How Nokia Ringtones Became The First Viral Earworms (The Verge)

Friday, August 12

• How Did Two Unknown Latin Music Operators Make $23 Million From YouTube? The IRS Says They Stole It (Billboard)
• Tornado Cash Crackdown Shows Limits of Regulating Cryptocurrency Services (WSJ)
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (ArsTechnica)
• New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network (AWS Blog)
• The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (Wired)
• The End of Manual Transmission (The Atlantic)

Friday, August 05

• The endless search for a crypto use case (Networked substack)
• It’s paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art (TechCrunch)
• CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications (CNN)
• THE UNSUNG INVENTOR WHO CHASED THE LED RAINBOW (ieee Spectrum)

Friday, July 29

• The Buy Now, Pay Later Juggernaut Is About to Be Tested (Bloomberg)
• F.T.C. Chair Upends Antitrust Standards With Meta Lawsuit (NYTimes)
• Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? (The Markup)
• TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (The New Yorker)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon taught me to be a ruthless capitalist (Polygon)

Friday, July 22

• Chiplets helped save AMD. They might also help save Moore’s law and head off an energy crisis. (Protocol)
• Meta’s next big bet: The ‘metaversity’ (Protocol)
• Amazon C.E.O. Andy Jassy Breaks From the Bezos Way (NYTimes)
• The Great Fiction of AI (The Verge)
• The Re-Reinvention of the Travel Agent (Skift)

Friday, July 15

• How Three Arrows Capital Blew Up and Set Off a Crypto Contagion (Bloomberg)
• The Standards Innovation Paradox (Michael Mignano Medium)
• Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. (NYTimes)
• Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production (NYTimes)
• How the Webb sends its hundred-megapixel images a million miles back to Earth (TechCrunch)
• The Webb Space Telescope’s Profound Data Challenges (iee Spectrum)

Thursday, July 07

• Keeping Phones Running in Wartime Pushes Kyivstar to the Limit (Bloomberg)
• The Metaverse in 2040 (Pew Research Center)
• Not Just a Tennis Podcast, but Rather ‘The’ Tennis Podcast (NYTimes)
• Inside a Superfan’s Secret Friendship With Eddie Van Halen (Rolling Stone)

Thursday, June 30

• Did Razzlekhan and Dutch Pull Off History’s Biggest Crypto Heist? (Bloomberg)
• Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock (Bloomberg)
• The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube (NYTimes Magazine)
• HOW ONE OF GAMING’S MOST INTIMIDATING GENRES SPAWNED A LEGION OF HITS (The Verge)

Friday, June 24

• Web3 Use Cases: Today (Not Boring)
• Where are all the crypto use cases? (Evan Conrad)
• How Russia’s vaunted cyber capabilities were frustrated in Ukraine (Washington Post)
• Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready? (WSJ)
• How Townscaper Works: A Story Four Games in the Making (Game Developer)

Friday, June 17

• What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every)
• ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace (The Guardian)
• A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg)
• Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (Wired)
• What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks (IEEE Spectrum)
• The Best Sci Fi Books for Beginners (FiveBooks.com)

Friday, June 10

• These Drones Could Bring You 5G Networking After a Hurricane (CNET)
• Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire (Forbes)
• The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge (New Yorker)
• Nintendo’s Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story (Kotaku)

Friday, June 03

• Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok. (The Honest Broker)
• Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub (TechCrunch)
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes (Every.to)
• Looking Glass might have just invented the GIF’s 3D successor (The Verge)
• Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? (NYTimes)

Friday, May 27

• The big new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere (MIT Technology Review)
• In India’s Mobile-Payments Boom, Even Beggars Get QR Codes (WSJ)
• The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top (Forbes)
• THE UNSTOPPABLE MACHINES BEHIND THE GAME CONSOLE SHORTAGE (The Verge)
• Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives (The Guardian)

Friday, May 20

• Cyber Insurers Raise Rates Amid a Surge in Costly Hacks (WSJ)
• The Decade of Cheap Rides Is Over (Slate)
• The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans (NYTimes Magazine)
• Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? (Quanta)
• Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised (Vanity Fair)

Friday, May 13

• Terra: To the Moon and Back (Not Boring)
• Why financial engineering has gone full circle with Terra (The Blind Spot)
• Tech workers in Latin America want to make Spanish the primary language of programming (Rest of World)
• The Thing That Makes It Work Means It Doesn’t (Garbage Day)

Friday, May 06

• Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise (Wired)
• Elon Musk’s Fixer Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (Bloomberg)
• Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled (CNN)
• A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY (The Verge)
• The Endgame (Newcomer)

Friday, April 29

• Elon’s Giant Package (Margins Substack)
• Weather Prediction Startups Grow as More Volatile Storms Loom (Bloomberg)
• As Polaroid’s SX-70 turns 50, instant photography is booming (Fast Company)

Friday, April 22

• ApeCoin & the death of staking (Cobie Substack)
• Cutting-Edge Crypto Coins Tout Stability. Critics Call Them Dangerous. (WSJ)
• Rivian CEO Warns of Looming Electric-Vehicle Battery Shortage (WSJ)
• Video Game Junkie Quietly Builds $3 Billion Payments Powerhouse (Bloomberg)
• The Sidekick Was the Best Smartphone Ever (Debugger)

Friday, April 15

• The Talent Vortex: Mafias and Magnets (Investing 101)
• Musk Needs ‘Massive Loan’ or Big Tesla Sale to Buy Twitter (Bloomberg)
• Blind Ambition (Cybernaut/Every.to)
• Stablecoins Are in a War for Dominance and It’s Getting Ugly (Motherboard/Vice)
• How Chris Dixon’s Dive Down The Crypto Rabbit Hole Made Him The World’s Top Venture Capitalist (Forbes)
• AMONG EUROPE’S EX-ROYALS (The Atlantic)

Friday, April 08

• The Scoop: Inside Fast’s Rapid Collapse (The Pragmatic Engineer)
• Millennial Billionaire Ryan Breslow Created Buzz, And Enemies, Attacking Stripe And Shopify. He’s Just Getting Started. (Forbes)
• SCOOP: Crypto Fund Paradigm’s Assets Under Management Climb 343% to $13.2 Billion (Newcomer)
• The Metaverse Has Bosses Too. Meet the ‘Managers’ of Axie Infinity (Motherboard/Vice)
• This Startup Promised People Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs. Now People Feel They’ve Been Scammed. (BuzzFeed)

Friday, April 01

• Online shopping in the middle of the ocean (RestOfWorld)
• Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further. (NYTimes)
• Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support The Principles Of Free Speech (TechDirt)
• A History of Hup, the Jump Sound of Shooting Games (Wired)
• In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid (Waxy.org)

Friday, March 25

• LAPSUS$: How a Sloppy Extortion Gang Became One of the Most Prolific Hacking Groups (Motherboard/Vice)
• The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto’s Future (Time)
• There’s something off about ApeCoin (Platformer)
• Of Course We’re Living in a Simulation (Wired)
• Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All (GQ)

Friday, March 18

• Substack’s Ideology (Divinations)
• A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (Wired)
• Razzlekhan: The Untold Story Of How A YouTube Rapper Became A Suspect In A $4 Billion Bitcoin Fraud (Forbes)
• Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling (Rest Of World)
• The neon shortage is a bad sign (Recode)
• Beating Japan at Its Own (Video) Game: A Smash Hit From China (NYTimes)

Friday, March 11

• The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn’t Quite Happen (Wired)
• Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall (Nautilus)
• Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? (Quanta Magazine)
• The rise of Canva, the $40 billion design juggernaut (Fast Company)
• AngelList: A Venture Constellation (The Generalist)

Friday, March 04

• How shunning Russia could offer the U.S. tech giants an easy win (Politico)
• Tech Companies Are Reopening Their Offices, but Tech Work Has Changed Forever (WSJ)
• The Role Of Turkish Drones In Ukraine’s War (NDTV)
• These women are staking their claim to Web3 and the metaverse (Fast Company)
• The ‘Incredible Treasure Chest’ of Homestar Runner (Vulture)

Friday, February 25

• A moment of clarity (Noapinion Substack)
• Web3 Developers Have Found a Functioning Metaverse. It’s ‘Minecraft’. (Vice)
• CAN THE LAW KEEP UP WITH CRYPTO? (The Verge)
• Crypto Scammers’ New Target: Dating Apps (NYTimes)
• Amazon’s sprawling grocery business has become an ‘expensive hobby’ with a cloudy future (CNBC)

Friday, February 18

• The World Needs What Intel Makes. Can It Make a Comeback? (NYTimes)
• Free your mind: Meditation could be VR’s next killer app (Protocol)
• No one cares about your redesign (Garbage Day)
• If Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTok Will See It Up Close (Wired)
• Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 Million Bet (GQ)

Friday, February 11

• Flexport Is Silicon Valley’s Solution To The Supply Chain Mess—Why Do Insiders Hope It Sinks? (Forbes)
• How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook (Wired)
• Sony’s AI Drives a Race Car Like a Champ (Wired)
• Russia’s drone army contains heaps of Western electronics. Can the U.S. cut them off? (Washington Post)
• The Little Streaming Comedy Platform That Couldn’t (Vulture)
• Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power (Vanity Fair)

Friday, February 04

• HOW ONE COMPANY TOOK OVER THE NFT TRADE (The Verge)
• The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You (Wired)
• North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (Wired)
• Startup Investors Cut Valuations Amid Tech Stock Rout, Dismal IPOs (WSJ)
• How IBM’s Watson Went From the Future of Health Care to Sold Off for Parts (Slate)
• Don’t forget Microsoft (Luttig’s Learnings)

Friday, January 28

• Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs (Folding Ideas on YouTube)
• Three things web3 should fix in 2022 (Platformer)
• The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’ (RollingStone)
• Nothing Sacred: These Apps Reserve The Right To Sell Your Prayers (Buzzfeed News)
• Your Hotel Concierge Is Probably a Texting Robot. Srsly. (WSJ)
• Why Netflix Just Had Its Worst Day in A Decade (Bloomberg)
• Netflix stock market woe is warning to Hollywood (Financial Times)

Friday, January 21

• How Did ID.me Get Between You and Your Identity? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The SPAC Ship Is Sinking. Investors Want Their Money Back. (WSJ)
• THE INSIDE STORY OF IBEER, THE UNDERDOG BEER APP THAT MADE MILLIONS (MelMagazine)
• The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots (The New Yorker)
• How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete (The New Yorker)

Friday, January 14

• Remembering VRML: The Metaverse of 1995 (How To Geek)
• After the Beanie Baby bubble burst (Vox)
• Crypto Firms Gear Up for Battles Over New Rules in Washington (Bloomberg)
• Xbox players are fed up with forced crossplay against PC gamers (The Verge)
• Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court. (The Washington Post)

Friday, January 07

• CES 2022 was the best auto show in years (CNET)
• Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K? (Gizmodo)
• The Pixel Art Revolution Will Be Televised (Wired)
• Banks Tiptoe Toward Their Cloud-Based Future (NYTimes)
• The Danger of Leaving Weather Prediction to AI (Wired)
• Wordle Is a Love Story (NYTimes)

This site is open source. Improve this page.