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Longread Links from The Ride Home Podcast

This collection is no longer being updated regularly.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.

Friday, December 27

• Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (NYTimes)
• Hawk Tuah Wasn’t What It Seemed (The Atlantic)
• The Paper Passport Is Dying (Wired)
• You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family (Wired)

Friday, December 13

• The Cult of Claude (NYTimes)
• How WhatsApp ate the world (Rest Of World)

Friday, December 06

• He Was Going to Save Intel. He Destroyed $150 Billion of Value Instead. (WSJ)
• Friend or Faux (The Verge)
• When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk (The Atlantic)

Wednesday, November 27

• Should You Still Learn to Code in an A.I. World? (NYTimes)
• Bad influence (The Verge)

Friday, November 22

• Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky (The Verge)
• How Mark Zuckerberg has fully rebuilt Meta around Llama (Fortune)
• Are the robots finally coming? (FT)

Friday, November 15

• Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop (The Verge)
• Klarna’s Seb Siemiatkowski — from burger flipping to billionaire club (Financial Times)
• Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World (Wired)

Friday, November 08

• Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (ArsTechnica)
• What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon (Intelligencer)

Friday, November 01

• Meta’s AI Abundance (Stratechery)
• After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller (Bloomberg)

Friday, October 25

• The mystifying, acrimonious battle between Arm and Qualcomm (Financial Times)
• Who Gets the TikTok in the Divorce? The Messy Fight Over Valuable Social Media Accounts (WSJ)

Friday, October 11

• Google’s Nobel Haul Puts Spotlight on Changing Focus of Scientific Research (Bloomberg)
• The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame (GQ)

Friday, October 04

• Saving Cyberpunk 2077: How CD Projekt Red recovered from one of video games’ most disastrous launches (EuroGamer)
• The Flying Car Is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal. (Intelligencer)

Friday, September 27

• McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened (CNN)
• Apple Rolls Back Its Big Plans to Release Movies in Theaters (Bloomberg)
• The 27-Year-Old Economic Adviser for Gen Z (WSJ)

Friday, September 20

• American Vulcan - Palmer Luckey (TabletMag)
• The Death of the Minivan (The Atlantic)

Friday, September 13

• Intel Has Only Tough Options After Its Long and Stinging Fall From Grace (Bloomberg)

Friday, September 06

• Waymo’s Robot Taxis Are Almost Mainstream. Can They Now Turn a Profit? (NYTimes)
• When the Bitcoin Scammers Came for Me (The Atlantic)
• Among the Idlers (Curbed)

Friday, August 30

• Sunk cost (the Open Sea story) (The Verge)
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games)
• I Watched Footage of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased 1972 Holocaust Film (The New Republic)
• End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (AnandTech)

Friday, August 23

• New Breed of EV Promises 700 Miles per Charge (Just Add Gas) (Bloomberg)
• Popping the Bubble of Noise-Cancelling Headphones (The New Yorker)

Friday, August 16

• Inside the Snowflake-Databricks Rivalry, and Why Both Fear Microsoft (Bloomberg)
• The Little Streamer That Could (NYTimes)
• Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You (The Atlantic)

Friday, August 09

• Why are so many car YouTubers quitting? (The Verge)
• Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign (Politico Magazine)

Friday, August 02

• A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers (Wired)
• The AI Keeps Score (The Verge)

Friday, July 26

• Airbnb Hosts Want Guests to Come to Them Directly (Bloomberg)
• Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever (New Scientist)
• He says he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. He didn’t, said Frito-Lay. Now he’s suing (LATimes)

Friday, July 19

• A One-Man Telemundo on TikTok (NYTimes)
• Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business (Wired)

Thursday, July 11

• Defeated by A.I., a Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What’s Next (NYTimes)

Wednesday, July 03

• Internet Browsers Are Getting a Makeover for the Workplace (WSJ)
• A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots (NYTimes)

Friday, June 28

• YouTube dominates streaming, forcing media companies to decide whether it’s friend or foe (CNBC)

Friday, June 21

• Why are mobile game ads so weird and bad? (Sherwood)
• From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (ArsTechnica)
• The song Stevie Nicks wrote to “haunt” Lindsey Buckingham (Far Out)

Friday, June 14

• I Know What the Apple Vision Pro Is For (Intelligencer)

Friday, June 07

• Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (Bloomberg)
• The Unistellar Odyssey smart telescope made me question what stargazing means (ArsTechnica)

Friday, May 31

• Disney Is Banking On Sequels to Help Get Pixar Back on Track (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• They Built a $100 Million Watch Empire. Then the Market Tanked. (WSJ)
• The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong (Defector)

Friday, May 24

• VCs and the military are fueling self-driving startups that don’t need roads (TechCrunch)
• Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free (The Verge)

Friday, May 17

• In a single night, self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale. Here’s what really happened—and how GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet (Fortune)
• How cuddly robots could change dementia care (MIT Technology Review)
• Where Did All The Stocks Go? (Sherwood)

Friday, May 10

• Tim Cook Can’t Run Apple Forever. Who’s Next? (Bloomberg)
• World’s Biggest Construction Project Gets a Reality Check (WSJ)

Friday, May 03

• The Revenge of the Home Page (The New Yorker)
• Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything? (Wired)

Friday, April 26

• The Chips Act has been surprisingly successful so far (Financial Times)
• Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation (The New Yorker)

Friday, April 19

• How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated? (The New Yorker)
• The Life and Death of Hollywood (Harper’s Magazine)
• How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months (The Guardian)

Friday, April 12

• AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (RollingStone)
• How Bluey Became a $2 Billion Smash Hit—With an Uncertain Future (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 05

• How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class (NYTimes)
• How WhatsApp became the world’s default communication app (Engadget)
• The 18 most interesting startups from YC’s Demo Day show we’re in an AI bubble (TechCrunch)
• YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more (TechCrunch)

Friday, March 29

• How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU (IEEE Spectrum)
• How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything (Texas Monthly)

Friday, March 22

• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story (Wired)
• China’s Super-Cheap EVs Offer Hope for Average American Buyers (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Indie, rocked (The Verge)

Friday, March 15

• Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO? (Wired)
• One Big Reason Gen Z Is Still on Facebook: To Save Money (NYTimes)
• How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race (Vox)

Friday, March 08

• The Nvidia Chips Inside Powerful AI Supercomputers (WSJ)
• Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (Washington Post)
• How Netflix’s Massive Paydays, COVID and TikTok Caused ‘Explosion of Comedians’ (Variety)

Friday, March 01

• Wait. Why is Reddit losing so much money? (Business Insider)
• The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley’s Giants (WSJ)
• What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet (The New Yorker)

Friday, February 23

• Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (Wired)
• Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World (Wired)

Friday, February 16

• The fediverse, explained (The Verge)
• How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix (RestOfWorld)

Friday, February 09

• Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• AI Just Discovered ‘Unreadable’ Ancient Scrolls (National Geographic)

Friday, February 02

• AI Can Speed Drug Discovery. But Is It Really Better Than a Human? (Bloomberg)
• The scariest sound on TikTok (The Verge)
• The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time (Rolling Stone)
• LATE BLOOMER (Vanity Fair)

Friday, January 19

• How Twitch lost its way (Fast Company)
• Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time (Vox)

Friday, January 12

• How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God (Fast Company)
• How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out (ArsTechnica)

Friday, January 05

• A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. (Politico)
• New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists (NYTimes)
• Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris (NYTimes)
• Full game of Tetris beaten for the first time by 13-year-old Willis Gibson AKA ‘Blue Scuti’ (YouTube)

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