🔗Links etc. 02/02/23
ChatGPT launches subscription option: Context Collapse #191
Greetings from the weird world.
Here’s what’s on my radar:
Netflix about to make using your account away from home much more annoying (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)
OpenAI launches $20/month ChatGPT Plus in the US (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)
TikTok’s US lobbying and safeguard operation to avoid a government ban (Sara Morrison / Vox)
GoodRx settles with FTC over claims of sharing personal health data with Alphabet, Meta, others (Erin Mulvaney / WSJ)
How TikTok beat Instagram (Chris Stokel-Walker / Insider)
British ad agency employees begin unionizing (Brittaney Kiefer / AdWeek)
A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in (Kevin Deldycke / Github)
Remote work is the best thing to happen to families in decades yet commentators and politicians keep missing it (Erik Hoel / The Intristic Perspective)
Watch out, managers: Job cuts are coming for you next (Sarah Jackson & Lakshmi Varanasi / Insider)
Staffers: CNet pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers (Mia Sato / The Verge)
Dr. Phil show ends after 21 years on TV (Alyssa Lukpat / WSJ)
Watchmeforever is a 24/7 Twitch sitcom that’s “AI generated, always on, always weird” (Watchmeforever / Twitch)
Cool brands disrupting ‘uncool’ categories are the next hot thing (Kira MacKenzie / TikTok vid)
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Marques Brownlee on the new Samsung flagship (MKBHD / YouTube)