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cyle gage

@cyle.dev
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product person! probably gonna talk tech on here, and gardening, and photography, and who knows 🛠️ cyle.dev / cylegage.com 📸

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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 08/09/2025
i keep getting signed out of the bluesky app every day. ☹️
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 05/08/2025
the most kermit-nod on-brand rich person company purchase of the last 10 years www.theverge.com/news/718639/...
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Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company
This yacht company is gaining steam.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 05/08/2025
ah yes, a social feed in which nothing is real, taking my "hot take that's actually a joke" about myspace in 2005 all the way to reality techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/c...
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Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app | TechCrunch
The social feed lets users share images, videos, and their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets of their chats with characters, post AI-generated images based on their chats with a...
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 05/08/2025
somehow Apple is fine with THIS being in the App Store, meanwhile every other app gets a harsh phone call and an app rejection if they have women in bikinis techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/g...
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Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch
Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 05/08/2025
i bet that one person working at twitter who quit long ago and was the sole person still supporting the vine archive is very upset right now, and rightfully so techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/e...
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Elon Musk says he's bringing back Vine's archive | TechCrunch
Elon Musk says the company will bring Vine's archive of videos back online.
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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 29/07/2025
"A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date." - Wikipedia theglobe.com on May 22, 2001 web.archive.org/web/20010522050731i…
Screenshot of theglobe.com on May 22, 2001
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 29/07/2025
abnormally jazzed to note that i’ll be working as director of product at Raptive, helping to build a fun new creator-first community platform!
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 27/07/2025
"we don't keep logs of conversations" but "there's no legal confidentiality when using chatgpt as therapist" cannot both be true, because if you're not keeping logs, then the conversation must be confidential, right? ...right? (OF COURSE they keep logs!) techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/s...
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Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality fo...
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 23/07/2025
@asklumo.proton.me my chat history may be encrypted locally, but obviously something is being transmitted to a server and parsed on that server by a model. that part can’t possibly be encrypted by my keys. why not use a local model on device to ensure complete end to end encryption, no server?
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 22/07/2025
everybody wants graphs with numbers going up and to the right! who wouldn’t want some more? techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/t...
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Threads adds improved content performance metrics for creators | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned platform says the updates are focused on helping creators build audiences.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 11/07/2025
age verification is coming for everybody, watch out folks, it's gonna be rough and privacy-invasive! www.theverge.com/news/704468/...
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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 11/07/2025
even youtube knows that the monocultural singular trending feed is long dead www.theverge.com/news/704222/...
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YouTube’s ‘Trending’ section is about to disappear
Charts are the new focus.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 10/07/2025
nightmare fuel: your car transforming into MechaHitler as you're just trying to commute to work techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...
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Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week,' says Elon Musk  | TechCrunch
Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 09/07/2025
meanwhile, testing tea consumption patterns 2,000 years into it is still worthwhile, thank you for your service dynomight.net/tea/
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Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment
what brewing temperature is best?
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 09/07/2025
once again academia swinging into the scene 10+ years too late, thanks for missing the boat. neat you paid attention but shouldn't you be on the forefront rather than the backfoot? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder
(Forthcoming Article) - Online dating apps have transformed the dating market, yet their broader effects remain unclear. We study Tinder’s impact on college students using its initial marketing focus ...
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 09/07/2025
had the random circumstance to be listening to many hours of Ozzy's Boneyard on SiriusXM and it was mostly a journey of me wondering how anybody, anywhere, could've ever been morally panicked about this kind of music. it's all so fun and obviously tongue-in-cheek! and great riffs, of course.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 09/07/2025
every day i wonder whether anybody could make this stuff up as a plotline for Silicon Valley or Black Mirror or something and i realize that we don't need dark satire TV anymore arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”
X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 07/07/2025
big big DAU driver. can’t wait to see if the downstream bluesky stats move in tandem! www.theverge.com/news/699671/...
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Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Alerts for things both important and unimportant.
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Okomotive @okomotive.ch · 07/07/2025
Both FAR games are currently heavily discounted in the Steam Summer Sale 🥰 A perfect time to gift it to friends or tell people to play it 🙏 store.steampowered.com/developer/ok...
Screenshot of two Steam capsules: FAR Changing Tides is 70% off and FAR Lone Sails is 90% off
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 07/07/2025
robocalling in the new age techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/m...
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Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first | TechCrunch
Meta is experimenting with having customizable chatbots messaging users unprompted and follow up on past conversations.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 07/07/2025
hmmmmmmmmm you don’t say arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/m...
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Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”
Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 03/07/2025
what is this, 2016? techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/s...
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Substack brings new updates to livestreaming as it increases video push | TechCrunch
The recent update enables creators to share clips of their live videos on Notes, and Substack will notify them in real time about the performance.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 02/07/2025
😏 techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/a...
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Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold | TechCrunch
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to WordPress, as previously announced.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 02/07/2025
just can’t imagine how this could go wrong, taking an essentially human-centric feature and handing it over to AI techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x...
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X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes | TechCrunch
The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes, a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service now called X.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 30/06/2025
the fact that Anthropic literally "tore off the bindings" of books and then threw them away to get at what they wanted sounds exactly like how ruthless they are to me. knowing that, imagine what they're doing with that data and your data. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
fingfx.thomsonreuters.com
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 28/06/2025
please realize that allowing an app to have complete access to your phone’s photo library inevitably leads to this, which is why iOS keeps asking if you’re really sure you wanna allow it www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...
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Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 27/06/2025
what’s “harmful to minors” is gonna be a fun space to watch. also, uploading your ID everywhere, not just for porn. just you wait. privacy and security engineers having nightmares already. techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/s...
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SCOTUS porn ruling opens door to sweeping internet age verification | TechCrunch
Age verification in this context does not mean mindlessly clicking a box to declare that you are an adult — it means uploading government ID documents or using third-party verification platforms to pr...
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 27/06/2025
everything on social eventually comes back to brands wanting to get the social part out of the way and just have direct access to its audience techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/t...
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TikTok is testing its own version of Instagram's 'broadcast channels' | TechCrunch
TikTok is testing a new bulletin boards feature, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 26/06/2025
i guess it has been long enough for us to rehash this movie theme again, ugh. when do i get a new Poseidon Adventure? www.theverge.com/news/693198/...
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Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network
Aaron Sorkin will write and direct The Social Network Part II for Sony.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 26/06/2025
another one for the “sure we destroyed the world, but for awhile there we created a lot of shareholder value” meme, thanks bernie techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/b...
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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek | TechCrunch
As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 24/06/2025
gamifying retention in ways that’ll probably be a part of social media sooner than we think www.theverge.com/news/691308/...
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Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back
Including a daily engagement reward.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 24/06/2025
big “please dont put in the newspaper that im working on a wearable” energy www.theverge.com/openai/69173...
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OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable
It’s also not shipping for at least a year.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 21/06/2025
sounds familiar 👀
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 19/06/2025
love how the app for my car shows its VIN mostly-obscured like an SSN with asterisks for most of its characters, but then has the same VIN as the default profile name in fully unobscured plaintext in the same view. very smart security measures.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 19/06/2025
one thing i haven't taken enough time to dig into here on bluesky: if i'm posting about "Tech", how do i get to show up in the "Tech" suggested accounts that official bluesky is listing under that category? please don't tell me it's manually curated...
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 19/06/2025
the full WSJ interview makes even more sense to me as to why Apple hasn't shipped what the ChatGPT-focused people were expecting. they're building something that's more like a toolkit beneath the product, not a product-chatbot in itself, because those chatbots suck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEk...
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Apple Execs on What Went Wrong with Siri, iOS 26 and More (Full Interview) | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 18/06/2025
“reportedly only 62% of U.S. adults own any stocks directly” — i didn’t know you could use the word “only” to describe a majority of people. also, “stock trading family plan” is too funny. can’t wait to read @mattlevineofficial.bsky.social ‘s take on this. techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/g...
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Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating | TechCrunch
Investment app Grifin secured a $11 million Series A funding round.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 18/06/2025
“what if it was reddit, but not. again.” digg 2: the search for more money. lining up with the spaceballs 2 announcement is pretty perfect. but yeah, 24 hour resetting leaderboards is an interesting DAU play, could also backfire wonderfully. techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/h...
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Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch
Digg launched its iOS app to testers who are a part of its Groundbreakers community of early adopters.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 18/06/2025
and people think bluesky is an echo chamber, threads is like “hold my beer” techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/a...
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A glitch is turning Threads into a literal echo chamber | TechCrunch
A Threads glitch is making it look like everyone on your feed is saying the same thing.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 18/06/2025
film is fun in that they do literally just sell the exact same film stock with a different brand name on it and just slap an extra $2.50 per roll on it, and it works! www.theverge.com/news/689006/...
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Leica is launching its own 35mm film
100 years after the Leica I, the company finally has its own film
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 18/06/2025
nobody could've guessed this turn of events!!! www.theverge.com/news/688252/...
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Trump is giving TikTok another ban extension
It’s the third time he’s pushed it back.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 18/06/2025
solid gold internet content www.craigslist.org/about/best/a...
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craigslist: best-of-craigslist
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 17/06/2025
folks have forgotten that tumblr pioneered automated misclassification of adult content back in 2018. history repeats. techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/t...
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Tumblr's content filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as 'mature,' users blame AI | TechCrunch
Tumblr users are complaining that content is being falsely labeled as mature, the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 17/06/2025
i’d love to know what percentage of threads DAUs even know the fediverse toggle exists in the first place, let alone who would actually use this feed. my bet would be way less than 1%. www.theverge.com/news/688267/...
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Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
It’s not full ActivityPub integration, but it’s… closer.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 17/06/2025
little late now… techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/m...
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Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training | TechCrunch
Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 17/06/2025
“social app on the blockchain” feels like five years ago techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/o...
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Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy | TechCrunch
Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 17/06/2025
roses!!!
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 16/06/2025
feels weird that they’d choose this as the first rich text option, but okay techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/t...
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Threads is testing spoiler text, Zuckerberg says | TechCrunch
Threads, Meta's microblogging platform, is testing spoiler text. This is a nice quality-of-life upgrade on the user side, but it also helps Meta by encouraging more conversations about pop culture wit...
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 16/06/2025
social medias is the same techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/i...
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Instagram tests a reposts feature | TechCrunch
Instagram is testing the ability for users to repost posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
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cyle gage @cyle.dev · 16/06/2025
coooooooooooooooooooooool riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/u...
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US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a nerdy name
: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201
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