389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/22/23
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Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.
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Links:
- Techmeme.
- Mediagazer -- Techmeme's sibling site focused on media news.
- Memeorandum -- Political news, auto-aggregated.
- Gabe, on Threads, advocating for a much-needed posting API.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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October 31, 2023
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Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.
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Links:
- Apple’s “Scary Fast” keynote event video.
- The Verge: "All the News From Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Mac Event".
- Behind the scenes of the "Scary Fast" keynote film, shot on iPhone.
- Stu Maschwitz: "Log Is the 'Pro' in iPhone 15 Pro".
- Matthew Perry’s drunken night out with M. Night Shyamalan -- hilarious anecdote on The Graham Norton Show.
- GitHub Universe 2023.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel
November 30, 2023
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Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.
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Links:
- Barack Fucking Obama on Decoder.
- Matthew Panzarino on Decoder.
- Sports Illustrated’s phony AI writers.
- Horace Dediu back in 2011: “The Cook Doctrine”.
- Searching YouTube for “LG vs. GE refrigerators”.
- Nilay’s Pulitzer-nominated investigation into how many wiper blades are on the Tesla Cybertruck.
- Doug DeMuro’s car-review YouTube channel.
- Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC.
- Steve Jobs on how most professional managers are bozos.
- Nilay’s AI-written article: “Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine”.
- Amanda Chicago Lewis’s crackerjack feature story at The Verge on SEO “experts”: “The People Who Ruined the Internet”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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