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Substack writers say Twitter’s newsletter ban is bad for business — and worse for Twitter
This week, Twitter began restricting the promotion of links to Substack newsletters, a move that seems to fly in the face of owner Elon Musk’s vocal support of free speech on the platform. The change is a huge problem for Substack writers, who have found Twitter to be one of the best places to attract new subscribers to their newsletters.
“It appears that Musk is making decisions based on his own financial interests and petty grievances — even if it makes Twitter objectively worse for users,” Judd Legum, author of Popular Information, a politics-focused newsletter with more than 240,000 subscribers, says in an email to The Verge. “If this continues, it’s hard to justify continuing to invest my time creating content on Twitter.”
The ban…
Hunting Ghosts At Concentration Camps Is No Worse Than At Any Location Where People Have Died
PC gaming’s obsession with high-end hardware is only going to get worse according to analysts
Cities: Skylines 2 developer says multiplayer would make the ‘core player experience’ worse
Cyberpunk 2077’s new ‘Overdrive’ ray tracing mode actually kind of looks worse to me
Fortnite Fans Are Nostalgic For When The Game Was Clearly Worse
Unreal Editor for Fortnite is finally here. And while over time this will change Fortnite into something that is so far beyond the Fortnite that we know today, nothing really has changed just yet. The beginning of Creative 2.0 is just a nicer version of Creative 1.0, if we’re being honest. The future is extremely exciting, but it’s going to take a while for folks to take full advantage of the UEFN.
While we wait for that future to arrive, the talk of the town has been two attempts to use UEFN to recreate Fortnite’s Battle Royale island as it existed in Chapter 1 Season 3. Longtime Fortnite players have been in a tizzy over these, excited to usher in a new era of Old Fortnite. That new era will never actually happen, though, because the game was worse in every way and can’t actually be fully restored anyway.
The first of these retro maps, Atlas Creative’s Atlas OG Battle Royale, was a disastrous janky mess when it went live alongside the debut of Creative 2.0–though the Atlas folks have stabilized the map pretty well now. The second, Reboot Royale, launched a few days later and looks much nicer, but significant sacrifices were made to keep the map under the memory limit. But these are the first-ever attempts to build maps on this scale in Fortnite Creative, so some amount of jank is to be expected.
Microsoft’s mission to make Windows 11 worse continues with ads in the Start menu
California’s Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse
Google Bard is Worse Than ChatGPT, Say Early Testers
“I’ve been playing with Google Bard for a while today and I never thought I’d say this, but… Bing is way ahead of Google right now (at this specific chat feature),” tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee tweeted on Tuesday. Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation, added that although it’s early, “Google’s Bard does not seem as capable as a learning tool as Bing or GPT-4.” Mollick notes that “Google’s Bard loses” to its rival “by a lot” in poetry, struggling far more in its potential to generate a sestina, fixed verse form from France made up of 39 lines. A prompt to get Bard to generate a synopsis of a “Star Wars” movie in the style of filmmaker David Lynch, known for his off-kilter storytelling, ended up producing a bog-standard “Star Wars” plot. Bard also has issues handling word puzzles, an area where AIs powered by large language models should theoretically excel. Take Twofer Goofer, an online puzzle that involves users figuring out what a pair of mystery rhyming words are through slightly obtuse prompts and clues.
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