Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard Questions

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Twitter look-alike Bluesky, started by the former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, is doing the impossible: making social media fun again. Then, A.I. is coming for jobs but not in the way you think. Plus: Kevin and Casey moonlight as advice columnists in a new Hard Fork segment called Hard Questions.

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0:00.0	I had a viral sandwich ski.
0:03.6	I got a lot, I got more feedback on this sandwich
0:06.1	than I've gotten any post on my Twitter account in months.
0:08.6	First of all, your sandwich photo got like 20 likes.
0:12.2	Okay, I'm loose guy, that's like half the user base.
0:15.6	Just let me have this.
0:18.4	Oh, fine, you can have this.
0:24.4	I'm Kevin Rus, I'm a tech columnist at The New York Times.
0:31.0	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer, and you're listening to HardFork.
0:34.8	This week, Blue Sky is flying high.
0:37.8	So why?
0:38.8	Also, the AI jobs apocalypse has started,
0:42.4	and not the way you think.
0:43.7	And finally, it's time for some hard questions.
0:46.7	I hope they're not too hard.
0:54.8	So last week on the show, we talked briefly about Blue Sky.
1:00.0	This new decentralized social media app that is basically a Twitter clone.
1:05.2	And then in the past week, Blue Sky really had a moment.
1:09.6	It's having a moment.
1:11.2	It's gotten a ton of new sign ups.
1:13.6	People are calling it like the success of Blue Sky.
1:16.8	It's got a lot of new stuff.
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