Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination + Tech Elites for Trump + TikTok's Jawmaxxing Trend

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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“The 2024 internet is just different than the internet we lived on four years ago.”

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0:00.0	Oh, happy Prime Day. Thank you. Happy Prime Day to you as well. I imagine you'll be getting
0:06.7	together with your family later for the annual Prime Day feast.
0:09.3	Yes. What is your family cook on Prime Day?
0:12.2	Deals. We cook deals. What is your family cook on Prime Day?
0:14.0	Deals. Oh, deals.
0:15.0	Yeah, so actually, you know, I am such a good company man, a good employee of the New York Times company that I bought some stuff on Prime Day this year because I am like a you know you're always looking
0:26.4	endless capitalist yeah and I like a deal and so I bought a robot vacuum because our old one is broken and just it was time.
0:36.7	And I placed the order and then I realized to my horror that I had not used the wire cutter
0:41.7	affiliate link to purchase said robot vacuum.
0:45.8	Starving the New York Times of Revenue.
0:47.4	And I actually cancelled the order and went back and ordered it using the affiliate link and that is why I'm a good company man.
0:55.0	That is amazing.
0:57.0	Well, hopefully they will take that into account during your performance review this year.
1:01.0	I'll certainly be putting in a good word with your bosses.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	Now tell me about this robot back.
1:06.0	Does have any new features compared to your last robot vacuum?
1:08.0	Does it have AI in it, Kevin?
1:11.0	It sure does.
1:12.0	Does it talk and you talk to it? I hope so. I hope so. I've been saying for years. Well so my old
1:17.5	room but which has to be retired unfortunately was named Bruce Bruce and so I would often get these little alerts on my
1:29.2	phone that said like Bruce has gotten stuck and I did develop honestly like a kind of empathy for this this pathetic excuse for a house
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