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May 2023
56m 14s

Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocal...

The New York Times
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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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