Callum Booth
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
weeping & gnashing & writing // freelance journalist // co-host @smugbookclub // former managing editor @thenextweb, a @FinancialTimes company
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Callum Booth
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders went live at 12AM ET on Thursday—but things didn’t go smoothly. Walmart, Best Buy and Target suffered issues that kept keen gamers away from their consoles. This, unsurprisingly, led to some heading online to vent about their frustration. This event and subsection of users is an interesting case study in how the online world has altered retail—and how social media and meme culture helps people navigate this strange new world.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Callum Booth
Did Jurassic Park teach us nothing? After TIME reported on scientists who supposedly brought back dire wolves from extinction, parts of the online world acted somewhat unexpectedly. Rather than being excited, many people were mocking and ridiculing the return of the dire wolf. Negativity reigned. And while not everyone online reacted this way, it’s enough of a movement to be interesting — because the reaction shows how social media helps us handle societal change.
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2 months ago |
thenextweb.com | Chris Chinchilla |Thomas Macaulay |Callum Booth |Saidat Giwa-Osagie
Skip to content Computer hardware equals the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system. Computer hardware refers to the physical parts or components of a computer such as monitor, keyboard, Computer data storage, hard drive disk, mouse, printers, CPU (graphic cards, sound cards, memory, motherboard and chips), etc all of which are physical objects that you can actually touch. In contrast, software is untouchable.
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Callum Booth
The U.S. stock market has had a rocky week, losing $4 trillion in value. While this might appear to be a cause of concern, some corners of the internet are celebrating and mocking S&P and DOW markets nosebombing. The question, of course, is why? This gleeful and sneering reaction the United States’ stock market plummeting isn’t something everyone on social media is participating in, instead being a subsection.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Callum Booth
1 day agoNew York CNN — Just 20 days ago, the US stock market was sitting at all-time highs. The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight. Now, the R-word is seemingly everywhere. Recession fears are rocking the stock market. GDP forecasts are getting slashed. …
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ah yes, and I wonder how many authors were paid for their work to be scraped for this piece of shit-smothered driftwood “writing”
we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story
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some of us still do
We really used to have to download an album, upload it the files to iTunes, plug in our phone to the computer, and sync everything up
