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Callum Booth

Amsterdam

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

weeping & gnashing & writing // freelance journalist // co-host @smugbookclub // former managing editor @thenextweb, a @FinancialTimes company

Articles

  • 1 week ago | forbes.com | Callum Booth

    Hailey Bieber just sold Rhode, her make-up brand, to e.l.f. Beauty for a reported $1 billion. This, undeniably, is one of the biggest celebrity acquisitions in recent years and propels Bieber into the upper echelons of wealth in her industry. What’s particularly interesting though is the reaction.

  • 3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Callum Booth

    Wednesday was a big moment for superhero fans: the first trailer for James Gunn’s Superman dropped. While this genre of movie has become a topic for heated online discussion in recent years, the Superman trailer suffered a different fate: genuine enthusiasm. In a perplexing twist of fate, there was a huge swell of online support for the movie.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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callum booth @CallumBooth
12 Mar 25

ah yes, and I wonder how many authors were paid for their work to be scraped for this piece of shit-smothered driftwood “writing”

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Sam Altman @sama

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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callum booth @CallumBooth
5 Mar 25

RT @adegeler: Hello world, meet @unzip_media! I'm starting a new independent media outlet to unpack some of the most important stories i…

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callum booth @CallumBooth
13 Feb 25

some of us still do

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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