Amanda Silberling
@amanda
+ senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com + podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social (@multitude.productions) + she/her ✡️ + sometimes i post about pottery and the phillies + my opinions ≠ my employer’s
not as funny imo but hey maybe you don’t want sam altman’s name on your mug (also can you tell the studio just got a photo backdrop thing)
i just need to give myself enough studio time to really plot out where the letters go + keep things aligned nicely. but. my time is limited. because i spend all my time writing about these jokers. and then i am tired.
i made this image for an article on mini fans (lol) as someone with a basic photoshop foundation and it was not that hard and i didn’t have to ask sam altman’s robot sycophant to do it for me and i enjoyed messing with the colors and textures of the background, sue me
the phillies scored 0 runs before i finished my ice cream and 3 runs after i finished my ice cream. curious.
this is a real billboard, per the SF standard? remember when arctic monkeys released an album about gentrifying the moon in like 2017 but it was supposed to be funny because it felt so farfetched :')
it was kinda fun tho when we got to watch the forecast on da big screen (don’t worry this picture was like an hour ago)
when @okane.fyi got promoted to "special projects" part of that was supposed to be working with other reporters on research so naturally i am taking advantage of his expertise
LMAO I MESSAGED SOMEONE ON LINKEDIN ABOUT THIS BC THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND THEY ACCUSED ME OF BEING AN AI
tbh, being in between "annoyingly omnipresent self help" and "explicit hockey romance" is a pretty good place to be
stayed up late last night making a powerpoint for my friend's bachlorette party. i was invited to the bachlorette party "to make it more fun."
i wrote these two stories within half an hour of each other which also means i sent google a "do you have a comment on being bad at spelling" email and a "do you have a comment on your engineer insider trading?" email within half an hour
i have been trying to do more product reviews of hardware designed to help you stop doomscrolling because, you know, journalism imitates life? anyway, behold, the holy grail of Anti Screentime Products Everyone Talks About which both arrived today -- the brick and light phone iii
truly an honor to be able to tell @ceaubin.com, foremost chronicler of Guys Who Sucked, that Henry Kissinger, one of the Guys Who Sucked of all time, was on the Theranos board
My friend gifted me a branded 2024 Olympics condom from the Olympic village (she is an Olympian). I am reading Adam Rippon’s memoir and he said that at the 2018 Olympics, he couldn’t find the famous Olympic condoms. Extremely funny that I have an Olympic condom and famous athlete does not.
isabel j. kim, everyone. buy sublimation, out 6/2 wherever books are sold.
i was actively conversing via text with @isabel.kim about a deer carcass (don't worry about it) and then i went on bluesky and saw hugo nominations came out and i was like "damn i guess isabel didn't get one this year bc she would've mentioned it since we're literally talking right now" .... but...
went on threads to report on news that zuck posted there and idk the commenters are kinda funny
asked it to make a non-zionist feed of jewish content, found this,,,, weirdly poetic ?? maybe??? also kinda weird???