đź”® Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-19
In this edition, I dive into the Friday news dump and share some hilarious memes!
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Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses “AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning” and AI can make movies “10% better” (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
By Dade Hayes / Deadline. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
By Matthew Gault / 404 Media. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war may hinder the US computing industry by raising costs for building chip fabs and AI data centers (Financial Times)
From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
By Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of about $61.9M and $60.3M in 2024, up from $49.8M and $40.1M in 2023, respectively (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
By Jill Goldsmith / Deadline. View the full context on Techmeme.
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