In this week's edition of You May Also Like, I wrote about where the dildos come from youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/tiktok-whist…

The path forward for AI and low-resource languages isn't about 'indiscriminately telling the world it needs ChatGPT, but asking native speakers what the technology can do for them,' writes Matteo Wong theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

next week's episode of better offline covers the donghua jinlong glycine meme, and also has important journalism around dildo making machines, featuring Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang

Divyansh is really the best of the best and Beacon is lucky to have him

Scoop: TikTok is introducing a new app (code name Coin App) in Spain & France that allows users to earn points by watching videos and doing other tasks, that can be redeemed as gift cards or sent to creators as digital tips, as growth in EU is “stagnant” theinformation.com/articles/tikto…

Don’t get fooled: the Donghua Jinlong videos are a clear example of the CCP using TikTok to covertly boost sales of its high quality industrial grade glycine to American consumers as Beijing grapples with its excess industrial capacity.

youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jing…

“Idk how you watch reality tv” ohhhh I’m sorry is observing human interconnectivity and culture no longer in vogue? watch your tone I am an anthropologist

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This is horrifying

For my newsletter this week I wrote about how an industrial chemical manufacturer became a TikTok meme, and what Chinese influence actually looks like on TikTok youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jing…

Such a bizarre story and a great scoop from Louise Matsakis - a former junior TikTok employee who worked there for six months seems to have had an outsized impact on Washington's thinking on TikTok wired.com/story/tiktok-w…

Whistleblower to Wired: 'I am free, I am honest, and I am doing this only because I am an American and because USA desperately need help and I cannot keep this truth away from PUBLIC' wired.com/story/tiktok-w…

Meet the TikTok whistleblower who got DC's attention.

He says TikTok & the FBI surveilled him 24-7, among other improbable claims. Yet he found a ready audience with US lawmakers over his allegations of TikTok's ties to China. Big scoop from Louise Matsakis

wired.com/story/tiktok-w…

Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable. But he still may have shaped how the app is viewed in Washington.

must read from Louise Matsakis:
wired.com/story/tiktok-w…

we are just 2 months away from the release of THE OTHER OLYMPIANS!!!

my book centers on a group of top athletes who transitioned gender in 1935 and 1936

one of them, Zdeněk Koubek, became such a celebrity that he performed on Broadway and danced with Josephine Baker

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#IYHH Louise Matsakis - The End of Foreign-Language Education bit.ly/3J9Blow

-bomani 'Easier and better are not perfectly substitutable terms.' #TheRightTime

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Chinese state media made an AI-generated music video about US federal debt for some reason

Wow the social commerce app Flip has raised $144 million. It has 6 million users and lets people scroll through video product reviews. Amazon's reviews are a mess and TikTok Shop still feels cheap and scammy, so maybe there's a market for Flip bloomberg.com/news/articles/…