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  1. Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar

    CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.

    Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.

    3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company

    This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.

    3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag

    I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.

    3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag

    In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.

    3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag

    My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.

    3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica

    I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.

    #AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines
  2. ‘Manhood’ Review: Daniel Lombroso Sensitively Navigates Insecurities of American Masculinity While Breaking Its Taboos
    #Variety #Reviews #Manhood #SXSW

    variety.com/2026/film/reviews/

  3. Issa Rae on Black TV History: ‘They Built the Success of Their Networks on Our Backs, and We Almost Don’t Have Anything to Show For It’
    #Variety #News #IssaRae #SeenandHeard #SXSW

    variety.com/2025/tv/news/issa-

  4. The event season is gearing up for an exciting month! Check out March's calendar: eventsforgamers.com/march-2025 📅

    Featured events include ➡️ GDC, PG Connects, Nvidia's GTC, and more. Which are you attending? #GameDev #Conference #GDC2025 #SXSW #MeetToMatch #IndieCade 🎉

  5. “A disaster horror comedy that’s equal parts CAN’T HARDLY WAIT and IDLE HANDS, Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut Y2K is often hilariously sincere in its depiction of social and technological anxieties from the tail end of 1999….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️🍿 #film #movies #cinema #SXSW #SXSW2024 #CineMastodon

    SXSW Review: Kyle Mooney’s Unhinged Directorial Debut Y2K Parties Like It’s 1999 thefilmstage.com/sxsw-review-k

  6. Some are asking. Actually, for many of us who lived in Austin, we lost patience for SXSW some time in the early 1990s. It went from a week of sets at participating venues for exclusively *unsigned* bands to a music industry schmooze fest. So, it brought hordes of the most annoying douchebags imaginable to town to clog up the restaurants and bars. It became the one week you didn't want to go out. That was all before SXSW added a film festival and tech conference.

    texasmonthly.com/arts-entertai

    #SXSW #SXSW2024 #Gaza #Palestine #Austin

  7. Austin4Palestine.org has a full list of all those who dropped out of South by Southwest (SXSW) 2024 events because of the participation of arms manufacturers who arm the Israeli military, and the “Super Sponsor" the US Army — who aid the IDF in myriad ways.

    The list includes two musicians labor unions and the entire lineups of three independent record companies. Check out their music, see them live if you get the chance.

    Austin Federation of Musicians (AFM 433)
    United Musicians and Allied Workers
    Tiger balm – RECORD LABEL
    Keeled Scales – RECORD LABEL
    Flatspot Records -Entire showcase

    TC Superstar
    Merce Lemon
    Proper.
    Squirrel Flower
    Shalom
    Eliza McLamb
    Mamalarky
    Abe Batshon
    Amatheband
    Bloomsday
    The Curls
    Greg Freeman
    Buffalo Nichols
    This is Lorelei
    Madison Baker
    Jess Cornelius
    Groa
    Lucîa Beyond
    Luge
    Fantasy of a broken heart
    Friend
    Birthday Girl
    Lucy Kruger
    MEDUSA
    TAGABOW
    Kneecap
    Omni
    Frances Chang
    Gel
    Winona Forever
    gavin james
    soda blonde
    Scowl
    Dear Life Records
    Tomato Flower
    Godcaster
    Sarah Morrison
    Kolb
    Gold Dime
    BabyBaby_Explores
    Mei Semones
    Smut
    Lambrini Girls
    Sprints
    Little Mazarn
    Yaya Bey
    Enola Gay
    The New Eves
    Tetchy
    Subsonic Eye
    Conchúr White
    Mick Flannery
    Chalk
    May Rio
    Fust
    The Armed
    Lip Critic
    Font
    Discovery Zone
    Allegra Krieger
    Vera Ellen
    cumgirl8
    BODEGA
    Farmers Wife
    Reyna Tropical
    Mindshrine
    Pons
    Robert grace
    Cardinals
    Rachel chinourini
    Good looks
    Holiday ghosts
    Venus Twins
    Teenage sequence
    Big bill
    Antiquated joke
    Horse Jumper of Love
    Ritual
    Trauma Ray
    Villagerrr
    Buggin
    Strange Joy
    Lady Apple Tree
    Zuck The System
    Ben Aqua
    Glare
    Being Dead
    Perfectly Imperfect (Music Newsletter)– SHOW CASE
    High as fuck band
    Shred flintstone
    Shower curtain
    Glixen
    Joyer
    Bbslugs
    New dad
    Gurriers
    Thor Harris
    Alex dl

    #SXSW #SXSW2024 #Gaza #Palestine #Austin

  8. OMFG I 💜 YOU DAHLIA LITHWICK!
    "...there’s a brand-new berating in town that goes something like this: '... Why doesn’t anyone write about Y?'...
    "it’s a way to fault #journalism writ large for the fact that we now live in bubbles so tiny they can only deliver the same content...
    "...we can ask ourselves what matters to us, + why we aren’t seeing it, + how we might find it. "

    slate.com/business/2024/03/new

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    i blame this phenomenon in #music too. 🙄 Hashtags mine. #SXSW #SXSW2024 #andsearchengines

  9. “Many elected officials want the #disinformation. There are literally hundreds of election deniers in Congress. Do you think they’re going to allow a federal agency to counter disinformation?”

    Is our #democracy ready for #AI technologies? Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti reports from #SXSW: texasobserver.org/sxsw-disinfo

    #politics #USpol #news #elections #LLM #Austin #Texas #SXSW2024 #war