Amanda Silberling
+ senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com
+ podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social
(@multitude.productions)
+ she/her ✡️
+ talking too much about pottery and the phillies
+ my opinions ≠ my employer’s
- the greatest joy in my life is asking overly qualified academics really dumb questions about the field of study they have devoted their lives to (i.e. did medieval people smoke weed?)
- this is such a good deal that it feels like theft
- soap pumps!!!!! the precision of making the threaded pumps fit was very challenging for me!! i am shocked i got it to work the first time
- Looking to talk to AI researchers/engineers or cybersecurity folks about how moltbook works, how possible it is that it's just a bunch of humans prompting AI to say specific things, and what privacy/security concerns are at play -- amanda@techcrunch.com
- i know i complain about this like every few weeks but oh my god it truly baffles me how bad outlook is and how impossible it is to do extremely simple tasks and also copilot doesn't work and the mac app for outlook seems to be intentionally bad
- i am just trying to get it to put replies to messages i sent at the top of my inbox (so that people i am trying to contact don’t get lost in the hundreds of PR emails i get every day) but this does not appear possible
- ok i wrote the shitpost pls click it so that they let me shitpost techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/g...
- i love data journalism
- an analyst on the apple earnings call asked tim cook literally "how do you monetize AI?" and he was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ vibes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- (actual answer: "we're bringing intelligence to more of what people love, and we're integrating it across the operating system in a personal and private way, and I think that by doing so, it creates great value, and that opens up a range of opportunities across our products and services")
- which basically translates to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ vibes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
