Cigarette Summer is trending

Bonjour,

I’m going to take this opportunity to say two things:

1. It’s very easy to be pessimistic about tech but this week, the “world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment” worked and an exceptionally cute baby was healed. So take hope my friends!

2. Reminding you to check out our famed website? Anonymous loves it.

If you missed our livestream on Wednesday, you can catch up here.

ily,

Writer: Natasha 
Editor: Deana

We’ll be in the South of France with our besties Polygon in July. Come through!

This week’s theme on the timeline is that what’s old is new again.

Some may say there's a yearning for nostalgia that stems from hopelessness about our current times, while others might speculate that if you don’t have anything new to say, you should say something old and be dramatic about it for attention. But I’ll let you decide.

The above tweet is a reference to Warner Bros. Discovery returning their streaming app to its rightful name.

For the record, I never dropped HBO and I am STAYING IN LINE…..

Charli XCX released a music video for party 4 u. A song that was originally released in 2021 but went viral on TikTok in the last few months, maybe because it perfectly captures the walk home after a night out feeling in a way no song had before its time.

Airbnb decided it’s the everything App and brought back skeuomorphic icons.

Uber invented Uber for public transportation!

‘Cigarette Summer’ is trending, call me an ally.

And Elizabeth Holmes is working on a blood testing startup from prison.

While we’re all having this collective throwback moment, could we potentially return to November 10, 2021?