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Jordyn Woods' clothing line launched on Monday. Leon Bennett / Getty Images A woman criticized Jordyn Woods' clothing line in a series of viral TikTok videos posted Friday.  The woman said the Woods by Jordyn items were "giving clearance bin," and she was "offended" to have spent $400.  Woods responded to the criticism in a separate TikTok video that same day.  Jordyn Woods responded to a woman who criticized her clothing line on TikTok, comparing the items she purchased to the "clearance section of Shein" and a "cash grab." The discussion around the 25-year-old model's clothing brand, Woods by Jordyn, sparked on Friday when TikToker Stella Williams  shared a series of videos about items she purchased. Woods by Jordyn launched on Monday with three bodycon dresses that cost $123 each. According to one  video  shared on Friday, which gained more than 2.6 million views, Williams said she bought three dresses for $400.  @the...

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here . Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never know who is going to answer your cold email. In order for entrepreneurship to feel exciting and welcoming — not even be, but feel — new needs to be one of its loudest characteristics. After all, you only get to be “it” once. But one question I’ve found myself asking over the past year, especially as some of the more tenured folks speak about past downturns and cyclical learning lessons, is the latecomer advantage. It’s partially obvious: When you’ve done this whole entrepreneurship thing b...

In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby and buried the body. Officers soon learned that her mother, Jessica Burgess, and a friend had helped her with transportation and burial. The police issued citations for concealing the death of another person and false reporting. But in June, they also charged Jessica with providing an abortion for her teenage daughter. Police had made the discovery after obtaining a warrant that required Meta to hand over their conversations on Facebook Messenger. The messages, which were not encrypted , showed the two had discussed obtaining and using abortion pills. Warrants for digital data are routine in police investigations, which makes sense given how much time we spend online. Technology giants have for years responded to valid court orders for specific information sought by law enforcement, though some companies have done more to fight for our privacy than others. Milli...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Google researchers detail MusicLM, an AI model that generates high-fidelity music from text descriptions trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music   —  An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description.  But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/7teuGRf

The trailer for season four of "Succession" was recently released. HBO/YouTube Several new trailers were released this week, including a trailer for HBO's hit series "Succession." Fans of the novel "Daisy Jones and the Six" also got a glimpse at Amazon's upcoming adaptation. Here are 7 new trailers you might have missed, as well as the expected release dates. "Succession" season four YouTube synopsis : "This is a chessboard, and every move is crucial."  Who's in it: Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, J. Smith-Cameron, Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyen, and Nicholas Braun. Premiere date: March 26, 2023 Where to watch: HBO Max "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves"   YouTube synopsis : "A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: ...

We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement, not yet and possibly not ever. Still, there are plenty of social apps that might still be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty ). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving , Nazis logging back on , little things breaking here and there every day — presents an opportunity to check in with ourselves about what we really want out of a social network. We don’t just have to use social apps because they’re there and they’re really sticky. Users should get something out of the exchange, particularly on ad-supported services. Whether that means building a following for your fledgling business or connecting with people in communities you care about, social media should serve a function — not just drain away the hours in the day. Happily, there are options. Decentralized projects offer a different experience that’s less...

Semafor : Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 contractors over the past six months, 40% of them programmers creating data for its models to learn software engineering tasks   —  OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BQjJ6zv