Lila Shroff

@LilaShroff

Science, Technology, & Health @TheAtlantic | prev: @reboot_hq @stanford

Joined June 2019

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Jul 14

Gemini and I had quite the convo. Read it here: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

LilaShroff's tweet card. Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

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Adrienne LaFrance@AdrienneLaF · Jul 14

Schools and parents are really not ready for what’s already here. Must-read @LilaShroff: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Jul 4

"I was neither moved nor sad nor pensive, just aware of the fact that my body and mind exist in a tenuous zizz somewhere between life, death, and computers." great @ibogost on the Velvet Sundown theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

LilaShroff's tweet card. “Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Jun 20

I ate the equivalent of 31 eggs' worth of protein for this story: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

LilaShroff's tweet card. Americans are taking their obsession with supplements to new extremes.

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jasmine sun@jasminewsun · May 22

I'm in @WSJ today writing about vibe-coding and home-cooked apps :) excited about shifting to world where software is something we each create, not just consume

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Apr 21

Remember the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy? It’s back. But instead of cheap Ubers, Gen Z gets free SuperGrok. My latest: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

LilaShroff's tweet card. In the 2010s, Millennials got cheap Ubers. Today’s young people are getting free SuperGrok.

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Feb 12

I wrote about the current attack on the CFPB and what it could mean for everyday Americans: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

LilaShroff's tweet card. Musk is going after an agency that exists to protect consumers.

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Feb 5

Musk and others are on a campaign to delegitimize Wikipedia. What happens if they succeed? I wrote about it here: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

LilaShroff's tweet card. Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

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Lila Shroff@LilaShroff · Jan 17

I wrote about how LA’s fire GoFundMes tell individual stories of loss—decades of artwork erased, tenderly planted fruit trees flattened. But they also point to a second tragedy: that of a financial system ill-equipped to handle the fallout of disaster. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

LilaShroff's tweet card. For now, Los Angeles has no choice but to crowdfund its way out of destruction.

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Hana Kiros@hanamkiros · Jan 17

TikTok might actually get banned in the US! But we’ll still be living in the world the app created. (It'll just be worse.) - by me❣️ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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