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Social Media

Influencers on YouTube and other platforms are seeing their sponsorship deals dry up while shelter in place viewership is on a rise. Perhaps they should seek sponsorships for silly hats to wear during Zoom chats with co-workers. What are your suggestions?

How the coronavirus is changing the influencer business, according to marketers and top creators on Instagram and YouTubeBusiness Insider spoke with influencer-marketing professionals across the industry to learn how they're adjusting during the coronavirus pandemic.www.businessinsider.com

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Video Games

Missing your weekend NASCAR racing fix? How about competing head to head against F1 drivers on a virtual track? It’s now a reality as both NASCAR and F1 drivers are entering video game racing challenges. Maybe I should dust off my Nintendo Wii and challenge Serena Williams to a tennis match.

Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and NASCAR canceled racesWhat else are Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, and other top drivers going to do?www.theverge.com

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From the Cake Archives (H/t to @Chris)

That time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhonePart 1: It's funny how some things that hardly seem significant in their day dramatically change our lives. Or, in Steve's case, the world. For me, it was a phone call from a secretive little ...www.cake.co

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Bitcoin

Jack Dorsey, bitcoin enthusiast and CEO of Twitter and Square, got the green light to be a merchant banker in 2021. No word yet on whether the ATMs will pay out in cryptocurrency. (receipts)

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Robots

And finally, I leave you with a device for having your hair cut from home.

I got an influencer shot in the fall, so thankfully I’m protected from them.

These days it feels like everybody is watching, especially those we'd prefer not to. Family, employers -- even the government -- just can't get enough of what we post on our timelines. Consequently, when we post to social media we choose to put on our best face. For most, this means presenting a more manicured and interesting portrait of ourselves and our lives, which on the surface can appear self-serving and vain.

To top it off, we're also disproportionately rewarded for sharing beautiful, positive things. Think about how many likes and comments you racked up with your last set of vacation photos as opposed to a play-by-play of your recent prostate exam. An exception may exist for updates your friends empathize or agree with, but more often than not the banal and boring go unnoticed. And so we listen to that feedback, posting selfie after selfie, lulled by the gentle vibration of our phones as the likes roll in.

So don't hate the player -- hate the game. It's just what we've been trained to do.

Don't Hate the Player, Hate the GameAnonymous or pseudonymous posting can relieve us of the burdens of social media, and the resulting narcissistic behavior.www.nytimes.com

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