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New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it. www.theverge.com/politics/777...
dismantling the centre till it cannot hold: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
your brush with fame is hunting you like a monster in a horror movie. hope you can outrun it! www.theverge.com/internet-cul...
Because of my upbringing I’ve lived a very different “public” life since I was a kid. It definitely warped and shaped how I present myself and required many, many years of therapy. I’ve written a bit about it here and hopefully will write more about it soon: gizmodo.com/my-dad-was-a...
A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.
Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
The Trump administration is taking a "cluster bomb approach" to rolling back climate science and environmental policy and undertaken rouhgly 400 anti-science actions since January. It could take the US decades to recover what is being lost, and some things may be be permanently gone
Apple announces its thinnest, greasiest phone yet
RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́
People have focused so much on the predator problem on Roblox (which is honestly fairly solvable by utilizing parental controls/blocking chat) that they've missed the forest for the trees: it's all junky games laden with in-app purchases, pay-to-win, and dark patterns nymag.com/intelligence...
When the suits catch on to the point-and-shoot trend
Remember when we were all mad about airbrushing screwing with kids' self-image? Now they're going to want to look like AI avatars, with perfect teeth and little noses and hair that moves like worms made out of paper and disappearing moles
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We put a lot of muscle—reporting, editing, fact checking, designing, engineering—into this very deep dive on Wikipedia, which is now threatened by Trump, tech billionaires, and AI
I wrote about the intentionally byzantine process of getting a COVID vaccine this fall defector.com/how-the-fuck...
AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Wrote this back in 2023 for The Verge but it is crazy how on top of being a BDS priority target Sodastream just sucks ass on every level. www.theverge.com/23631306/sod...
Well I was close
I watched through all the White House's "Founders Museum" A.I.-animated paintings teaching U.S. Revolutionary history, installed in D.C in partnership right-wing YouTube content farm #PragerU. news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...
In case you missed this thoughtful profile of a thing someone did not think through
Asked a software engineer what AI coding is actually for *ducks*
Why just replace film and tv jobs with generative AI, when you can have the consumer prompt stilted slop for themselves?
This is exactly how outlets should respond to corporate PR stonewalling (from this story: www.theverge.com/microsoft/76...)
People are saying this and I am sad
that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror
wrote a little something about grief, gaming, and a very good dog www.theverge.com/games/767156...
I am disappoint by the steep dive in writing this season
why are you making me look this shit up jon
I wrote about the immolation of the CDC defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
NEW: Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts & coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out by 9/28 (it's a pop-up window that will give you the choice). It’s also extending its data retention to 5 years. www.theverge.com/anthropic/76...
NY Walgreens says they're "unavailable" and CVS requires a prescription for covid shots right now, I hope I'm doing it wrong
this checks out
Over at The Verge I wrote about how the Trump administration destroyed U.S. wireless competition, using a disastrous (and now doomed) plan that involved Dish Network as cover:
I for one am excited to find out next month that the cause of autism is penicillin
Oops!
paging @edcara.bsky.social
when those differing points of view regard whether trans people and homeless people deserve to be treated with humanity, yes. it does in fact make them a genuinely bad person.
@alexdicko.bsky.social
I am listening to Korn
THIS IS SOON
SILKSONG SEPTEMBER 4TH www.theverge.com/news/680636/...
are you planning on streaming silksong eventually so that I can may vicariously
thank you @barryp.bsky.social 🤣 anyone interested in more on competitive excel check out www.theverge.com/c/24133822/m...
It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes: defector.com/it-took-many...
Great day to remind everyone that The City is one of the best sources of local journalism, a non-profit, and totally free for readers. Also a great day to consider donating. donorbox.org/nycdonate
I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law
On past Sunday's ↩ The Stepback, @allisonjo1.bsky.social pointed at the foldable phone's potential Achilles' heel. I still think they're so damn cute! ( @theverge.com subscribers can opt-in for the newsletter in their account settings: www.theverge.com/account/news... )
So cool that ABC News has identified the people with the most compelling grievances against the Department of Homeland Security’s overtly Nazi messaging.
so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether? Cool.
Didn't realize this was about a DHS employee with almost unlimited spying powers
Grok told people it was suspended for talking about the genocide because LLMs know what people want to hear.
Their weakness: watermelons.
On Sunday's ↩ The Stepback, @andyjayhawk.bsky.social dug into the "car bloat" phenomenon. ( @theverge.com subscribers can opt-in for the newsletter in their account settings: www.theverge.com/account/news... )
"The move comes after 404 Media revealed that local cops were performing lookups in Flock on behalf of ICE or for immigration enforcement, and that a Texas officer searched cameras nationwide looking for a woman who self-administered an abortion."
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🚨 another big launch day at @theverge.com introducing... REGULATOR by @tinanguyen.bsky.social THE STEPBACK by @mfortki.bsky.social and I'm very excited to be partnering with @jank0.bsky.social to bring issues of LOWPASS to the site, too! www.theverge.com/bulletin/719...
The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
Please subscribe to a newsletter I'm editing for @theverge.com. Every Sunday, our writer of the week will break down one story, going deeper on what they know best. It just might be your new shared obsession. www.theverge.com/the-stepback...
me: i'm not gonna talk about AI reinforcing regressive gender dynamics xai: here's a sexy anime girlwoman me: not doing it xai: here's an ai boyfriend modeled on a fictional rapist me: nope not gonna xai: we literally made a button that tears famous women's clothes off
cc @knifedog.bsky.social
This just keeps getting dumber. (Also, very weird that this story doesn't cite @dmehro.bsky.social's reporting, which offers a potential explanation about how the minute got cut out of the "full raw" footage the FBI released: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...) www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
we're hiring! this time for a killer newsletter marketing strategist job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job...
Earlier this month, the FDA sent Whoop a letter saying its new blood pressure tech needed regulatory clearance. Whoop whipped out the W word: wellness. And so I think it's time we talk about semantics and increasingly murky line between medical + wellness tech. www.theverge.com/health/71510...
I remember the cigarettes
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Grok is advising people to donate to the open fascist who lost his job after attempting to debate @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. As clear an example as you can find of X's alignment with fascism because the program is urging people to take real world action.
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On incel filter bubbles, meme transference, cult linguistics... An excerpt from "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language" by Adam Aleksic (etymologynerd), out July 15th
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Can't wait for everyone to be LATE 😤 www.theverge.com/news/695611/...
imagine spending all your time, in a world with this much misery, trying to destroy something it is very clear makes things better for people
Anker just issued another major recall of their power banks. Here's how to dispose of them properly:
Remember when I said I'd never write about design and AI again? Well, I'm back in @theverge.com discussing where AI is in regards to typography with @daltonmaag.com and Monotype because if I'm going to stay a designer, I'll be masochistic about it. Thanks to @mfortki.bsky.social for taking this in.
the whole "six unelected crazy people tip us a few steps closer to the apocalypse every june" routine is not getting any more fun the longer it goes on
me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer
ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.
This is a fantastic article from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social that lays out the core issues with ChatGPT and psychosis. I really appreciate the point that the industry’s own claims about AI technology are not rooted in reality and reinforce delusional thinking. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...
Yikes www.404media.co/teachers-are...
It's my first day @theverge.com as senior AI reporter! I'll still be covering all things AI, incl leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google & Meta, plus high-flying startups. Pitch me at hayden.field@voxmedia.com & tip me on Signal (anon or not) at haydenfield.11. Psyched to get started!
deficit ² = surplus obviously
I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Dive back into the beige saga here www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...
Appreciate @miasato.bsky.social's update on the beige Amazon influencer dispute but can you copyright basic is still up for debate www.theverge.com/news/676357/...
If you want to know what the hell is happening at Newark Liberty International Airport, here's a great place to start...worrying about all the other airports.
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huge fan of the 70 year old german guy who uploaded this 360 degree interactive panorama of inside a corn flakes bag. it's in the corn flakes article on
That's amazing Riley! Love this for you
I wrote about how irritated I am by the latest Colossal misrepresentation. defector.com/colossal-bio...
Once I finish my 500 Pocket saves, it's over for you bitches. Oh..
For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web. His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f... 🧵👇
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