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I am once again back in court. we are doing remedies while the jury deliberates. I don't expect to be posting much today because expert testimony is pretty boring, but to the extent that anything interesting happens, I will be posting here www.theverge.com/tech/917225/...

musk v altman: we have a verdict. now waiting for the jury to enter

tbh I think Mira Murati took the most reputational damage in this trial. she came out looking like a complete snake www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Exclusive: Every adult with a YouTube account will now be able to enroll in the platform's AI deepfake detection (and removal) program. The feature constantly monitors YouTube for lookalikes, and allows users to request takedowns. www.theverge.com/news/931884/...

this is incredible. israel found the one strategy guaranteed to make NYT turn on israel thehill.com/homenews/med...

Talked about The Internet of Clips with @killthecomputer.com ✂️ Gift link to my story laying it all out: www.theverge.com/report/92000...

one day I hope to frighten all my competitors as much as demis hassabis appears to have freaked out openai www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

Proportional representation is the way forward.

the based pope is at it again

Excellent analysis here by Tess Bridgeman and Oona Hathaway on the War Powers Resolution 60-day clock which expires today ... Making the Iran war illegal (a third way) Requiring the president to terminate hostilities @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @oonahathaway.bsky.social Thread 🧵1/

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana postpones May 16 House primaries after US Supreme Court rolls back Voting Rights Act.

Very random journalist request: Can anyone explain why in Japan (and maybe East Asia more broadly) a lot of random foreign brands license their IP for merchandise? Like why, in 2024, did I encounter so many SPAM branded products? Working on a story for The Verge and want to pick someone’s brain!!

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.

Doing this tonight at The Strand! Come and see me!

something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...

I like how she had to toss in the thing about illegals lest she actually direct peoples irritation towards the correct source

Meta lost 20 million users last quarter

What a STUNNING quote: “I just think the American market is ahead of us [and] the same thing is going to happen here....it just will take a bit longer and it will be a bit harder because more people will be saying, ‘hang on a minute, we don’t want to be burning greenhouse gasses"

I am thinking of so many conversations with undergrads who were uncomfortable with protests, sit-ins, and other tactics that "inconvenienced" white people, and I would ask them what approach Black Americans should have been using instead. They'd always say "voting" and then the penny dropped.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

has someone rounded up all the stuff that is now on life support because saudis withdrew support? golf, opera, what else?

she's a very sweet cat to us (when she's in the mood) but whenever she sees any other human she hisses and growls like a dog from hell and I guess this time she lunged at someone and also tried to dig a hole under her litter box

our cat was such a jerk at the cat hotel that the hotel owner had to gently tell us she sucked and that it wasn't her fault because she was scared and we were like "oh wow we thought you were going to 86 her from the cat hotel" [beat] cat hotel owner: "she's 86ed."

About five hours into Elon Musk’s testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: “I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.” www.theverge.com/tech/921022/...

Unreal. I was a panelist at RightsCon in Toronto in 2018, when many people were denied visas and Access Now was criticized for not hosting in the global south. How has the world changed. We've gone from arguing about inclusion to wondering if these gatherings can happen safely at all.

[small brain] trump is napoleon [medium brain] trump is napoleon with every major caveat [large brain] iran is britain and oceans are now battlefields

Exhibit 1M of when we tell you about people in the TESCREAL bundle and you attack us, one by one they've been shown to be worse than whatever we said. “According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

The FCC is going after the broadcast licenses of Disney-owned ABC stations

What happens when amateur hackers have the tools to iterate through exploits at machine speed? @yaelwrites.com on neu script kiddies, what happens after Mythos, and how companies can prepare: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

the last literate zoomer

the state should issue all journalists five (5) mandatory non-media industry friends to keep us all normal

hell of an intermission to walk out to

Authentic Iranian political prisoners are being packaged into AI-enhanced collages and unverified execution claims and fed into a propaganda noise machine. The Iranian state is the only beneficiary, writes Mahsa Alimardani.

You know, I was like, "19??? that's fucking crazy???????" and then found out that the ex-deputy director of ICE is 28, upon which my upset switched to something else entirely

This copy is so frustrating to read. It should be "an American born in Argentina" and "an American born in Nigeria."

Well, the images are AI-modified/generated, the women are real (verifiably six of them, at least), only one of them is slated to be executed, and Tehran claims no concessions have been made www.theverge.com/policy/91718...

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue: cpj.org?p=583367

hey kid, wanna feel insane www.theverge.com/policy/91718...

we can all agree, i think even rusty, that today in tabs is great but a @lopatto.bsky.social tabs is special www.todayintabs.com/p/papal-bull

there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery

lol imagine being on a submarine right now

isn't there an arc de triomphe in vegas? like, that's definitely the actual origin for this dipshit idea, right?

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue. The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

‘Chief Justice John Roberts has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side. At a critical moment for the country and court, the papers show he acted as bulldozer in pushing to stop Obama’s plan to address the climate crisis.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...