no one asked for a sequel to the shitposting fire emblem triangle article but i wrote one anyway www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

"for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions — in his case, owning the libs...Where there are words at all, they are but a way to express a meme, a vibe, an aesthetic.

Not comforting at all "In this sense, the subliterate zoomer killers are not at the fringe of society, but are the epitome of it."

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The Verge being the place for incredible cultural pieces was not on my bingo card but if I can get laptop reviews *and* cultural pieces for one subscription I will take it

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

Killing in the name of… nothing

losing my mind thinking about these people being taken off a sanctions list while even more icc judges get sanctioned

spent half an hour desperately typing lyrics into google that were stuck in my head and failing to find anything. it turns out it was a guest drop in an indie sleaze continuous dj mix from 2008 that only exists on soundcloud now. meltdown averted. this was very nearly my berenstain bears

A depressing little look back at all the garbage AI entertainment projects and collabs that got announced this year. Happy Boxing Day

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Hilariously the governor did the same post on Twitter where it's also getting ratioed, but this time by the people she is trying to convince to vote for her but never will x.com/TinaKotek/st...

korean men becoming objectified by a worldwide wave of koreaboos is the funniest possible thing that could have happened to the korean incel movement

even setting aside the crazy politics of trying to override a wildly popular local ballot measure raising taxes on top earners to fund preschool for all, like, an entire-ass highway is currently closed "indefinitely" and there's no money to repair it? not the time to be blocking highway tolling

The tax in the Portland area she’s talking about is a very tiny income tax on top tier earners to fund preschool for all, which she tried to get the legislature to revoke. It’s both anti-democratic and anti-affordability. It’s also not a something she actually achieved so idk why it’s listed.

this post has everyone at christmas eve dinner crashing out. everyone is yelling / has bluesky open / is finding opponents to donate to. literally has ruined christmas lmao

"I'm not mad. Please don't post in the United States Reports that I'm mad." Trump v Illinois, 607 U.S. ______, slip op. at 6-7 n. 4 (2025)(Kavanaugh, J, whining)

maybe lawsky has discussed this before — but are there any other instances in which a specific scotus justice's name became a term of art, the way it has with "kavanaugh stop"? there are countless examples where a case caption becomes a name ("miranda rights") but justice's name seems uncommon.

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

They deported Yuanxin www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Why have an award winning restaurant that pays a little bit less in rent when you can have a vacant storefront with nobody paying anything!

Jinju won a James Beard award this year 🙃

Next up in our roundup of free daily articles, from @haydenfield.bsky.social: It’s the great AGI rebrand

Our last free daily article is from @sarahjeong.bsky.social. This was originally published in August 2025, but is worth revisiting in light of a TikTok sale reportedly closing soon.

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025

"I think it’s really important that Wikipedia remain neutral and that we refrain from saying things that are controversial in wiki voice." Read our full interview with Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales: www.theverge.com/tech/846184/...

Wikipedia is under attack — from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk — but the encyclopedia’s founder believes that transparency is the key to survival. Read @joshdzieza.bsky.social's interview with Jimmy Wales: www.theverge.com/tech/846184/...

did not think about looking to the panda index as a measure of geopolitical strife until today

baffling that politicians are not being more proactive about gAI being an imminent threat at a *minimum*, public disclosures and visible watermarks should be mandatory, and outputs lacking these should result in fines bsky.app/profile/sara...

And here's @sarahjeong.bsky.social's story about the actual motivations behind the ban. www.theverge.com/features/761...

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

Oregon Nurses Association accuses Legacy Emanuel in Portland of letting ICE agents roam halls and halt treatment. Read my story: www.thelundreport.org/content/oreg...

This is so fucking funny dude.

slightly over a year ago! we missed the anniversary!

a year ago i texted my brother to tell him i was going to go report on the protest of the martial law declaration even though the press had been technically put under the control of the military. he was, for some reason, concerned

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

I see the x-axis goes from AOL to geocities

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

there's like a curve graph for how the badness of UI relates to consolidation and competitiveness in the market. is there like a named law for this yet

I read this @miasato.bsky.social piece and spent the entire time second-guessing whether I had, without realizing it, been Influenced. Jury still out.

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

Our entire series on the creator economy is now live:

The war on disinformation is a losing battle - @jamesrball.com on the recent history of the campaign against fact-checking, content moderation, and research on the spread of false claims. He concludes that, despite its recent victories, the campaign is just getting started.

New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard. I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced* www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

By the way, my story is free to read for everyone today, no subscription required, as part of a new feature The Verge introduced :-)

Wins 2025 hands down

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...