Extremely important PSA www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I demand only the finest professional mourners at my funeral. None of these amateurs who call themselves my friends and family. boingboing.net/2026/07/08/y...

Another not-on-streaming gem from my CD collection: Boredoms - Pop Tatari. Also, part of the impetus for my archiving project: @sleevenote.bsky.social review in the works.

The almighty TV On The Radio masterpiece 'Return To Cookie Mountain' turns 20 today; take a look back with us

It doesn't bother me when the commenters disagree with me, insult me, call me names... But I cannot let this stand.

We've reached an exciting moment in my CD ripping journey.

Leave it to Donald Trump to inadvertently expose how corrupt FIFA is while simultaneously taking advantage of it. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

I feel like this record sometimes gets forgotten, buried in the middle of an absolutely unimpeachable run from Def Jux that included Cold Vein, Labor Days, Daylight, Fan Dam, Dead Ringer, I Phantom, The Horror, and The End of the Beginning.

For no particular reason at all been listening to this a lot youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ

I do wonder what kind of sycophantic reply Gemini would have given the founding fathers if they asked about women's right to vote, slavery, and Manifest Destiny.

My favorite part of this is Rep. Nancy Mace (South Carolina) claiming that Mamdani's request that NYers set their AC to 78 is "an act of war against women in menopause," because Republicans are notoriously concerned about women's health.

Wake up babe, incredible new america in a nutshell image just dropped

"Sources confirmed they were impressed by the dignity and poise with which the nation carried itself in the face of the interlopers, noting that to rise above the pasty, redheaded horde and their diseased children was no easy task."

I hereby pledge to get more NYC hip hop icons on The Verge.

If you were recently laid off from Bandcamp, I want to talk to you. Yes you!

oh he on DRUGS drugs

Really cool how we all ditched cable for something more complicated, more expensive, and still have to deal with shitty commercials.

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

When I started a simple and kinda silly Q&A on the weekend for @theverge.com I didn't expect it would become part of a story about broken AI and the death of capitalism, but here we are.

Jim Henson - the Muppets + lots of existential dread = The Cube

Jeff Bridges using Suno?!! Say it ain't so! Jeez, if only there were a movie about big, evil tech corporations that employ AI to rip off the work of individual creators. Space Paranoids, we hardly knew ye. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Apple is just the most recent to jack up prices and point the finger at AI. But consumers are footing the bill for something we didn’t ask for, despite record earnings. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social:

The latest in my ongoing quest to fill my life with single-purpose distraction free gadgets.

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

Helen Lovejoy saying "Won't somebody please think of the children" GIF. But replace children with shareholders.

Here's your friendly, apropos-of-nothing reminder that "Fist Full of Love" is one of the greatest songs ever written. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtu.be/mxon4OX8HSA

I think the next few weeks of music recs on @theverge.com are gonna be obscure aughts dance punk EPs that I completely forgot about but apparently own on CD.

Bose Studios is a record label, a movie studio, a podcast network, and a failure waiting to happen. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social:

wow guys

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Your weekend media rec is a chaotic jumble of dance punk, prog rock, and hyper pop from a couple of Philly kids.

If you are curious if your music is being used to train AI, @theatlantic.com made 4 of the datasets these companies are using searchable. One dataset contains a whole album of mine, yay! Originally found this on @theverge.com from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

And now to begin the incredibly intimidating task of re-ripping my CD collection after my hard drive died. (Sadly, at least 100 of them were lost to water damage and mold.)

My version of aspirational music gear YouTube isn't necessarily vintage amps or giant Eurorack setups (though, I'm very into that too), it's walls of repurposed lab equipment and esoteric musical oddities.

The NTS Radio Player brings the best of internet radio to your hi-fi

I hate how much I want one of these.

Reminder that all these companies only jack up prices and say things like their expenses are "unsustainable" because they value shareholders over customers.

Four strings and a bunch of random nonsense in a Eurorack case? Sold. youtu.be/okrl0ZP1-1Q

Kelela never misses. So pumped for this record. youtu.be/1mLNza10dKs

Me, every time an artist I want to see decides to play Terminal 5

Honestly, if Elon wants me dead that's means I'm on the right side.

no big deal, just elon musk saying he would've killed journalists at @theverge.com if he was, in fact, a killer

This is one of my go-to summer records. It's not a beach album. Or a backyard BBQ album. It's a sweltering asphalt and dominoes on the sidewalk album.

I'm not one to be precious about symbols of American government or history. But this is fucking gross.

Talked to @terrenceobrien.bsky.social about low power, not knowing what to do next when you’re making something, and Baudrillard memes

Who'd have thunk it would only take four installments of our new Weekend Questionnaire series to get a mention of Baudrillard. (Can always count on @mikerugnetta.com.)

Elon Musk's existence is just proof that capitalism failed.

"Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering." The understatement of the century.

The new YHWH Nailgun record isn't going to be for everyone. But one thing is undeniable: It squeezes more ideas into 11 minutes of music than many bands have in their entire careers. yhwhnailgun.bandcamp.com/album/magazine

I say this as someone who loves the WC more than any other sporting event: every team should get on a plane home right now. Or all the games should be rescheduled for 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽. The USMNT should be disqualified now & suspended from the next WC. Or, we can start acting like a serious country of adults.