It's nice when the Times remembers to have a backbone and be honest.

Los Thuthanaka’s Wak’a is a mellower follow-up to last year’s surprise Pitchfork favorite

I haven't been able to get this "game" out of my head since I first discovered it. www.theverge.com/games/907162...

Alice Isn't Dead returns on April 13 (April 6 on our Patreon!) with the sequel series Don't Tell Alice. Catch up on the original series here, and we'll see you out there on those roads: buff.ly/BVZfth9

Sung to the tune of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet: Can't stop (can't stop) can't stop the slop. Suno won't stop (won't stop) won't stop stealing pop.

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

That anyone was able to claim ownership of -- even briefly -- public domain ballads like "In the Pines" is proof that our current copyright system and Content ID are fundamentally broken.

I know it's fun and trendy to beat up on the Times, but this is a perfect story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Whoops the buzzy AI notetaking app is a privacy minefield that also trains on your notes www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

CB Bucknor and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

This might be the most important thing you read about tech this week/month/year. What happens next could reshape the internet and society, and @reckless.bsky.social @caseynewton.bsky.social @laurenfeiner.bsky.social lay it out expertly. www.theverge.com/podcast/9051...

I am very bad at scratching. But, I'm learning.

Me: Celebrates not having to tap into their savings account to survive for the first time in 2 years. Government: Hey, remember those student loans...

Totally normal.

"The companies are saying, 'Yes, our goal is to build a god...' Nobody wants that... Most of the public is only letting this happen because they do not realize that it's happening... And it is really happening. So I don't think they should be ok with it." youtu.be/QtiTjXuZh30?...

In which I successfully get a bunch of @theverge.com subscribers hooked on the Dialed Color Game www.theverge.com/games/903077...

Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

I just got misty-eyed watching a DJ set. www.theverge.com/music/903092...

Sorry. I know Harry Potter is important to a lot of you but, you're implicitly supporting transphobia by watching it.

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

It's ok, I was never going to be allowed to retire anyway...

This happened ONE DAY after Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law banning federal immigration agents from wearing masks. #ICEoufofNJ

Remember when consoles got CHEAPER over time? That was nice.

Apple Music's AI doesn't understand genre, geography, how time works, or what is child-appropriate.

Why the heck is the United States banning routers? Here is a 2,000-word explainer that should entertain and enrage you. www.theverge.com/tech/899906/...

current and selected work here: linktr.ee/gardenerjams

It's not necessarily the best at any particular thing, but it's the most well-rounded and intuitive entry in the niche of small, affordable samplers.

If you're a billionaire, you literally can't avoid spoiling your children unless you have them adopted and raised by a family of lesser means.

This is no good

"I interact on policy, not politics" is one of the dumbest and most cowardly things I've heard from a man who finds new levels of cowardice every day. www.theverge.com/policy/85990... www.theverge.com/podcast/8707... www.theverge.com/news/867567/... youtu.be/PjehoUu48rY

Ableton, Arturia, and Native Instruments getting on board for Linux would be incredible, but I don't see it happening anytime soon, sadly. musictech.com/features/opi...

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

Words that normally crop up in my weekly recommendations: Surreal, intense, unhinged, horror, trauma, chaos, bleak, brutal... But I used a new word this week: Fun.

Wrote about how Oscars prediction market bets have been fluctuating in response to awards season drama and why this Everything Is Gambling™ culture is antithetical to appreciating art

“This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches.” Word-fucking-salad.

"Left click, right click, left click." Boom. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I want this in my obituary.

This season is full of fun, huge stories, and kicks off with surely our most annoying in-studio guest ever

I am EXTREMELY sad that I was not at this show.

You can now see all of @theverge.com 's weekly media recommendations in one place. www.theverge.com/entertainmen....

Listen to this: Mabe Fratti’s experimental cello pop

Nobody's uniforms in the WBC are particularly good, but Great Britain's are a particular brand of terrible. It's like they they just printed a Word doc on a jersey. Straight lines of Arial Black?

...I may have repeatedly tried to get an AI version of me to edit the real me.

HELL-FUCKING-YEAH!

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That's your fucking lede? That's the angle? Not a Senator broke a Marine's arm trying to censor him? He "helped"? I think my definition of "help" is very different...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/

Your new head of DHS, folks. The tough guy who tried to snatch the BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES sign out of Al Green's hands at the State of the Union. (And missed badly.)

Anything would be an upgrade from Noem - even a literal pile of shit - let's not forget that Markwayne Mullin challenged the Teamsters president to a fight on the floor of the senate, said he was too scared of DC to wear a seatbelt, and put his fingers in his colleagues' noses while they slept.

I don't want to hear anything about supporting the troops or the first amendment from the right ever again.