Also chatted with @samrutherford.bsky.social about the wild state of gaming today, including the EA acquisition and Microsoft’s Xbox stumbles www.engadget.com/mobile/smart...

Join me and @samrutherford.bsky.social LIVE on the @engadget.bsky.social Podcast, starting at 10:30A ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEi... We'll be chatting about that wild EA acquisition, as well as trying to figure out WTF Microsoft is up to with Xbox

Es ist mittwoch meine kerle Jogurt mit gabel essen

america, baby: someone shot the internet www.404media.co/a-bullet-cra...

THE MEME IS REAL

From @matt-levine.bsky.social today...

I love how the entire podcast and tv industry are currently being induced to bet the farm on youtube when serious YT creators are consistently saying stuff like the below: bsky.app/profile/zeur...

democrats can now reach young men by telling them that trump wants to take away their naruto and their one piece

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

wrote about the landscape of broadcast TV at the beginning of the year for wired—but it’s kind of wild we allowed two deeply political (and notably conservative) companies to buy up the vast majority of all broadcast stations in the US.

go, little homepage popup and godspeed

This week on the @engadget.bsky.social Podcast, @samrutherford.bsky.social talks about his iPhone Air review and the rest of our iPhone 17 coverage www.engadget.com/mobile/smart... Also we chat about Meta's Ray-Ban Display and why I think we're not ready to live with the hell of smart glasses

i firmly believe these mysterious ghosts will make me money

Delivering the narration for this video at a desk, outside, makes me think of the short-lived TV version of This American Life on Showtime

Jerry has always been a real one

SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Delivering the narration for this video at a desk, outside, makes me think of the short-lived TV version of This American Life on Showtime

I want game devs to be paid more to work less and I'm not kidding

Apartment vacancies are popping up all around the city this fall, suggesting that a long-feared downturn of students and scholars has finally arrived.

April 2021 was still pandemic lockdown with a finish line in sight for the first time btw

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/3JYLkkp

Here's a formula: (an hero + gamergate)increased gun violence in the U.S. = the events of the last week

This might actually help

I think pandemic lockdown pushed a lot more people toward being On The Computer All The Time™ in varying stripes …which makes it even harder to spot who’s in 5 fantasy sports leagues, who’s stirring shit on fandom sites, and who’s worldview is getting twisted in a darkly murderous direction

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

I logged hundreds of hours in Helldivers last year, but around November I suddenly lost interest. If only I could put my finger on why…

Important update from New York Times: Senior investigators on the case say that the "transgender/antifa ideology" reports are "unverified, did not match other summaries of the evidence and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted."

true then, true now, true always www.discourseblog.com/p/now-more-t...

Here’s my quick recap + thoughts on the iPhone 17 mess with @nateingraham.bsky.social

Appreciate the shout out here, @tombreihan.bsky.social. I produced this show! Tiny Desk is always a creative collaboration between the artist and the Tiny Desk team. This one was a lot of work and it paid off.

HAPPY TURNSTILE TINY DESK DAY!!!

RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́

"I can't believe Apple would do that!" (recognize the existence of New Jersey)

Apple should put the city location of each of these remote locations. I’m curious where these elaborate Apple stores are located.

My left ear is enjoying learning about the iPhone Air

Mamdani aside can we just agree that a sitting mayor who can’t even win his own party’s nomination and then polls fourth in the field at 9 percent is just legendary stuff www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

I’ve written one book which should be included in the Anthropic settlement class. It took me two years. Given the potential $3,000 per-work payout, I am both happy for and extremely jealous of highly prolific romance and fantasy authors. Some of those folks have turned out hundreds.

🧎🙏🏼🙏🏼

I keep thinking about this edit, it should be shown in Driver’s Ed and High School health classes! There are huge gaps in her awareness as she looks down. Even if you aren’t texting, what if you had to menu dive just to go from music to temperature controls in a buttonless car?

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

I’m reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries now, which describe waves of rumors and years of changes in emotional atmospherics, sometimes within the same day. So I assume the current rumor is more indicative of life under authoritarianism than anything else.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

The chat bots meta threw at users were also just plain weird

This week on the @engadget.bsky.social Podcast, Apple scooper extraordinaire @markgurman.bsky.social joins @igorbonifacic.bsky.social and me to discuss why the super-thin iPhone Air might be disappointing www.engadget.com/mobile/smart...