Kristen Radtke
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Creative Director at The Verge, author of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
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The Verge
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The Verge
about 1 month ago
Itās your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Vergeās limited-edition anthology of features, commentary, art, and more ā all about ācontentā and the people who make it. It's available now for a limited time, only while supplies last. (psst subscribers, check your email for a special discount)
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Content Goblins Zine
Itās your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Vergeās limited-edition anthology of stories about ācontentā and the people who make it. Disguised as The Verge Guide to SEO, pull back the cover to f...
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New feature design for a great one by
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Whoās making the most money in AI? Itās not who you think
The fastest growing companies in the world arenāt AI companies, but the startups that supply them with warm bodies.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/831818/ai-mercor-handshake-scale-surge-staffing-companies
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Mia Sato
about 2 months ago
Oh it somehow got even more boring than the beige from last year
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Kevin Nguyen
about 2 months ago
If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news
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Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok ā and refuse to go elsewhere
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/818380/college-students-news-sources-tiktok-instagram-newsdaddy
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Kevin Nguyen
4 months ago
Very cool that
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
won an Online Journalism Award for excellence in visual storytelling for her comic about motherhood and surveillance
awards.journalists.org/entries/how-...
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24278723/comic-baby-monitor-surveillance-history-tech
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Kevin Nguyen
6 months ago
A terrific (and hilarious) feature from
@miasato.bsky.social
, with brilliant design from
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
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@macaree.bsky.social
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How dupes turned online shopping upside down
When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/709635/knock-it-off
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
7 months ago
All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality:
zohranfornyc.com/events
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A. M. Vincent
9 months ago
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The Verge
9 months ago
Today marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. To commemorateāand challengeāthe legacy of the conflict, The Verge commissioned five stories from five Vietnamese writers in a series called American War. Illustrations by Nguyen Tran š§µ
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American War
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/650505/vietnam-war-fall-of-saigon-50-year-anniversary
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The only accounts I want to follow are coral reefs
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Maxwell Neely-Cohen
9 months ago
Just an incredible piece of visual storytelling from the great
@mattyhuynh.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Comic: Wandering Souls
The sounds that still haunt us, even 50 years after the Vietnam War.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/652590/vietnam-war-viet-cong-us-military-psy-op-comic
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Sandy Ernest Allen
9 months ago
before I like, bury my head in a garden bed for the rest of the day, however literally, i want to re-share my piece about what we rob from children when we don't allow them to authentically be. fuck all the monsters who've abetted this genocide. i curse you.
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
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Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got
I won't ever be nine or fourteen or twenty-one again.
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a44360000/mourning-trans-boyhood/
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Coral City Camera
9 months ago
We had a rare black hamlet hang out in the field of staghorn corals today šš¤ššŖø
#blackhamlet
#hamlet
#rarefish
#staghorncoral
#coral
#coralhead
#coralcitycamera
#miami
#portmiami
#biscaynebay
#bfi
#noaa
#aoml
#coralcity
#civicpridethroughbiodiversity
#glennnevis
#coralcityfoundation
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Hello, I somehow won a Guggenheim???????
www.gf.org/stories/anno...
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Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows ā Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2025-guggenheim-fellows
9 months ago
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Kristen Oh Yeah
10 months ago
"Tell me about your TV garden and your synthesizer library," asks
@theverge.com
's
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
. And I am so glad
@jessiechar.com
&
@maxy.bsky.social
answered.
www.theverge.com/tech/631922/...
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The beautiful, retro tech of two theatrical sound designers
How a pandemic reading group and some color swatches led to one of Brooklynās coolest creative partnerships
https://www.theverge.com/tech/631922/sound-design-interview-hardware-music-home
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Comicsbeat
10 months ago
Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage
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Cartoonist R.E. Burke returns to UK after three weeks inĀ detention
Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage
https://www.comicsbeat.com/cartoonist-r-e-burke-returns-to-uk-after-three-weeks-in-detention/
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Laila Lalami
11 months ago
If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, thereās nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.
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Rebecca Solnit
11 months ago
If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
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Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)
The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/if-we-must-be-peasants-lets-be-the-peasants-are-revolting-2/
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Angus Johnston
11 months ago
If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
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Andrew J. Hawkins
11 months ago
Women who worked at semiconductor factories in Silicon Valley are at higher risk of miscarriage or giving birth to children with disabilities due to exposure to toxic chemicals. With a new chip fab boom underway, are we just repeating the mistakes as the past?
www.theverge.com/features/611...
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The women who made Americaās microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to manufacture chips again ā but thereās a dark, overlooked history.
https://www.theverge.com/features/611297/manufacturing-workers-semiconductor-computer-chip-birth-defect
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āThe truth is that most of us are brave, generous, altruistic, creative as we rise to meet the demands of a sudden disaster by rescuing and taking care of each other and re-building the terms of survivalā
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The Verge
12 months ago
Six ways to send a message to your representatives
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Six ways to send a message to your representatives
Let politicians know what you want.
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The Verge
12 months ago
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunterās crusade to save books from Amazon
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Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter amps up his crusade against Amazon
The bookselling platformās next frontier in the fight against Amazon: ebooks.
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Jean-Marie šµšø š±
about 1 year ago
On est d'accord pour dire que ca ne s'arrange pas, n'est ce pas ? Page 141, "SEEK YOU" voyage dans le solitude contemporaine - Kristen Radtke
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The Verge
12 months ago
Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
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Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
An interview with one of Americaās most important cartoonists
https://buff.ly/4jnBSEx
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Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
An interview with one of Americaās most important cartoonists
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24349754/chris-ware-cartoonist-art-drawing-acme-datebook-interview
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New_ Public
about 1 year ago
The emotional entanglement of new motherhood and surveillance tech is movingly captured in this autobiographical comic. Hats off š© to
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
and
@theverge.com
for creating this wonderful bit of internet storytelling!
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24278723/comic-baby-monitor-surveillance-history-tech
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Cartoonist Cooperative
about 1 year ago
it's easy to apply to join the co-op... we're free, there's a library of member resources and discounts, collaboration opportunities on our forum and much more... if you've been hesitating, now is the time to start the new year fresh!
cartoonist.coop/join/
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The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
https://cartoonist.coop/join/
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Micah Bateman
about 1 year ago
The Writing University (UIowa) is looking for a Literary and Creative Arts librarian.
phxc3c.rfer.us/UIOWAsnMNfy
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Literary and Creative Arts Librarian in Iowa City, Iowa, United States
The University of Iowa Libraries is seeking a knowledgeable and enthusiastic Literary and Creative Arts Librarian. This exciting new role will serve.....
http://phxc3c.rfer.us/UIOWAsnMNfy
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Mia Sato
about 1 year ago
to add to to this: I want journalists to know there are countless ācontent creatorsā using your reporting, misrepresenting it, erasing your existence & profiting from it. i found this podcast that literally PHOTOSHOPPED MY NAME OUT of my own fucking story. are we going to take this shit lying down?
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Maxwell Neely-Cohen
about 1 year ago
Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction Iāve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at
@harvardlil.bsky.social
let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects
lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
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Century-Scale Storage
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/
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s. e. smith
about 1 year ago
I commented when this was first announced that this 'color of the year' feels like part of the boogie beigeification of the world so I really enjoyed this read.
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Partying with Pantoneās color of the year
āMocha Mousseā will be everywhere in 2025. But does anybody actually like it?
https://www.theverge.com/24316196/pantone-2025-color-of-the-year-mocha-mousse-party
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scottā”ļømccloud
about 1 year ago
This is a strong example of what can be done with digital comics when you're willing to push both form and content beyond what's been done before. The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
. H/T
@austinkleon.bsky.social
for bringing it to my attention. š
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I went to Pantone's color of the year party and talked about thongs, God, aging, happy goats, and lots of luxury goods. Read all about this product-filled extravaganza in my report for
@theverge.com
:
www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...
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Partying with Pantoneās color of the year
āMocha Mousseā will be everywhere in 2025. But does anybody actually like it?
https://www.theverge.com/24316196/pantone-2025-color-of-the-year-mocha-mousse-party
about 1 year ago
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The art in this feature is so gorgeous I want to crawl inside my computer and live inside it:
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24300623/ai-companions-replika-openai-chatgpt-assistant-romance
about 1 year ago
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nilay patel
about 1 year ago
Since the start of The Verge, we have published in-depth features and beautifully art-directed zines. Tomorrow, we pivot
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Jake Tobin
about 1 year ago
This comic about becoming a mother & the anxieties (and tech) that comes with it by
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
in the
@theverge.com
is so beautifully done on all accountsāthe art, the writing, the design.
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Kelsey Atherton
about 1 year ago
Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly
www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24278723/comic-baby-monitor-surveillance-history-tech
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Jake
about 1 year ago
the verge continues to be the only place on the internet where I reliably see art that's this cool while still sticking to the core mission of the site: examining how tech makes us feel. props to Kristen and the team for putting this out!
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The Verge
about 1 year ago
In this digital comic, Kristen Radtke explores the history of baby tech ā the tools and devices that allow parents to surveil their newborns.
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24278723/comic-baby-monitor-surveillance-history-tech
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Ash Parrish
about 1 year ago
Sobbing in the club over this one
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