Props to the team at The Verge for sticking with this story, elusive doesn’t really begin to describe it

give 'em your subs! they pay me!

visual representation of how I described this @lopatto.bsky.social piece in an editors meeting

i just got through the second of matt wesolowski's six stories series and this thing really is the novelistic equivalent of somebody holding a cat dish and going pspspspsps. teen counterculture! black-eyed kids! spooky woods! even the rare metafiction-ish twist that I actually find satisfying

We're at the point where I'm almost 50/50 on there being an Epstein email that validates any possible paranoid conspiracy I could cook up. Like, one random search away from turning up a bunch of dudes cackling about funding AI to destroy the cultural power of art.

A Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for.

Obviously the idea of Netflix producing the "wokest content in the history of the world" is hilarious nonsense but the open justification of blocking a business deal because a company has too many shows with trans people is just incredibly censorial

“People have a First Amendment right to observe, document, and communicate information about law enforcement activity,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TheVerge.com. “There is nothing about using Signal that changes that.” www.theverge.com/tech/872493...

Just want to take a second and appreciate @sarahjeong.bsky.social, @reckless.bsky.social, and the whole team at @theverge.com for consistently meeting the moment here. Fearless reporting, pulling no punches. Proud to be a subscriber.

bring back "i found it before it was cool" 2k26

We pulled this one out of the paywall for today so more folks can read it

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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Arguably, Supernatural was an example of how technology can serve and connect people. It reached people you wouldn't expect to log in DAILY to a VR headset. It's like saying small, dedicated communities aren't enough if they're not raking it in at scale. That makes me so sad.

A phenomenon I find interesting is the yearning for corporations to launch copyright nukes on the AI companies. Which is to say there is such a feeling of hopelessness and a kind of legal void around this stuff that many people are demanding someone, anyone, do something about it in court.

Ian's about as thoughtful, intelligent, intricate and dedicated an editor you could ever ask for. Upload's loss.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

So it's gotten worse?

it is absolutely backwards that the ostensible professionals paid to mount a massive armed escalation of force on an unsuspecting community are held to lower standards than the ordinary people they're descending on

If you have seen your favorite sex subreddit become abolish ICE overnight please DM me so I can write about it for The Verge dot com ✨

i love suspicious peptides

Today in "why we can't rely on Google anymore and really hope you can support our work": www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

cannot believe there's ongoing news on this totally vaporware project

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

gunmetal olympus is the rare thing that's an interesting publishing experiment (open collaborative fan world) *and* messing with gender dynamics in ways very little romance-adjacent stuff is *and* really fun sci-fi pulp, next week is gonna be fun

the last hope for the survival of the american experiment is to make violent conflict and stupid criminal risk-taking a girl thing

So basically, some meme account made up a sales number, which was picked up and incuriously reported by the Times of India, which then got cited and laundered by Grok hallucinating a bunch of reputable sources, leading to actual democratic governor Gavin Newsome broadcasting the false statistic.

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

You may have seen reports swimming around claiming that X finally restricted the Grok deepfake/undressing features behind a paid subscription. That simply isn't true. Not even close. www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

By "confidently claiming that one blurry clip shows evidence of domestic terrorism, the Trump administration is asking the public to disbelieve their own eyes... Who needs AI manipulations when your preferred angle will do the job well enough?" — @miasato.bsky.social www.theverge.com/tech/858710/...

Genuinely, if you were surprised how much classified info people would leak just for clout on War Thunder forums, brace yourself because now there’s a profit motive

leave aside any awkward questions about LLMs and whatnot, how do you make a "put a fictional character in a lava lamp" desk toy this boring

Besides the obvious (System Shocks 1/2, Half-Life, Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Marathon), the first fun ones that come to mind are all adventure games: A Mind Forever Voyaging, Sanitarium, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Beneath A Steel Sky

when you get isekai'd into somebody's first half-life 2 mod

If you're still probing the Steam sales, I'm having a lot of fun right now with Unavowed from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social. Point-and-click adventure with pretty chill gameplay, entertaining party dynamic, and Hellblazer-esque urban fantasy in sort of a retro-present-day NYC.

Has anybody guessed what video game the J6 bomber allegedly used to figure out the ingredients for making black powder for (ultimately nonfunctional) pipe bombs? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Putting an LLM up against Komar & Melamid’s Most Unwanted Song “John Henry Style”, and while I do not think this is actually possible in any known audio format, I do grudgingly admire the intentless gusto

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

“We’ve recreated the torment wallpaper from the classic novel, ‘Don’t Create the Torment Wallpaper.’”

crisis averted -- we asked chatgpt and grok and now have both sides of the story, direct from the chips. have learned mechahitler is involved

what happens when you let @reckless.bsky.social write heds www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

not to sound like an old person, but contra this headline it seems like a significant fail state for society if people eschew *actually providing information to authorities on an at-large murderer* for making posts on social media about it

first big longform feature at the verge is live! an honor to work with @joshdzieza.bsky.social as always. thanks to our editor, the profoundly brilliant @knguyen.bsky.social. art by the wonderful @kristenradtke.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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.

Amid a concerted reactionary push to control culture it is still very interesting to me that there's so little critical feminist analysis of one of the most wildly popular forms of women's media.

Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

I watched The Jockey of Death recently because of a Movies Silently review and it was an excellent reminder that there is no age cutoff date or speaking requirement for a movie to be great silly fun

While KOSA has taken up much of the attention in kids online safety discussions, a bill mandating app stores conduct age verification has been sweeping states and Congress. It will be discussed at tomorrow's House hearing, and just picked up Pinterest as a supporter www.theverge.com/policy/83087...