the internet denizens yearn for twilight

crepuscular mode

backrooms this liminal spaces that I need an @aaronareed.bsky.social subcutanean adaptation

I miss when biohacking involved more sticking random stuff under your skin in a tattoo parlor and less multibillion dollar scams

Just a reminder that for all the talk of how LLMs are creating new legal challenges, everything old is new again: law.justia.com/cases/federa...

as someone who loves a good pastiche i've gotten real tired of them as a surface-level tapping of nostalgia instead of an intentional conversation with or attempt to build on a genre

As far as I know this makes 3 criminal charges under the (non-takedown portion of the) Take It Down Act — curious if that's going to speed up www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

from Sports Blogs Inc. we came and to Sports Blogs Inc. we shall return

I understand Google wants to play up conversationality in a stage presentation, but I wish it didn't sound so excited about "what if you did something you could do with a few words and a button, but you had to say/type multiple sentences to do it" as a computing paradigm

when you're mean to AI data centers this is who you're being mean to

on top of *many other issues* here, isn't dismissing something on grounds totally unrelated to the actual alleged behavior sort of the opposite of creating a precedent

Elon Musk made us all sit through 3 weeks of AI industry dirt, in order to... get his claims dismissed in 2 hours thanks to the statute of limitations so none of the dirt even mattered in court at all

the phenomenon of the Business Tradwife will be studied for decades

The rare positive thing i've learned about OpenAI in Musk v. Altman is that at least they didn't name their company after Gordon Freeman

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Elon Musk's case DESTROYED by new testimony from Elon Musk

say what you will about openai, but they had the foresight to take good "pictures somebody will run through chatgpt to put a fake renaissance masters filter and some costumes on it" shots years before creating chatgpt

solving the second shift issue by rebranding child care as Tactical Progeny Engineering

I see a million tech moguls complaining that media coverage has become "anti-tech" like some kind of spontaneous vibe shift, and regrettably few wondering if, maybe, the issue is that a bunch of the tech industry became less worthy of being positive about over the past several years.

the coolest storage medium. I wish we were passing around minidiscs all the time

Corruption trickles down. A society where corruption at the highest levels is blatant, normalized, and winked at tends to become a society in which ordinary people are not only dishonest, but view honesty as a trait of saps and fools too dimwitted to see how the world works.

I've seen speculation this is ragebait, but I think that underestimates the extent to which this was unironically a vibe when I started covering tech 15 years ago. The owner of X wants to set women back by about 150 years, so relatively speaking, a decade and a half isn't so bad.

having enjoyed The Ritual as a pretty decent folk-horror movie I did not expect the book to be 200 pages of almost unbearably oppressive The Terror-style creepiness followed by one of the weirdest incidents of tonal whiplash I've ever read

Fully think American governance would improve by 20% if we banned appointed officials from having personal podcasts.

Twitter a deeply strange and haunted place these days

ladies and gentlemen, the x information ecosystem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

i cry when angels deserve to dieeeee

this would 100% rule

hey what's up guys welcome back to Reviewing The Library of Babel, today's book is AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAB

The irony of Andy Weir popping out over the years to repeatedly insist he has *no* politics and *no* worldview and his books are *purely* well-crafted entertainment with *nothing* to say is that he makes his own work sound so boring I've been put off ever reading it.

Why does the media continue to use the word "Millennial" as code for "young person"? That's not what it means. It's literally in the name. A Millennial is someone at least a thousand years old.

my HP Envy is in one of its "forget it has a keyboard/trackpad every time I put it to sleep and force me to restart it" moods, I guess

influencers need to get famous like they used to: by going on ill-advised and deadly polar expeditions

Brendan Carr: All I was saying is that you've got a nice place here! And I hope nothing happens to it! Why's everybody getting so upset?

95% of the "news" coverage of this FCC plan to "ban routers" just parroted the Trump administration's justifications, despite Brendan Carr having absolutely zero credibility on anything, really @theverge.com was thankfully an exception

Women should have terrifying wings if they want them. Preferably ones with razor-sharp tips they can stab into people who cross them. I firmly believe this is a inviolate component of feminism.

Come for Liz ripping on Andreessen but stay for the profound observation that if AI is inducing psychosis in regular people through yes-mannery, the very very rich are already fucking cooked. Hard-boiled, in his case.

Good story on the mistakes that happen when big tech buys things and then abandons them by @vicmsong.bsky.social www.theverge.com/report/89682...

bad news for my hot sexy dangerous boy licensing business

If you’re a Quest user PLEASE log out of Meta Horizon Worlds before June 15 or you’ll be trapped in there forever

Brutus here - I won’t lie, it’s not looking good. Caesar and his allies are poised to end our republican traditions. I’ll get right to the point, this is our FINAL CHANCE to send the dictator packing. For the next hour Gaius is matching all contributions 2x when you donate on ActTyrian. SPQR to end

yeah I know everybody rightly loves Soma, but the Penumbra series is criminally underrated and I'm so happy it's included here

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

lauren came out of the courtroom this morning promising "shenanigans" and this does not disappoint

I was prepared to be confused by this (and remembered none of the human passages) but ended up getting 6/6 almost intuitively, which is funny -- closest I can explain is the AI is wordy and the sentences don't have a focus or cadence.

i know this is a cheap shot but this article is so much weirder if you remember ebay would become the company that did reputation management by sending a newsletter writer live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask

Cannot believe this meetup wasted the opportunity to get a white claw sponsorship and make its tagline "ain't no laws when you're making claws" www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

by this logic i should be able to make a movie and prominently advertise it as "inspired by martin scorsese"

A funny thing I just remembered is that under normal circumstances Anthropic allows Claude to terminate conversations it could find distressing, and I assume this is not true of the military version but I'm getting invested in the concept of Conscientious Objector Claude.