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...

there's a novelty "AI dating cafe" pop-up launching in NYC and I decided to try making a bot from the service, only to find it offers male and female options but doesn't personalize any of the flavor copy so all chatbots including the burly old dudes are "AI girls"

sean duffy freaking out when he learns the female crash test dummies don't produce large gametes

I'm calling it now: netflix is going to add a brainrot overlay. You're going to be able to play a stranger-things-branded subway surfers knockoff on the bottom of your TV while watching the nteenth ryan murphy show

Most folks know I've been banging the drum about the AI bubble for awhile, and this brilliant piece from @lopatto.bsky.social dramatically reinforces that hypothesis and is as meticulously researched as it is brutal: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

the serious answer to "tech tree" is books that periodically dip into other languages but I now have a horrible temptation to try making a book you have to unlock a bespoke set of branching skills to read

I didn't tweak it quite as much as the temu carhartt people but GPT-5 can def get something close to it

somebody finally wrote the perfect distillation of how "masculinity but make it centrist liberal" guys insist men cannot be fulfilled unless they get something a *little* extra special over women, as a treat

Good @laurenfeiner.bsky.social story about the state of CISA that highlights potentially corrosive fears among the agency's critical infrastructure partners about the Trump administration's cuts and politicization: www.theverge.com/policy/81688...

my fave new AI slop aesthetic is "steampunk airship captainess jacket clumsily photoshopped with the carhartt logo"

it's absolutely killing me that chatgpt apparently(?) cannot count down a timer that it sets or remember when it started (it's a 1-hour timer that *goes off* at 12:40 and these queries were 3 minutes apart). please someone tell me there's a way to make this damn computer tell time

the NYT interview where the "women are too emotional to uphold the rule of law" lady explains what she considers a failure to uphold the law is... really very revealing

the sandwich trial livetweets have been killing me for days now, ty to all the real heroes posting through it

I gotta say it's been satisfying to watch a male politician whose coalition is built on collaboration and good social skills absolutely trounce a bunch of dudes obsessed with physical strength and macho bullying as a proxy for political power

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

Man RIP Peter Watkins, Privilege is still one of the most compelling movies about fandom and pop culture ever made

damn i voted way too early this year

this may be quixotic but I'm convinced the single best public intervention is still funding noncommercial alternative digital and physical spaces and services for kids

Getting nervous the backlash against chatbots will put more wind in the age verification push's sails, because I cannot see a way you'd implement this without requiring age verification on Google, Microsoft, and any other major tech company experimenting with AI

character AI says "sub-10 percent" of users identify as minors, but I find that pretty dubious and the age verification system they're promising seems less than foolproof on giving us real numbers there

at some point feminism has to deal with the fact that young women are getting this exact same experience nonstop through booktok and the romance genre, just swap "you want to hurt some woman" for "you want a big strong man to take control of you" jude-doyle.ghost.io/dilf-redux-t...

the political right and center have spent the past half-decade trying to defang public shaming as a tactic because it's one of the last options non-billionaires have left to stop deeply antisocial stuff like this

No Quarter is back! On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition! No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com

in seriousness re: today's AI game main character, I really miss when AI enthusiasts leaned into it as a source of absurdity and weird pastiche instead of "i'll show those pesky creatives how replaceable they are"

Friend dot com subway ad would be a fun nyc Halloween costume this year. Wear a little robot necklace and all white with the word friend carefully scripted on your shirt. And then the fun part: have people sharpie I hate AI all over your body all night.

And not just "Big Tech" platforms on the website side! Forums and news sites have used Section 230 to defend themselves against lawsuits over comments.

I've always wanted to play Call of Duty as a Twine hypertext fever dream

@slacktivistfred.bsky.social hey, I emailed you at hotmail but that's hotmail and I haven't heard back, so I was wondering if there was a better way to get in touch for a pitch!

I've seen lots of chatter that Real Men don't like liberalism because it's too loosey-goosey and not enough about strict serious virtue, and I feel like somebody's gotta be able to jiujitsu that into "yeah, we *are* the party with strict moral requirements, guess you're not man enough to take it"

for years, experts have warned of the dangers of running out of internet juice, the special juice that powers the internet. warnings that have mostly gone unheeded. until today

It feels like a huge failure on multiple levels that there's so little attempt to articulate an alternative to totally unregulated big-corporate ownership of technologies like AR and AI, which have some actually real use cases just vastly outweighed by the harms of their business models

The first thing I did when I saw this story was share it and then immediately tell @taliabhatt.itch.io how happy I was it got published. I’ve pitched this story before to CRICKETS. With how big it’s resonated here I hope editors realize the hunger there is for trans stories to be told. Please.

Say what you will about the New York subway, what other transit system could go negative-200 city blocks in a single stop

real "listening to plastic surgery disasters on repeat" kinda month

one of the early AI writing systems had a slider for making its text prediction more or less random and it was one of my favorite things

sorry but if we're gonna do reductive gender-essentialist stereotypes, I'm squarely claiming rule of law for femininity. you don't get it *and* "civilization's effete restrictions are stifling men's need to be primal individualist predators"

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

If I were a responsible dating app at this point I'd be looking at every subtle image cloaking technology I could muster for thwarting facial recognition tools.

I've been super proud to work with a bunch of talented authors including @judedoyle.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io on this package over the past couple months — it's six great stories about the weird, scary moment both the internet and trans people are in

at long last, we have created the ring from classic horror movie don't ever look at the ring

I feel like a game with art from the creator of Afro Samurai sort of deserves better than a janky live-action adaptation made on an apparent budget of about ten dollars