⭐Monday, January 12, 8pm⭐: We're launching the Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 season with a star-studded lineup-- @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden, and Ali Kriegsman! Book raffle, drink specials, #free admission! shorturl.at/yTq9W

excuse me?!

that time of year when i look at BAM showtimes and i’ve already seen everything 😓

You guys are gonna love this movie

deeply funny that the central idea behind the Avatar movies is “there are 4 elements”

Wikipedia is under attack — from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk — but the encyclopedia’s founder believes that transparency is the key to survival. Read @joshdzieza.bsky.social's interview with Jimmy Wales: www.theverge.com/tech/846184/...

Earlier this month, a study went viral — a social listening firm said it had traced "inauthentic" social media activity that helped to spread narratives that Taylor Swift was using Nazi symbolism. Then all hell broke loose. I tried to get to the bottom of it: www.theverge.com/report/84572...

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/...

AI companies are spending billions hiring humans to produce training data. @haydenfield.bsky.social and I wrote about the explosion in new vendors and what it means for the future of AI development.

Feeding the machine

The 30-minute unbroken tracking shot in Resurrection is the most breathtaking thing I saw in a movie this year

you need to test a playlist a minimum of three listens before sending to a friend

Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

If you're paywall sensitive, you can read Mia's terrific feature today for free! (But not tomorrow!)

OpenAI thinks the critical coverage of OpenAI is… a conspiracy lol ok

New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard. I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced* www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real

David Lynch's DP Ron García on Sheryl Lee's miraculous performance in FIRE WALK WITH ME.

Here's my dispatch from a week of pre-trial hearings in the Luigi Mangione case: The supporters, the media frenzy, and the simmering tensions between all factions on how to talk about a case that is maybe too viral for its own good. www.theverge.com/policy/83905...

Pre-trial hearings are usually empty for most cases. The Luigi Mangione hearings, on the other hand, are happening in a packed courtroom — and not everyone is happy about the coverage. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/83905...

One of the best crime books of the year NO DOUBT @patrick-hoffman.bsky.social <3 crimereads.com/best-books-2...

Mỹ Documents on the list babyyyyy

Wrote another headline www.theverge.com/column/83693...

our prison system can't handle this many future scammers

I liked Marty Supreme!

Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...

My pet theory is that execs think AI is convincingly human-like because they are completely surrounded by assistants. They believe people exist to serve and flatter them.

This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi.... The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This is so good. Do yourself a favor and just spend an hour in this little world.

you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird

you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking

the real victim is bamboo

Great moments in Verge background policy here btw - @tinanguyen.bsky.social nailed this one

Love to get my news from Daddy* *a 26-year-old

"As you grow up, you're more involved in society. I think it's a thing."

If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news

“showing my whole ass” is an interesting growth strategy for a substack

the verge's reviews program has always been the heart of the site and one reason we jealously protect it and refuse to do brand deals is so we can just say the products are bad www.theverge.com/report/82215...

Stop whatever you're doing and START procrastinating...by listening to the latest Reading Writers. It's a really fun one, with the scintillating Lauren Michele Jackson. Expect talk of dirtbag women protagonists, Alexander the Great, and hot cheetahs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...

How to find music you will love without the algorithm

One Meeting After Another

Mỹ Documents is one of TIME's best books of the year 💚

hmm only one of these bands is great

best tv character of 2025 is the eyeball monster from alien earth

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

A strong refutation of the criticism that Mamdani was just good at social media. Sure, there were TikToks, but he spent most of his time on the streets of New York meeting people.

do you think eminem got more or less fan mail after “stan”