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Huge week for people crashing out in The Verge comments saying “I thought this was a tech blog!!!” Anyway here are just a few pieces from our policy and politics desk 🙂 www.theverge.com/policy/77979... www.theverge.com/report/77935... www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First Amendment

impressed by people who have the energy to post on bluesky, then re-post the same thing on twitter, then upload a screenshot of that post to instagram, then

On Guido Reichstadter’s 17th day without eating, he said he was feeling alright — moving a little slower, but alright. Each day for weeks, he has appeared outside Anthropic's SF HQ. Others have joined him in London and India, calling for a stop to AGI development. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The Trump administration is using Charlie Kirk’s death as a way to weaponize citizens against each other, its chilling effect suppressing free speech on the left. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

Natalie isn’t a public figure. But she’s been caught in the crosshairs of a broad right-wing harassment movement — one sanctioned and encouraged by the government. www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

First byline with @haydenfield.bsky.social: Meta made a super PAC for AI issues, meaning they can run ads against their political targets in California -- and maybe their AI competitors, too. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

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New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it. www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Aside from the fact this idea is crazy bananas, it doesn't at all reflect how people listen to podcasts or what they listen to? No one saying "there aren't enough podcasts"

After a summer break, diaCRITICS is back! And we’re proud to introduce you to our new website: www.diacritics.org.

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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-...

A helpful tool for converting your 📌 temporary bookmarks to the real thing!

This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Talked to my favorite tennis writer @girinathan.bsky.social about his excellent book and what to expect from the men’s final

the lack of tennis on tv during the workday is making me SICK

20 years ago, Wikipedia mocked for being unreliable. Today, it's the closest thing we have to a shared, factual reality. (Even the anti-woke tech billionaires believe that, since they exploiting so much of Wikipedia for their AI nonsense.)

I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack

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We put a lot of muscle—reporting, editing, fact checking, designing, engineering—into this very deep dive on Wikipedia, which is now threatened by Trump, tech billionaires, and AI

boyfriend, looking at something his girlfriend had worn many times over the course of a decade: is that new??

i’m not a business man but how can a “free” press be worth $200 million

I love to moonlight as a sports writer, especially when soft-spoken zoomer queen Naomi Osaka goes super saiyan

We're gonna miss the era when Condé Nast magazines were run by people who knew how to, like, edit a story

sometimes you have no choice but to buy a book for the cover

Huh, but how does this feature screw over musicians

“It has also exposed the cruel logic at the heart of Israel’s prosecution of the war: If Hamas is everywhere, then every Gazan is Hamas. This is truly a war with no limits, and soon there may be no journalists left to document its horror.”

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

👉 Come work for @wired.com features team in NYC! Must have experience with big stories and a desire to have fun while holding tech leaders to account! Best in business, etc.! Ping me with questions condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

Kind of funny to launch a new publication with the premise “there aren’t enough op-eds”

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

pretty sure benson boone is russian psyop bc anytime his songs come on the radio i do 1-3 murders

Dropping out of your computer science major to make heavy shoegaze records seems like the smartest career move you can make now

I watched it 🫠

*tapping this sign over and over*

everyone should be making zines. we made this one earlier in the year, and all i want to do is put together a next one

everything andrew cuomo says

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing. A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

this is proof AI was trained on my text messages

Thing I love about Weapons is that, while Cregger is definitely back in his weird and goofy horror bag, the movie is also a straight-up call for some critical thinking about how people conjure up and wield the specter of violence against children. My review:

Revisited one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time and found it disturbingly relevant to what’s happening in the US

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I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found. ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x) nymag.com/intelligence...