Anything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000. This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower. Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship. Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.

Want to also thank @theverge.com for inviting us to Brooklyn Bowl - it was a blast! Bowling with @davidpierce.xyz and other Vergecast listeners was a perfect way to kick off my visit. Maybe next year we can organize a charity tournament and get @reckless.bsky.social to compete for glory 😈🏆

The Verge - with Patel, Jeong, Lopatto and many others - has been a reliable refuge of sanity and decency for a while now. You should subscribe.

Principles only matter when they're hard to keep.

X is so poorly run it can’t even sort out DMCA compliance and music licensing, which are 20 year old solved problems with multiple scaled vendors www.theverge.com/news/860013/...

Cook’s cowardice is especially egregious when you remember that, 11 years ago, he famously summoned Travis Kalanick to Cupertino to threaten removing Uber from the app store unless Kalanick stopped breaking Apple’s rules. And it worked!

💯 www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Feels like my subscription to The Verge goes up in value each week.

It's almost like the App and Play Stores have never been about moderation or keeping users safe, they've been about control and taxing developers wherever possible

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

made some ai art, thinking about making some real art just like it

Neat www.theverge.com/tech/858858/...

ICE shot and killed a woman just days after federal officials said they were sending scores of immigration agents to Minnesota following a viral video alleging fraud in social services. We pulled this article from @miasato.bsky.social out of the paywall for today: www.theverge.com/tech/856948/...

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/...

Everything is awful but this piece is great, including this absolute windmill dunk of a section lead

A million ways for this to go bad but it’s generally positive that OpenAI trying to put this huge amount of existing activity into a managed space. And keep in mind the alternative for these users seeking health info is most likely the YouTube grifter wild west www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

even if you’re not directly in Trump’s crosshairs, people around the world will grapple with the political and environmental ripple effects of whatever global game of chicken he plays next. www.theverge.com/report/85797...

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Jake Sullivan goes off on the Trump admin here - basically saying they’ve ceded the game to China for the sake of short term profit

You really should listen to @reckless.bsky.social's interview with the Zoom CEO w/ his world where you send your digital avatar to meetings as you go to the beach and Nilay's proper mix of bafflement and thoughtful questioning of him www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/241... open.spotify.com/show/47jQcyR...

Going great here at the robot show

just checking the list of published stories real quick to see how @vicmsong.bsky.social is doing at ces oooookay

I admit that I think it's cute Amazon named the art version of the Fire TV (which can get very dim to show art)... the Ember www.theverge.com/tech/853508/...

I loved the Decoder episode where @reckless.bsky.social interviews Stack’s CEO, who is convinced that the business is evolving but healthy. It’s a really interesting conversation about how to navigate both urgently and thoughtfully through disruptive change. www.theverge.com/podcast/8440...

Packers lose, in a sort of empty, meaningless way. America’s status uncertain but extremely shaky

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

Dog ain’t gonna wag itself.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told that all the prediction markets had rules against insider trading last April as part of a large conversation about turning the economy into gambling. This is all zeroed out by today’s insider trading on Venezuela strikes, I think www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

I'm late, but this from @sarahjeong.bsky.social is essential. And given my profession, so depressing. www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

It really just boggles the mind how consistently nonsensical AI Overviews are

Broken TikTok algorithm resurfaced this video of me saying the web is dying on Vergecast and this amazing comment. Yes Comcast loves me so much you guys

Everything in this bizarrely credulous story about a home security startup named “Sauron” is insane, down to their big idea to deter criminals being… flashing lights at them techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...

This is such a deceitful misrepresentation of what is happening I don't even know where to start. The Trump administration hijacked billions in infrastructure bill money to slather Elon Musk with subsidies and the Wall Street Journal is thrilled about it:

I’m actually so stuck on Andrej excitedly sharing this seemingly-impressive use of AI, which actually recapitulates tons of existing work to create new and exciting security issues. Any human engineer would have been like, idk dude just use Home Assistant

Elite free speech discourse has culminated in state action to compel labor

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The enduring legacy of Trump 2 - and really, unbridled Stephen Miller - will be that government can claim vastly more power than anyone thinks, and it should use it as quickly and ruthlessly as possible. Will be fascinating to see how this strategy plays out in the hands of progressives

Just pure incoherence from a product Google is shipping to billions of people. Also already being hacked by SEO games

A little ridiculous that HomeKit doesn’t support toggling lights on and off with a single button so you have to write silly little shortcuts

Netflix NFL broadcasts are produced by CBS but with Netflix goofiness on top which is very much Samsung truly believing the people demand Bixby

After that podcast episode, listen to @reckless.bsky.social interview Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar about how they evolved the community to respond to AI. That all began just as I was stepping down from the board, but it has been fascinating to watch. youtu.be/0Km9YTMGIhk

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

It's been quite the year in Washington! www.theverge.com/policy/84583...

AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...

For our final Vergecast of 2025, it's the Holiday Spec-tacular: 90 deeply wonky minutes on RAM with @reckless.bsky.social and @seanhollister.bsky.social www.theverge.com/podcast/8495...

Bari Weiss had no understanding of 230 and it will soon be painfully obvious that she has no understanding of what DMCA takedowns actually accomplish

Nothing will inspire renewed confidence in American aviation like hastily making planes at the behest of the mad king

Very well done. I could nitpick as I usually do but Elizabeth got all the important stuff right and didn't sensationalize anything. Worth your time to read!