Packers lose. America is finished

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

Wait, you’re saying a bunch of reactionary conspiracy theorists are already splitting over whether the government is telling the truth www.theverge.com/policy/78186...

Excited for the first defamation lawsuit against a major conservative influencer quoting this interpretation of the law

My favorite podcast within a podcast came back for an emergency episode: youtu.be/NSymehINBgY?... Thanks for coming back @reckless.bsky.social if only it was on your terms and not because Brendan Carr being a dummy.

New Vergecast! Brendan Carr is such a dummy that @reckless.bsky.social ditched his baby to come yell about it. Plus lots of thoughts on smart glasses, TikTok deals, and more.

Just a tiny leap from “broadcasters have to use their spectrum in Trump’s interests” to “AT&T and Verizon have to manage content on their wireless networks in Trump’s interests because they operate on public spectrum”

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

SCOTT DO YOU THINK TAKING PRESIDENT TRUMP AT HIS WORD IS A GOOD IDEA BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH FOXCONN WHEN YOU WERE THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN

Very amused that CNN has chosen Scott “Foxconn Factory” Walker to carry water for Brendan Carr tonight

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Carr is a dummy but it’s so funny that he’s handing famous comedians their YouTube launch stories while simultaneously pushing Bari Weiss onto the glass cliff of broadcast news doom

Okay one fun thing you can do with Gemini is paste in a shady Carfax report and have it tell you a story about car thieves and washed titles

It’s iPhone review day and I think @allisonjo1.bsky.social was about as polite as possible about the Air. But more money for no ultrawide? I just don’t know www.theverge.com/tech/779588/...

Here’s @thedextriarchy.bsky.social saying it as bluntly as possible, in classic Verge tradition www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

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...

The music industry can no longer produce a Clash to write 25-minute reggae fusion songs about Luigi so @miasato.bsky.social’s court reporting is the next best thing www.theverge.com/report/77935...

"the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express 'the thought that we hate.'" -- noted leftist Justice Alito

This is so purely incoherent on both sides of the conversation. It's not "allies" who say hate speech is free speech, it's decades of First Amendment rulings! And then Trump is just on another planet as usual

School shootings and measles

I must continue to mumble that government speech regulations are bad

Government officials in the "party of free speech" looking to use the power of the state to punish people for their free speech. Again. It's almost like they were never actually serious about free speech.

I was very excited for @hankgreen.bsky.social to interview Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi on Decoder and they did not disappoint -- here is a confident prediction that ad money will shift to app installs and away from Google and Meta as AI eats those platforms www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation

So much Charlie Kirk discourse points to the absolute and complete victory of style over substance when it comes to winning online audiences

Hey Elon. I have some clients for you.

I decided to subscribe to The Verge because they accurately reported the news

America sure is online now

Now to take a break from the incomprehensible overlapping storylines of modern culture by playing Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater

Seems really clear that both large MSM newsrooms and law enforcement agencies need some staff who really get internet culture. Or in the case of WSJ etc just to tap the tech or culture reporters who do in moments like this

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

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Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

You’re saying a young gamer steeped in reactionary self-referential internet memes did horrifying violence in the real world for clout? Who could have ever seen this coming www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Packers win, there is hope for the republic

It’s nice that Amazon let Alexa hallucinate all of Kirk’s oddly detached and inaccurate color commentary tonight, that team needed a win

The Packers having a scary defense is a lot like if you woke up one day and were suddenly able to speak Italian. Really cool, not anything you were expecting based on your experiences to date

quick check in on the 4Runner market lol

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.

Baby tracker app switched to the wrong kid and got very confusing