Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Good on @techcrunch.com and @rebeccabellan.bsky.social for publishing the full transcript of her interview with Aron D'Souza about his new "journalism integrity" startup: techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/f...

"And what doesn’t really come across in all these memes is it’s a heartbreaking story... It’s a deranged penguin." - Werner Herzog to @knguyen.bsky.social on the DHS using a clip from Encounters at the End of the World, in @tinanguyen.bsky.social Regulator this week www.theverge.com/column/91262...

[Very Herzog voice] “All what I’ve seen so far is dead on arrival. Slick and well made, but completely dead. It does not acquire the soul of poetry.” - on gen AI video

“I do not intentionally post anything that I do not believe.”

For a year, @vicmsong.bsky.social tested and researched continuous glucose monitors to find out what they could actually do for non-diabetics. Why MAHA is obsessed with CGMs, why doctors are confused, and why too much data made Vee spiral:

Here's a rundown of what happened when Grammarly used our staff's likenesses for their janky AI "experts" feature

Sung to the tune of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet: Can't stop (can't stop) can't stop the slop. Suno won't stop (won't stop) won't stop stealing pop.

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, anyone with a link can view your notes by default www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"The future of being trans on the internet" series, unpaywalled

Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

Good morning, here you can rank Apple's best 50 products by clicking this or that click click click

Online user reviews: “a middle-man scam made to steal your info,” “useless enshitification of USPS,” and “one of the worst experiences I have come across. It’s straight up predatory.” Check.

This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird www.404media.co/this-company...

The one where Superhuman CEO tells @reckless.bsky.social he should voluntarily upload his editor manifesto for Grammarly to make an AI clone of him, but it's ok - “you don’t really need to replicate yourself the way you would be in person" www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

On today’s episode of “ChatGPT didn’t do that”

Viral claim on X: This is a "real uploaded animal" with “91% behavior accuracy” @theroberthart.bsky.social with @shahabbakht.bsky.social @asbates.bsky.social @anayebi.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social: Is it though?

Apparently you can't just say shit like "Geese sound like the Strokes coming out of a toilet" to @terrenceobrien.bsky.social because he'll immediately tell you exactly which 10 bands sound like the Strokes coming out of a toilet

"You ... identified this as one of the 'craziest' grants at NEH... Why did you do that?" "Because it explicitly says LGBTQ."

Look what you made us do samsung

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I see him now

It's too late to teach the "AI barons" reading comprehension pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

I now know entirely too much about Heinlein's "increasingly disturbing self-focused view of sexual liberation" (incest) plus.flux.community/p/why-big-te...

this is the story of so many technologies and certainly almost every technology that centers itself around knowledge work. that's because the technology isn't built/marketed/implemented with the workers in mind, it is for the bosses, who implement it in order to extract more out of people

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"Rarely has a story filled me with such a profound sense of dread..." says @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...

This is free to read on The Verge today if you have thoughts

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

The nonsense has ceased! “Based on the feedback we’ve received, we clearly missed the mark. We are sorry and will do things differently going forward.”

Nonsense continues. @seanhollister.bsky.social: "For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with."

Couple things here: 1. What the fuck 2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen 3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Grammarly's "Expert Review" AI agents "inspired" by @reckless.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz, @seanhollister.bsky.social, and @tomwarren.co.uk are giving users """edits.""" There are several things wrong with this.

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

Last month, Anthropic told @haydenfield.bsky.social "Claude, and other AI models, are a new kind of entity altogether." Anthropic is "investigating" "questions about potential ... consciousness ... but we remain deeply uncertain about these topics." Great way to keep up the hype!

From Casey Means' own book: "the ability to prevent and reverse" conditions like cancer and Alzheimer's "—and feel incredible today—is under your control and simpler than you think." This week on The Optimizer, @vicmsong.bsky.social lays out how wellness influencers exploit public hopelessness.

"Andrew Tate shared a video of himself dancing outside and smoking a cigar with the tagline: 'Me in Dubai while the bombs fall.'" ... I'm not going to say it.

I just wrote the words "nuts and bolts" in an email and Gemini told me I should say "fundamentals" instead, and I am apoplectic. I'm sorry a pile of nuts and bolts was your MOM but some of us can write our own emails.

Milleanials are like Millennials*

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors. It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening. My months-long investigation 👇

Great piece from @seanhollister.bsky.social and @justcalma.bsky.social on whether you need a robot trashcan that turns soft plastics into plastic bricks... that you ship off to Indiana to get "recycled"

"Tech is never neutral; it is owned, created, and maintained by people with specific points of view, priorities, and vested political interests."

"...it seems unfair to lament the plight of Punch without remembering the thousands of other monkeys of all ages whose emotional suffering goes unnoticed because they are, quite intentionally, not on display for all of us to see..."

Anthropic is "reinforcing ideas that have caused real harm, including some deaths by suicide among people who believe that the chatbot they’re speaking with exhibits some form of consciousness or deep empathy." - @haydenfield.bsky.social

Some writers will simply take pics with their phone at home. But few will scale mountains equipped with nothing but piss grenades and determination to get even better shots.

your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots

"As of early 2026, in many places, a sense of learned helplessness around privacy has taken hold..." For more on the dire state of tech regulation, read @thedextriarchy.bsky.social. Subscribe to The Stepback newsletter: Sundays from @theverge.com.

I have some suspicions about why prediction markets are striking deals with newsrooms. www.theverge.com/business/881...