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nilay patel

@reckless.bsky.social

Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.

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The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Midatlantica@midatlantica.com · 6d ago

As @reckless.bsky.social noted, it says something about our society that tech is willing to throw these features in their platforms to prevent AI content (some of which is fine) but need court orders before they’ll do anything about racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny or the like

Glendon Mellow@flyingtrilobite.com · 6d ago

LinkedIn management: AI posts are costing too much and driving users away LI devs: we need to train our AI to appear closer to actual human writing LI marketing: we need a positive news story “Seems like AI slop” button was borne.

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · last wk.

“When people are empowered, they naturally check and balance each other and the power of larger institutions” is a heck of a thing to say when your company has had a gag order on a former global policy director after she wrote a book

Russell Brandom@russellbrandom.bsky.social · last wk.

A telling passage from Zuck's WSJ op-ed: "Imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. Justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today." I'm really not sure this is true!

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2w ago

gift link www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

A quasi-scientific polemic.

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bad, ridiculous, yes. But it's hard to top Marc Andreessen declaring that introspection is a 20th century invention forced on people that's destroying Western Civilization. If there's a single foundational sentence for Western philosophy, it's Socrates' "the unexamined life is not worth living."

javi@cyberjauvie.me · 2w ago

super good and clear example of @reckless.bsky.social’s “software brain” approach to what used to be Fitbit. if you just make every single medical file accessible to a Google AI, it can help you. If not, yeah, you’ll get an AI Coach on a bunch of cron jobs that pressures you to do things.

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2w ago

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse
Matt Rosoff@mattrosoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

‘Google has often said it was “sending out more traffic and the web is bigger than ever,” Mr. Patel said. “And then right next to that is a bunch of publishers whose businesses are getting destroyed.”’ - thank you @reckless.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

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nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was recently in the middle of extremely fancy executives seriously discussing the new trend of going to “priestess training” (???) while also lambasting the corrosion of culture and end of science

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3w ago

culture war is evolving to a strange place. went to a craft night and the conversation went from discussing witchcraft (as though it were real) to disparaging antivaxxers within like five minutes. one woman, my new hero, blurted out "they lobotomized the wrong kennedy"

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

For years, originalists have lectured us that they no longer look to "the Framers' intent," but to the "original public meaning" of the Constitution. Here, Kavanaugh throws all that out the window to lash the citizenship clause in his subjective guess as to what its Framers intended it to do.

First, significant illegal immigration into the United States is a new circumstance that was largely unknown as of 1868 and that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment could not have fully anticipated. And the Framers likely would not have anticipated (and presumably would not have intended) the odd result of granting a substantial birthright citizenship benefit to (i) those foreign citizens who violate U. S. immigration law and illegally enter or overstay and then have children in the United States over (ii) those foreign citizens who follow U. S. immigration law and have children in their home countries while seeking to lawfully immigrate to the United States. Nor presumably would they have wanted to grant constitutional birthright citizenship to children of foreign citizens unlawfully in the country while simultaneously denying constitutional birthright citizenship to children of tribal American Indians. So too, the issue of temporary visitors who give birth in the United States presents a new and different circumstance than in 1868 given the significant changes in immigration laws and travel.