Over the last six years, Starlink has really ruined the view of the night sky at the cottage. Always at least a few visible. Used to be an amazing view. I bet in even more pristine wilderness with even less light pollution that it’s even worse.

Back from China again. Found a rad milled wooden serving tray and made a custom leather insert for it to better enjoy my pretentious AF morning coffee. Perfectly fits my cup and pitcher.

Trapped on a train in Guangzhou for the last four and a half hours. Guess we made the Chinese news?

Prognosticating Shenzhen ferry signage.

The luddites were right. Burn it all down. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers

Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

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The problem with so many movies today is that they do not kick ass. More movies should kick ass. They should be like this

A Fistful of Titles@afistfuloftitles.bsky.social · 12mo ago

KOZURE ÔKAMI : KO O KASHI UDE KASHI TSUKAMATSURU / LONE WOLF AND CUB : SWORD OF VENGEANCE Kenji Misumi 1972

"I have only changed in spite of myself. Every scrap of progress has been torn from my clenched talons by citizens who loved me more than themselves and their neighbors more than me."

I’m Still Your America

Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...

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𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘬𝘦𝘺. 𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺.

Are you an Android dev? I'd love to hear what you think about third-party app stores, Google and Epic's proposed settlement, and the companies' secretive $800 million deal. You can DM me here, email me (dominic.preston at theverge dot com), or message me securely on Signal: @dompreston.01

Not really looking forward to Hot Fascist Summer, I have to say. Can we have Hot Abdication Summer instead? Maybe Hot Egalitarian Summer?

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

Anyone else in Western Massachusetts: Dave Hayes (i.e., THE reliable weather guy for the Pioneer Valley area) just released his weather app. iOS-only for now, Android version coming soon. Just in time for the storm! apps.apple.com/us/app/the-w...

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Download The Weather Nut by David Hayes on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like The Weather Nut.

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Please note that all typos in my pitch notes and press releases are now deliberate indicators of Human Made Quality rather than mistakes, there only for your appreciation.

massachusetts drivers are fucking crazy but new hampshire drivers in massachusetts are fascinating bc when they say "live free or die" they mean it. except by "live free" they mean "let me do whatever i want" and by "die" they mean "i will kill everyone on this highway off-ramp including myself"

ICE murdered Renee Good just blocks away from where police murdered George Floyd. @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I are introducing the Qualified Immunity Abolition Act to hold ICE agents and all federal law enforcement officers accountable. We need justice. Abolish qualified immunity now.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

🔊Please SHARE: Stunning organizing in an open letter to the people of eastern MA, from the Quabbin Watershed Stewards — a growing group of people organizing in the communities that ring the Quabbin Reservoir. The letter is available through this link: senatorjocomerford.org/western-mass....

“Smog ✅”

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

If you've got the disease, go down to the dungeon with all the other monsters.

Wish I could temporarily mute notifications from a single app for a set duration in a couple taps, rather than play endlessly with needlessly complicated focus/DnD modes. But I guess that’s asking Apple or Google to care more about my attention’s value to me over their ability to profit from it.

Every time folk are like “AI is the future,” gotta remind them that stuff is all just more complicated versions of the same statistical system that can’t even let you type the word “we’ll” in a grammatically correct context without fucking it up for you.

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Recommendations time! For the next 60 minutes tell us a film or filmmaker you love and we'll suggest something for you to watch on the Criterion Channel 😍

I mean, the thing is, and I keep telling people this, I am SUPER lazy, so why would I learn how to prompt "AI" to write in a non-"AI" way when I can just naturally write in an engaging, human style? I doubt there is ever going to be a point where adding "AI" to the mix isn't just extra work for me.

Ross Harrison@authoross.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I just saw a great take on writers using "AI" - people don't like to read something that's clearly written by "AI", so we need to respect that and make sure it seems natural. So...put as much effort into tricking people into thinking we made an effort as we would into actually writing. Outstanding.

Anyone who has ever read and enjoyed (or worked for!) one of The Good Old Blogs before it suffered the indignity of a content mill acquisition will find this an outright joy.

The Verge@theverge.com · 8mo ago

It’s your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Verge’s limited-edition anthology of features, commentary, art, and more — all about “content” and the people who make it. It's available now for a limited time, only while supplies last. (psst subscribers, check your email for a special discount)

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anyone who's been eagerly awaiting their linkedin wrapped should be put in a camp for everyone's safety