Adi Robertson
@thedextriarchy.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge
this is not remotely my beat, so for anyone whose it is: is hegseth ordering women to get screened for low testosterone or has he just memory-holed the fact that female troops exist
before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. that way, you can sell the second one to fund your journey. follow me for more Revenge Grindset tips and tricks
I feel like the unsung benefit of older dystopian novels is usually not that they're "prescient" but that they'll help you understand to what extent the fears and problems of the present also existed in the past
🌈 Drawn&Quoted 🦄@drawnandquoted.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.
There's clearly never been a better time to just propose wild online child safety initiatives so I figured I'd throw a thought experiment into the ring: fund people building nonprofit internet services for kids
Instead of taking the internet away from kids, let’s build a better one
Would a Big Tech tax for kid-focused nonprofit platforms be complicated? Sure. Where we’re headed is worse.
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i would love 1000% less "can women trust any man" and 1000% more "what would a world look like where women are structurally less vulnerable to untrustworthy men" in feminist blogging these days
I tried to visit voodoo donuts when I was like seventeen and ended up in the wrong state
Alex Navarro@alexnavarro.bsky.social · 4w agopeople talk a lot about pre/post-internet microgenerations but let me hear from all the others in my microgeneration, the “printing maps off Mapquest” microgeneration.
given that there's a contact sensor in the ball, i think the world cup broadcasts are missing an opportunity to implement screen shake
the examples here seem deadly boring, but the logical goal is a sneaky pipeline for user-generated bootleg microdramas about mafia-ceo kpop stars and characters from hazbin hotel, and from a business perspective i'm not sure i can fault that
The Verge@theverge.com · 4w agoCharacter.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
this is the least of the problems with progressive masculinity crisis rhetoric, but been a real jarring shift from "women can do conventionally masculine things and it doesn't take them away from men" to "how dare you undercut men's sense of self and you probably suck at it, anyway"
Who needs a thermometer when you have the cat melting under desk test
8 episodes in and man, amazing digital circus is a fun show that happens to unfortunately include periodic mandated therapy breaks
this is totally unfair. mark zuckerberg was a truly visionary innovator in the field of "what if we just bought everyone else", before those pesky regulators stepped in
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last mo.For the past 20 years, Zuckerberg's only idea has been "what if we made a worse, somehow even more unethical version of another company's product"
Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.
Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”
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there are basically three options for how a crossover this bizarre happens: pop culture reference free association, deliberate goofy nerdragebait, and "no we get the point of the original, we just think evil is powerful and therefore better than good"
RingConn’s Lord of the Rings promotion assumes smart ring wearers want to be like Gollum
One ring you’re not supposed to toss in Mount Doom.
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isn't this a joke from some vampire media where vampires react to personal symbols of faith and an atheist repels them with a rational argument against their existence, or am i just thinking of a tumblr bit
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last mo.wheezing, dying, softly going “boo”
"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool
"You know, in Turkey, they have a phrase for someone who comes back from long odds. 'The lion will show you his teeth when it's time to eat.' And I thank my good friend, President Erdogan, for sharing that wisdom with me. Now as we all know, a knickerbocker is an ancient demon who steals children."
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agongl it would be so funny to hear the weird-ass speech eric adams would give at this moment
people were not meant to know this much about themselves
backrooms this liminal spaces that I need an @aaronareed.bsky.social subcutanean adaptation
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2mo agoEXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK - Independent liminal horror movie THE SPACE BETWEEN has wrapped production inside a real midwestern mall. Damian Maffei plays an overnight mall security guard. Over the course of a shift, his routine fractures as something unseen retraces his every step.
I miss when biohacking involved more sticking random stuff under your skin in a tattoo parlor and less multibillion dollar scams
What would you be willing to put in your body?
Medicine? Peptides? Steroids to help you perhaps not break a world record?
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Just a reminder that for all the talk of how LLMs are creating new legal challenges, everything old is new again: law.justia.com/cases/federa...
Winter v. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 938 F.2d 1033 (9th Cir. 1991)
Misrepresentations in a book may give rise to liability for the author but not for the publisher. Strict liability is not an appropriate theory in this situation.
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Downtown Josh Brown@downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 2mo ago
as someone who loves a good pastiche i've gotten real tired of them as a surface-level tapping of nostalgia instead of an intentional conversation with or attempt to build on a genre
Sony’s sloppy Spider-Man universe gets even messier with Spider-Noir
Sony’s latest Spider-Man project feels like a case study in beating a dead horse.
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