Adi Robertson

sending you an invite code. no reason. just because.

at long last, we have created the ring from classic horror movie don't ever look at the ring

YouTube video by Midnight Embers Productions Furi - Official Teaser Trailer

I feel like a game with art from the creator of Afro Samurai sort of deserves better than a janky live-action adaptation made on an apparent budget of about ten dollars

i love free speech too but the influencerization of goverment must be stopped

impossible good law idea friday: all elected and appointed officials are barred from hosting podcasts or having active personal social media feeds unless currently running for office within 6 months of an upcoming election

Banning cigarette ads, regulating ads for children, and other stuff is one of those "wow, we could never do that now" moments but creating an environment where everything isn't full of aggressive, invasive, sometimes dangerous advertising feels like the only path forward for a functioning internet.

I've been poking around this myself, but curious if lawsky has better answers than I've found: is there a good study of why/how US advertising regulation was pulled off in the 20th century? Or a history of advertising and US law in general?

The wikihow "guy being menaced with a knife" meme, with WikiHow's logo over the menaced guy, Google's logo over the guy with the knife, and the Gemini logo over the knife.

the latest testimony in the google ad-tech trial has finally gifted me the world's most appropriate use case for this meme www.theverge.com/tech/790711/...

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It is of course helpful to remember that in the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. Antifa might not be organized, but the Department of Homeland Security sure is. George Soros might not be paying professional protesters, but right-wing media personalities are bankrolled by Trumpist billionaires. In the case of Ben Shapiro, that’s billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks; for Rumble, thank Peter Thiel. This is to say nothing of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, or Elon Musk’s X, or the Daily Caller itself, which is funded by Charles Koch. Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum: This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society. What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse. What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?

a verge feature story with the headline / subheadline of "Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America / Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started."

"What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?"

wake up babe @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Incidentally I don't disagree with this, just saying that even using *the government's own framing* they made their announcement in a bizarrely irresponsible way

Tylenol is afaik the first thing you can give to babies — I had a couple-month window at least where it was recommended and nothing else was. (I have no clue if Trump knows this since his alternative was just "it'll be uncomfortable" and also he seems to think you give it to them in pills.)

To be clear, there's zero mention of Tylenol after birth in HHS or White House fact sheets, it's all prenatal studies. As far as I can tell Trump made up an entire risk category as a bit. Which just incidentally encourages parents to leave their kids in pain for no reason at all.

Trump and RFK's message to parents is that autism is the great medical crisis of our time but it's not important enough to announce without Trump just outright admitting he's making stuff up on stage. Even people who take what they're saying at face value should find this insulting.

According to Trump and RFK, Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism, but you're *also* not supposed to give kids Tylenol after they're born, and maybe not take it at all. There is zero way for the average person to distinguish what's backed by even sketchy research and what's pure riffing and vibes.

It's been a week and I'm still sort of not over the fact that the government made a huge announcement claiming a common painkiller directly causes what it considers a fate worse than death, and they announced this in a way that made it impossible to tell what the actual medical guidance was.

I've been hearing of a lot of people with bad dreams, seeing bad omens, stuff like that. Haven't you?

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Reminds me of this from May
www.theverge.com/policy/66210...

"Trump didn’t invent scams, but his administration’s dismantling of every institution that protects consumers will allow them to flourish."

I think you can attribute at least some of the degradation in America's social fabric to the cognitive load of having to assume everyone is constantly trying to swindle you with woefully few guardrails

I feel like you could run a viable political campaign at this point on "i will make performing basic tasks using the internet less miserable"

way to bury the lede on sex house, the greatest reality show of all time

guy who has only played one bennett foddy game, playing his second bennett foddy game: getting a lot of bennett foddy vibes from this

The Smiths v. Maryland

I tried an early version of this and it feels like running a good-natured psyop on your friend group, it rules

I feel insane saying this but after today's press conference I'm genuinely not sure if Trump knows Tylenol lowers fevers and isn't just some kind of diet opioid

"trump is now improvising by telling people to not give tylenol *to infants*, a thing previously not even mentioned in the press conference" leading into "trump doesn't realize kids go to the doctor every year" is giving me whiplash

"trump learns how to pronounce the word acetaminophen and that it is another word for tylenol" is a bizarre comedic b-plot to this otherwise incredibly dark press conference

"lol no of course there's literally no painkillers you can take if you get pregnant, what are you, some kind of wimp" is an interesting message for a pronatalist administration

weirdly this is so bad it's flipping around and activating my nostalgia for MS WordArt