Mia Sato

ALWAYS TRUST A GOTH GIRL

Goodnight everyone especially teoscar hernandez

if i weren’t a dodgers fan i would boo us too bitch!!!!!!!

No death threats pls but IMO Sympathy is a Knife is the best song on Brat and Actually Romantic is the best song on Life of a Showgirl. And if you think of Actually Romantic as coming from the perspective of the person Charli XCX constructed in her mind and is feeling weird about it all makes sense!

I’ve still not fully processed our new reality where official government accounts — during a government shutdown!!!— are starting Twitter beef with private citizens, @ing them, and making graphics of their social media posts to respond to. The Poster administration.

amazing, thank you!!!

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

i have an opinion a lot of you wouldn’t like about a certain new album…. watch this space

me emerging from every dodgers 8th inning that went 50 pitches bases loaded and no outs again for some evil reason

we need an etsy witch, holy water, sage, bloodletting, exorcism, turn it on and off, a controlled burn, i will take literally anything to fix these men 😭

I’m sorry if you followed me for journalism and now all i post about is how the Dodgers bullpen is a psyop

Cartoon duck smoking a cigarette

Dodgers bullpen time

it gets so much easier the more you do it, i promise

The journalist cracking the TikTok code Mia Sato was tired of watching news influencers steal her work.

I chatted with Kate Lindsay over at Embedded about how I use TikTok to share my reporting 🤳
embedded.substack.com/p/mia-sato-t...

3 batters away Shohei Ohtani graphic

ESPN going to a random WNBA news piece while shohei homered in his first at-bat of the post season… bring this back please

the dodger bullpen when they see me having a good night

ok the tanner scott of it all has gone too far

Baggu made transit merch for a store opening. BART had no idea. The transit agency was “surprised to see our logo” on gear from the SF-based fashion brand.

it doesn’t ! sfstandard.com/2025/09/25/b...

Baggu and BART branded water bottle that was created without BART’s permission

Reddit post showing a Baggu camo bag with TrueTimber’s logo on the print

TrueTimber logo

This is niche but apparently Baggu was doing a gift with purchase of merch that used the BART logo without permission? and a while back people noticed camo Baggu bags just straight up had a TrueTimber logo in it, like Baggu just screenshotted the print? does Baggu not have lawyers what is going on

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum* where they raised me

*2025 dodgers 7/8/9th innings

Goodbye blake treinen! the rapture worked!

YESSSSSS

Illustration of mario with a guy photoshopped

when they bring in roki sasaki to the dodgers game tonight you all better support him

wait what time is the rapture supposed to start

TikTok is tagging videos from Gaza with TikTok Shop products TikTok’s new AI feature automatically looks for products in your videos.

New from me: Last week I noticed a feature on TikTok that used AI to scan videos and identify products. It turns out the feature is being applied even to videos from Gaza. In one, a mother cries out for her family. TikTok tagged dresses, head coverings, and handbags.
www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...

could you point me to any examples? very interested to see -- thank you

The problem with trying to monetize every inch of online engagement is twofold. For one, there is content that we put online that can’t — or shouldn’t — be used to sell something, and the systems that power e-commerce cannot understand context. Videos shouldn’t need to depict what experts call a genocide to be off-limits to the aggressive marketing tactics employed by these systems; some people don’t want to be a digital billboard, period. The TikTok feature also represents the ruthlessness of tech platforms in squeezing every cent from user content, transforming the experience of being online into browsing an endless shopping mall. In this way, at least, the feature is honest about what the platforms want the internet to be.

There is the obvious issue with tagging purses and clothes in videos depicting mass death. But there's also the larger implication that online, we are all unwittingly billboards for someone else's e-commerce operation.

TikTok is tagging videos from Gaza with TikTok Shop products TikTok’s new AI feature automatically looks for products in your videos.

New from me: Last week I noticed a feature on TikTok that used AI to scan videos and identify products. It turns out the feature is being applied even to videos from Gaza. In one, a mother cries out for her family. TikTok tagged dresses, head coverings, and handbags.
www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...