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“The only thing keeping people tuning in to live TV are awards shows and sports!” shrieks an entire industry that still doesn’t produce most content in 4K and instead crushes bitrates even further every year

Did they move CBS streaming to daddy’s data centers too? Because damn this stream is low bitrate garbage

Omg why

Hell I knew people in law school who sucked it up and joined the Federalist Society so they could network their way into a 5 percent better chance of landing one of these gigs

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

someone tell elon the ai is supoosed to do the paperclip thing, you’re not supposed to do it for them www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

Shoutout to @reckless.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz, & the whole @theverge.com team for how they have navigated the last few weeks & how they started the podcast this week. I pay for several news outlets, but there are only a few that I'm genuinely proud to support. The Verge is one of those.

Thank you!!!

We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us He left me on read.

We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us

This is why I’m researching indulgences

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

This is the quality content I’m happily paying for 👌🏻 @theverge.com @sarahjeong.bsky.social @reckless.bsky.social

(Still waiting for dark mode, though).

The funny thing is it’s the parking lot of a school they closed down!

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

a footnote citing my article "I looked into CoreWeave and the abyss gazed back" https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/822011/coreweave-debt-data-center-ai

always fun to see my little nietzsche jokes make it into a letter from a senator www.theverge.com/news/869983/...

Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows 2026 is all about improving Windows

scoop: Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows. The head of Windows tells me Microsoft will focus on "addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers." Full details in my Notepad newsletter this week, gift link here 👇 tinyurl.com/win11trust

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

There are affiliate links all over the site with disclosures and links to the ethics policy. We left them on here because I knew they’d make everything even more uncomfortable to think about which is the point of this piece in my mind

Feel great about it

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

Here you go Pam Bondi www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

YouTube video by Music Non-Stop The Clash - I'm so Bored with the USA (full version - Rock Revolution, Manchester 1978)

youtu.be/XipktveK8A0?...

That was one of the weirdest and dumbest meetings of all time? I think that's where I met @sarahjeong.bsky.social for the first time too

In press materials providing topline findings and an overview of the study, the ADL notes Claude’s leading performance — but does not mention that Grok performed the worst of the bunch. When asked about why, Daniel Kelley, senior director of the ADL Center for Technology and Society, provided the following statement: “In our report and press release, we made a deliberate choice to highlight an AI model that demonstrated strong performance in detecting and countering antisemitism and extremism. We wanted to highlight strong performance to show what’s possible when companies invest in safeguards and take these risks seriously, rather than centering the narrative on worst-performing models. That doesn’t diminish the Grok findings—which are fully presented in the report—but reflects a deliberate choice to lead with a forward-looking, standards-setting story.”

The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...

Look it’s only Tuesday and it’s been a hard week so I want you all to know I’ve been calling this baby toy the “disco turnip” and I was only recently informed it is a BEET BOX

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

no one told bari that some kinds of video distribution platforms generate vastly less revenue than other ones

"We should have fewer guns" is very much the mainstream position

This might as well be a Jonah Peretti memo from 2016 lol