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Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge
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obviously this and the death penalty thing are hilarious but people really don't talk enough about how weird it is that Silicon Valley's big new commercial product is a universal truth-seeking machine

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

We're nearly halfway through the debatably-legal-in-the-first-place TikTok divest-or-ban extension and the only concrete change in its status is that the rest of Silicon Valley has been convinced to ignore the law

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

and you wouldn't need machinegames to like punch it up with weird over the top humor either. like getting into a chainsaw fight with felon tusk would just be textual

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Good morning, I’m at the Luigi Mangione hearing today in Manhattan. There’s a truck with a digital billboard outside already. Protest planned for 1pm and hearing for 2:15pm. Will post updates!

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

It's obvious how Redfall's mechanics came about but my Dishonored replays are making me curious about what kinds of conversations went into the writing direction -- not because I think Redfall's is inherently bad but because against Dishonored particularly it's striking how twee it went.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone needs to read this incredible report from @justcalma.bsky.social, essential stuff. www.theverge.com/features/611...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

A defiant Mayor Eric Adams, standing in front of a dozen elderly members of the clergy, gives a speech to the assembled media in which it gradually becomes clear that he believes all of the events that happen in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats "really happened, right here in New York."

submitted 5 days ago • 69 comments

Perhaps my single strongest journalism beef post-election is with outlets that poll clearly low-information voters on concepts like "the economy" and "the president's executive orders" and then report their approval as a meaningful barometer of public opinion.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Need a break from the present? Come explore the PAST of computing with @jesperjuul.bsky.social as he talks with us about his new book on the Commodore 64, C64 games, and more. This Thursday evening, free and open to the public!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

if it was ever unclear that the metaverse was a surveillance nightmare, hopefully(?) it's become even clearer now that the guy running it is collaborating with an administration that wants your social security data

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

This is not a knock on Dishonored's writing because I think the narrative logic checks out, but it is kind of an anticlimax when about 2/3rds through you drop the elaborately choreographed non-lethal revenge plots in favor of "i'm gonna steal this guy's wallet, that'll show him who's in charge."

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The technology team at the CFPB was gutted overnight, diminishing the financial regulator’s ability to oversee tech firms and traditional financial institutions participating in the digital payments space — like, say, Elon Musk’s X. www.theverge.com/policy/61293...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: Some federal workers say they are moving all but the most innocuous conversations from platforms like Facebook or text messages to Signal, fearing tech companies will turn over their data to the Trump administration. www.theverge.com/news/610951/...

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

OpenAI feels like it's taking the common tech platform route of "we will be entirely objective, except with you know, the stuff people obviously think is bad" but... a) oh boy is that window shifting lately b) a company aimed at building god seems like it should have something more sophisticated

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Cristiano is an ace tech policy journalist and a generous coworker and friend. I'm lucky to have worked with him and deeply bummed he's leaving the Post. But this is a tremendous hire by Tech Policy Press, which does stellar work and will only get better with Cristiano on board. Follow them both!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

as always, impressed by how well contemporary American Christianity has managed to finally purge itself of its pesky remaining virtues

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

I had not expected Lawrence Wright's Going Clear to be a real risky thing to pick up right now, but turns out it's pretty dispiriting to read a cult history where effectively the bad guys win.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Not every day I get to write about the intersection of two of my favorite extremely specific interests: testing chatbots and Section 230, with an assist from @ericgoldman.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote a quick Trump tariff explainer that you can send to your uncle who seems confused www.theverge.com/tech/607947/...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Overturning Sullivan has at least two votes on the Supreme Court — Thomas and Alito. Maybe more. I can’t overstate how catastrophic that would be for free expression in America in an environment where political and performative defamation litigation are common.

submitted 17 days ago • 122 comments

I poked around NCMEC's website after @marisakabas.bsky.social reported the DOJ threatened to cut off funding unless it removed references to queer and trans kids. It appears to have done so, including taking down guides for stopping sex trafficking.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

so, on one hand I'd suspect Elez resigned because there was too much public focus on him for DOGE's liking, and the online racism was an excuse. on the other, I'm a little surprised they'd want to telegraph the message that being racist online is bad

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

getting an almost physical itch to replay all the thief games again (all 3 of them, obviously, 3, the total number of thief games that there are)

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

shitty, for-profit cybersyn — the anti-cybersyn — is a pretty funny and pretty accurate way to frame this

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment