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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

interesting how fast pritzker moved on the kimmel thing

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Huge week for people crashing out in The Verge comments saying “I thought this was a tech blog!!!” Anyway here are just a few pieces from our policy and politics desk 🙂 www.theverge.com/policy/77979... www.theverge.com/report/77935... www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

things can never get so bad that i won’t think it’s funny to see another matt stoller L

Carr is a dummy but it’s so funny that he’s handing famous comedians their YouTube launch stories while simultaneously pushing Bari Weiss onto the glass cliff of broadcast news doom

SCOTT DO YOU THINK TAKING PRESIDENT TRUMP AT HIS WORD IS A GOOD IDEA BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH FOXCONN WHEN YOU WERE THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN

kimmel? this is like banning pillow fights

RIP macOS Mickey Mouse Pointer 🪦

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk. with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

imagine being some austin edgelord who spends years building your rep as a dangerous truth-telling comedy outlaw and the government decides jimmy kimmel is more dangerous than you

Very amused that CNN has chosen Scott “Foxconn Factory” Walker to carry water for Brendan Carr tonight

Not sure what I'm more surprised about here -- that Tesla is taking some kind of action on this issue, or that it revealed the action to the press, which its leadership detests Either way, proud of my former colleagues at @bloomberg.com, esp @danahull.bsky.social! techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/t...

honestly in awe of how wrong megan mcardle is; you'd think she'd occasionally manage to be right, like a stopped clock. it's a talent

this is a really amazing and necessary series on the loss of jobs in some fields, to AI

Canceled my Disney/Hulu bundle today. If they reverse the ABC Kimmel decision I will think about going back, though I have other ways to see “Alien Earth” (with ads unfortunately). FX is a Disney subsidiary but comes bundled with many online “cable” type services. I don’t care about ESPN

i visited hachette’s nyc office for the first time today our publisher (algonquin) merged with little, brown so i jokingly asked the algonquin team if they’d ever met james patterson and they totally had 😂 i then jokingly asked if they called him “jim” and apparently his team totally does 😂

It’s iPhone review day and I think @allisonjo1.bsky.social was about as polite as possible about the Air. But more money for no ultrawide? I just don’t know www.theverge.com/tech/779588/...

iMessage block messages when you’re oversharing

I am going to walk into the sea

is there anything more pure than finding something made in Brøderbund's "The Print Shop" still hanging in a classroom?

The White House's lengthy denial was in response to a whistleblower allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system.

As the deal stands currently, TikTok will effectively license its algorithm to the US instead of handing it over, a decision that could lead to a glitchier version of the platform stateside.

What if Ford were part owner of GM. Weird, right? Well: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

Tesla's flush-fit door handles are under fire once again.

Orange everything

oh, it’s precedented. thank god

Okay one fun thing you can do with Gemini is paste in a shady Carfax report and have it tell you a story about car thieves and washed titles

cheap cocaine? damn dude the 2000s hipster era really is back

New profile picture drop

me: i wonder who wrote the 60's pop song 'Morning Girl', it has a nice strings/horns part wikipedia:

I switched to the iPad as my primary computing device nearly a year ago. I just accepted it could only do what it could do and that I'd still need a Mac. iPadOS 26 is a total paradigm shift and makes things more powerful, but it's NOT easy/intuitive. My full tips/workflow video is now live! youtu.be

Beijing continues to exert pressure on Chinese tech companies to boost the country’s homegrown semiconductor industry and break their reliance on tech from the United States.

i predict this one will go quickly

Excited for an economist to argue that cocaine should be included in the basket of consumer goods that determines the rate of inflation, on the argument that inflation isn't nearly as bad if you do

Meanwhile, where are all those Harper’s Letter give us justice and open debate people now?

At our media summit, I asked @BrendanCarrFCC about the l view that the greatest threat to free speech is him -- the government. He disagreed and said it was the social media companies. At 5:30 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB64...

fallon dipping to avoid controversy is actually giving attendees of this session the purest look at what "Staying 'On Brand'" really means

Kimmel has 20M YouTube followers, he should just go live on there tonight instead

this is basically the opening line of my forthcoming book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782388...

release the Kimmel cut

I’m suddenly out of work right now, too. @jimmykimmel.com let me know if you want to hang out!

NEW: Meta’s $799 smart glasses with a display are official - and they are an absolute game changer. My deep dive on all the features, what it’s like to use them and what’s next for Meta hardware. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's a noticeable and effective design, but not so drastically different that it will offend or distract those who are happy with the previous version of iOS.

NASA said ground teams are evaluating backup plans that might still allow Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft to reach the space station, just not on schedule.

OpenAI also plans to develop an automated age-prediction system that will determine whether ChatGPT users are over or under 18, automatically directing younger users to a restricted version of the AI chatbot.

This has been a wild week of reviews and hands on. Here’s my write up of the Meta Ray-Ban Display. www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...

Sorry not sorry to everyone seeing my face in various glasses bombarding gadget feeds rn.

I need to go to bed but that valks loss drained me of the energy required to get off the couch

Google Slides templates based on desired outcome

We simulated the human mind with a chatbot. It didn’t work not advocating data fraud! technically www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlW-... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250917-we-... - podcast time: 6 min 08 sec

The settlement between Verizon and California was reached amid tension between states and the Trump administration over price requirements imposed on ISPs.

of the authors, all except one have proud histories as AI slop proponents and one is a consultant in AI slop promotion to higher ed I assume most of them have in fact had to mark hundreds of essays at some point, making this even worse

Some great news for both NYT and the Pacific Northwest: @agpnw.bsky.social is taking over my job.

Scoop: Reddit is in talks with Google to strike a new AI content deal—one that would get the platform paid more for its data, which has become crucial for training Google's AI & powering search results w/ @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social & @shiringhaffary.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Timing of the Kimmel stuff is a shame because Meyers’ show likely already taped, so he can’t address this on air tonight. Idk when Fallon tapes but lol at the idea that he’d grow a spine for this moment.

The Skeuomorphic era (iOS 1–6), the Flat era (iOS 7–18), and the Glass era (iOS 26 and beyond) of iOS.

watching x files with the 12yo and realizing that’s where i learned about armani

Kimmel should do a podcast starting tomorrow. It would be historic.

i cannot wait to read this

Media corporations that destroy their popular content under government pressure will soon find they are losing what is left of their audiences, not so much because of boycotts and ideological cancellations, but because neutered propaganda is boring.

i wonder if drinking 19 coffees a day, and not sleeping more than like 5 hours a night, is starting to impact my health. not sure though.

Thank you! I appreciate you. (If you know, you know.)

Come follow The Verge's Meta Connect coverage! Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at 8PM ET / 5PM PT, and @vicmsong.bsky.social and I are covering live: www.theverge.com/news/777572/...

hello eye twitch my old friend

the dancing around white supremacy in this hearing is going to be downright balletic

Reuters’ investigations team has been on an absolute tear. The latest is this stunning report that shows how purported immigration officials at Thai airports are a key part of human trafficking for cyber scams. www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

imagine now, of all times, believing that tech and politics are separate things

generally not good if your car like traps you inside or whatever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Political influencers are tightening their security, but they're not backing away from producing content, unwilling to slow down in an industry demanding constant output. "Part of my rate is the 'someone might kill me tax,'" one creator tells me. www.wired.com/story/politi...

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A judge ruled this week that attorney Mark Geragos won’t pay anything in a malpractice lawsuit over Michael Avenatti’s Nike extortion scheme after jurors found $100,000 in damages but no liability or causation. www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/judge-says...

to translate this venture capital news article, the limited partners - the *investors* - are less and less keen to put their money into venture capital funds hence less money to splurge on anything and "AI" is still the *healthy* part of VC pitchbook.com/news/article...

note that the autocomplete cannot in fact scheme or make plans. this is marketing an autocomplete as SO SCARY that OpenAI must be working on very cool powerful things the only news is that it's OpenAI getting so into the AI doom shit and not just Anthropic is this dumb shit worth a Pivot vid?

"america loves cocaine again" is a headline i did not expect to see in a major newspaper today lol

valkyries fixing to break my heart

You’ll never believe it but all the headlines about the Kimmel situation are bad

The latest reliable rumors point to a potential late 2026 drop for a touchscreen MacBook Pro.

valks valks valks valks

all of our news orgs work for oligarchs. we've looked the other way for a very long time. now it can't be avoided.

"they'd have epic reactions for sure"

Meanwhile the Russians are playing us like a banjo.

really helpful graphic for those trying to understand their options (legend for the map is in the link)

I'm doing a talk on Substack and apparently need 10 subscribers on the purely-lurker account that I have there in order to participate. If you're inclined, would you please subscribe to me? Feel free to unsubscribe in a week! Once I get 10, I will delete this pathetic ask. substack.com/@kashmirhill

First issue of Sources is out! It’s a deep dive into the (very cool) new Meta Ray-Bans. They’ve got a display, neural band that feels like sci fi, & suggest a lot about where things are headed Feat. my interview w/t Zuck (full convo airs on the Access podcast tomorrow) sources.news/p/meta-ray-b...

zuck isn't wearing a weird latin t-shirt on stage today... did @jay.bsky.team win?

i want to reopen the cloak shop

@kevinbaker.bsky.social all politics is mods? alert

"The irony of the whole thing is that you spend years making technology and then the wi-fi of the day catches you" - Mark Zuckerberg after the Live AI demo fails

loving this valks run

still drives me crazy that The Morning Show ripped off The Boring Company's logo www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/...

tbh if sinclair-owned marquee broadcasts the charlie kirk memorial it wouldn't not be funny

When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme When you wish upon a star As dreamers do thewaltdisneycompany.com/contact-us/

you're telling me this tank can think?

This + it’ll also be interesting to see if all the way-far right people who criticized Bondi this week fall in line here or not. (My guess is they fall in line)

YouTube's messaging around AI was front-and-center at its creator event Tues. --On AI slop: We've dealt before with human-made clickbait trends. We got this. (We'll see!) --On AI displacing human creativity: AI is a tool not magic. Quill pens didn't make everyone Shakespeare etc. (We'll see!)

ABC cancels the only show I ever watched on the network www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

ABC can replace Kimmel with JD Vance, interviewing people from the Trump Administration, and saying things blessed by Trump Himself. That could possibly wake people up to the New Order.