Top recent posts by The Verge Community on Bluesky

New: Target staff "pranked" for social media; a comedian filmed mid-set; a Sprouts worker whose boss started wearing Meta glasses; and a cashier worried customers are filming down her shirt. Meta glasses are in the workplace, and workers feel powerless to stop it. 🎁 www.theverge.com/report/98241...

I think I maybe undersold how gross the “prank” played on this employee was. Imagine you come into work, try to help customers, and later realize they've racked up 500,000+ views on social media by harassing you and your coworkers.

sometimes I get to have fun at work www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

This is a FANTASTIC read about how Meta glasses impact labor. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

this is incredible www.404media.co/darth-vader-...

I keep saying over and over now that the high-on-their-own-supply AI bullshit artists are making people — including me! — reflexively distrust something that could actually be a useful tool. also the problem with AI is cost. unfortunately no one listens to me.

The mRNA-based vaccine—individually tailored to target a patient’s unique cancer mutations—was effective in a late-stage clinical trial of patients with one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer.

pervert glasses vs unions, let's go

Our fearless leader Nilay Patel has been running around with his hair on fire in Slack, asking how it is that if you put a dollar into compute, you get $1.01 back.

my body is like a temple (abandoned; in ruins)

alert @lopatto.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

there is a whole class of people on bluesky whose bio is something like 🌱🇺🇦 three time Midwesterner and 🌊🌊🌊 enthusiast ban Cheetoh man!! 🚫 NO DMs and I find them so confusing

While China’s rocket companies still have some work to do when it comes to booster turnaround, it's becoming increasingly clear that the country is catching up quickly with America's launch industry.

This is just the latest in a series of failures by Meta to keep advertisements for tools that produce nonconsensual intimate imagery off its platforms.

well now we know that the average Bluesky user, in addition to being 38, has a thing for spreadsheets

Though fiber networks have routinely offered such speeds for years, the FCC says the gigabit speed goal is not “technologically neutral."

Google's history of shady data practices has left former Spirit employees worried about the acquisition, and some have raised objections that the company could similarly fail to protect consumers.

Excited by the rumours of ceramic returning with the Series 12 Apple Watch! I wore my Series 5 daily for half a decade, and it became one of my all-time favourite Apple products.

is there anything prediction markets can't do?

THANK YOU EDINBURGH!!! YOU’RE ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES!!!

without scrolling up in the thread it's almost impossible to narrow down who this is referring to, the range of options is so wide

@conkerhimself.bsky.social could you ever have imagined that, one day, your creation would be the basis of a drag routine? it's a beautiful world

The Swift rescue mission was always risky, and NASA gave Katalyst, the startup leading the effort, a remarkably tight schedule.

This is a great piece by Skip York that explains the *real* reason gas and diesel are expensive and likely to just keep getting more expensive: "The world isn’t running out of oil. It is running out of places to turn that oil into fuel." gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/o...

The expansion, while convenient, will likely test more communities’ tolerance for increased noise from daily drone flights as the year goes on.

i did it. i talked to some very overqualified people about what would happen if you tried to cool data centers with pee. i learned a lot about recycled wastewater. techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/o...

Hi all, it's Thursday, and I am prepping this week's Installer now that @davidpierce.xyz is on parental leave! I want to know everything you're into. What are you reading / watching / playing / chilling with this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

TODAY

hot take: The Atlantic is for the most part pretty great

you ever see a video someone made specifically just for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAOd...

the three kinds of people you meet: wordcels shape rotators spreadsheet people

wrote about how people who make nonconsensual images are getting more subtle and sophisticated www.404media.co/subtlefakes-...

Democrats are moving past the resistance. They want a new kind of fighter. (Gift link.) wapo.st/4wBj8qs

L.A., you know what to do - namely kick this lady to the curb, where there will be a food truck she can ignore or whatever.

one cool thing about listening to library music "for fun" is everyone now and then you get a track and go "oh, hey, that's The People's Court"

confidential to my disney park nerd friends: you know, replacing the Yeti animatronic with a screen and a projector would TECHNICALLY qualify as "fixing" the Yeti… 😅

this is your sign that if you have freckles and/or anyone else in your family has had a melanoma ever, you better go to the dermatologist!!! melanoma kills but it is so so easy to catch early

"I am fluent in over 7 million forms of communication. Eat that, C-3PO."

my latest contribution

context for the burrito discourse: the average American household spends about 13% of their budget on food, but if you were a skilled laborer working in the middle ages a single chicken cost a full day's wages in the Elizabethan era it wasn't that much better! www.youtube.com/shorts/PIIMK...

is ai conscious? bruh, i'm barely conscious.

i have long been committed to sharing my mental health journey and i have some important mental health updates but i need to collect my thoughts and will probably share tomorrow. fwiw: i’m not a danger to myself or others. will share more soon, friends. know you’re not alone. love you all.

What life is like in Data Center City (aka Loudoun County, VA, pop: 446,530): nice parks and schools, constant background hum and construction www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Honestly, these need to be banned. www.theverge.com/report/98241...

all Bessent has said on this question of "fiscal consolidation" is some coming effort from OMB possibly targeting money to states. we're near the end of the fiscal year, so we're about in the range of pocket rescission, but Bessent did not use those words to be clear.

you will all be thrilled to know that i have spent my morning talking to people who are way overqualified about pee

Lou has kennel cough (yes he has been vaccinated and he is totally fine except for the goose honking noise he makes periodically) and he can’t go to daycare for two weeks while he is on meds and he’s not happy about this.

[Bane, writing undergrad thesis] I was born in the dark. You merely culturally appropriated it.

a problem with wearing large glasses (and looking damned good in them i might add) is that some folks think they're one of the creepy smart glasses and i hate that

some S-Tier quotes in this @amanda.omg.lol joint, like "Pee contains all sorts of stuff," and "You wouldn’t just use pee" techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/o...

you're telling me people spread this sheet?

if your question starts with a statement that has to be true for you to ask the question, then you have to make sure that statement is actually true before asking that question. this isn't rocket science.

am i a spreadsheet guy

im sorry but the idea of an "emergency podcast" is just absurd to me. like little timmy is drowning in the lake so two dudes simply must halt everything to talk about it for an hour.

when Bill Ackman tweets that US Open tickets are too expensive

i am spreadsheet man nobody wants him he just stares at the world planning his vengeance that he will soon unfurl

Someone should leak these pitches to a legitimate news outlet willing to do the work

Join me and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social in LA while we discuss some topics that keep us up at night

Not an exploding road but the asphalt street we last lived on in Texas was constantly getting chewed up in the summer due to my neighbors’ extremely large trucks turning around in 100-degree heat

this was not a spam email

either you're a sensible person who believes "bright lights" by matchbox 20 is a flawless early aughts pop song, or you're wrong. it's that simple.

i don’t know what the spreadsheet people thing even is. do i want to?

I wonder if the protesters use the AI services.

🫠 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

has anybody remade the theme song to the tv show Maude to make the lyrics "and then there's Claude"

Bessent on CNBC right now basically brushed off the rise in yields (unrepresentative of the economy's strength), the effect of $40T in debt (they can fix it), the consequence of buybacks (they may do more)

Always an exciting day here at TechCrunch. From thousands of applicants down to just 200, all of whom will be at Disrupt in two months’ time.