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Marina Galperina
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Senior Tech Editor, The Verge
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miasato.bsky.social
Great story and also the recipe sites vs robots thing has been happening for years, except in the age of SEO it was humans trying to get robots’ attention, sometimes at the expense of accuracy. Another example is the “don’t smash a burger to hold in the juices” myth

www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
But in order to be helpful to readers, website operators need people to visit their site in the first place. Fine-tuning content to match exact search terms is a common strategy that can entice users to click on a page that looks like it will answer their question. That doesn’t guarantee content will be better or even good — and sometimes, how users search can create an echo chamber of errors, oft-repeated misinformation, or poorly researched content. One instance of errors multiplying sticks out to Bromilow, the food writer. For a while, he says that Google was returning a litany of incorrect information about Ethiopian cardamom, or korarima. Though black cardamom and korarima look similar, their flavors are not. Websites and writers — and by extension, Google results — were confusing the ingredients. At one point, Bromilow says the first picture on Google Images was of the wrong plant “If people are searching the wrong thing because that’s what they’ve been given, how do you return a result to them that explains that they’re incorrect, while also being found by them?” Bromilow says. “You don’t want to reinforce the mistake, right? It’s really weird and complicated.” That Ethiopian recipes are being translated from Amharic to English also brings a host of problems: how should Bromilow spell the names of dishes? Should he use whatever spelling people are searching for the most? A post on savory pancakes sums it up, in which the Canadian Bromilow explains why he’s opted to omit the “u” in savoury: “The choice, while it breaks my maple-syrup filled heart, is obvious — savory is searched for more often, and using that spelling is more likely to [get] a recipe noticed by the all-powerful and oft-mysterious search engine algorithms.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
Possibly the coolest internship ngl
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
"As you grow up, you're more involved in society. I think it's a thing."
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
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November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
andyjayhawk.bsky.social
Leave it to Sean Duffy to make a critical safety milestone — the introduction of a female crash test dummy — grossly transphobic and weird
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
Another Leica post, another @superantonio64.bsky.social attempt to convince me that sauntering around with the equivalent of a used Prius around my neck is somehow "ok" and "cool" even www.theverge.com/news/824295/...
Leica’s latest black-and-white-only camera is the $7,800 Q3 Monochrom
It’s the Q3’s turn to go to the dark side.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
reckless.bsky.social
the verge's reviews program has always been the heart of the site and one reason we jealously protect it and refuse to do brand deals is so we can just say the products are bad www.theverge.com/report/82215...
This viral AI pen didn’t help me cheat Don’t fall for the YouTube videos of ‘AI smart pens’ helping students cheat on paper tests. We tried one and it sucks. by Elissa Welle Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
miasato.bsky.social
New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.

www.theverge.com/report/82231...
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
“the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote
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November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
buttplug.engineer
I'm in the verse today talking about reverse engineering the kinect 15 years ago, alongside @theowatson.bsky.social, @memoakten.bsky.social , and @adafruit.com!

Thanks for covering this @geoffreybunting.bsky.social! Lots of fun memories.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
There is no "vibe shift" when this keep happening
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20d
SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.

This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
A scanned Supreme Court of the United States order, dated November 6, 2025, in the case Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al., No. 25A319. The document discusses an Executive Branch policy requiring passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The highlighted passage reads: “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases.” The Court grants the government’s application for a stay at this preliminary stage, reasoning that the government is likely to succeed on the merits and that the policy does not violate equal protection principles.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
I just don't believe there are 1,000,000 people in the world who want a "robot"
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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geoffreybunting.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the Microsoft Kinect, a device I dearly hope to never write about again. For @theverge.com, I recounted the history of its hacking and the echoes of an older, now unreachable, internet that resound in its story. Also, AI, because… 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
Trumpoware
dompreston.com Dominic Preston @dompreston.com · 26d
Over four months after it was announced, no-one has ever even seen the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version)
Where is the Trump phone?
The T1 Phone is still MIA.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
"Captured and Bound By My CEO" anyone? Hollywood is investing in stupid microdramas -- short and cheaply made scene clips, sold separately. Binging will cost you way more than a feature, but you get points, so you can binge a little more, if you're into that kind of thing. @jank0.bsky.social:
The future of Hollywood is sexy, expensive slop
Cheaply produced, highly shareable, and designed to make you pay.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
josephcox.bsky.social
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
Grokipedia misgenders Chelsea Manning, cites a "race science" journal, and redirects DOGE searches to the Shiba Inu meme
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
Bill Gates 😘 AI
Why is Bill Gates tone policing on climate change?
Of course, he says AI can help.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
$3500 to look like this
Apple’s new Vision Pro is better than the first, but still lonely
The new headband is nice! And, at $99, you should buy it if you have the first Vision Pro model.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
jmrivera.bsky.social
another thing I don’t understand about people who want LLMs to “write” for them—how can you then feel smug about a thing you wrote? Coming up with a good idea better than your nemeses?? That’s the best part!
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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ianboudreau.com
When your Chotiner interview is going great
No, no, no. Wait a minute.
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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sambiddle.com
Every single Wikipedia "alternative" I've ever come across works like this. IIRC even the NSA's internal Intellipedia cribs extensively from Wikipedia. The amount of work it would take it actually replace Wikipedia is just too massive (unless you wanted dubious machine-generated entries)
shannonbond.bsky.social Shannon Bond @shannonbond.bsky.social · 29d
"'Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,' Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia tells The Verge."
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Ironic.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
mfortki.bsky.social
doppelgänger slop is here
The next legal frontier is your face and AI
Things are getting weird.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
janus.bsky.social
wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com

ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’
“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”
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October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
thedextriarchy.bsky.social
the political right and center have spent the past half-decade trying to defang public shaming as a tactic because it's one of the last options non-billionaires have left to stop deeply antisocial stuff like this
janus.bsky.social The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 29d
call them whatever you like, the reality is 'smart glasses' are surveillance devices designed by tech companies to violate consent and rewrite social norms. social shaming is still a more effective a deterrent than the law. @hypervisible.blacksky.app

www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...
“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric." It’s still up in the air whether Meta’s gamble on glasses will pay off. Beyond their horrifying privacy implications, wearable AI-powered devices like Bee and Friend so far have proven more obnoxious than useful, and it’s unclear whether people who buy them will even want to use them. But one thing many privacy experts agree on is that even if we can’t change the law, we can change peoples’ attitudes around consent. “One way to think about it is protecting your community and the people you care about,” said Gilliard. “When you’re wearing these glasses, when you use your video doorbell, when you record everyone’s conversations, you’re not just surveilling yourself. And there’s no consistent and foolproof way to guarantee that information won’t be used against people you care about — to hurt trans and queer people, or hurt immigrant communities. I wish people would think about it in those terms instead of ‘did my package get delivered.’”
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Marina Galperina
atherton.bsky.social
impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM