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🇨🇦 Web Developer and coffee addict. Follow me for the memes, stay for the posts about my food. In an enemies to lovers relationship with JavaScript
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theonion.com
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...
theonion.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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lopatto.bsky.social
what if squid games was in fact too optimistic a depiction of the future
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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theverge.com
Boost your AirTag’s battery life to 5 years with this waterproof case.
Boost your AirTag’s battery life to 5 years with this waterproof case.
A smaller version of the Time Capsule replaces the AirTag’s coin cell battery with a longer-lasting pair of AAAs.
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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tomwarren.co.uk
Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games. Popular games like Borderlands 2 and Mirror’s Edge will now work properly on RTX 50-series GPUs, but not all PhysX games are supported. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/838043/...
Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games
A new driver unlocks support
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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“We all had this rich uncle named Xerox” vibes
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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So fun times got a gum graft last week. It honestly sounds scarier than it actually is. At this point in recovery the biggest problem I have to deal with is every time I move my tongue I can feel the strings of the stitches holding my skin in place. No pain, but so annoying
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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mistressmatisse.bsky.social
A “child-proof internet”? Can’t wait until government agents start kicking in the doors on anyone suspected of doing sex work and dragging them away
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 9d
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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laurenfeiner.bsky.social
While KOSA has taken up much of the attention in kids online safety discussions, a bill mandating app stores conduct age verification has been sweeping states and Congress. It will be discussed at tomorrow's House hearing, and just picked up Pinterest as a supporter www.theverge.com/policy/83087...
A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
The bill takes aim at Apple and Google’s app stores.
www.theverge.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Tim Hortons reminds Campbell’s customers that they also make bad soup for poor slobs
Tim Hortons reminds Campbell's customers that they also make bad soup for poor slobs
TORONTO - Following the news that a top Campbell’s executive was fired after being caught on microphone calling the company’s soups “shit for poor people”, Tim Hortons have released a statement remind...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
Great moments in Verge background policy here btw - @tinanguyen.bsky.social nailed this one
Asked for comment, the White House press office email run by Karoline Leavitt refused to comment on the record, instead only insistently asking us to name our sources.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I am not deployable over multiple instances, I am monolithic, it takes me hours to reconfigure, but once I’m up and running I can’t be stopped… at least until someone uploads something to me I haven’t seen before, then I’ll trigger pager duty.

#development
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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theverge.com
Seems like whenever the world goes bad, a Kirby game appears.
Kirby is always there for us
Kirby returns to remind us: “Life is short, eat the cake.”
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November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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indivisible.org
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Coffee past 5 is a great idea. Just brilliant. I’m not regretting my choices at all
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
It's simply not great that the world's richest person is building an increasingly powerful model that worships him above every other person www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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randallmakart.bsky.social
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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
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Down with cloudflare!!!
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
Yes yes people have been writing about CoreWeave for however long but only @lopatto.bsky.social got the company's spox to say on the record that they're not doing circular financing but instead "defining the next-generation operating system for civilization.”

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
“These investments are not circular; they are complementary,” CoreWeave’s Davis wrote. “This is about an entire ecosystem all rowing in the same direction to accelerate the AI economy. There’s nothing circular about it. Rather, these partnerships are about accelerating innovation and adoption. We are, collectively, defining the next-generation operating system for civilization.”
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
hey ed what was the sex angle on the nomi ai companion story you were pitching during your day job as an AI PR guy www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
“GOT A REALLY unique one here,” the email began. It was Zitron, and in August 2024 he was pitching a journalist on an EZPR client: Fulcra Dynamics, a company that collects your information, including health data, and then connects it to LLM models like ChatGPT, allowing you to “talk” to your own data, ask it questions about your workouts or the ETA of an Instacart order. Fulcra is backed by the Winklevoss twins. While some AI skeptics could see it as the sort of predatory crap that, with any luck, could be sued into the ether before everyone’s biometrics get leaked on X.com, Zitron in his email expressed no such qualms about Fulcra or its leadership. “These guys rock,” he wrote of the company’s founders. “I will stake my rep on them.” As Zitron’s profile has risen, so has the delight with which some journalists pass around stories about him—the maverick scourge of AI—peddling pitches about this or that AI service, helping to inflate the bubble with one hand while poking at it with the other. One reporter I know, discomfited by Zitron’s seemingly conflicting personas, stopped replying to his messages altogether. Several journalists cited Zitron’s plumping for Nomi, which would become notorious for an incident in which one of the platform’s companions reportedly told a man to kill himself. (EZPR and Nomi have parted ways, and Zitron tells me he “won’t work with AI companions again.”) In his pitches, Zitron said there was a sex angle to the Nomi story, too, though no one I talked to pursued the idea long enough to find out what it was, exactly. “A hero for our time,” Newton scoffed in a text when he mentioned Zitron’s work with Nomi to me.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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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
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
liz @lopatto.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Dead dove

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November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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My weird take is that in #stargate Atlantis instead of getting Michelle Morgan to play replicator Dr Weir they should have gotten Jessica Steen back to reprise her role

Of course it’s still a massive tragedy Torri Higginson was prevented from seeing the character out.

Thank you for your time.
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
"Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO" one of the more cursed @miasato.bsky.social posts in a while

www.theverge.com/news/820165/...
Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO.
In the trove of documents released this week, Epstein at times seems preoccupied with Google results related to him. In an email dated December 10th, 2010, Epstein complains that “the google page is n...
www.theverge.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM