a screenshot of Today in Tabs (a horrible newsletter full of lies) asserting that I am a fan of the band Cake (a horrible band full of bad songs)
@rusty.todayintabs.com will be hearing from my lawyer for this libel www.todayintabs.com/p/purity-sup...
okay that one is actually my favorite kind of PR email
My least favorite PR email trick is when someone puts RE: in the subject line to something that hasn't been replied to
Josh, returning from quest: I have returned with incredible labor reporting
Art team, staring into magical orb: Well done. Your reward is a beautiful design with an unnecessary but very neat dark mode toggle
AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.
let's gooooooo!!!
An advance reader copy of my forthcoming book, ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES: PRACTICING GOOD GRIEF IN A CULTURE THAT FEARS MOURNING. The cover is cream, orange, and blue, with pawprints leading to a starry portal. It is next to an urn and a glass jar with several small bones.
ARCs have landed! He’s a real boy!
Preorder for a present to July 28 you (or a friend).
bookshop.org/a/118950/978...
king (literally, i guess!)
on the bus right now. so great
george russell, dying inside
being an athlete in 2026 just means being tortured by answering the stupidest questions for social video
100%! i don’t want to say this work is easy, but also, it’s not as hard as a16z made it seem
Future was so funny. it’s like they barely tried?
Believing the point of Wired—or journalism at large—is to give ideas for venture capitalists to invest in is bafflingly ahistorical and narcissistic.
MA/RI/ME/NH-oooh la la, want your bad romance
i think we are on the same train 🥲
gotta be a martini too
oooo jealous
omg you're totally right
how does he look both 22 and 52 at the same time
[furiously smoking four cigarettes at once] I wrote about the SpaceX IPO www.theverge.com/tech/887899/...
great interview!
Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...
NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge?
The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Across social media and the Al industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman's claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to the red lines that it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? The answer, sources told The Verge, is that the Pentagon didn't budge. OpenAl agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, while insisting they protect its red lines. One source familiar with the Pentagon's negotiations with Al companies confirmed that OpenAl's deal is much softer than the one Anthropic was pushing for, thanks largely to three words: "any lawful use." In negotiations, the person said, the Pentagon wouldn't back down on its desire to collect and analyze bulk data on Americans. If you look line-by-line at the OpenAl terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAl's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of "technically legal" to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs - and more.
Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry
Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago
What a time to be alive
listen you removed her because you didn’t want look at her feet anymore
One million percent psyched that ASMEs and the National Magazine Awards honored @theverge.com art team's work with FIVE nominations. SO proud of our scrappy little team and stuff we made. Threading the eye candy: asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...
