Adi Robertson
@thedextriarchy.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge
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January 2, 2026 at 4:23 AM
when you get isekai'd into somebody's first half-life 2 mod
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
December 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
when you get isekai'd into somebody's first half-life 2 mod
If you're still probing the Steam sales, I'm having a lot of fun right now with Unavowed from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social. Point-and-click adventure with pretty chill gameplay, entertaining party dynamic, and Hellblazer-esque urban fantasy in sort of a retro-present-day NYC.
Save 70% on Unavowed on Steam
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancie...
store.steampowered.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you're still probing the Steam sales, I'm having a lot of fun right now with Unavowed from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social. Point-and-click adventure with pretty chill gameplay, entertaining party dynamic, and Hellblazer-esque urban fantasy in sort of a retro-present-day NYC.
Has anybody guessed what video game the J6 bomber allegedly used to figure out the ingredients for making black powder for (ultimately nonfunctional) pipe bombs? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Has anybody guessed what video game the J6 bomber allegedly used to figure out the ingredients for making black powder for (ultimately nonfunctional) pipe bombs? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Putting an LLM up against Komar & Melamid’s Most Unwanted Song “John Henry Style”, and while I do not think this is actually possible in any known audio format, I do grudgingly admire the intentless gusto
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Putting an LLM up against Komar & Melamid’s Most Unwanted Song “John Henry Style”, and while I do not think this is actually possible in any known audio format, I do grudgingly admire the intentless gusto
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"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
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“We’ve recreated the torment wallpaper from the classic novel, ‘Don’t Create the Torment Wallpaper.’”
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“We’ve recreated the torment wallpaper from the classic novel, ‘Don’t Create the Torment Wallpaper.’”
crisis averted -- we asked chatgpt and grok and now have both sides of the story, direct from the chips. have learned mechahitler is involved
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
crisis averted -- we asked chatgpt and grok and now have both sides of the story, direct from the chips. have learned mechahitler is involved
what happens when you let @reckless.bsky.social write heds www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
what happens when you let @reckless.bsky.social write heds www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
not to sound like an old person, but contra this headline it seems like a significant fail state for society if people eschew *actually providing information to authorities on an at-large murderer* for making posts on social media about it
A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
not to sound like an old person, but contra this headline it seems like a significant fail state for society if people eschew *actually providing information to authorities on an at-large murderer* for making posts on social media about it
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first big longform feature at the verge is live!
an honor to work with @joshdzieza.bsky.social as always. thanks to our editor, the profoundly brilliant @knguyen.bsky.social. art by the wonderful @kristenradtke.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
an honor to work with @joshdzieza.bsky.social as always. thanks to our editor, the profoundly brilliant @knguyen.bsky.social. art by the wonderful @kristenradtke.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Who’s making the most money in AI? It’s not who you think
The fastest growing companies in the world aren’t AI companies, but the startups that supply them with warm bodies.
www.theverge.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
first big longform feature at the verge is live!
an honor to work with @joshdzieza.bsky.social as always. thanks to our editor, the profoundly brilliant @knguyen.bsky.social. art by the wonderful @kristenradtke.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
an honor to work with @joshdzieza.bsky.social as always. thanks to our editor, the profoundly brilliant @knguyen.bsky.social. art by the wonderful @kristenradtke.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I read this @miasato.bsky.social piece and spent the entire time second-guessing whether I had, without realizing it, been Influenced. Jury still out.
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I read this @miasato.bsky.social piece and spent the entire time second-guessing whether I had, without realizing it, been Influenced. Jury still out.
Amid a concerted reactionary push to control culture it is still very interesting to me that there's so little critical feminist analysis of one of the most wildly popular forms of women's media.
"It's feminist to be horny for fascists. The more fascist the man, the more feminist it is. You just have to make sure to say 'I WILL CURE HIM WITH MY WOMB' and bear him children, because no man with children has ever been a bad person. Telling me not to do this is basically 1984." -- Mary Morgan
REAL FEMINIST QUOTES
"Feminism is when you judge other women. The more harshly you judge a woman, the more feminist it is." -- Simone Butler
"Feminism is when you judge other women. The more harshly you judge a woman, the more feminist it is." -- Simone Butler
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Amid a concerted reactionary push to control culture it is still very interesting to me that there's so little critical feminist analysis of one of the most wildly popular forms of women's media.
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Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks
A controversial executive order dictating America’s AI policy has MAGA scrambling against the White House and its Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.
www.theverge.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
I watched The Jockey of Death recently because of a Movies Silently review and it was an excellent reminder that there is no age cutoff date or speaking requirement for a movie to be great silly fun
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I watched The Jockey of Death recently because of a Movies Silently review and it was an excellent reminder that there is no age cutoff date or speaking requirement for a movie to be great silly fun
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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
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...
there's a novelty "AI dating cafe" pop-up launching in NYC and I decided to try making a bot from the service, only to find it offers male and female options but doesn't personalize any of the flavor copy so all chatbots including the burly old dudes are "AI girls"
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
there's a novelty "AI dating cafe" pop-up launching in NYC and I decided to try making a bot from the service, only to find it offers male and female options but doesn't personalize any of the flavor copy so all chatbots including the burly old dudes are "AI girls"
sean duffy freaking out when he learns the female crash test dummies don't produce large gametes
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 7:58 PM
sean duffy freaking out when he learns the female crash test dummies don't produce large gametes
I'm calling it now: netflix is going to add a brainrot overlay. You're going to be able to play a stranger-things-branded subway surfers knockoff on the bottom of your TV while watching the nteenth ryan murphy show
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I'm calling it now: netflix is going to add a brainrot overlay. You're going to be able to play a stranger-things-branded subway surfers knockoff on the bottom of your TV while watching the nteenth ryan murphy show
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Most folks know I've been banging the drum about the AI bubble for awhile, and this brilliant piece from @lopatto.bsky.social dramatically reinforces that hypothesis and is as meticulously researched as it is brutal:
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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 3:41 PM
Most folks know I've been banging the drum about the AI bubble for awhile, and this brilliant piece from @lopatto.bsky.social dramatically reinforces that hypothesis and is as meticulously researched as it is brutal:
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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the serious answer to "tech tree" is books that periodically dip into other languages but I now have a horrible temptation to try making a book you have to unlock a bespoke set of branching skills to read
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the serious answer to "tech tree" is books that periodically dip into other languages but I now have a horrible temptation to try making a book you have to unlock a bespoke set of branching skills to read
I didn't tweak it quite as much as the temu carhartt people but GPT-5 can def get something close to it
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I didn't tweak it quite as much as the temu carhartt people but GPT-5 can def get something close to it
somebody finally wrote the perfect distillation of how "masculinity but make it centrist liberal" guys insist men cannot be fulfilled unless they get something a *little* extra special over women, as a treat
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
somebody finally wrote the perfect distillation of how "masculinity but make it centrist liberal" guys insist men cannot be fulfilled unless they get something a *little* extra special over women, as a treat