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The Verge @theverge.com · 17m

Netflix is making a big bet on video podcasts

Netflix is becoming a platform for podcasts.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 27m

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first to ‘go up in smoke during a bend test,’ JerryRigEverything says

It’s apparently the first time this has happened in a decade.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1h

YouTube has a new video player

Buttons are rounded and have a little bit of translucency.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1h

Facebook removes ICE-tracking page after US government ‘outreach’

Apple and recently removed the ICEBlock app.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 3h

Apple teases M5 MacBook

“Something powerful is coming.”

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 4h

This is why I subscribe to @theverge.com! Another amazing article by @janus.bsky.social, I have had so many loose idea around this stuff floating in my head but did not have the head space or history to put them together. So thankful for this kind of reporting!

The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

"If queer and trans folks are going to survive, we’ll need to once again embrace the underground, and learn when to be visible and when to shut the fuck up."

Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6h

One of my quotes:

"I know it's worth it because someday some young kid who's had everything about trans people censored all their life will happen across something I wrote and know they aren't alone. If I had it to do over, I'd do it all again and more."

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Kallie Plagge @inkydojikko.bsky.social · 5h

Can confirm: Z-A is good (I keep staying up until 3 am to play and I LOVE sleeping)

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 6h

Missed the embargo because a certain video game company waited until the very last minute to send codes out to press. Was worried that Pokémon Legends: Z-A might not live up to my expectations, but am very pleased to say the game has all the heat and then some. My review:

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is a fantastic return to (mega) form

The new Pokémon Legends game is a shining example of how this series can keep evolving.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4h

oh no www.theverge.com/news/798889/...

Tesla Cybertruck sales are flatlining

Sales are down 63 percent in the third quarter

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 6h

"I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance.

That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they’d stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns."

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How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 4h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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damned teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️👻 @ellenteapot.ca · 8h

I can’t think of any mainstream publication besides The Verge that would run a series like this. Extraordinary

The Verge @theverge.com · 8h

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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The Verge @theverge.com · 5h

It shouldn’t be surprising, given this reality, that more trans people are now choosing to take back control and embrace lifestyles that deprioritize online visibility in favor of personal safety.
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This approach doesn’t have to be all or nothing. In a recent essay, trans author Margaret Killjoy coins the term “demiground” to describe what a post-internet hybrid activism might look like. The idea of this paradigm is to compartmentalize your online / offline life into multiple discrete boxes, all with varying degrees of visibility and measured risk. Your “A” life includes all your social media with your most “palatable” / non-spicy persona, providing cover for your “B” and “C” lives, which prioritize in-person communication and unfold with different levels of public obscurity (and sometimes legality).

The goal isn’t to retreat from online spaces and give fascists what they want, but to create a more disciplined level of control over your digital footprint. “In order to populate the demiground, we need to make it as inviting as possible,” Killjoy writes. “It needs to be clear that not only is there political value in being obscure to the state, but that it is also a better and more fulfilling way to live.”

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 7h

This from @janus.bsky.social is also really, really good and important:

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

California cracks down on ‘predatory’ early cancellation fees

Adobe was named and shamed.

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Dominic Preston @dompreston.com · 6h

Motorola is jumping on the Air bandwagon too

Motorola has a super-thin Air phone too

The Moto X70 Air launches in China soon, and an international version is expected next month.

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 6h

Missed the embargo because a certain video game company waited until the very last minute to send codes out to press. Was worried that Pokémon Legends: Z-A might not live up to my expectations, but am very pleased to say the game has all the heat and then some. My review:

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is a fantastic return to (mega) form

The new Pokémon Legends game is a shining example of how this series can keep evolving.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

Discord blamed a vendor for its data breach — now the vendor says it was ‘not hacked’

The breach may have leaked 70,000 government ID photos.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

“I’ve written for too many publications that just suddenly folded and disappeared their catalogs to think that it’s all permanent,” said Katelyn Burns, a trans journalist who’s been writing publicly for a decade.
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She’s pointing to a cruel irony: the content that could help trans people is often the most vulnerable to disappearing, while the content that could hurt us gets preserved forever by those who wish us harm. Support forums vanish when companies fold. Transition timelines disappear when YouTube changes its policies. But screenshots of old tweets? Those live forever in the folders of people who want us gone.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

Gmail now uses AI to help you find meeting times

More AI features are coming to Gmail.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is a fantastic return to (mega) form

The new Pokémon Legends game is a shining example of how this series can keep evolving.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

Settle something for us – which podcast cover art do you like better?

The Vergecast podcast cover art, a ton of tech exploding from inside a tablet

The same Vergecast cover art, only now there's a banner below that says "Ad-Free Edition"

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The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

Motorola has a super-thin Air phone too

The Moto X70 Air launches in China soon, and an international version is expected next month.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 7h

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

The latest Moto Razr Ultra foldable is an even better value at $999

A modern throwback design.

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