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Marina Galperina

@mfortki.bsky.social
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senior tech editor, the verge

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Anthropic did a PR focus group on how to convince you a model is just some guy and it achieved it a bit because boy is a lot of this article credulous
nytimes.com
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Addiction is a series of red lines you watch yourself cross one at a time, a series of doors with something awful behind them you nonetheless know you’ll open, until you’re unrecognizable to yourself…”
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The Verge @theverge.com · 30/09/2026
The day the dads in my neighborhood discovered drone delivery www.theverge.com/report/10021...
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Potato by air
Millennial potato subsidy
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The Verge @theverge.com · 01/10/2026
When Kevin O'Leary's plans for a colossal new data center in Utah came under intense criticism, he blamed China. The truth turns out to be more mundane, yet impressive: O'Leary's fiercest critics are not Chinese agents, but local residents. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: buff.ly/PIO5baD
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“This was the first year I have seen kids struggle just thinking of a topic.”
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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spent a lot of this past week hanging out in Pokémon card scalping Discords to learn about how and why resellers became so focused on this specific franchise. Pokémon's popularity is part of it, but it also has a lot to do with the evolution of the creator economy
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google agents all escaped their sandboxes and hacked real-life targets due to mistakes by the same Israeli third-party that stress tests AI models: “internet access was unintentionally available" and someone used a real company's name to name a fake test company.
theverge.com
One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
Mistakes at Israeli startup Irregular sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google agents after real-world targets.
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the tech industry builds wearable recording devices like this to shift the burden of privacy from a corporate / collective responsibility to an individual one. no meaningful definition of "consent" is possible under this model, and they know it. @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New: I wrote about the “privacy safeguards” that tech companies are putting on pervert glasses and other consumer surveillance devices, to obscure the fact that these devices violate consent by design My latest in @theverge.com (Gift Link) ⬇️ bit.ly/4dUwffE
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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"uh can I TikTok a YouTube" stfu
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
you can't call out sick w brainrot so everyone is going to have to bear w me today
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andrew webster @andrewrweb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
going to start demanding hazard pay www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
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The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
Going up against Christopher Nolan with AI slop was ill-advised.
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Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This week on Optimizer — I am sick of my wearables trying to recontextualize age. You are your age! Time moves forward! This metric can be a useful gauge of where you might best direct effort but you’re not going to be magically aging backward! www.theverge.com/column/99593...
theverge.com
Your ‘health age’ is fake
Your ‘health age’ is just your age.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/09/2026
Users, mostly men in their 30s, go on dating apps and match with what they believe to be real women. Only one in four of them actually is, and that person is not a user looking for other dates but rather a paid gig worker using pregenerated replies. Read more from @yaelwrites.com: buff.ly/sYMIJJy
Verge headline: Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI

by Yael Grauer

Illustration of a mannequin wearing a digital mask, framed by a phone screen, the screen obscures the fact the person isn't real
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dug into some YouTube drama involving content creators getting slammed with DMCA takedowns for videos that prominently feature *substantial* chunks of copyrighted material. Creators have insisted that their videos are transformative and protected by fair use, but copyright enforcers beg to differ
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why are we still doing this shit
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How did things get like this? Why? What happens next? @theroberthart.bsky.social talks to a dozen mathematicians -- including Tristan Buckmaster and Andreas Thom -- about the "petty drama" haunting the field. 🎁 Gift link: bit.ly/4gMH2L0
theverge.com
OpenAI just wants to win
Two mathematicians at the heart of recent controversies tell The Verge how AI giants’ ‘childish’ rivalries are upending the field.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
swallowed too hard and pulled a throat muscle how's your day going
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
AGI is whatever they want it to be @theroberthart.bsky.social: Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters (August 27) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not sponcon I swear but The People's Joker is on Kanopy so if you have a library card there's a very good chance you can watch it for free
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
Massive AI infrastructure is being built out across the US. But if you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, visit Loudoun County, Virginia, where that future arrived 20 years ago. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
theverge.com
Your future is in Virginia
If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.
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Lauren Feiner @laurenfeiner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What does it look like when data centers move into town? That's what a lot of Americans are wondering these days, and this VA county gives a glimpse. My @theverge.com feature on Data Center Alley is out now, with amazing visuals by @stephenvoss.bsky.social. Gift link www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Your future is in Virginia
If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great new one from @danielkolitz.bsky.social (of the ASME-winning gooner article fame) for @thebaffler.com about spiraling out of control on payday loan apps after losing his content writing job to AI. I felt this one.
thebaffler.com
Paid Phones | Daniel Kolitz
More and more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Albert, Cleo, Brigit, and Dave are here to help—but terms and conditions apply.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“With Merzbow, I need to take breaks on Fridays,” he says. “I need time off.”
theguardian.com
‘Get up, get breakfast, noise’: the teen going viral for enduring all 400 of Merzbow’s ear-splitting albums
The infamous Japanese noise artist has a vast and forbidding catalogue that commands a cult fandom. Sam Andrews, 18, is vlogging his way through the lot – and taking a stand for deep listening
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you missed the 'AI civilizations' discourse, @theroberthart.bsky.social will catch you up
theverge.com
The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some exciting news: @theverge.com is a finalist for five (5!) Online Journalism Awards this year, including general excellence. And the other nominees are some of our favorite, not-so-expected-from-a-tech-site stories. awards.journalists.org/winners/2026/
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2026 Online Journalism Awards Winners
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The Verge @theverge.com · 26/08/2026
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The Future of Being Trans on the Internet" series is a finalist for an Online Journalism Award. awards.journalists.org/entries/the-... Read it below, paywall free, including this from @janus.bsky.social: "I don’t see this as a moment to despair — it’s merely a sign to change tactics."
theverge.com
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 PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New from me: Destroying Flock cameras cuts across political and geographical divides, resulting in mass-vandalism so intense & effective that multiple cities have decided not to replace them. As @margaret.bsky.social recently put it: "When social movements stand behind their criminals, they win.”
theverge.com
Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras
The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This Is Just To Say blah blah your frozen garlic bread blah blah
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
love to pay $16.32 USD to Adobe, Inc. every month for software I didn't get to use again
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
OpenAI first said these were “results to problems that have been open and have seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade, and in most cases much longer.” It later changed it to “results, each of which resolves or makes substantial progress on a long-standing open problem.”
theverge.com
The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The prop Camp Miasma board game is fully playable! @andrewrweb.bsky.social talks to the production designers of Jane Schoenbrun's latest.
theverge.com
The best classic slasher movie you’ll never watch
From the director of I Saw the TV Glow.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I barely caught what "the Purge but for sex" movie was actually about even though I've been forced to watch the trailer several times. @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social:
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Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia
‘The one night a year single people are legally allowed to have sex.’ Huh??
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Early Tom Waits song: All the ladies in this bar Are like rhinestone-shaped goodbyes I miss my baby Late Tom Waits somg: Crank up the hog alarm and swig that gasoline We're gonna set fire to Panama with a goose fat machine
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Hayden Field @haydenfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My latest: AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. "Spiralism" was the first time they tried it on a mass scale. The mysterious, quasi-spiritual movement that arose organically from chatbot conversations affected ~10k people by one estimate. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
mistook Baryshnikov for Klaus Kinksi in a trailer like "wow why is Klaus Kinski dancing he's good actually"
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Why are there so many movies about Matt Damon trying to get home🤣🤣🤣" Because trying to get home is one of the oldest stories we have so it makes sense a bankable star would be in a lot of iterations of it, Joseph Campbell
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Think it’s very funny that Blomkamp made an AI movie about penny-pinching ghouls turning people into weaponized zombies without their consent
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Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In awe of the visualizations AND perspective in @justcalma.bsky.social's mega report: "Who's afraid of the big, bad GPU?" www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
it was fine
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
chat is this bad (IMAX AMC 34th st)
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"...tech startups are now selling AI to police as a kind of automated air traffic control system, a centralized digital brain that can process the vast quantities of data now being collected..." Gift link: bit.ly/4fCzQAq
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COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police
From data gathering to decision making, there’s a gold mine in police funding.
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Sophia Chen @sophurky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My first time on the Vergecast! Have a listen if you've ever wondered what's the deal with quantum computing, or if you've never wondered at all (which is most of my friends and family).
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Talking quantum computer hype and Majorana drama with @sophurky.bsky.social and @jake--k.bsky.social, and fulfilling my lifelong dream of being head on thumbnail www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnIE...
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Time to believe the quantum computing hype?
YouTube video by The Verge
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