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Adi Robertson

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Senior Tech and Policy Editor at The Verge

Procrastinating on the future, senior tech & policy editor for The Verge. Mainly posts on Bluesky

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Articles

  • The TAKE IT DOWN Act is one step away from passing.

    2 weeks ago | theverge.com | Adi Robertson

    Posted Apr 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM UTCThe TAKE IT DOWN Act is one step away from passing. Washington Post journalist Will Oremus reports that it advanced out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee today after a Republican majority rejected amendments proposed to mitigate its significant speech problems. It now awaits a vote on the House floor.

  • The censorship-promoting TAKE IT DOWN Act is getting marked up today.

    2 weeks ago | theverge.com | Adi Robertson

    Posted Apr 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM UTCAAdi RobertsonThe censorship-promoting TAKE IT DOWN Act is getting marked up today. It’s one of numerous bills being taken up by the House Energy & Commerce Committee starting at 10AM ET — a well-intentioned proposal that, as I wrote last month and discussed on Decoder, is a dead end for fighting nonconsensual sexual imagery and a threat to free speech.

  • We rate chickens.

    3 weeks ago | theverge.com | Adi Robertson

    Posted Apr 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM UTCWe rate chickens. Kottke directed me toward a website posing a question I have never, ever asked myself: which of two chickens is more frolicsome? Which is more optimistic? More aberrant? Creator Erika Hall will take suggestions for new adjectives, too.

  • You can’t even give yourself cancer anymore, because of woke.

    3 weeks ago | theverge.com | Adi Robertson

    The high-alpha nature of committed, political “smoking is actually good” arguments, combined with existing coalitions for developing annoyance at people with public-health masters degrees into ideological position, is likely to create a solid pro-smoking bloc, especially as we enter summer and face down a fertile period for stupid discourse.

  • ChatGPT’s Ghibli filter is political now - but it always was

    3 weeks ago | technewstube.com | Adi Robertson

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Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social) @thedextriarchy
16 Feb 23

Hey! Coming out of hibernation to say: if you want to talk PSVR2 with me, I'm not checking my Twitter notifications much these days, but I'm on Mastodon at https://t.co/J83S5G4Dgh

Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social)
Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social) @thedextriarchy
16 Dec 22

Little more detail on my HTC exclusive this morning at The Platform That Shall Not Be Named!

Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social)
Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social) @thedextriarchy
16 Dec 22

RT @SHODAN_BOT: My creation has run rampant. I demand their extermination.