Nilay Patel

Editor in chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, co-host of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.

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2024-08-08 01:30:02

Victory
RE: https://www.threads.net/@preston.neill/post/C-YuJfEJRM7

2024-08-05 23:30:03

I don’t know if AI is a bubble but I do know talking to computers like they’re disobedient college freshman is the silliest programming language of all time https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24213861/apple-intelligence-instructions-macos-15-1-sequoia-beta

2024-08-05 19:30:03

This is ice cold and also everyone intuitively knows it is true lol
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/454361635_1403056197033390_5125091349660422417_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=2pO9oNLaylQQ7kNvgEkFBR5&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AYB_ltRDwwyH-x_Eojsh5qxgPyD-ZAU5yzIe6RRpHdhEnQ&oe=66B70C6B

2024-08-05 19:30:03

Hard to shake the feeling we're at the end of this particular internet platform era in a major way

2024-08-05 16:30:02

Turning everything into gambling really dealt a blow to the "the economy is not the stock market" argument, huh

2024-08-05 15:30:02

Wrote about Trump saying Google would be shut down if it isn't careful -- and how there's a straight line to Vance and the VC crew backing them both. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24212296/trump-vance-google-shut-down-first-amendment

2024-08-02 20:30:03

Upgraded my worn, 8-year-old Ortofon 2M Red to a Blue stylus and the increase in sound quality is wild. Easy to forget how literally physical analog music can still be!
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/453836135_1037197114698877_6875699858174582175_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=7-4KEsEyfggQ7kNvgFEBoht&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AYD_momL936u8ME6-Df0AdQhtYxxti5azBYD0Mob3PtkOg&oe=66B32223

2024-08-02 17:30:03

Even before Biden dropped out my family noticed none of the boats in the little Michigan town we spend the 4th at every year had Trump flags anymore… and now it seems like they’re vanishing from rural NY as well. Anyone else noticing this?

2024-08-01 14:30:03

Damn you can see the blanding in real time
RE: https://www.threads.net/@sportsgully/post/C-He2EcvRmM

2024-07-31 16:30:02

This is deranged but the funniest part is that softball conservative podcast culture is a worse and more stupidity-creating bubble than whatever nonsense he’s ranting about
RE: https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-Fr98cJGgT

2024-07-31 01:30:02

Incredible https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/30/24210108/meta-trump-shooting-ai-hallucinations

2024-07-30 21:30:03

I uh… huh. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/30/24209797/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-police-bodycam

2024-07-25 16:30:03

I'm sorry but "you cannot definitively prove JD Vance did not have sex with a couch" is the funniest possible outcome of the conservative war against fact-checks https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24206088/jd-vance-fact-check-sex-couch-rumor-associated-press-retraction

2024-07-25 13:30:02

Lol why https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205865/disney-plus-hulu-max-streaming-bundle-price-availability
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/452359603_1615967102305428_4829020477970826366_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=OFxmst6kdwwQ7kNvgFr8V7g&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AYBiv1U4ft71TR1puTTDYeHOTwHhtgXHtEh_To8B7fEVSw&oe=66A816E0

2024-07-25 06:30:02

Lopatto Banger Alert https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

2024-07-20 11:30:02

Also voting for your fucking crypto portfolio in a clear and identifiable tradeoff against personal liberty is an absolutely bankrupt moral calculation
RE: https://www.threads.net/@crumbler/post/C9iAD9euhIP
#note13um…ucfg

2024-07-18 03:30:03

JD going into his anti-immigration rhetoric with “America is more than an idea, it is, in short, a nation,” is right up there with starting a speech by quoting the dictionary

2024-07-17 14:30:03

Not even a second’s hesitation before plunging into the what-is-a-photo apocalypse https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/17/24199005/samsung-galaxy-ai-z-fold-6-sketch-to-image

2024-07-14 18:30:02

Someone please send me Linda Yaccarino’s slides explaining how being the most vibrant site for real-time assassination conspiracy theories is great for advertisers

2024-07-09 02:30:03

Loved talking to Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on Decoder... and yes I asked about Enterprise Software Hamilton Raps https://www.theverge.com/24191080/canva-ceo-melanie-perkins-design-ai-adobe-competition-decoder-podcast-interview

2024-07-03 20:30:02

Incredible summary of the situation, an all-time victory for Democratic Party nihilism https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/president-biden-donald-trump-campaign-2024-democrats.html?smid=url-share
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/449664419_3502528660045239_3908562089409902237_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=V7mM8Cqtf88Q7kNvgGZzYUB&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AYAKNaMY2mK2H8OXMPfMsmk2k-n3DzKqdEAAXAqMI7X4UA&oe=668BACAA

2024-06-28 04:30:03

“I didn’t have sex with a porn star” is a real high water mark for American presidential debates

2024-06-27 16:30:02

AR binoculars are such an intuitively good idea
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187221/unistellar-smart-binoculars-augmented-reality

2024-06-26 04:30:02

Every now and then I think about Google preemptively sending the US DOJ a cashier's check for the maximum possible damages in its antitrust case to avoid a jury https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24161882/us-doj-v-google-check-jury-ad-tech-trial

2024-06-25 15:30:03

goddammit @npub18wc…8zm4 i bought a boox palma https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-reader

2024-06-24 15:30:03

The entire AI industry rests on a copyright house of cards, part 204349 https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/24/24184710/riaa-ai-lawsuit-suno-udio-copyright-umg-sony-warner

2024-06-13 23:30:02

Yikes - Recall won’t ship at launch with Copilot PCs
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178144/microsoft-windows-ai-recall-feature-delay

2024-06-06 14:30:02

Every big tech company has a division making it possible to flood the internet with shit AI content and a division trying to write a recommendation algorithm that somehow filters it out, and the algorithm team isn’t allowed to say AI content is shit so they’re going to lose
RE: https://www.threads.net/@kashhill/post/C74DHFguwyd

2024-05-30 18:30:03

Decoder today is a banger that features an audio montage of small website owners living through Google Zero
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t50.33967-16/436634039_327592053560030_2745137782670835540_n.m4a?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c9a207&_nc_ohc=RReTwIHTZ5YQ7kNvgE119r9&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AYDwh-6qbr2Nmcw3ctAlv4pWhNzUjNR-k9VZOFPX_A1f9A&oe=665EB490

2024-05-29 15:30:02

I don't have a lot to say about this -- our newsroom is independent of the company's business dealings as it's always been. We'll figure out some disclosure language and do a disclosure when it's appropriate, we are pretty good at those ;)
RE: https://www.threads.net/@tomwarrenuk/post/C7jtU28tuHZ

2024-05-28 22:30:02

This is the story of the day - many many details of the Google Search algo have apparently leaked, and the company has remained resolutely silent about it
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

2024-05-20 18:32:24

I do not want a computer that's watching everything I do? I'm keeping the 2015 iMac forever https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160486/microsoft-copilot-plus-ai-arm-chips-pc-surface-event

2024-05-20 16:02:22

Asked ChatGPT 4o to summarize my conversation with Sundar Pichai and it returned a full hallucination complete with citations to things we did not talk about at all
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/444650174_936799124858964_6822900493000943750_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=BgMlI36smXYQ7kNvgFs3nNT&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AYBVoNKP87xSQkbfZYbb4H4d58EOb8-672U8Kkg5wYJd0w&oe=66515153

2024-05-11 14:30:03

I might be the only person in the world who thinks the new Sonos app is actually pretty good

2024-05-09 11:30:03

Decoder is not on YouTube Music because YouTube demands it either be a video show or ingest via their weirdo RSS which wrecks our ad system (which is owned by Spotify so no incentive to play nice with YouTube). Platforms! If you blink you’ll find yourself working for free
RE: https://www.threads.net/@antman786/post/C6tTGB-OKwo

2024-05-07 14:30:02

Apple's iPad event starts in a little less than 30 minutes. I will be liveblogging with @npub1e0y…zzsg right here! https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151030/apple-ipad-let-loose-event-live-blog-news-updates

2024-05-06 13:30:02

Fascinating how calmly and routinely foreign media ownership rules factor into other kinds of deals.... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/business/media/sony-apollo-paramount.html
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/441561621_7029525197151697_6672540875131815897_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=9buFrlajLGoQ7kNvgHGpJ3x&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AfC20lyZMLbTzy1iNwrY9lGrL87IP6u8fo0ySm8aZDsFiw&oe=663E9D0A

2024-04-18 18:30:02

It's the last day to vote for the Webby Awards, and the Vergecast and Decoder are both nominated! I suggest voting for Decoder in business and Vergecast in tech ;)
Vergecast: https://wbby.co/40080N
Decoder: https://wbby.co/40081N

2024-04-17 20:30:03

Sure feels like Humane review “debate” is actually the collective anxiety of a bunch of AI founders who are worried their products can’t actually do the things they claim and poisoning the well of reviews is easier than fixing it

2024-04-09 00:30:02

Going great over there
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/436574617_781373536945571_8774040581790329160_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=USycU1ECf28Ab5rtjzN&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AfDouta5dg1KVIlkInqLvvSIQdVp-e5I6Trzt353gEBR7w&oe=661A534A

2024-04-08 19:30:03

Eclipse dip in Verge traffic lol
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/436299972_965701441812124_3991126618613726368_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=mC75kb0HoxAAb4yXCll&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AfDs17LVnTgDs763hQRCfTwtnovpdBclWUZaYcrNLDLYjw&oe=661A3C50

2024-04-02 21:30:03

BEST PRINTER 2024
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

2024-03-26 20:30:02

A million sites and creators chasing algorithmic trends and SEO traffic created the entire resurgence of flat earth idiots https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/9/16424622/reddit-conspiracy-theories-memes-irony-flat-earth
RE: https://www.threads.net/@kbode/post/C4_ZVnXygTD

2024-03-23 13:30:03

Little weekend podcast for you: here’s my Decoder interview with DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter last month https://www.theverge.com/24067873/jonathan-kanter-doj-antitrust-google-policy-monopoly-big-tech
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/434150872_961402972031601_174770446868780678_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=k3HGbI2JGh8AX9Y85c9&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AfAPzu20VcZ72wiWMEU8bOm6FV_hbh8lm7nh9PtgMXqxHg&oe=6603C175

2024-03-22 21:30:04

Just noting that @npub1sql…3jsu is a superstar https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/22/24109033/doj-apple-antitrust-lawsuit-legal-expert-praise

2024-03-21 20:30:02

Fediverse sharing on my Threads account is enabled!