Adi Robertson

@thedextriarchy

Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge

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Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· 1d

araki's talked about it in a few places — i don't know a ton about karley at all, though i guess she has also written about the original relationship with her boss on substack? www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...

The film was initially scheduled to shoot after Araki wrapped promotion for White Bird in a Blizzard, a 2014 drama starring Shailene Woodley and Eva Green. Back then, the script was something like “a comic 50 Shades of Grey”, he says, with a female intern seduced by her male boss. But after initial funding fell through, the project was put on ice, and when Araki revisited the script after making 2019’s teen TV comedy Now Apocalypse, he worried it felt tone-deaf in the wake of #MeToo. “I started to feel uncomfortable with the [script’s] image of a woman getting dragged around by the hair, even in a consensual situation,” he says. “I don’t want to kink-shame anybody, but as a man, I didn’t really want to put that image out there.

“That’s when I got the idea to flip the sex roles and make it a male sub and a female dom,” he says. “I’ve always been a very hardcore feminist from the time I was in film school in the late 70s, so the Erika Tracy character became much more interesting to me.”

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Jul 3

Cat melting stage acute

A tortoiseshell cat lying on her back like a dead bug

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Jul 2

Who needs a thermometer when you have the cat melting under desk test

A tortoiseshell cat splayed across the floor looking very put upon by this heat

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Jun 22

"chatgpt please find a famous ring-related IP and make up an explanation about why it fits our branding"

For generations, The Lord of the Rings film series has captivated audiences. When The Fellowship reaches the end of its journey after overcoming immense challenges, audiences are moved by their courage, perseverance, and growth. This enduring narrative highlights a simple but powerful idea: that meaningful transformation often begins with the choices we make each day. RingConn embraces a similar philosophy, believing that lasting change begins with everyday awareness and small, intentional decisions. Through its smart rings, RingConn empowers individuals to better understand their health and make more informed choices that support long-term wellbeing. Together, this shared perspective gives rise to the idea of the "Everyday Hero" — not defined by extraordinary power, but by everyday awareness, courage, and action.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Jun 12

the verge's front page layout working well today www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Two headlines on The Verge, next to each other: Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire / The world's first trillionaire is a killer

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· May 19

when you're mean to AI data centers this is who you're being mean to

A claymation-style cartoon image of a TPU, smiling and giving a thumbs-up. it looks sort of like a computer chip minion

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· May 5

The rare positive thing i've learned about OpenAI in Musk v. Altman is that at least they didn't name their company after Gordon Freeman

On Mon. Nov. 23, 2015 at 4:10PM, Elon Musk wrote: Axon is the best of the three, but I don't love it. A bit too biological and saying it out loud sounds a lot like Exxon, one of the worst companies on Earth. I'm going back and forth on Freemind. Kinda like Freeman too, as it reminds me of the scientist protagonist in Half-Life, who was an awesome character, and it sounds like what we are essentially trying to achieve, which is maximum freedom of action for humanity.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Apr 29

say what you will about openai, but they had the foresight to take good "pictures somebody will run through chatgpt to put a fake renaissance masters filter and some costumes on it" shots years before creating chatgpt

An image of Jensen Huang shaking hands with members of OpenAI, delivering a supercomputer, as Elon Musk looks on with his head lowered and two people in the foreground take pictures of the scenes on phones.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Apr 8

Fully think American governance would improve by 20% if we banned appointed officials from having personal podcasts.

A tweet from RFK Jr. reading "Coming soon, the secretary kennedy podcast," with a thumbnail of RFK Jr.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Apr 3

ladies and gentlemen, the x information ecosystem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Apr 2

A museum exhibit of a German "hunting knife combined with wheellock pistol", that is also a calendar

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Mar 11

japanese games otoh have you covered

An image of Karl Heisenberg from Resident Evil Village, a gray-haired guy in a cool longcoat and a big hat

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Mar 6

by this logic i should be able to make a movie and prominently advertise it as "inspired by martin scorsese"

In a statement to The Verge, Alex Gay, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Grammarly parent company Superhuman, commented: “The Expert Review agent doesn’t claim endorsement or direct participation from those experts; it provides suggestions inspired by works of experts and points users toward influential voices whose scholarship they can then explore more deeply.” When asked if Superhuman considered notifying the people named in its AI feature, or requesting their permission, Gay said, “The experts in Expert Review appear because their published works are publicly available and widely cited.”

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Mar 2

blinks in Edward Snowden

While Anthropic says it pushed for a contract that specifically proscribes the practice, OpenAI appears to rely heavily on existing legal limits. It said its Pentagon agreement states that “for intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose.”

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Feb 27

Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom of Speech"

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Feb 6

visual representation of how I described this @lopatto.bsky.social piece in an editors meeting

The astronaut gun meme, with one astronaut saying "wait it's all misogyny?" and the other, preparing to shoot the first, saying "always has been"

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Feb 5

Literally begging for $3 million for "robots with genius-level intellect and sexy android bodies" I'm tapping out I'm done www.theverge.com/tech/872888/...

A proposal for "a $3m USD commitment, over three years, to pursue Genius Machines -- robots with genius-level intellect and sexy android bodies." The milestones include "a beautiful android ready to show publicly in less than a year". After 36 months "the robot is as smart as an adult narrowly, generally smart as a small child"

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Jan 6

somebody at razer badly misunderstood the phrase "i want to put him in a jar and shake him"

a seriously very boring brown-haired white guy with tattoos, posed a little bit like wolverine

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Jan 6

putting a moratorium on AI product designers coming up with things they think straight women will like

An incredibly boring looking brown-haired white guy with a half-open black shirt revealing swirling tattoos, posed what is probably supposed to be rakishly.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Dec 29

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...

The
defendant explained that he made the black powder in the devices using charcoal, Lilly Miller
sulfur dust, and potassium nitrate that he purchased from Lowes. The defendant mixed these
ingredients in a Pyrex bowel and used a spoon or measuring cup to pour the black powder into the
devices. According to the defendant, he learned to make the black powder from a video game
that listed the ingredients, and he also viewed various science-related videos on YouTube to assist
him in creating the devices.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Dec 22

If you're still here after the pun please read @lopatto.bsky.social on why people aren't cynical enough about GPU loans www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

There has been a lot of talk about the raw technical details of how these chips depreciate, and specifically whether these chips lose value so fast they make these loans absurd. While I am impressed by the sheer amount of nerd energy put into this question, I do feel this somewhat misses the point: the loans mean that Nvidia has an incentive to bail out this industry for as long as it can because the majority of GPU-backed loans are made using Nvidia’s own chips as collateral.

Of course, that also means that if something goes wrong with Nvidia’s business, this whole sector is in trouble. And judging by the increasing competition its chips face, something could go wrong soon.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Dec 22

what happens when you let @reckless.bsky.social write heds www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A headline reading "Chipwrecked," a dek reading "Nvidia has built an empire on circular deals for chips. Can anything knock it down?"

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 20

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"

A screenshot of an app that says "Creating your dream AI girl..." above "Warming him up..."

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 17

I clicked on the site and started with "well, ok there are lots of services that do genetic analysis for major risk factors that's relatively common" and then i got to

Text in a list reading: risk-taking, seasonal allergies.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 10

i revised it to fit the brand aesthetic

A command telling ChatGPT to "make it steampunk", followed by a carhartt nylon-shell hoodie that now has a leather texture and is inexplicably covered in gears

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 10

I didn't tweak it quite as much as the temu carhartt people but GPT-5 can def get something close to it

An AI-generated white nylon-shell jacket with brown highlights and the word "carhartt" running up the sleeve; it is slightly unreal but relatively convincing

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 10

help me

A Salon article covered entirely with pictures of coats from ads for the knockoff carhartt company

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 10

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

Galloway, in both his podcasts and “Notes on Being a Man,” presents masculinity not as one side of a fixed binary but as a state of mind and a life style, one equally available to men and women, and therefore impossible to define. (It’s a feeling, and we know how Trump supporters feel about those.) Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before. This belief may be misguided or unconscious, but it is nonetheless insuperable, and it must be accommodated, for the good of us all.
What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The “female-coded” person, to borrow Krugman’s terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can’t acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person’s duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital “P.” This person’s opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly.

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 10

Apparently this is what the right-hand jacket looks like IRL, which after the "ornate knitted sweater design flat printed on a t-shirt" brand I saw a while back is actually better than I expected www.reddit.com/r/Carhartt/c...

A sad vaguely leather-colored button-down jacket with a floppy and cheap-looking fleece collar and a carhartt patch

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy· Nov 10

my fave new AI slop aesthetic is "steampunk airship captainess jacket clumsily photoshopped with the carhartt logo"