Nick Statt
@nickstatt
Sr. Producer on Vox Media’s Decoder podcast. Former gaming/tech reporter & editor with Protocol, Verge, CNET. I have a cat named General Bean Sprout.
One of the single best “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” moments I’ve ever seen
I regret to inform you that Star Fox now looks like Walter from the Big Lebowski and that rules
Form Arcostani is the best music fest I've ever been to (I've been four times), and this lineup is full of big gets for 2026 (Lorde, Geese, Turnstile!) but man it does suck to finally get priced out with a more than 2x price increase. It was bound to happen and it is what it is! I'll miss it tho.
Big move in the ongoing “should AI companies let the government make autonomous murder bots” saga. Anthropic now calling Pete Hegseth’s bluff here. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
Hold on reorienting my entire personality around becoming a Baby Waluigi fan
I don't need to know how you spend $700 a week on DoorDash. That's between you and god. But I do need to know why you agree to quoted in an article like this, and why you let the NYT photograph your expensive copper cookware.
Still adjusting to the world of Video Podcasting, but this is a Decoder video essay we just put together with very fun animations courtesy of the talented Alex Parkin. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...
Words cannot describe how much this gaming achievement hurt me. 7 years in the making, and an unconscionable amount of hours spent practicing. To Hollow Knight, my favorite game ever 🫡
Just an incredible quote, especially in the context of this person's pivot to gen AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Getting the sneaking suspicion the Emmy voters did not watch the Star Wars spinoff show after all
He says in this interview it deeply affected his outlook on life, that he almost killed himself while having to isolate during COVID, and then decided that this was all part of his new purpose in life. Like it couldn't be more obvious they put him on this path. www.sundial-cu.org/p/he-outsmar...
Obviously this dude's outlook on learning and life in general is pretty lame. But it's really no mystery to me why he has so little respect for education and the people who work in it after having a Harvard offer rescinded for sneaking out during a field trip. Like c'mon. nymag.com/intelligence...
The bird flu take you've all been waiting for www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Hey at least he got that chainsaw and gets to stay with his mom at the White House
Unforgivable error in this NYT story on Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/t...
The people trying to be the “moderate” in the room on Elon and DOGE vastly underestimate the extent to which people who default to “Elon good” are persuaded by constant evidence that he is not in fact good. You are not dealing with serious, rational people — not anymore at least.
Got some old pokemon cards graded to see how that process goes. (Hint: It's long, expensive and cumbersome.) But quite pleased with some of the results back on cards I've had since I was like 12 years old, and a couple newer ones in the mix.
Democrats got too squeamish to keep calling Republicans "weird" last year. It is just abundantly clear that outside of AOC, they don't possess the ruthless cruelty these ppl deserve in this type of online engagement. So I would suggest they stop trying to engage if this is how it's going to go.
The Silicon Valley types' reaction to naming anonymous peole in power ultimately derives from a fundamental misunderstanding of how journalism works. They think it's tribal, and naming someone is an attack on an enemy group. It's not. It's principles-based, but they're incapable of seeing that.
Prepare to see more of this. That because the people involved with Elon are unelected or young or are not already public figures that that means they get to remain anonymous and that somehow by naming them it’s an incitement to violence. That’s not how journalism works, sorry.