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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

Senior Reporter

Elizabeth Lopatto is a senior writer at The Verge, where she covers how the internet is changing how we think about money: cryptocurrency, business, fintech and Elon Musk for some reason.

She joined the site in 2014, as science editor, then deputy editor running science, transportation and social media, before she got tired of being an authority figure and went back to blogging.

Stop using generative AI as a search engine

A fake presidential pardon explains why you can’t trust robots with the news.

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The headlights are too bright. Whose fault is it?

The auto manufacturers? The insurers? The NHTSA just fell down on the job? Could be that more people just drive with their brights on all the time. Personally, I think we should send all of them to the Hague to get this sorted out.

Shout out to r/fuckyourheadlights, a bastion of sanity.


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“I have never really understood the Synapse situation, but in my defense Synapse doesn’t understand it either.”

Matt Levine on some fintech weirdness is pretty sublime. Turns out old-school banks have some advantages, specifically that they are not going to simply lose track of your money.


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“We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.”

The era of the LLM means you now have to figure out whether you are talking to another person — or just some bot. There’s one sci-fi author who focused on just that.


The PKD Dystopia

[www.programmablemutter.com]

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What if the platforms are the dark forest’s predators?

Erin Kissane’s take on “the dark forest” idea of the internet suggests that context collapse is what makes the internet deranging. So how do you build a network where people matter?


against the dark forest

[wreckage/salvage]

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Gary Gensler quits.

The controversial head of the SEC was targeted by Donald Trump during Trump’s presidential campaign. It is customary for the SEC chair to resign when a president from the other party is elected. That cheering you hear? It’s the crypto lobby.


Here’s a fun thing!

So this is NSFW because it’s just gonna holler profanity at you, but if that’s what you’ve wanted — well, Bluesky is the kind of platform that lets you build it.


Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop

How fake music targets real artists.