Kevin Nguyen

Phil Elverum fuzzy guitars and crashing cymbals don’t really conjure “remix material” in my mind, but I love that he dropped his new record Night Palace along with a folder of all the stems, in case you were ever so inclined. Since his days under the moniker The Microphones, Elverum has embodied the DIY spirit, so I guess now you can do it yourself, too.

One small detail in this NYT story about Elon Musk building a multi-family compound is the resolution around the billionaire promising the name “Valkyrie” to two different mothers of his kids:

Further complicating matters, Mr. Musk took a name that he and Ms. Boucher had chosen for their daughter — Valkyrie — and gave it to one of Ms. Zilis’s twins, according to two people familiar with the naming. Ms. Boucher was so offended that she wrote a song about the episode, which she posted to Twitter.

“A girl cursed with my daughter’s name,” Ms. Boucher wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “will now carry her mother’s shame.” (In the end, Ms. Zilis changed her daughter’s name, while Ms. Boucher chose a different name for her child.)

Glad they worked that out. It would’ve gotten truly confusing to have two Valkyries living under the same roof — or whatever covers a 14,400-square-foot villa.

The content moderation thriller on Broadway (you heard that right) wraps up its final performances over the next week and a half. And after tonight’s show (10/17), The Verge hosts a talkback with JOB playwright Max Wolf Friedlich.

Pitchfork was the music tastemaker of the blog era. Now, after media empire Condé Nast acquired it and eventually gutted the staff, several former Pitchfork writers are launching a (mostly) worker-owned music site called Hearing Things. NYT has the backstory of how it came together.

(In an era where everyone is starting newsletters, I’m excited for a new, good old fashioned homepage to bookmark.)

Last month, I published a story about tennis embracing the electronic line calling system — and all of the data, sports betting, and financial implications that come with it. Wimbledon, the most prestigious of the Grand Slams, just announced it will get rid of human line judges at next year’s tournament. At this point, the ELC takeover is inevitable.

Darryl Campbell’s new book, Fatal Abstraction, argues that many of Big Tech’s issues are related to “managerialism.” His reporting — some of which he published for The Verge — finds that Silicon Valley’s love of spreadsheets, productivity software, and MBAs has undermined many companies’ ability to ship good products. Or in Boeing’s case, keep doors from flying off planes.

The book isn’t out until next April, but you can pre-order it now.

The Flytrap is a new indie newsletter in the vein of Defector and Aftermath, featuring a number of smart contributors including Verge regular s.e. smith. The group of ten writers is currently trying to launch their publication by crowdfunding through Kickstarter.