Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

FEED ME A PEAR 🍐

& I will write you a sonnet. (GenAI in the news on the waning moon)

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Allyson Shaw
Jun 09, 2026
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Fly, Caterpillar, Pear, and Centipede Joris Hoefnagel, ca. 1595

Whenever I see an invitation to Meta AI on Instagram, I immediately think of US Congressional Representative Cortez holding up a jar of opaque brown tap waterβ€”a result of a Meta AI data centre contaminating the water supply in the state of Georgia in the USA.

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