Age verification? I saw Star Trek: TOS in its original run.

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

At PDX heading to Hawaii!!! 🌴

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

TikTok is now State-Run Media: censored, limited, controlled, monitored. It is no longer what it was.

I don't think this is actually true, but I feel it *ought* to be the case that the gerund form of the word meaning "to cut into little cubes" should be spelled "dicing" while the gerund form of the word meaning "to play with dice" should be spelled "diceing."

Sooo much cool antifa/queer Trek art merch!

If you've enjoyed my LARP reports… if you like the Dresden Files… if you'd like the opportunity to be another person in a fantasy world for a weekend… consider signing up for this 1920s Dresden Files LARP in Denver in January 2027!

I will be appearing with Andrew Penn Romine on "Two Hour Transport" on Zoom TONIGHT, Jan. 28, 6-8 p.m. PT! See here for the Zoom link:

"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" is an absolutely brilliant story that will change the way you think. And now you can read it for free!

Senate Democrats need to hold the line. Not another cent for Trump’s immigration machine.

Hey y'all, been away from social media for a bit, but a reminder I'll be a featured reader at this month's Two Hour Transport tomorrow night! (along with @daviddlevine.com) twohourtransport.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...

deleting signal now that i know it's compromised find me on livejournal

I will be appearing with Andrew Penn Romine on "Two Hour Transport" on Zoom this Wednesday, Jan. 28, 6-8 p.m. PT! See here for the Zoom link:

Statement by Republican governor Phil Scott of Vermont.

I believe this applies only to writers who have traditionally-published books via Amazon Publishing (imprints such as 47North). Doesn't apply to writers who self-pub via Kindle Direct Publishing.

My Nebula-winning debut novel ARABELLA OF MARS is on sale for just $1.99 at all US ebook stores. TODAY ONLY!

I recently rewatched this rarely-seen 1980 production and I would say that, despite the laughable special effects, it holds up well. I do know that of all the adaptations of her work, it's the only one that Le Guin actually liked.

In the 1980s the top 0.001% wealthiest people in the US owned 0.3% of the total wealth of all Americans. In the original Gilded Age it was about 4%. Today it's 10-12%. So our new Gilded Age is FAR WORSE than the original.

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

When I wrote this a year ago I had no idea how bad things would get. Today, eight years after she left us, I'm trying to follow Ursula's advice: write and worry. Write and act. Worry and keep writing. lithub.com/the-way-of-w...

As AI is deployed at higher and higher levels of the process, the incident tail risk goes up: it becomes more likely that you get an incident where no human knows what pieces of the system to look at, how they fit together, what tradeoffs & risks exist in them, etc

Photos from a visit to Portland's Zymoglyphic Museum zymoglyphic.org

Q: What's the most honest coffee? A: Frank Sumatra.

Hey everyone! I'll be appearing online at Two Hour Transport next Wednesday, January 28! (Not Jan 18.) Hope to see you there!

Is it really as easy as adjusting my expectations for myself? Is it really as easy as not judging myself, and hitting publish instead of cancel? Why is that so hard?

📡 SIGNAL RECEIVED! Tor Books has successfully entered this timeline. Expect books, dragons, and a good time 😎

Google AI has hallucinated a cat and dog for me which do not exist and never have.

Trump's txt reveals that he: 1) is stupid and petty enough to threaten invading a NATO ally over an award; 2) doesn't understand that the Nobels are not awarded by the government of Norway; 3) doesn't know the difference between Denmark and Norway. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Is the new #Anaconda movie a reboot? A remake? Spiritual successor? None of the above. it's an example of what happens when a studio wants to "mine IP" without a clear plan or strong direction. www.cerealatmidnight.com/2026/01/revi...

a good day to throw your Ring into a volcano.

Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.

Donald Trump's efforts to browbeat U.S. universities into submission may have massive consequences for the country for decades to come. www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Item...

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

I found that I like the look of my phone a lot better with Reduce Transparency turned on.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

Thread as Hugo candidate for short story. (content warning: bleak)

I watched the first 1.5 episodes of Starfleet Academy and wasn't compelled to continue. I found the main character an insufferable jerk and the overall tone a bit too much "teen comedy" and not enough "Star Trek." Might try episode 3 when it drops.

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

Worst thing about writing books is sometimes you make something you're really proud of, then say to yourself "can't wait till 2 years from now when someone sees this."

Racism is a tool to control white people as well as Black people. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." — Lyndon B. Johnson

First trailer for Pittock Mansion in LAIKA’s new stop-motion film ‘WILDWOOD’. The magical adventure arrives in theaters later this year. #Wildwood #LAIKA

Always disliked—business model, audio quality, everything—Spotify and refused to use it. The only people making money here are Spotify and those rare musicians already richer than Midas

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I remember my dad telling me that in WWII the Resistance put sugar in the Nazis's gas tanks. Except that sugar was rationed and they couldn't get enough to ruin the engines. So they would just sprinkle a little sugar around the Nazis' gas caps, forcing them to sideline the vehicle for nothing.

Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System By my data hero Eleanor Lutz