Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.

Here’s to 2026

Every day, we make choices

Extremely cat-shaped cat

Sorry if this is a bit personal but does this shit make anyone else feel completely fucking insane

"The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed 'good enough.'” This is exactly what I feared. Not that AI would replace good writing (it can't), but that good writing would cease to be valued

For no particular reason, here’s a refresher on the Paradox of Tolerance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox...

I love the future

TER-RRRRYYYY THAT KILLS PEOPLE TERRRRY.

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all. www.ign.com/articles/uns...

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Very important news everyone

Whatever production time and cost was "saved" by using AI for one of the most human-dependent disciplines in game making was actively obliterated by the act itself, overshadowing the hard work of every single other developer on the project and making this situation impossible to right. WHO KNEW.

Mamdani wins

Carrying on the proud tradition of utilizing the office swords as part of my Halloween costume #SwordsBeforeLords

Color me shocked.

The annual village scarecrow contest is up and running!

This is how you blurb

I’ve never seen game devs run as fast as when someone says “last call for the coffee cart”

I originally read this as “Y2K/90s rusty skater cords in gay” …which, also yes.

sci-fi shows and games did not predict 2025 correctly

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

You can't insure it. It hard to drive. It's ugly. It's a hard to park as a real truck but can't do truck things. It falls apart. It rusts which is why you rarely see an unwrapped cybertruck. If someone *gave* me a cybertruck I'd junk it for metal and use that money as a down payment on a Honda

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Sure is October in a New England village

So great to see this profile of Andrea Bartz in her (and all authors’) fight against Anthropic.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Every single game that ships is some kind of miracle.

We were supposed to have a Song of the Lioness series and I’m so angry at this timeline 😩 www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...

not exaggerating to say this show is probably why I'm an author and also part of why I'm a curious person. this is good 💓

My roommate’s cat and I have developed a fun new game: She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

My latest for Pajiba… www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/g...

this is so lovely

Call your reps AND senators! Trans people need to have their healthcare protected. Tell them you support trans people. Cis people, pick up your phones and do some heavy lifting.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

A b&w photo of William Burroughs, with his quote "What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." William Burroughs

its deeply funny/a historical tragedy that silicon valley are spending countless billions and boiling oceans chasing an AI fever dream while actual future tech is out there looking cool as hell

NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates. The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

I’m writing on the inside.

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Environmental storytelling.