Apologizing to Sid Meier for my previous claims that Axeman units defeating jets in combat was "unrealistic"

Every "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy

The 21st century equivalent of 'My grandad smoked 60 a day and lived until he was a hundred.'

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Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot: During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

not even software works like software otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

this is the most meta thing i've ever seen

The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable

We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched.

Love your work, @propublica.org! But, there's no ProPublica journalism without journalists! Pay your workers 21st century level salaries + benefits. With $98 million stashed in the bank, you can afford it! ProPublica takes in $18 million/year more in donations than expenses! @propublicaguild.org

LinkedIn chuds will post things like 'It's like nowhere else, here's some perks of working at Scrongle dot io' and it's just 8 white dudes squinting at their laptops on a rooftop in East London?

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

I never, ever, want to open a link using an in-app browser btw

I think it's probably fine to put the chatbot that not even Walmart trusts inside the largest nuclear armed military on earth to the tune of about $200M, after all we all have universal single payer healthcare, free higher education, and a robust UBI

Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...

word of advice? drop the "the". just "Immense, Predictable, Laughable Failure". it's cleaner

A sample slide from my lecture yesterday. Should have added fun - but I did say "fun" out loud.

D...did Marc just leak his system prompt?

Many predictions about AI are simply wishful thinking. "Now that AI is here, designers will have more time to focus on quality." Really? Is that what you see happening? Is that the trend, is that where the incentive structure is leading us?

Youtube thumbnails from ancient times

“You’re right! I shouldn’t assume tables exist.” I had this exact conversation with an Oxford philosophy grad many years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

I've even come across a case where a guy completely f*cked an economy by pursuing counterproductive austerity policies only to be got rid of and then given a whole bunch of really lucrative jobs in the financial sector.

All we did was give stupid people faster access to other stupid people and now we act surprised when the stupidity compounds

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in? www.ft.com/content/4493...

The Two Deprivations open.substack.com/pub/parables...

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

This is one of my favorite comics we've made.

It doesn’t matter which side of the box you open medication, it will always be the side with the little leaflet thingy

Every single individual who has been fined for copyright infringement should be given a refund now that we live in a world where that’s fine actually

Hello friends. 002 from Haus Von Kirschnell – our digital scrapbook – is live! Allow us to regale you with some tales of winter, fawn over our wonderful friends, food, and discovered sounds. With a guest section by my good friend @mpinney.bsky.social. vonkirschnell.haus/season-in-re...

The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint

Thinking through something over my morning reading. I know the Discourse now is to debate the applicability of the term “extraction” to everything. I think it works for a variety of reasons & am glad to keep it. BUT sometimes what authors want to call extraction is just good old fashioned extortion.

this quote post is part of a vital thread of all the trans people I have met (bearing in mind we shoal together so that's loads), the one (1) detransitioner detransitioned because their family & friends rejected them, & they held huge sorrow about this. I feel so sad every time I think of them.

Looking for something to read over lunch? I've written some words on what I think happened to the internet and why we should use AI to overthrow the billionaires. www.wehavethemegapixels.com/writing/Brea...

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

“i pretty much never leave my house ha ha” because you’re scared the ghost of your young wife will kill you? because contact with outside air could aggravate your frail complexion? have some gall, some panache — make something of your withering

www.guidelabs.ai/post/scaling... This is extremely cool. Guide Labs have trained an LLM that can tell you what part of the prompt was most relevant to each part of the output, what concepts it ties to each part of the output, and what part of its training data influenced the output.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

How did the tech bro crowd, growing up on stories of sci-fi, transhumanism, virtual reality and limitless ability to modify one's body, "biohacking," etc. end up becoming so viscerally anti-transgender? Truly boggles my mind.

the AI evangelists are not okay

Every single person in the UK will think this is something else for a split second

We do not teach students the right things about the Nazis. For example, on March 5th, 1933, Germany held elections. The Nazi party deployed SS, SA, and other Nazi orgs to “monitor” the elections This was done to “defend the homeland”

we do not teach students the right things about the Nazis We teach them that they are evil and they did the Holocaust, and so students think these are exceptional things unique to the Nazis As well we should teach them about the Blood Flag, soaked in the blood of the Bierhallputsch martyrs

I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly