I mean, of course, if I think about it, Beavis and Butt-Head are Gen X, but the median age of MTV viewers being 56 feels wrong. boingboing.net/2025/09/08/m...

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Celebrate Tom Lehrer For His Music, But Also For Donating All His Works To The Public Domain www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...

This is exactly the kind of privacy/security disaster that is GUARANTEED to happen again and again now following the idiotic UK Online Safety Act. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Did not predict this.

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

Congratulations to all the winners and the finalists! The 2025 Locus Awards Winners! locusmag.com/2025/06...

Sex, scandal and revenge: how a priest’s murder revealed a noblewoman’s bloody feud with the church. Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Heinlein fans immediately nod and say “Of course, tee, tau and teh from Number of the Beast”

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musk is genuinely not very bright and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.

Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.

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Extreme metal vocalists use a completely different pattern of vocalizing than we see in other styles of music," says Dr. Amanda Stark. She and death metal singer Mark Garrett join us to discuss how to safely scream like a demon.

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Happy Easter

I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-

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Teach a man to fish, and you'll probably get endless followup questions about technique and gear etc. Teach a man to become a fish, and you'll never hear from him again

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

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The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.

Don’t try to pixelate sensitive data in videos - the tools to recover the original are easily available. youtube.com/watch?v=acKY...

<phone rings> LIDINGTON: Hello? TRUSS <phone>: David! It! Is! I! LIDINGTON *sighs*: Hi Liz HAMMOND <next room>: Who is it? TRUSS: It! Is! I! Liz! Truss! LIDINGTON: It's Liz Truss HAMMOND: Cool. Tell her I said "Fuck off" LIDINGTON: Phil says hi. HAMMOND <shouts>: I didn't Liz! I said Fuck off! /1

Great to see The Guardian recycling an article of mine from 2023 without attribution: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html as https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world

exceptional @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social

Absolutely GTFO with any of this, not having it.

As an Edinburgh graduate, this ongoing scandal is horrifying. Pretty sure it wasn’t like this in my time, but apparently there are fewer Scots voices heard there now…

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Poe’s Hræfn

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

The classic (and harrowing) “Threads” to be remade as a TV series. This will be fun. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/a...

2025 Hugo final ballot: Goodreads / LibraryThing stats

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This is why I still love the internet stealmytesla.com

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

*chefs kiss*

NEW: The specialist unit searching for Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia has been AXED by Elon Musk. Just when you think he can’t stoop lower. 19,500 children have been stolen from Ukraine & sent to Russia. The unit at Yale had already rescued 100s - but its funding has now been halted.

Friendly admin Katie here! Hugo nominations close tomorrow and some of our beloved hosts are eligible! Best Novel - Warlords of Wyrdwood - RJ Barker - Orbit Best Novella - Millionaire's Day - Kit Power - French Press Publishing Any Glasgow or Seattle WorldCon attendees can nominate!

“I’d have gotten away with the hypocrisy and projection if it wasn’t for… Oh, wait, no. I am getting away with it!” https://boingboing.net/2025/03/12/tom-the-dancing-bug-elon-musk-and-his-doge-pals-in-auto-graft.html

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Hypocrisy and projection are the modus operandi of the right. Musk has created the Deep State he fantasised and railed against. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-has-become-what-it-claimed-to-destroy/

I remain convinced that right libertarians are a myth and that quadrant of the political compass should just be excised entirely. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/thanks-to-trump-the-land-of-the-free-is-now-just-an-aspiring-autocracy/