A message of defiant hope in this difficult time: MAKE NO MORE CLOUDS. I HAVE DRAWN THE RAINBOW HERE.

Today's high: An actual professional editor read my novel's opening and responded "This really worked for me! I enjoyed the voice...I liked this as a prologue!" 😍

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

Welp, finally managed it: One monster spreadsheet to sum up the entire book as-is, which I can now use to find everything I need to fix. My brane hurts

"an image of the mythical Polyphemus, but wearing sunglasses"

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Mildly interesting: Reading an old Tennyson poem from the early 1800s and he refers casually to the known use of bay leaves to add piquancy to custard. I'd never heard of this, but apparently it was once quite common. Seems like the rare dish where bay could shine.

AI in science fiction: "Skynet became self-aware and launched a nuclear strike, followed by an army of sentient robots" AI in real life: "Why, yes, drinking bleach *might* work! Here's my suggestion for your dinner!"

Just discovered my work account gives me access to VEO3, so had it generate a video my daughter would appreciate

Pro-AI people: Look how good AI is at this thing AI is good at! Anti-AI people: Look how bad AI is at this thing AI is bad at! Any interaction between the two: *incoherent screeching* Can we please, for the love of God, move past this stage of the debate?

Articles like this really highlight a trend in tech companies that I keep meaning to post about. I basically posit that enshittification is all the fault of the Divine Right of Kings arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

*reportedly

London is increasingly under Shania law. And that don't impress me much.

Love that the picture caption has "left" and "right" in case you weren't clear

I can't be the only person who sees this headline and leaps to an immediate conclusion, right? techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/m...

NGL, I want stellarators to win the fusion race simply because I want to live in a world where I can legitimately say "My power is drawn from a stellarator!" www.popularmechanics.com/science/ener...

TIL tricolour poodles are a thing. Seriously, look at this floofer: It's like someone was like "What if St. Bernard, but poodle?"

Farage uses the same playbook. So did everything Brexit

This is genius level work by Ned and Wayne showcasing the power of comics to tell a story and educate. When I teach comics [Sequential Narrative] my presentation also starts with the Lascaux Caves and includes Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Bayeux Tapestry. Even safety cards on a plane are comics!

I probably shouldn't... but on some level, I really do kinda hope that he'll actually piss Canada off enough that they just turn off the oil and timber supply www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

She can take 'em

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

Sigh. Sorry, America, but I just don't think you should be allowed to choose your own leaders any more. Leave it to sensible people.

daughter requests: "two stuffies talking to one another, and suddenly one of them faints, and the other one claps"

If Honda comes from nowhere to eat SpaceX's lunch I will laugh *so* hard I'll need time off work arstechnica.com/science/2025...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? American democracy, even when it worked, was far from the best kind. Great stuff by 1788 standards but it’s 2025. Other countries have found better ways of structuring political institutions, allocating power, and funding elections.

I found this gels well with my own experiences: "AI here is my problem, fix it for me" is a path to suffering "AI here is my problem, help me to understand it to a level where I can fix it" means you learn instead of succumbing to AI brainrot m.youtube.com/watch?v=p63M...

To whom it may concern: This Sunday marks a Big Round Number in Unix Epoch Time, 1750000000 2025-06-15T15:06:40 to be precise

The internet needed this image. Thanks @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hominem

*Every photo* I see of RFK Jr looks like someone told an AI "Generate a picture of a guy who's clearly a total asshole" Every *single* one!

Let's all remember that this is the same tabloid that was all in favour of Lettuce Liz's approach

Headline for AI investment in big tech companies: Meta invests $15b in Scale AI Google investing $75b in AI Apple commits $500b to AI Microsoft investing $80b in AI The average UK pundit: "Hurr, Labour are so dumb to be investing in AI, don't they know it's a bubble?" MAN, it's getting tiring

Interesting chart. I wonder if part of how ai wins is just being better about sticking to what’s most likely.

Seriously? One of the oldest, most well understood logic puzzles in existence, the Tower of Hanoi, and cutting edge AIs couldn't solve them? That's kinda sad www.itpro.com/technology/a...

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

We need to embed verification, sourcing, logic, and information literacy not as extra modules, but as core cognitive tools, woven through every subject from K–12 onwards. This isn’t about resisting disinformation. It’s about surviving an epistemic environment with collapsing gatekeepers

Amazing. Respect the lede.

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

But I think there's a non-trivial chance this sort of thing is just 100% normal in another generation. Maybe less. Throw in humanoid robots under 100,000 dollars that work kind of OK and we have encountered The Great Filter.

It’s all in the telling.

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

As ever, the best solution remains to not install their damn apps in the first place. Just visit the website when you want it. You do NOT need Meta's spyware on your devices

Why *are* AI pictures so weird and unsettling, anyway?

We created computers, educated on every story humanity had ever written down. Silicon minds filled with human imaginings. We didn't think about the gods and monsters our imagination had created. We didn't worry about artificial minds with no defenses against the things we'd banished to the dark.

Heil Trump!

Have you noticed how sometimes you get a technology from childhood scienece fiction and it just kinda doesn't matter? E.g. everyone has a Dick Tracy watch now and it's neat but not that big a deal. Or like my kids have amazing VR, but are more into YouTube.