If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

She smiles and says "I will always love you"

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

“Did women ruin the workplace?” is of course wildly misogynistic. But beyond that, this framing assumes the nostalgic version of “the workplace” was good and awesome and worth maintaining. I hope women have ruined the workplace. Let’s go, girls!

I highly recommend Zig Zag Claybourne’s work—particularly Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe. If you haven’t read it yet, you’re missing out on a lot of fun.

I think a lot of people are lost because they can't operate without instructions or direction. A lot of society is built on following some set of expectations with the promise that following it will make you happy. So, people follow it, punish each other for deviating, but the happiness never comes.

The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.

you can honey nut anything, not just cheerios. It's illegal but you can do it with a special kit

When I was a kid, my dad pulled me aside and told me that the people I need to be kindest to are the poorest because this capitalist world we live in forgives you anything but it shames you deeply and never forgives you for being poor. It made me realise how deeply fucked up the world is very early.

Mamdani is already cleaning up the NYPD!

So the people who can most easily find new work are choosing to do so over RTO? Shocking. Do they not see the transcendent value of "company culture", and how it depends exclusively on you doing Teams meetings with people in other cities from a hot-desking, open-plan office?

If the end of the AI bubble also means the end of people pretending "the market" is a rational (or THE most rational) actor, that might be worth the pain it'll cause popping. "Markets, for all that people pretend otherwise, are extremely susceptible to vibes."

Imagine the kind of greedy shit bag you’d have to be to fight this hard to make sure children starve.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

I'd like to see a state pass a bill like this somewhere where the focus would be water use by data centers. Slap a per gallon fee on their water usage. Slap that fee on everyone using a lot of water. Put it into a sovereign wealth fund like Alaska and issue an annual universal dividend like Alaska.

Good thread, worth reading. Also, I keep bringing up the renewed relevance of Parke Godwin's WAITING FOR THE GALACTIC BUS in these times. I should note that it has a sequel, and the sequel is where my internal notions of John Calvin were formed, even before I lived in Geneva.

amen!! #Mozfest

biblically accurate angel who's showing a lot of cleavage: hey pal, my eyes are everywhere else

Thinking about it now, I'm surprised there isn't a nice edition of Tepper's True Game books available--if not a swanky small press one, at least a set of omnibi in trades, or something. Really all her work from the beginning through at least the Arbai books should be around.

Over at Reactor, you can have a taste of A Forest, Darkly...

Elon did this under Felon47's blessing.

I'm bringing sexy back, down at Dino's bar and grill.

New rule: if you have enough money for a private island, you have to stay on it.

This one's a no-brainer. And I can bring the booze.

It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.

they keep saying "incredible magical miracle machine that will use infinite computing power to solve every social problem and reinvent every human industry" when what they mean is "chatbot that can click ads"

My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.

Morgan Freeman voiceover: It was, in fact, about a sandwich.

This is probably pretty niche, but seeing this 100% made me flash to Tepper's True Game books, and now I kind of want to reread them.

This thread, summarizing Judge Sara Ellis' ruling in Chicago is a good read. Especially of note her more than once saying the DOJ/ICE version of events is "not credible".

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

Now might be an especially good time to read the novel and/or listen to the podcast for...reasons

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

"Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth...While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free” ~ Eugene Debs, 1918

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

If you haven't read The Lost District by Joel Lane, that should be illegal. There's a beauty and vitality and richness to the somber, horrifying experiences in his stories that is sorely lacking in modern works.

What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

This is perhaps the smallest victory of the night, but I went to a city council meeting tonight to speak in support of a little preschool being beleaguered by NIMBY dipshits, and the council voted unanimously to smack their stupid bullshit into the trash where it belonged and it felt INCREDIBLE

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS