hey if you're feeling mentally all over the place it's nice to read a book

the equivalent of those bullshit reels where people describe their impossibly mad daily schedules and their commitment to The Grind

my GDC talk on jedi: survivor's lightsaber customization system is finally public/free to watch— see unreleased concepts, hear my hot takes on UI and count how many times I fix my glasses gdcvault.com/play/1034223...

Happy or Condolences Pitt Finale Day to all who observe

Trump is angry at the Pope, so he has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

I believe the correct reaction is "Shocked, but not surprised"

Any job that is considered "fun" or "creative" is preyed upon by predatory industries. I saw it when I was trying to work in radio. "We can pay people next to nothing because they get the perk of liking their job" I was offered poverty wages with part time hours to be on air talent back in the day

You know if you learn to write you don't need either www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-ditched...

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

when you discover days later you sent a professional email with "Jello" instead of "Hello" 😑

Tech founders are so innovative that they invented feudalism.

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Just an easy enough truth - if you wouldn't kick Swalwell out of the party then you're not really mad at the Epstein Files, you're just seeing it as a gotcha and believe their only crime is getting caught and looking weak.

I’m in a Curse of Strahd campaign. Today my little dude misread a social cue and belted out a traditional Barovian funeral dirge but rolled higher than the bard and actually nailed it 🥹🤣

When people say the Swalwell allegations are a distraction from Trump/Epstein (they are all part of the same bigger picture), I have to wonder why these people even supposedly care about Trump and Epstein. Do you care about sexual violence or don’t you? Why do you only care about some of it?

Nothing like finishing manuscript at 6pm on a Friday. The night is young!

It’s obvious—baby Jane Doe stole Whittaker’s ID.

We don’t have to live like this. We all deserve better than this. Image with alt text:

I’ll fucking bet they are

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

yes I was a wreck 🥲

Gearing up for Star Wars promo and I just could not be more excited to talk about this boooooook 🥹🥹🥹

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Nobody tells me nothing, but now you and I get to learn about this at the same time!

Today is day 128 of the ICE occupation of MN. This thread beautifully captures the mood here. Angry. Heartbroken. Tired. And absolutely committed to continue to show up for our neighbors.

a lot of the american psychosis i think comes from the fact that the vast majority of us are kept in precarious work, one emergency away from losing everything, while being hit with the constant message that we are the elect, we are the most free, the most worthy. it makes you feel insane.

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Imagine being this horny for hierarchy

Shout out to anyone who has managed to produce art this year 🫠

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings" apnews.com/article/arti... news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...

So the thing about the drama that not enough people are talking about is that it's not drama but a legit smear campaign from the right and music execs. She said "give artists health insurance" once and they said "well we gotta take her down"

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

I wasn’t sold on the “media literacy is dead” refrain until I started interacting with the Pitt fandom, goooood lord 😑

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

forgot the most important of the genre

As someone who feels like I am moving at a snail's pace right now--compared to being able to write two books and a novella or two a year a decade ago--you might wonder, have I ever been tempted to even think about using AI to speed the process up? The answer is not even fucking slightly.

look if you can't fuck with some solid thruster decoupling I can't help you

The entire timeline right now

If you don't actually enjoy the act of doing research, writing books, and editing them then perhaps you shouldn't be a writer, groundbreaking I know.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

One would think that an opposition party that says it has no formal power would make use of its informal power to say every single day that this immoral war on Iran NEEDS TO END. Maybe they could even come back EARLY to Washington to do daily actions about the war since the GOP is home chilling.

Apropos of nothing, when Salvaged got picked up by a production company and the pilot was being shopped around, I was told nobody wanted it because there were already too many shows like it in production. 1/2

Ah the mythic land of No Politics Here which, of course, reaffirms status-quo politics while reviling anything that smacks of more truth and more justice especially from the marginalized.