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Microsoft is cutting back on using AI internally because it's too expensive. Uber blew though it's entire AI budget in four months. An Nvidia VP says “For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." Ouch. fortune.com/2026/05/... 1/3

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.” “We could have fixed it right then and there.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Tooth and Claw, my World Fantasy Award winning fantasy of manners about dragons who eat each other is only $1.99 as an ebook today, probably just in the US www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-J...

For the love of God please vote for @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social next month

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

Let's fix that tag. #MutualMusic

As this tweet makes clear, it’s hard to talk clearly with other things in your mouth. Graham is warning Trump is about to take the L. He’s also pretending there are other letters available.

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

like, the whole band?

This is just the secret service trying to keep property values down so the ballroom renovation contractors can be lowballed

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

this is not a joke btw

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Vinay Prasad lied and said doctors killed kids by vaccinating them. He said it over and over. He was dismissive, condescending, arrogant, and rude. He does not deserve a shred of respect for the rest of his career.

Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.

The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”

even if we are limited only to miller as a brand, the take is wrong. the answer is high life. trust me, I’m an expert level dirtbag.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

lol LOL

More than 300 people detained by ICE at Delaney Hall in New Jersey have launched a hunger & work strike, citing lack of medical care and fair due process. Via: www.instagram.com/p/DYp1m5KEa35/

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

REMINDER: The Chris Rufo theory of academia, and today’s broader right-wing theory of politics and culture, is that most students—most people, really—crave far right ideas, but get more left-wing ones only because a small cadre of radical leftists captured all institutions and forced it on everyone.

Sad to discover that Elliot Ingber died over a year ago, and it wasn't big enough news that I heard about it before now.

The reveal! At long last THE DISSIDENTS! An author only gets this moment so many times, especially when you don’t publish your first GN until you’re 50.

Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention

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At least one woman is now in limbo after US officials moved her to Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, and now say they won’t bring her back because of the Ebola travel ban – despite a judge’s order for her return. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

My unit went to DC to guard the gates after J6. Everything was closed we visited the cemetery. I brought my squad over to the first Wiccan grave at the cemetery it belongs to the wife of a fallen soldier. I told my guys I think this is an important look into the diversity of the military.

I haven't read the article, but I assume he provides antidotal evidence to support his claim.

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

Fewer women to balance out the techbros in computational environments and industry with numbers of women in computational sciences peaking in 1985, could explain how Silicon Valley has become so incredibly toxic.

Hindenburg Completes Mostly Successful Trans-Atlantic Flight

Because pronouns make us weak...? What's your position on diphthongs, Pete?

what’s being proposed here is straightforwardly “do not criticize your teammates for their political views” and I can’t help but notice that Tynes is doing exactly that

in what sense did any of this happen in the locker room

Dangit! I broke my own rule about not reposting stuff without alt text! Sorry about that, and here you go. bsky.app/profile/denv...

A big reason for governmental clemency is when the person shows true regret over what they did. Tina Peters is a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy chucklehead, and will use Polis's act to further the far-right cause. Just a clown show all around.

Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.

With gas prices near record highs due to his war against Iran, Trump promotes driving

skill issue tbh

I have aliens in my Old Man's War series of books (the Obin) for whom this is an actual species-wide existential crisis! That said, in my books, no one appears to argue about whether the Obin have rights, they're assumed to (such as it is relevant to universe and story).

i would caution everyone from taking corporate management at face value when they tell you they're replacing employees with AI instead of just doing normal layoffs and using AI as PR spin

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

There are a hundred "Is Mamdani Being Insensitive to Jews By Acknowledging that Palestinians Are Human?" stories in outlets like the NY Times, meanwhile multiple Republican politicians LITERALLY say that all Muslims are terrorists who should be expelled from the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

To aid offshore oil drilling, federal govt strips protections for one of the world’s rarest whales, threatening the survival of a species that calls the waters off the #Florida Gulf Coast home. www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @maxchesnes.bsky.social