Currently reading Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification" and just popped over to Threads to see what's going on over there, and this is the first time I've got to watch the process in real-time (while knowing about it). I think it's currently in Phase 2: Make things good for advertisers, bad for users.

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣 #invertober2025

Absolutely nobody should be allowed to be in American politics or be a political pundit if they're unable to answer the question, "Who was the President of the United States Of America from January 20th, 2017 to January 20th, 2021?"

The idea that any major movie could have a worse opening than Morbius is hilarious to me. The fact that it's another Jared Leto movie is just the icing on the cake.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

we are nearing the point where our robots can take your dog for a nice little hike while listening to your favorite playlist, giving you more time on the weekends for the important things like making sales calls

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

A bunch of weird work dreams last night. No fun.

For those who haven’t yet seen, this👇is an important piece by the co-founder of @dekleptocracy.bsky.social “Canada should demand that any index provider or institutional investor seeking Canadian pension business must exclude DJT [Truth Social’s parent company] from their holdings.”

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

I'm not sure I fully buy into us being in the era of the Dead Internet Theory yet, but Twitter is definitely in the Dead Internet Theory era.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

There are no good billionaires and yes, I am including that person you think is likable. Their panic is a balm to my soul.

Creators of AI-generated actress unsure if coolest part is the creepiness or the stealing

An abridged version of my letter appears in the Provincial paper today, the Chronicle Herald. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

It's just blatant racism at this point because I refuse to believe that everyone involved is so stupid that they don't realize that Puerto Rico is part of the USA and that Bad Bunny is American. Like, Puerto Ricans have been citizens since before WW1 ended, this isn't new.

The lesson: If you're going to violate the law, you can get a 90% discount if you do it so egregiously that the total fine sounds like a joke number. Given that Musk has admitted that paying fines instead of following the law is a strategy, this seems like a bad way to punish the company.

This fossil was discovered in the mid-70s, and they managed to track down the scientist who first published a paper on it in the mid-80s for comment. He's a 97 year old retiree. That's some great journalism. Also, how cool is the name Torontoceros hypogaeus?

I really want to learn how magicians do the, "Pick a card, any card," trick just so I can introduce a series of fortune tellers to my D&D campaign and have one player ALWAYS pull the same card. "10 of Swords, AGAIN? wtf, this is the third time in a row! What is going on?" "Fate, not yet fulfilled."

If he's awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, I'm declaring Norway an enemy. I don't know how that will materially affect either of us, but emotionally they'll be devastated. Devastated, I say!

Honestly, I don't like reading Shakespeare. But I love watching it. They're plays, they're meant to be performed, not read.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale. Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Destined Hero! Here to help rescue people from the Demon Lord 🌸✨ #sketchboard

Got absolutely rope-a-doped in D&D tonight. Stood in the middle of a king of the hill arena and dropped a Wall of Force around myself. Turns out there was a geyser under me. Nearly drowned until I dropped the dome, and then got hit by every AoE for two rounds.

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

Honestly, this is a great concept and I hope somebody steals the idea. Give me historical fiction where I can prevent the rise of the Klan.

Me, at the dry cleaners yesterday: I don't need same day, but how quick can I get this back? Guy at the counter: Friday? Me: Friday won't work. You can't do it faster? Guy: Thursday night? Me: I need it *by* Thursday at noon. Guy: Okay. This is a place that advertises same day dry cleaning.

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world! With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Protect the land that inspired this page.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Six year old Betty White hearing about the first mass produced pre-sliced loaves of bread.

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

It's well worth buying that one of Carney's kids is non-binary.

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I want to give Carney the benefit of the doubt, but he's largely been confirming my worries about electing a banker since he took power.

Social media without the social aspect is just media. Internet by the Internet for the Internet, no users required.

The only annoying thing about Greta Thunberg is that she clearly highlights to me just how much more I could be doing for the causes I believe in. It's very hard to consider myself a good person and an ally to the oppressed with her setting the standard, and that's very annoying.

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an indie Oscar vehicle, not a franchise tentpole, and the idea that Johnson needs to come out and explain why it didn't have a massive opening weekend is a sign that both celebrity culture and entertainment journalism have reached new levels of delusion.

Some paintings I've done over the years. Any comment about anything AI will get blocked. #digitalart #noai

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

First: There's no such thing as a biological name. Second: At no point in this exchange is anyone - defendant, prosecutors, judge, Cruz, or Bondi - referred to by name, only by pronouns or job title. Third: Transphobic bigots, both of them, regardless of the details in the case discussed.

On this Harvest Moon 🎶 [Neil Young twang]

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I'm watching the second season of #ShinyHappyPeople and WOW does a lot of the rhetoric and preaching sound very familiar to the time I spent as a member of an evangelical church. I wonder if the ministry at my church trained using guidebooks from Ron Luce's ministry.

pro tip, go outside and look at the goshdang moon right now