Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

It shares a universe with... *pulling a slot machine arm again* ...Sam Neill... as a... Park Ranger in... Ohio. Everyone parents: Did you see the Prairie of Flames/Racoon County crossover trailer during the Super Bowl?!

Hold on.... White House Down isn't about a group of plucky rabbits leaving their warren to become the executive branch of the US government? Disappointing.

*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm* "Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky" Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000. All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV

Some official pics of my BRITs art trail piece in the window of Fred Aldous, Manchester. My piece is called The Pulse and represents the music and sounds of Manchester weaving through the city.

"Bad luck Ghorman..."

A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again: A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day. The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic. The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1

And the way they burn through the components such that they’re not useful after they reach EOL is such incredible value destruction, not to mention the e-waste issue they’re adding to. Just insanity all around.

Get ready, troopers!

It is fascinating to me how many Winter Olympic Sports seem to have started as teens yelling ‘Look what I can do!’ and then going to A&E.

Afternoon

For those that follow the Pastafarian calendar, today is “don’t think about elephants” day. So I do hope you’re not thinking about elephants.

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

DC Thomson, you have my number.

#Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday Rule of cool! Female Space Marines! On DINOSAURS!! #TheEmperorExpects

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

he just keeps coming out begging the same shit and i am OVER IT. (agree w/ OP.)

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

'Hello I would like a howling wolf statue for my tiny front garden in Bury St Edmunds please, yes this is the most British thing ever.'

*Great work with the radically accelerated navel-gazing, or whatever that is *How about just tracking what your disgruntled users and furious competitors say your impact is

oh hey. it me

the video game industry is a mess

I cannot tell you how many lawyers I know who have done, or who have wished with every fiber of their being that they could do this to a client. 😂😂😂

In his house at R'lyeh, dread Cthulhu lies dreaming. There is a nudge on his back. "Fgimb?" eldritch Cthulhu mumbles. "Scoot over a bit." The elder god complies, and soon resumes dreaming. Being spooned alters the dreams. "Mhrrm..." "Yes, it's nice." The visitor snuggles in and falls asleep.

*John Carpenter sighs, dusts off the synth*

this is genuinely 85% of U.S. media on any given day

This is emphatically the goal with my podcast! I guarantee that every week you will learn something you definitely didn't need to learn. That is my promise to you all. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

Important news! I am delighted to announce the launch of my new podcast: The Untitled History Podcast. It's me, and guests, falling down all the history rabbitholes you can imagine. Please, please spread the word, subscribe and listen. Because... SHIPS CATS!! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

Check out Rob’s comics. Very much worth your time.

Thanks to a partnership between publishers Rebellion and Lunar Distribution, 2000AD will arrive in US comic book stores every week — and just two weeks after the UK on-sale date https://downthetubes.net/2000ad-returns-to-america-and-this-time-its-weekly/

`Mountbatten-Windsor, who was once described to me by a former British diplomat as, “against considerable competition for the title, the single stupidest human being I have ever encountered”.'

always a good time to leave substack tbh and look at this handy guide and reasons why at a very easy to remember url!!!

Gonna have a lot of “Lord, I see what you do for others…” in the timeline today but just remember that God helps those who help themselves so let’s hippity-hop to the chippity-chop.

Has Susie Dent posted a definition of “for the nonce” yet?

*laughs derisively in Elizabeth I*

Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) now have copies of all the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Small Press Yearbooks in stock. Happy to provide other university libraries in the UK with free copies. #BF6toWatch

More Council of Nicaea action!

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

Love that the new Star Wars trilogy basically just amounted to JJ Abrams' TFA: here are my ideas Rian Johnson's TLJ: your ideas suck JJ Abrams' TROS: no your ideas suck

Apropos of, oh nothing why do you ask? 😐

This is actually the most shocking thing I’ve read in a few days, and that’s saying something. The levels to this????? Art.

Space is deep -pencils detail from Dan Dare

I recently received “The Bomber Mafia” as a birthday gift (heh). It was bad, so bad that I believe it cannot be read as a reliable account of strategic bombing in World War II. In so many ways, it demonstrates the worst tendencies of the “pop history” genre. My review (and latest)⬇️

[Attenborough voice] A rare sighting of the elusive West Highland Floof-Tailed Orange Kitty Meow-Meow.

They could save the entire franchise by just letting the folks behind Alien: Isolation adapt it for the big screen with Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Amanda Ripley.

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Timeo techbros et dona ferentes

As this guy popped up in what was, on a conservative estimate, the 250th Tony Blair documentary, i did wish someone would see fit to make one about how this charlatan's fundamental misunderstanding of economics had broken the British state.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

At last I can talk about it! I'm writing a Star Trek comic!!!! All I can tell you right now is it takes place several years after the end of Picard. And it stars Captain Raffi Musiker working with a giant positronic brain to protect the Federation from future threats! gizmodo.com/star-trek-id...