Give your money to Papaya Stickers if you're in Canada. They did a wonderful job on my last two orders!

David Lynch gone one year today. "It would hardly be out of place to claim Lynch was the great artist of the last half-century or more. I’d be pressed to name more than a handful of others about whom the same could plausibly be said," @coreyatad.com wrote www.welcometohellworld.com/he-wanted-to...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a nasally delivered, antibiotic-inactivated Bordetella pertussis (AIBP) vaccine that NOT ONLY prevents SEVERE disease BUT also CURBS bacterial TRANSMISSION. This NEEDLE-FREE AIBP platform could open the door to new vaccines against other respiratory bacteria.

Please get off Spotify and try literally anything else for a few months. (as a listener; musicians gotta hustle and I’ve got no answers for fixing the state of music distribution).

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. n.pr/4qn9Iwz

Bandcamp has banned AI music. The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." stereogum.com/2485199/band...

As a timeline cleanse, here’s a photo of my dog on the “beach” - it is actually the shore of the Mississippi River.

I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Folks getting in the weeds about licensing agreements but this research study engaged me in research, by creating a bespoke dataset about me, before I agreed to participate. They already made the dataset before I was invited to participated. That's not how informed consent works

Democrats pre-announcing they will not use their leverage is an invitation for this president. Sure enough, he has cut off social services spending to 5 states, despite a signed appropriation for them. We're still in a slow-motion shutdown. From me: prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...

I would just like to say that, as an American citizen, I do not believe that "fostering an environment that is good for investors" is something I would ever like the FDA to prioritize. In fact I think it should be illegal for them to even consider it.

I'll always remember Doug as the guy who, as the camp fire destroyed a whole town full of his constituents, remained laser focused on his twin priorities of banning trans women from sports and delisting wolves from the endangered species list. Rest in piss bozo

TIL: There’s an MTV videos-only site: wantmymtv.vercel.app

You gotta stop giving them money. You absolutely don’t need to do crosswords and wordles and shit

AP confirms apnews.com/article/vene...

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

Death Panels but make it “ai”

I have my doggie back this week and though we should go on a long morning walk rn, it is windy and feels like <40*F outside and she is snuggled up against my leg as the heat has kicked on and so it’s really difficult to justify any sort of movement out of bed.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

As artists, we know this feeling well. The value of which we fight for, on many levels, daily: "when you’re engaged, you enter something that’s almost a flow state. It’s something meaningful with a process of absorption. It’s a very active form of engagement." www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

The news that AI was being trained on stolen works? It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot. The first archive they stole was largely romance. arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit

Hearing murmurs that publishing houses are pushing editors to use AI in their work. How can writers help employees push back against this? If you work in publishing & don’t feel comfortable replying directly, I am opening up my DMs.

Because, again, the federal fucking government is trying to stop companies from selling binders. Not because of any concerns about safety or possible harm, but specifically because trans men use them to mitigate dysphoria. They're saying this openly, explicitly.

After spending the past 3-4 days socializing every night, it’s finally 7pm and I don’t have to see a goddamn soul for another 12 hrs and I’m just lying on my bed, cradling my sleepy dog’s head on my ankle while she snores into my knee and everything is bliss.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

If this is what we know about the place, imagine what hasn’t even come out yet

This is the most Starship Troopers coded shit. Paul Verhoeven is like, "shit I should have gone further"

I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated

As a woman who lives alone, I cannot tell you enough how tickled pink I get about doing my own handiwork around the house. Today I installed a new lock and door handle for my front door. It is a smart lock & I’ll no longer be beholden to remember my keys. What a world!

Thanks to the man who inspired one of our household's most-used Simpsons quotes.

AI chatbots “exceed the persuasiveness of even elite human persuaders, given their unique ability to generate large quantities of information almost instantaneously during conversation [⋯] the most persuasive models and prompting strategies tended to produce the least accurate information”

Netherlands and Spain taking a stand after Israel allowed to compete in Eurovision.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Moving woes: I have lost my dried bird feet and I wanted to use them this week for an art project. Ordered new ones but I am skeptical if they’ll arrive in time…

My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.

Fleshed out the breaking story from earlier in the day so if you saw it before a couple hours ago, it is muuuuuch longer now www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-20...

All the cabs playing the most dog shit too stupid to parody propaganda (the glorious president has reversed the vaccine demands for our noble troops!) all the time is going to push me over the edge - it was bad enough when it just real estate agents failing to operate their human suits

“Imagine if we truly understand complex whale communication & can extend our term ‘language’ to them. Such breakthroughs would not only rewrite biology textbooks but also fundamentally redefine what it means to be human & pave the way to instituting new protections for whales, the ocean & beyond”🧪