Mom went to bed at 7:30 last night. I followed soon after. Now it’s 5:30am on New Year’s Day and I’m going to have to get up early now.

DECAY EXISTS AS AN EXTANT FORM OF LIFE.

The Welsh language is clearly made up. “Hey, I got it! For our fake country, let’s give them a language with NO vowels.”

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Socialism arrives in New York 300 years ahead of schedule.

MRI. Something something gadopentetic acid. Increased nuclear spin relaxation rates. Knowing the actual physic of the imaging device makes the tedium more worthwhile. The machine still sounds like George Antheil from WISH (or maybe Temu).

how spam and AI are fucking package management nesbitt.io/2025/12/27/h... > humans might notice something feels off. A developer might pause at a package with 10,000 stars but three commits and no issues. An AI agent running npm install won’t hesitate. It’s pattern-matching, not evaluating.

I’m now on a bus heading home. ETA is about 75 minutes.

The lady at check-in praised me for being early for my 3pm MRI appointment. It’s now nearly 3:30pm, and I’ve not been called. I’ve been here 90 minutes.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

As a recovering alcoholic, my dad used to keep a stash of packets of those cheese and peanut butter crackers. Frankly, I can easily see the wisdom therein.

As per my previous post, “history of ‘showing bad judgment.’”

“Mike Glyer showed poor judgment” is basically the entire history of File770. I concur with Jeff that it’s not a journalistic outlet.

I really would like everyone writing these mealymouthed-ass letters and threads and articles of AI acquiescence/acceptance to stop speaking for everyone. You are making a choice for YOU. Don’t fucking tell me what I have to do. I don’t have to accept shit.

You can always count on @midnightpals.bsky.social to weigh in on the issues of the day with a cogent and biting take.

I dug up my ancient first gen iPad. It runs iPad OS 5.1.1, and can’t be updated from that. Although it does connect to the local WiFi, and will acquire an IP address, and syncs with NTP, none of its web applications are supported or compatible with the modern web. It’s essentially frozen in time.

The next Murderbot book, Platform Decay, is also available in the Barnes & Noble preorder sale: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d... #booksky

BAHAHA theonion.com/health-specu...

I'm living in anticipation of THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, by @wiswell.bsky.social. If you're also eager for this book, now is an excellent time to PREORDER.

I too have considered writing a long carefully constructed argument. I've determined that there are better uses of my time, for I too am a hater and feel no need to be polite.

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

The neighbors brought over the dinner. It was delicious! But now I’m exhausted. I’ve crawled into bed early.

🎶We... Wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy new year🎶

I could write an entire essay. In fact, I almost did. I 100% agree with Seanan. The Vox article is WRONG. We are in no way running out of good ideas, and AI will never be a source of new ones. I wish my ideas would stop. I'm never running out of them. I will never write them all.

My sister has arrived with the bûche de noël.

"I hope that the rest of the year treats you well, whatever it means to you and whatever you choose to call it." —Adam-Troy Castro

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, went on to live in a hole in the ground. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort....

🎶There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago It's the most wonderful time of the year🎶

OpenAI fails at NORAD's Santa tracker. Merry Botmas, everyone.

English has a marvelous shorthand for states of being and possession, in the form of contractions. "I am" becomes "I'm." "I have" becomes "I've."

ICE is on Alert. They have been tipped off about a foreigner who will enter the country in the next few days. He is believed to be from the North Pole and driving a vehicle which is unlicensed and has an expired registration. He will probably be arrested, violently. What’s more he is a socialist.

CBS News' censorship of '60 Minutes' story spectacularly backfires www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Up and down this thread, Ken makes a series of very good points. The only place where he misses the mark is on space-hardened 386 chips. The actual most popular space-hardened CPU is the BAE Systems RAD750, based on the Freescale PowerPC 750 of the early 2000s. More recent but 25 years out of date

AI Image generation is trash, but it's a very specific kind of trash that tends to a limited set of templates. Does your AI image look generic? You're not imagining things.

Okay... @janelleshane.com has a primary interest in AI-generated weirdness. LLMs continue to be weird, and as the de-facto expert in the matters of both how and why AI goes weird, Janelle is trustworthy as they come. And no, chatbots are not ready to control real-world machinery.

AI will cause you to not use your brain. The less you use your brain, the easier you are to control. Meanwhile, it is trained on the stolen works of thinking people, powered by the death of poor communities (mostly of color), and the befoulment of the entire planet. It is POISON.

After suffering a pulmonary embolism in August, David Gerrold is now battling leukemia, and although he wanted to be quiet and stoic about it all, his son Sean has put his foot down. David needs our help.

Now there is an effective metaphor.

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I quit.

Folks... @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social needs our help.

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

The meme: "The movie that was #1 the year you were 10 is how your 2026 will go. Uh... That was 1973, and the #1 movie? "The Poseidon Adventure." So I guess 2026 is going to be a total shipwreck with a handful of survivors at the end?

If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.

You eat bananas for the potassium because it's an essential mineral with numerous health benefits. I eat bananas for the potassium because potassium-40 emits antimatter. We are not the same.

AGI: A GUY INSTEAD. Robin AI had aspirations of being an AI-powered legal platform. But what they were pushing had no AI (the AI didn't work), just people, while they strung along investors, and finally went broke.

Remember all those damned manifestos from the 1990s? The magical libertarian pixie dust of a MANIFESTO will make our capitalism seem like it's some radical utopian dream! Anything to avoid actual accountability.

I used to be fond of saying that my day job was straight out of a @greatdismal.bsky.social novel. But in truth, in the Bill Gibson version, gigantic digital Voodoo loa would emerge from cyberspace and swallow up the spammers. So, honestly, not that much. Retired now. I miss it.

Thorne-Żytkow object. Just sayin’.

Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.

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