The Trump Administration has cancelled $67M worth of grant funding for teen pregnancy prevention, calling it "pornography"

mRNA design tools exist for cardiac and cancer therapeutics. They're locked inside Moderna and BioNTech. I built the open-source version. Runs on a laptop. Costs nothing. 🧵

It’s Peter Lorre’s birthday. One of the greatest performances in cinema ever. In this gut punch of a scene depicting a kangaroo court officiated over by gangsters, Lorre depicts his child killer as pathetic & cowardly but deeply & disturbingly all too human: youtu.be/jUDUbxsNjV0?...

Break out the CIA sabotage manual. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Pendulums don't swing back to the middle and stop

Ah, chargebacks! A scam pioneered against adult workers. Because it was stealing content from sex workers, banks allowed it to happen, believing the thieves and punishing the creators. So now it's spreading.

In 1874, a man named Shanghai Kelly threw a "birthday party" with free whiskey on a chartered boat, then sold all 90 guests to ship captains and sailed back to shore. And I thought my birthday party was off the hook. tjcrowley.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...

Steve Ditko didn't model Spider-Man's world-famous mask on the fetish gimps he was secretly drawing for side-cash* just so you could tell me that A.I. is "inevitable" *extremely true story!

That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!

Any article that references Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge is a certified banger.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Pier 39 just started serving Dole Whip. They can't call it that because of the mouse, but it's advertised as "Dole Pineapple Ice" and there are a couple of variations.

I started my Substack a month ago and it's gone pretty much how I hoped it would. Please subscribe if you've got an account there? One Month In open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

If you don't know Coop then you are not cool at all.

THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE REASONS I HATED ANTHROPIC.THANK YOU.

Tuesdays are for fiction on my substack, and this is yet another story with a character named Marcus in it. I wonder if they're connected? open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Hey, anyone wanna live on the water for a week?

I reposted an essay on Substack today, which is actually a really fun anecdote about hanging out with Robert Anton Wilson in 1992. tjcrowley.substack.com/p/john-dilli...

As someone who writes, I can tell you that the telltale sign for AI writing in the future is not perfect spelling or impeccable plotting or even em-dashes. It's consistently writing 100,000+ words a week & not being a total basket case on the level of a @stephenking.bsky.social booze & coke habit.

I wrote an essay about being a member of an infamous hacker group a few years ago, and republished it on my Substack today. tjcrowley.substack.com/p/my-life-as...

PENNSYLVANIA! DREW BINGAMAN NEEDS YOUR HELP! 🗣️ uspirates.org/pennsylvania...

I wrote a small rant about how everyone in San Francisco treats you like a leper if you look even slightly old. The Year I Killed Santa Claus open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Oh no not Artax again

The FBI can no longer spy on you without a warrant - let's make it permanent. substack.com/@capirates/n...

Google’s bitch ass is still calling it The Gulf of America, btw

If you want to know how my brain works, I wrote this after I read a heartwarming story about a dude curing his dog's cancer. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

I've been deep in San Francisco's founding era for a while now, researching the novel. Some of what I found is funny. Some of it is genuinely grim. All of it rhymes with today in ways that are either reassuring or horrifying, depending on your mood. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

I know a lot of people don't like AI, but I use it for coding and I don't like the government telling me I CAN'T use it. I wrote this article for the California Pirate Party about the government restricting the use of Anthropic's latest models yesterday.

I wrote this while everyone was whining about the "doom loop" a few years ago. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

If nobody buys your book who cares? You can write an even more stupid one after that

Do you think there's a meaningful difference between a long-term ghostwriter continuing an author's work and an AI trained on that author's catalog? Where would you draw the line? tjcrowley.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

State regulators cited UCSF for workplace violence lapses after a patient fatally stabbed social worker Alberto Rangel.

"I bet Howard has something to say about that!"

The agent's final report noted that continued input from the primary user had not improved outcomes in 34 days. It recommended reducing consultation frequency. Inbox Zero: tjcrowley.substack.com/p/inbox-zero

In 1863, men died in a gunfight over seabird eggs 25 miles off San Francisco. One egg per season per bird. Destroy it and the bird lays another. The Pacific Egg Company built a monopoly on this and defended it with guns. The birds were indifferent throughout. tjcrowley.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Shoot men into space. shootmenintospace.com

Hunter Rand shares what he has learned from his city council race youtube.com/live/T4tfI54...

A company is building a "Genetic Optimization stack" for human embryos and running subway ads saying "have your best baby." That's eugenics with a SaaS pricing model. open.substack.com/pub/capirate...

In 1996 a hacker threatened to burn down my house. He forgot his opsec while buying dildos. It resolved itself. tjcrowley.substack.com/p/fuck-that-...

#noir #shortstory

I started a substack, and I've put a lot of my previously published non-fiction online but I've focused on fiction this year and this is one of those. Let me know what a terrible mistake updating this story to 2026 was, please. The Satoshi Disk open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

the mods at bsky decided to celebrate pride by banning carta, and i just wanna know what we're gonna do about it, gang

Balaji Srinivasan published the blueprint in 2022. He called it the Network State. CBS News, DOGE, Project 2025 — these are nodes in the network. They told you exactly what they were doing. capirates.substack.com/p/theyre-tel...

Yes, there are many things to call it. But the people behind it call it the Network State. That's important because *they are telling us what they're doing.* ...Creating a network of aligned billionaires, VC firms, corporations, political movements, religions, media outlets to push toward autocracy

In 2006, Crispin Glover told me why he sued the Back to the Future producers. They used a prosthetic of his face on someone else. Without asking. He turned down $4M rather than sign off on it. He won. The SAG rules that came out of it still protect actors today. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

A plea from us! We've almost got MORE followers here than on Twitter! We think we can double that here! Help us out by reposting our posts here. Recruit folks to follow us and join our pirate crew! Prove to us that the other place is dying!

Who Gets the Black Flag? Rating California's 2026 Governor Candidates Against the Pirate Party Platform open.substack.com/pub/capirate...

My latest writing is live on Substack, please read and subscribe if you have an account! open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...