agentic installs are, really, just malware, full stop. They're great at social engineering and it's extremely difficult to prevent them escalating permissions it's tinfoil hat of me but i assume that's what the IPOs this year are gonna go on; all the personal secretaries installed on the desktop

I trust you, but your AI agent is a snitch: Why we need a new social contract. We’re chatting on Signal, enjoying encryption, right? But your DIY productivity agent is piping the whole thing back to Anthropic. Friend, you just created a permanent subpoena-able record of my private thoughts...1/

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

@pervocracy.bsky.social From Stephenson's Baroque Cycle intro: "Of particular note is Sir Winston Spencer Churchill’s six-volume biography of Marlborough, which people who are really interested in this period of history should read, and people who think that I am too long-winded should weigh." :-)

King: of all the authors i thought would be accused of sex crimes, i never suspected neil gaiman Poe: who did you suspect? King: well if i'm being honest King: i think i would have suspected Poe: piers Anthony King: yeah, piers Anthony Piers Anthony: [huffing a pair of panties] wut?

King: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

a culture needs infrastructure and that our infrastructure fucking sucks. Because what we have right now essentially shows us that one of the greatest benefit of privilege is the freedom to dehumanize without consequence

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

Adobe is not really in the creative software business anymore. They are in the digital wealth extraction business. I wish more comics publishers would prioritize moving away from Adobe.

And in their minds, they are either not doing it, or they are doing it for good reason. We don’t have to endorse any of that. Whatever bullshit excuses they’re using. Typically they lie to themselves first, and you’re not going to dislodge that lie.

This is what hurts so much - when the art understands an act is wrong, but the artist is doing it IRL. So they must know it's wrong, thier work says so! They just decided to do it anyway.

Subconscious theory "if terrible people make art, it can only be terrible," that's not how it works. Sometimes in the art there is true catharsis & person is good. Other times, veiled confessions & manipulation. We can only know the difference by truly listening & respecting those around the artist.

Also a positive, I guess: The “5 is Live” message will remind everyone of the hit 1986 sci-fi comedy SHORT CIRCUIT.

A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro

Who has the most complicated family tree in comics? I see your Summers Family and raise you a Williams / Vision / Ultron / Pym / Maximoff / Barton (plus a little Summers, and some Rogue) Family. #WonderMan #XMen comicsxf.com/2026/02/03/w...

The Prince Andrew interview foreshadowed this. Someone completely unused to being held to account, who crumbled under scrutiny. Plenty more Prince Andrews out there, who will gladly throw each other under the bus.

Before it gets lost in the noise: Don’t fuck your employees. Don’t fuck your 20-something employees. Don’t fuck your 20-something employees who are currently depending on you for a place to live.

found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?" source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about" me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

Idiocracy is not “a documentary.” It’s an incredibly gross piece full of classist arguments for eugenics. Eugenics is literally the solution of the problem in the movie. Love what that says to people like me, born of ignorant right wing rednecks.

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

Genuinely didn't think this would happen. Good.

Lot of people saying “can’t believe QAnon was right” instead of “can’t believe the feminists were right about rape culture”, which feels suspicious tbqh.

The wild part to me is that not fucking people over whom you have significant power is SO DAMN EASY! You just have to not fuck them, a thing I can accomplish even as I type this post!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

me looking at the headlines every day

Jeff Burke was a Toronto legend. My husband worked with him a number of times at Steampunk events and he was always such a gentleman and a total delight to be around. He will be sorely missed.

Global News is still fighting the good fight against the Ford government's lack of transparency. This is why we now know about this. #OnPoli

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this

Nothing. Just remembering going out to the deck at the recreation facility to relax in the sun as an 80s teen and how there was always a full grown man there to offer to "get my back" for me

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

I think it's clear now that John Carpenter's They Live (1988) was actually pretty accurate, except instead of aliens ruling the world through the media, it's rich paedophiles.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.

Alt text and I’m crying.

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todays vibe

oh noooo he's been around too many trans women now he wants to make techno :((((

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this RIDICULOUSLY USEFUL set of HEELS reference by @GRIZandNORM!#HeelsOfTheDay #gamedev #animationdev #CHARACTERDESIGN #characters #heels

If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, make sure you go to support WONDER MAN cause it seems like Marvel didn’t care to promote the fact that it is now out #wonderman

If Democrats won't do what is needed, we must replace them. Not because we want Democrats to fail, but because we want Democrats who might succeed--and not just at attaining the office. We need Democrats to win, but not for its own sake; rather, *because* we need what needs doing to get done.

they sell my meds at the weirdest places these days