a lot of tech-press AI coverage, from both boosters and skeptics, is extremely US-centric compared to the adoption of AI elsewhere in the world - which by most measures outpaces the US, by some measures wildly. good to see some reporting that isn't www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

making up a guy #23942: guy who begins all correspondence with "to bro it may concern:"

Manic Miner didn't have anything to say about the miners' strike. Ian Stewart and Pete Harrap had an idea: what if it did? New post on the history of the resultant Monty Mole games, and how Monty made it to both the BBC news and the Famicom Disk System: www.superchartisland.com/monty-on-the-run

this is really good, especially in its differentiation between wank, bullshit, and lies.

new favorite real time thread (40 bulbs of garlic pasta) just dropped

my boyfriend when we need to leave NOW to get to the movie on time and i still haven't gotten dressed yet

me and my book at the chappell show!

hehehe.... weird web october soon

In 2017, the U.S. government used a cover of music from Yoshi's Island DS on one of their websites, presumably without permission, as the music was removed immediately after this was publicly discovered.

Elevator pitch: American Doll Posse Demon Hunters.

hello I am VERY LATE but I am live! radio.katherinemorayati.com

doing a Chappell Roan-themed radio stream later tonight, around ~10 PM! link to come

back in my day you could just go to the mall! and buy an outfit! and it would be acceptable!

to commemorate my chappell roan book (out now!), I present to you a pink pony club-themed circle

wake up new book by me just dropped www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathe...

wake up new book by me just dropped www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathe...

this really is the first true twitter-era shooting, in that every actual news development feels like successive people quote-tweeting the situation to one-up it with their own jokes

This image looks like if you split Klaus Kinski off into two people

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

i was just trying to understand filter design and i found my favorite jpeg of the year

the AI em-dash discourse is amusing to me because 15 years ago half the editors in the world were complaining about how they were a sign of lazy, gnarly writing. it was a whole discourse cycle in 2011! slate.com/human-intere...

greatest bluesky thread of 2025

i saw someone point out that the selector for time on iphone alarms is actually just a really long list and not truly circular. everything i’ve known is a lie

those on cohost may remember the "circling the square" photography posts; in an attempt to touch grass more, I'm still doing those. up to several dozen now, here are some of my favorites warning: photography not guaranteed professional tilde.town/~katherine/c...

thinking about how (as mentioned in passing in the linked paper) a Charli XCX song uses samples processed by an open source tool built on Haskell. truly human culture works in mysterious ways.

x mostly sucks now but watching people discover funk flex’s premiere of “otis” 14 years after the fact is absolutely delightful youtu.be/xNH43Xf24nQ?...

Google's news algo loves to show me small town and county news web site articles about local perspectives on data center development and they're really interesting so I started saving them in an Are.na channel, if you're into that sort of thing: www.are.na/ingrid-burri...

love this brooks brothers esque color scheme

new to me: the internet archive has the whitney biennial art catalogues dating back to the 1970s: archive.org/search?query...

I'm paywalled out of this so I can't read it. But if the main argument isn't "music criticism does not pay nearly enough to justify the endless heckling, doxing and harassment to which fan hives subject critics who even mildly criticize their favorites" then I'm skeptical

Hello everyone. We have a special treat for you: a new blogpost that is a audiovisual whirlwind tour through a neglected era of music technology. It's easily the longest, but also the best-researched and most fun thing we've ever written: hikari.noyu.me/blog/2025-08...

This is amazing and something about the delivery reminds me of this legendary work www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePtp...

going through my inbox (one day I will get below 2,000 again); can't think of anything in recent memory that reminds me more of The Chalets www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIra...

this is unfortunately one of the symptoms of an under-resourced media ecosystem. it's exceedingly rare to have fact-checkers these days, but even having a copy desk (or editor who checks the names of people mentioned) could have helped catch these fabrications pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Okay let's do a quick research thread of bribes hidden inside food or food packaging 1. Easter eggs, Alaska, 2008

ever just stop to consider the state of your cognitive abilities?

tired: techno bathroom wired: ascii table bathroom

psa: if you got a phone call yesterday claiming to be wells fargo's fraud department, telling you someone tried to charge $200-ish to best buy, it's most likely a scam

"Are you winning, Edouard"

as someone who has been in lead roles I can tell you definitively that "great start" is never genuine or what anyone wants to hear

I went on Pop Pantheon to talk about all things Kylie Minogue: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

Feels like this quote conveys so much about our contemporary condition, in a nutshell: "[Wojnarowicz's art] does not go with the aesthetic or the design for the gym, so we were in a bad place. Having a mural of this nature just didn’t go with the health and fitness vibe."

Is that hard-level boink? Well then TURN IT UP

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

keep getting recommendations to see the great clown pagliacci. must be another industry plant

old enough that anything over 1.44 MB instinctually registers as a really large file -- it wouldn't even fit on a disk!

This rocks. It looks like a version of Myst that only Bill Maher can play. It looks like Joe Camel's house if Joe Camel was a real guy.

the idea, by the way, was that AI adoption sometimes functions as a kind of “tracer dye”: it can reveal the places in institutions and structures where things have already broken down and a bad “fix” is being used for an actual problem it can’t solve but that still needs to be fixed