Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

From the great JG Ballard: "Richard Pearson is visiting Surrey to close down his late father’s home and settle his affairs and, everywhere he looks, the flag of St George is flying 'from suburban gardens and filling stations and branch post offices'. How nice, he thinks, how festive."

Ailing wannabe dictator yelling at his people and insisting that they're getting richer and safer when all the evidence demonstrates the opposite. This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.

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#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social "Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation." If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."

And with one post, they convinced me to uninstall Firefox. Bye bye. #noAI blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy. #BarackObama

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

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.

Straight out of the worst dystopian scenarios. The wealthiest individual in the world (and likely the one who causes the most harm, between DOGE and X) has succeeded in introducing his revisionist (denying the Holocaust) and anti-Semitic disinformation tool into (El Salvador) classrooms.

It's been a tremendous 2025 awards season for Solaris! Here's a compilation of all our winners! Which ones have you read? Our award-winners include @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @vajra.me @aptshadow.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social & many more!

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

🗽Robert Reich Dec 12, 2025 Let me make it clear I’m against Netflix acquiring Warner Bros Discovery. That would concentrate corporate power in ways that harm consumers and distort American politics. But Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be worse. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happe...

The #FIFA #WC2026 ticket fallout continues. Honestly, doesn't matter where you are from, don't bother going. Stay in your countries, watch the games in your bars, with your neighbours, with true sports fans. Don't fund #FIFA vote with your feet #boycott

Completely agree with this. If the publishing industry doesn't want to implode during the next decade, they'd do well to read this piece and act on it. Fads don't last. And when they die only a reading wasteland is left. So, read it, absorb it, act on it, before the industry becomes irrelevant.

In the modern world, we often feel helpless about things done to us. You're not. You can vote with your conscience and do that amazing thing every free person can do: boycott. So then: #boycottWC2026 #boycottFIFA #boycottMETA #boycottX #boycottTesla #boycottTrump The list goes on. #Youhavepower

Simple answer. Don't go. Don't watch. Don't care. Real football and sport fans don't need #FIFA www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Imagine my outrage (like others) when #Trump announces that they have the right to scrutinise my last 5 years of #socialmedia before they decide whether to admit me into the US as a visitor. And now imagine me not giving a shit, 'cos I'm never gonna visit while that chump is there.

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

That's how it's done 🔥

Simon’s amazing, he’s lettered a ton of my 2000AD work! He will make your dialogue look good

Congratulations, #FIFA. In one breath, you've alienated more than half the world. How do you think anyone can take you seriously? And I won't be watching your bullshit cup. #worldcup2026 #trump

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

If it's getting harder to spot an AI fake maybe the solution is to stop using those sites? Maybe we should return to physical media like CDs Blu ray and paper books? Physical media is like everything else that's physical - it's better than digital in every conceivable way #AIfakes #physical #digital

Every time I see a Microsoft 365 Copilot advert I am SO glad I don’t have the kind of life that would need me to use Microsoft 365 Copilot…

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

There isn't an event or fashion statement that sums up the 2020s better than the iPhone Pocket. Truly the most pointless, tasteless invention for technology and fashion since the mankini. But you know there will be iDiots who will buy this. Point at them, kids, and laugh. #consumerismadness #apple

i think i’m having some kind of neurological event

Must be frustrating when you post your April Fools joke almost six months ahead of time by mistake

It’s not a cult

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵 • May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses • OpenAI disagrees & can appeal "The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates" — German Music Rights Society

Initially read this as a reference to a single movie, "Harry Potter and Paddington".

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Seems? No, there is a common occurrence of #AI being blamed for terrible #screenwriting. After a dissapointing second outing for both #Wednesday and #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice, audiences are asking if the writers were under the influence, or was it a problem of sequels. Truthfully, how do we know?

Following my return to writing, it's too early to attend #WorldFantasyConvention2025 but wishing all the best to everyone who's going, hope you have an amazing time! There are some to-dos for me next year that include renewing memberships lapsed to #BSFA & #HWA, & a return to the convention circuit.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

An event like the #EnhancedGames, where athletes can steal victories by using drugs, could only exist in a time where #BigBusiness stamps on morality and no longer tries to hide it. Musk, Trump, D'Souza and on and on, like clowns in our circus tent.

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Going out on a limb and saying a UK civil war is not inevitable.

Teslas v hatchbacks

Just stockpile these. To be handed out at will.

“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality: for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it wisely” @terriwindling.bsky.social

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Taken from Art of Imagination (Robinson, Weinburg and Broecker) essential insight into publishing fads ( #Writers, take heed). This is why #Horror died in the 90s:

Another day, another fake account. Why do they do it? I mean, it's a certainty that you'll be found out. Is it really worth the effort masquerading as someone else for a few hours? Is your life really that worthless? #fakeaccounts #bluesky

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...