trying to predict what 2026 will look like

As someone on the spectrum, I can tell you, people don't want unapologetically weird, they want socially acceptable quirky.

this exists it is called thinking

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

The image that inspired my most popular comic.

reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Honestly a bit shocked to see so many artists swooning over this when all they want is a minimal FFmpeg GUI, something that already exists in droves, for free, & without absurd DRM limitations. Support devs who make the complex libraries for these tools, not those selling pricey hyped-up wrappers.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

Next time Democrats say that they want to find someone who excites young voters and gets more people engaged, think about how extraordinarily weird and racist they got when Mamdani won his primary by a landslide.

no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

I was raised by educators who instilled in me a lifelong love of learning, critical thinking and discovering new things. The thought of offloading that onto a LLM, of being so uncurious and uninterested in not just the world around you but also *your own thoughts,* makes me sick to my stomach.

I would like to thank AI... for the existential dread of realizing a sizable portion of people don't actually want to better themselves, or understand anything... or *do* anything for themselves, they just want someone else's mathematical model to do it for them...

degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

Modern journalism's instinct/desire/strategy to lazily accept and pass on, without further interrogation, the nonsense counterfactual framing of whoever is acting in the worst faith, is a huge part of why we are here.

It's understandable with the way Apple has been struggling lately. I think we all need to accept our societal responsibility to tighten our belts and funnel more of our money to people who already have billions.

just wanna remind people that the person who snitched on luigi got none of the promised reward because of random technicalities. you have nothing to gain by being a rat.

How to change a swastika that cant be removed

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

“Virtue signaling” remains one of the most pernicious concepts to gain popular purchase. The whole premise of the concept leans on the idea no one actually cares about anyone aside from themselves.

This phenomenon is absolutely getting people killed in the only developed country without universal healthcare but I don’t think Americans would grasp just how bad it is without experiencing the alternative. You would radicalise so quickly.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

After FIVE YEARS my second book is AVALIABLE NOW! The Paradox Paradox has been released early on eBook, with the physical copies shipping out in March next year. If you backed it, check your emails! If you didn't, head over to unbound.com/books/paradox and pick yourself up a copy!

I saw this posted on twitter but I don't think that user is on BlueSky and I wanted to share it here... This interview with Ethan Hawke perfectly describes the importance of art.