Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To The Memory Crisis - and how everything got more expensive. The 13k word guide to how we got a RAM oligopoly, and how hyperscalers buying AI GPUs has caused years of hyperinflation in tech. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-haters-guide-to-the-memory-crisis/

Should I do a 🧵 on my just-published article on how one of the most trusted - and most expensive - antiquities dealers was faking the paperwork to make freshly looted artifacts look like they had long, legal ownership histories? I should. But I'm so tired. Tomorrow! hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

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Great news, #AncientBlueSky, #SkyStorians, & #ClassicsBlueSky! Emily Shanahan's cover just dropped for "Penelope and Her Maids" and it is 🔥 (to match what's on the inside, obvs.) Intrigued? Head to @cornellupress.bsky.social for praise and how to pre-order: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

JJJ being a "woke on every issue but one" guy is my favorite characterization of him

We are on the verge of revolutions in solar energy and in mRNA medical research, but the USA won't participate in them because our leaders are retrograde morons who would rather see people burn and die than change.

"Why Odysseus?" is out in print today! Check the flyer for a 20% discount code link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

they mispelled obstruction as self deport

People making excuses for Charles de Lint using AI…When we don’t hold people accountable for their actions, especially destructive actions, we are complicit.

People who give writing advice mostly don't know how language works. That's why you hear nonsense like "English adjectives have to occur in a specific order or you'll sound like a maniac" or "synonyms don't exist". Ignore all that stuff and you'll live a happier life.

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ARTISTS! The answer is this:

Boston is suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The city says the companies deliberately designed addictive features like endless scrolling, notifications, and algorithms that harm kids' mental health. The lawsuit joins more than 1,500 school districts nationwide.

No offense to David Brooks, an absolute fucking idiot who does not know jack about shit, but why one earth would any Democrat anywhere be interested in what this guy thought about the party?

Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.

Christmas in July! Print proof is back on the collaborative 'zine we did with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. Stories by @brynhammond.bsky.social and @Milton Davis. Art by Morinfon and Gary McCluskey.

Taken and you can take it too

"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."

One of the most irritating things about Microsoft Word is that when I open a file these days it waves a cheery flag-notification at me: "Welcome back!" 1/x

I've been mostly bored by the hype and antihype surrounding Nolan's ODYSSEY but I found this NYer piece by David Denby to be good to the last drop: a judicious tour of the epic and its perils for director and translator alike. (I'm sure you can relate, Conan.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 1/x

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

in Maine this creature is called Susan Collins' Amazing and Unmerited Luck

Typo of the day: _xxam_ (for an intended _exam_). Not sure what an xxam would be—maybe some kind of x-rated ham? Lends a new and possibly unwelcome meaning to hot ham-and-cheese.

"The written Constitution is for the public. It is a feint, designed to distract the unserious from the much more important Constitution that exists exclusively as ideological vapor circulating around conservative legal thought."

I am sorry for what I’ve done to the women of Maine. In order for me to drop out, here is how Janet Mills, Hannah Pingree, Chellie Pingree, and Shenna Bellows must submit to my will. by Graham Platner

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Mitch McConnell's possible death raises new questions about Joe Biden's health.

This is an era defined by laughing so that you don't cry, but it creates an ecosystem for some very good dark humor—like this piece. Is It Mitch McConnell Or Your Own Sense Of Possibility That Has Been Dead For Weeks? - defector.com/is-it-mitch-...

Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

Adverb/adjective hate. It's bafflingly stupid. But: lots of people approach good writing as if it were a process of avoiding mistakes, like working your way through a dungeon in a video game. That's the wrong approach entirely. Aiming for something good is different from evading what is bad.

I put Beethoven's 1st Symphony on the turntable this noon, which I almost never do, and was stabbed through by the first sound from the speakers. What was this? Why was I suddenly sad, but also angry, yet filled with murderous glee? 1/x

I just realised what AI image generators remind me of: Pin Impression Toys. They're diverting for a minute, you go 'yeah, that's fun', then you've basically seen it. And sure, you can keep pushing different shapes to make yet another shape, but that's all they actually do, it's profoundly empty.

Wow. I want one of these for every room in my house.

COCOON was the fifth highest grossing movie of 1985, now it’s impossible to find. I first wrote about this in 2020, but it’s no longer online. I have added updates, like Steve Guttenberg refusing to talk to me about COCOON, yet asking if I want to read his “Hurricane Katrina” script. I did.

The interesting thing about why Norway dominates at international sports is that they have a culture of not permitting ranking or competition in kids before they turn 12. It promotes cooperation and enjoyment instead. Along with affordable access, it means sports there are more equitable.

Visited the archaeological museum in Tortona for the first time. A few nice archaeogaming related things.

Jeremy Miranda (American,b. 1980): Tide Pool, Acrylic on panel

Happy Independence Day to my compatriots; happy Saturday to all. woodyguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/this-l...

Theseus vs. the Minotaur—my favorite representation, by Alice and Martin Provensen, a couple of mid-century kooks who illustrated a bunch of Golden Books & other stuff—mostly for kids, Conan, but barbarians can enjoy them, too. They cover some Persian and Germanic myths, along with Greek stuff.

America:

Happy Independence Day, from the god Jack Handey.

Happy 250th, everybody! Reupping this piece on the Trump-MAGA betrayal of the Declaration, Obama's vision of patriotism, and Lincoln's "electric cord" speech, which is worth rereading to commemorate this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, these are the 15 whom historians are reasonably sure never enslaved anyone. Of the 1st dozen presidents, only John & John Quincy Adams never did. #TCMparty #1776movie

Gettysburg gets all the Glory, but Vicksburg sealed the deal. Not only did it isolate The Deep South, it catapulted Grant to prominence; and led to one of the best generals of all time being in charge of the Union Army.