Luckily it wasn't the Big Oatmeal Cream Pie pack, which is just one pie the cumulative size of the small ones

I always take the title of this list too literally and get unnecessarily excited before remembering

Scam automation seems like the main business model here, in the "who could have foreseen this inevitable abuse of our Lying Machine"

Funny story: my career in drones exists because I have a arithmetic learning disability, tested awfully in math and couldn’t study STEM in college, and became so angered by how normal it was to look down upon non-tech people in the 2010s that I decided to master a hard tech field out of pure spite.

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.

Everything we own should not be hackable and subscription based. This is a nightmare

Wow, that's amazing. You're saying people who rely on their bodies being in impeccable condition aren't willing to pretend that everything is a-okay and Covid never happened? How "extreme."

Department of agriculture is calling on Americans to close the barn door as horses have all left

Less than 6 months ago @discord.com had a data breach exposing ID’s of 70,000 + of its users but …apparently hasn’t learned anything? ID checks don’t make the internet safer, they make us all more vulnerable. www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

This is a goddamn tragedy.

Posted in October - "Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users" arstechnica.com/security/202...

Finally, a chatbot with 100% accurate responses

"going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.”

This is an unbelievable breakdown of the halftime show

Do American flat earthers just figure the Olympics choose these hours just because? And have their own sun?

Carefully watching all the football boys to see if anyone is whispering a room number to their rival

So is there another Matt Damon NFT ad this year or what? I want to know more about how they're going to change everything and how that's going

Law Order

This is sad and frustrating! I understand, but it hurts.

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

So what's gonna happen there? She's going to have to constantly cycle through pen name after pen name, regurgitating books in different formats, and she'll be joined by thousands of other content extruders all fighting over the same "we fooled you" dollars.

I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.

Five minutes into this Marlies-Thunderbirds game and there has been one shot (goal) and three fights

Blades is brilliant. Tim is *brilliant*. Evil Hat is brilliant. And while it doesn't make *any* kind of sense for me to back this KS for physical rewards in a way that will get something shipped to me at exorbitant cost, I can't wait to get the hardcover once it's printed.

It’s so hard to find good named help these days. Every time I hire an anonymous staffer they’re a nameless formless void. It hurts to look at them, like trying to read in darkness. The only sign of their presence is a trail of ice cold condensation on the ground

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

So it's Black History Month and that means I think it's a good time to get familiar with Mike Pondsmith, if you're not already. When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world. Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him. cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...

"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" series is a madcap sci-fi romp set in a fantastical universe where book publishing is extremely lucrative

Now, I know what you're thinking: "CPSC, why does this look like the room where the bad guy from SAW makes his podcast." The thing you need to understand is that we're not like other agencies. We don't "have things" or "go to the store." We make our own way. We get what we get and we don't get upset

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Happy 45 anniversary of the Toronto bathhouse raids to all who celebrate. Our current police chief was one of the officers behind the 2000 "Pussy Palace" lesbian bathhouse raid. History is not so old.

it's unbelievable to me that someone could actually be a trillionaire. i think most of us have trouble internalizing how much money that truly is. let me put it in simple terms for you: a trillion dollars is three million dollars

i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

Today, a special episode: Minneapolis. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...

Right, I still need to write my version of this

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Thank you. And also don’t drink raw milk.

Lower the retirement age from 67 to however old you are when Gmail first tells you your account storage is full.

The loss of the Book World section is absolutely devastating for writers, for readers, for anyone who loves books. The criticism and book news @roncharles.bsky.social did was my favorite books coverage, hands down, and so many wonderful, thoughtful reviews and writers doing great work - it’s awful

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

The mass layoffs at the Washington Post feel worse than the ones made during 2020, especially after the ones at NBC News, CBS, and the WSJ. So many smart and experienced people will leave the industry forever.

The Underpants Gnomes had a better business model

Het is woensdag.

"Elite impunity" is also why people like William F. Buckley Jr. could be bffs with an actual murderer and not only not care about the teenage victim, but smear her in print

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

This is really good. Easily updated for our time.