"Byron Canady built Texas’s only Black comic bookstore" by Sophie Lloyd, writing for Rolling Out (5/9/26): rollingout.com/2026/05/09/b...

“So for all the talk about a dead internet, slop is not the decay of said internet. It is a refinement process, the machine working exactly as it is intended to in the good year of 2026. You don’t need to hold attention when you can manufacture distraction at scale.” icon.ink/articles/slo...

Slowness and friction are forms of resistance, whether physical, cognitive or political.

"I'm celibate except when I'm in Italy" novelty shirts now available in the Vatican gift shop

A cybertrucke whose operatinge system ys Canvas

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

It's okay that Trump has never read the Bible because, to be honest, most of his supporters haven't read it either.

TV is always improved by more Matt Fraction.

Every Dem Governor has talked a good game about Resistance, but when push comes to shove every single one - Walz, Hochul, Pritzker, Newsom, and now Spanberger - has folded under the challenge and refused to use their available powers to save the Republic. Vote Harder is not a Strategy.

Jesus Wept.

Jesus, Apple is about to destroy some serious brand value with this. Trust is the basis of that at the moment, and this puts a serious dent in it. I’m probably going to have to switch earbud brands just so there’s not even the *suggestion* I could be wearing a camera.

It’d be nice to get Anthropic on the record about this since they’re using this compute now.

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

The higher ed institutions that survive this week without descending into Madness will be the ones who kept a blue book stockpile & didn't terminate their scantron capabilities. There's a lesson there when it comes to AI too, if you're willing to look. There's a reason the Galactica survived.

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

Hey @cekent.bsky.social, remember when we used to talk about audio being the most likely future of AR, and how Apple was ideally set up to take advantage of that? Well, here we are (sorta). www.theverge.com/tech/926376/...

People suggesting higher ed should just go back to older forms of assessment and information distribution not looking so silly now, huh. #BillAdamaWasRight

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Wait until they hear about variances in Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon pricing.

To paraphrase Bruce Sterling, whatever happens to Stack Overflow happens to the rest of us, eventually. www.wired.com/story/cyberc...

Kinda funny that they turned a color photograph into black-and-white for this.

Is he talking about Minnesota?

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Stanley Tucci is so sprezzatura. I am the least fashionable dude on the planet, but man would I like to dress like Tucci most days. Aspirations.

It's really gonna fucking make me mad if all the Real Conservatives Smoke Cigarettes Discourse ends up rolling back the hard work Kentuckians have made to get the smoking rates down.

STAR WARS as a series has exactly one good (and not very original) bit: it's the future, but all the spaceships and droids are rickety pieces of junk that require constant maintainence like they're old beat-up cars. Pretty much every iteration rises and falls based on how much they include that bit

Goddamnit, please don't make me nostalgic for when the Reds mattered for a brief moment and were Fun. Because I'm really trying to not get my hopes up for this season. www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

Brad’s probably gonna end up as an ICE agent and somehow blame immigrants for all this. This Times article completely fails to examine Brad’s politics or inner world as a result of these events, instead giving us a Farm Aid rehash. What a missed opportunity.

It’s no accident that the shelves are always pretty spare in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Oryx disruptors move fast and Crake things.

Plumbing disruptors move fast and snake things.

William Gibson:

I remain fucking *angry* that America's movie-going public turned their backs on a genuinely brilliant work like The Bride. That movie deserved better.

My oldest daughter is telling me that security at this year's Kentucky Derby has gone to insane levels. Bomb-sniffing dogs, layer upon layer of metal detectors, etc. I fucking hate this timeline.

Cocktail disruptors move fast and shake things.

Watching some dumbass on YouTube rank Fables of the Reconstruction and Accelerate *multiple* spots ahead of Automatic for the People on an REM albums ranking and now I just want to burn down the world.

The Subconscious by @jonnyfallout.bsky.social We’re immediately on the drum and bass grind. The opener & title track of the newest Jonny Fallout EP ‘The Subconscious’ bursts into view, brimming with light and life and more importantly, music. jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/track/the-su...

Gorshin

That moment when you realize that your Profile Pic is over 6 years old, and you're gonna have to get some new headshots taken that reveal you in all your Glorious Oldness now. Goddamnit.

It’s a me. Making barber 💈 content.

Hegseth:

I wish folks would see the literacy decline as a systemic issue.

Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

I've been in and around academia for over 30 years, and I have never seen anyone get high on their own supply to the extent Ethan Mollick does. It's really quite amazing.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Oh Andy Serkis can just fuck off all the way into the sun. www.msn.com/en-us/movies...

Cliver Barker: My terror of the Daleks was the terror of something that was soulless, that had no moral component whatsoever, and no imaginative component. John Carpenter: You're talking about Republicans in the United States, the Reaganites. (From "Horror Café". BBC, 1990)