Found this in my meme folder and laughed all over again loud enough I think my neighbors must think I'm crazy

its me, the guy who (along with all of you) just wishes I could play a singleplayer bungie game again, those were good video games

See, every time I think about buying Marathon, shit like this reminds me that nothing short of a discourse-changing success will guarantee the game you bought still exists a couple of months after you buy it. And even then that doesn't guarantee the people who MADE it will survive.

Every damned day

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What if I just order a huge layer cake and eat it Who's gonna stop me, the world is burning and I'm an adult

"sneak peak" when it should be "sneak peek" I never correct it because I don't want to be That Guy in a direct conversation, but I cringe every single time.

It feels strange posting like, my work, when the world is burning, but the rent's gotta get paid, so here's this week's infosec roundup. Great stories in here about how easy it is to poison an LLM, excellent reporting from my former colleagues at WIRED, and more.

Conde Nast push out all of its queer and journalists of color in favor of white people from familiar backgrounds challenge impossible speedrun any %

If we had a functional media industry that was capable of holding itself accountable for the impact of its work to the communities it covers (in ways that don't involve back-patting and collecting awards) we would have put an end to this ages ago. But we don't, so here we are.

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"all of my children are boys, if you only count my one son, and not my two daughters"

Google wants to be a publisher but doesn't want the accountability that comes with being a publisher part 89083906898634

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Hey uh, Duolingo....what the actual living fuck is this ad I got between lessons? "The Ghost Wife's Billion Dollar Tech Comeback?" - what in the AI-generated image (and likely the story too) is this?

She legit was hoping to find someone jogging in a horse mask in the blzzard to get some color commentary and instead they thought this guy seemed harmless enough…

This is the realest shit on all counts

The always incredible @alfyria.bsky.social managed to capture the exact "I may be cute but I'm also that boy" vibe I was hoping for with these! Thank you! (And the rest of you, go follow and commission her immediately: vgen.co/Alfyria)

Another week, another series of security nightmares.

laughs in corporatism

On today’s stream, we’re refuting the idea that leftists hate technology — we just hate being exploited (and also when the computer gets more expensive) — but leaning HARD into the idea that leftists hate prediction markets. We go live at 4 PM ET twitch.tv/aftermathdot...

I saw a couple posts recently about feminine character aura farming as opposed to masculine character aura farming and here's my two cents: Greatest aura farm of all time, thank you for you time, no more questions.

Man I really want to include this story in my security news roundup but I don't know if they'd let me keep it in, so I'll just leave it here instead: techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/s...

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While it's still Black History Month, spend a little money and check out some reads from Black authors - some you know, some you might not. I have a great Bookshop list to peruse right here (and if you buy from it, I get a lil cut, thank you!) bookshop.org/lists/black-...

"Concerns about accuracy aren’t at the top of the list of reasons people avoid the news. Instead, if you dig in, you find people are citing reasons like negative mood, feeling overwhelmed and a sense there’s nothing they can do with the information." mailchi.mp/99743e8a8020...

I am somebody! This is one of Jesse Jackson's greatest gifts to me.

The Onion doesn't miss, I stg: theonion.com/finnish-ski-...

Come hang out with me while I replace my keycaps and watch youtube videos. I even put on the fingerless gloves - we can vibe together: twitch.tv/halo_phoenix

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

Always love seeing a @lordravenscraft.bsky.social byline, even moreso when it's a topic I adore, like niche dating apps for queer and quirky folks - if the big names aren't helping you meet people, try these instead: www.pcmag.com/articles/i-s...

I am starting to suspect that making journalism an ad-engagement chasing endeavor concentrated in the hands of the planet's richest assholes might have been an ill-advised choice

Flirty text messages aren't the only things you have to look out for in infosec this week.

I want to talk about this for a second. Don't click through, the article contains the words "if one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently" which should tell you how intellectually honest this piece is (read: it's not. at all.) But I want to talk about this header image a little. Walk with me.

I hate that the tech people gentrified the word “agent”. That’s supposed to mean a guy who butters you up in a passive aggressive way only to exploit your talent and likeness, ultimately not doing any wo–oh wait never mind.

Related reading: White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hey hi there was some fuckass shit on the TL today about AI hype so let me take a sec to re-up what I wrote about where that hype is actually coming from: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar...

A 2022 lawsuit accused G.Skill of misleading advertising because the company claimed that its RAM could "run at the advertised speed out of the box."

Oh BITCH. Google bent all the way over.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...