Not convinced that it's a good idea for the video popout window for Firefox on Windows to stack above operating system dboxes

Expert systems are inevitable Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency Better claim your stake in the Metaverse By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars Pen computing is going to end keyboards You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

My father used to tell me stories about how in the USSR the history books were edited and altered every year and everyone was supposed to nod and smile and pretend that nothing had happened and the "new history" had been there all along. Just sayin'.

i see flock is having a totally normal day

The placement and font size on the packaging of the recommended cooking times for dried pasta must be standardized and regulated by law.

ramen places should have to tell you on the menu if your bowl only comes with half an egg

It's he. Hi. He's the problem, it's he. [Antihero]

day 2 of posting margot photos from the archives until morale improves

Scalzi letting slip the industry secret that Stephen King is immortal

Cat is out of the bag! Tor declined my suggestion to include in the blurb "sapphic Winter Soldier, but wizards"; however this is in fact the only accurate way to describe this book torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...

Speaking of awards, here is my award eligibility thread for work published in 2025, with emphasis on poetry. In 2026, Nebula and maybe(?) the Hugo will have a poetry category. That's awesome. Speculative poetry is amazing. There's also the Rhysling, and Ignyte I think.

Next he's gonna try and strip Mark Kelly of his trips to space

Charles I: my Christian faith shows me it's right to curb the right for Parliament to sit without intrusion by the monarch

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No for fuck's sake what even if going on here?

More interested in what Melanie Dawes says, tbh. (Also Michael Grade, who might have a useful opinion this time given how egregious the harm is and that it can't be used to argue for messing with the BBC, and maybe Lisa Nandy.)

probably bc it looked sick as hell

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

The “make them afraid to be visible part,” or blame them for everything when they are, is so key.

I mean, at some point, we have to understand from all this that they have calculated that people will be harmed/die, and they just don't care?

Not only can you do the creative things I do, I insist that you do. The only thing separating where I am from where you are is time, effort, and falling in love with the process. Just start.

First time in US history military action has been initiated from a blanket fort

Finally we may have discovered Pete Hegseth's only real talent, which is to point at a stationary object long enough for Donald Trump to focus on it.

I ran conferences for a living for a few years and I think that really is pipe and drape, i.e., the thing they use to create little temporary display rooms for 3M, the charitable arm of your local bank, and the University of Phoenix.

capybara at the psychologist

Other people's computers meets other people's ignorance

Now is really not the time to sow distrust and punch down on independent media. It’s particularly galling to do in light of how we’ve actually gotten news and information about the latest global conflicts and federal corruption in the U.S.

Does anyone know if Kent puts signposts on its bridle paths? I'm interested in the ones south of Herne Bay near Maypole and Hoath.

Kibble? Slurry? Digi-mass? How about “ecocidal twaddle Microsoft has bet on heavily“?

New year, new utterly fucked up email preferences (that I noticed right now, I assume it's been around for ages).

“If you didn’t want your photo digitally altered and turned into sexual content you shouldn’t have posted it online” is just the social media version of “if you didn’t want to be raped you shouldn’t have worn a short skirt.” If you’re participating in this “trend” you’re a predator.

“You don’t say….” she mutters under her breath, knowing a significant number of highly intelligent privacy and technology ethics professionals have been sounding alarms over this *exact* thing for years now.

Prize for best reuse of this map

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

So Marriott sometimes doesn't take payment on its website, then maybe can't take payment on its website and sends an email that you can't easily verify pointing to a third party payment processor I've never heard of. The way to verify this is to call the hotel. In another country.

TIL that Tom Baker’s reading of the Gremlins novelisation has an extra line not present in the book or the film, basically “frozen water doesn’t affect mogwai”. I like to think that Tom read the rules, saw the subsequent pages of snow scenes, and withdrew labour until there was an explanation.

Hi, I am studying library science, the thing everyone claims LLMs are good for. Spoiler: they aren’t. I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”

This was murderously good. From now on, whenever someone plays the civility card we can just play this back. Damn, so compact too.

Alternate headline: Elon Musk-own AI produces CSAM on demand for X users Grok cannot comment on the matter. Grok is not a person.

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

There must be a word for a company that has chosen to be bad at the things that brought people joy and papered over the rough bits. It's like if a hotel started putting cow pats on your pillow during turn down service.

A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a human must go to jail

Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism. To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

Heads-up to folks who might still have old dormant LJs that you may want to preserve somehow. Looks like access may end up restricted and then full site collapse in the near future (best to archive now).

if you, as a donut place, are closed on new year's day, why would you put on your website that you are open on new year's day, essentially promising and then cruelly denying me donuts. i should be able to sue for breach of contract

I can't be normal about anything so here is my lucky lemon lotl for 2026

They're adding more magnets to the LHC and I feel like I should've been notified of this sooner. I don't oppose it, it's just nice to be kept in the loop—the knowledge loop, not the physical loop in which they collide particles. Being kept in the physical loop is how you become a science ghost.

A soft, small, hopeful thing.