The only sane response.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

It's goddamn heartbreaking seeing innocent people get massacred in real time on the whim of a cruel moron. Bombs on homes. Strikes aimed at first responders. No plan, no demands, just cruelty for cruelty's sake. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Iran, seven years ago. A gorgeous country with some of the friendliest people I've met.

To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine. www.techradar.com/pro/security...

*been* betting it was bullshit that bafta and bbc did anything to accommodate anybody involved and possibly quite the opposite and there it is www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

more Americans have got to internalize that November 2024 was the last point at which we were gonna get out of this disaster without Americans being (at least) *inconvenienced*. every choice those fighting fascism make during terrifying times like these will have downsides. that is *how it is*.

discord wants to know how you feel about adding more generative AI features to the platform (which would be an unbelievably massive invasion of privacy if they did). you should fill out this survey to let them know how you feel about that discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

'tis mighty chilly outside

The bloody airbag. The stuffed animals in the glovebox. All the kindness and courage of the victim, all the cruelty of the murderer. What a waste, what a failed country.

Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei... What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.

Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/ #StarTrek

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

Star Trek: Generations having an anniversary on a Tuesday feels right.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *squint* *deep breath* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* *gasp* Joshua Tyler, go home. You're drunk.

@sanjeevbhaskar.bsky.social So the question everyone's asking, what the heck is Zoo Rush 2?

Zucht

@arjenlubach.bsky.social nails it once again www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

I found this season of Strange New Worlds kind of pitchy and disappointing. I think the problem is that Star Trek used to be about something—philosophy or science or baseball or whatever. Now it’s just about Star Trek.

Time to rewatch Sneakers ☹️

Elke rechtse populist die nu dE poLaRiSEriNg hekelt

who shot kirk

"Gavin Newsom is America's Keir Starmer" is perhaps the most devastating thing that has ever been or could ever be said about an American.

The rest of the world, waiting for opposition in the US to do literally anything effective

I visited #iran in 2019. It is a breathtakingly beautiful country with some of the warmest and most compassionate people I have ever met. Seeing the destruction in Teheran is heartbreaking. I won't have a kind word for the regime, but as usual, it's the people who suffer for its follies.

'The sports car is back!' proclaimed Mazda at the launch of the new MX-5, and it really did seem like a seminal moment: the reinvention of the of the traditional roadster driving experience, combined with the build quality and reliability of the 1990s. This is the first UK brochure. #weirdcarbs

I know opinions on this movie were mixed but I think it's great, and considering the news this weekend, hopefully not prescient. youtu.be/c2G18nIVpNE?...

The reason BotW is a masterpiece and the reason is is one of the FEW open world games that is actually good is that it is so hand-crafted! It's a generous, excessive huge pile of good times. Every single NPC has really cute, specific little bits of text that pop. C'mon people

Finished S2 of #therehearsal and all I'll way is that there better be a dumptruck full of money pulling up to Nathan Fielder's house right now for whatever he wants to do in S3

The Monaco #F1 Grand Prix weekend: a thrilling rally stage on Saturday followed by a parade on Sunday. Here's a thought: take it off the race calendar and replace it with a non-street proper racetrack; then let the drivers take part in the Historic Monaco GP if you still want the legacy connection.

#macro #nature #insects

I’ve said many times that I am a better person for having read Discworld, and it’s true if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett

Exploring strange new (tiny) worlds. #macro #nature #insects

MY MOM SAYS I'M PRETTY

It’s perfectly possible that large language models have wonderful use cases, but specific examples of them seem unusually elusive, whereas unbuttressed assertions that the use cases are clear or obvious from people who refuse to answer any follow up questions are rather thick on the ground.

Went for a walk and ran into a ritual site of that eastern cannibal cult. It'll never catch on.

Charlie writes great articles, and if I had to hire someone to write about film music, he would honestly be my first choice. 🤗 (And I hope I'll be able to do exactly that in the future 🤫)

If you find yourself nostalgic for Harry Potter, Discworld is right there and exponentially better

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be