wow its like a Framework laptop but where you can't upgrade the memory or storage or anything important yourself and the CEO goes to the white house to give the fascist president a shitty little trophy

Update on the MCD Books closure from an author signed to the imprint: nothing. absolutely fucking nothing. not even a mass email from FSG explaining the situation. I dunno, maybe bigger name authors have heard, but nobody I've talked to has. all I've seen is that publisher's weekly news post

awwww, bless the experts, you keep holding on to that youthful innocence (source: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...)

not usually one for folksy wisdom, but i do often return to that old adage about political violence: "don't knock it till you've tried it"

now that's more like it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

tbh hard to known what god thinks about the war b/c he doesn't fucking exist

well actually emmlab.info/Resources_pa...

anyway guess i'm writing that “too political for MCD even” novel now

sure a zine making workshop might stop AI, but have you considered a how to burn down the datacenters workshop

Struggle as best you can!

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: my publisher shut down www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Been getting a lot of use out of this one lately

“pro AI anarchist” yes because nothing quite captures the true meaning of anarchism like publicly defending a handful of mega-corporations

user name checks out

ahhh someone pls go and say hi to Nina from me

Who Is Satoshi Nakamura? My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery:

no please NYT, tell me more of this ancient discovery your digital archeologists have unearthed (source: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...)

still no idea why - when something happens - i still come here to watch you big follower count motherfuckers post "news" without including links

dammit beat me by 98 years onezero.medium.com/the-modern-w...

no problem! and to be clear, it was inspired by this: www.iflscience.com/thousands-of...

“Houston, we have a BSOD”

lol it’s not real. it’s just “satire” you can tell when i post real news because - unlike many of the biggest accounts in here - i will ALWAYS post a motherfucking link

wow hearing reports that the iranians dropped a drone on a microsoft data centre in the dubai corpo tax-haven special economic zone and now the great american empire’s mission to see the moon like it was a basketball held at arm’s length has lost Teams access huge if true, thoughts and prayers

in other groundbreaking american rocket news

alas (and, yes, one could claim that a lot of climate fiction fits that category but b/c it most often comes from the direction of lit fic the ways in which it is literary and grounded [or not] are different from writers who work more solidly from the sf tradition)

You can see videos of Ben Gvir and other Israelis celebrating passing a law to execute Palestinians and then see supposed liberals and leftists of the US afraid to call that state what it is

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

i fundamentally agree with all this, and find his work deeply boring, but holy shit for a man out of time he must be really fucking rich and read by lots of ppl gotta be careful the “SF community“ doesn’t fall into its old trap of thinking it defines the genre for the rest of the world, sadly :(

Andy Weir is an atavism. He's a great example of the hard science fiction fans of 2-3 generations ago who insisted that hard sf was the superior sf because it was all about science and didn't waste time with style or characterization. Or "politics."

The Mollahs were in the supply closet making nuclear suicide vests and I saw one of the nuclear suicide vests and it smiled at me

this won't bring him back

“yeah, this is the grifting lady. sure is. that’s the one. if you were thinking about giving your money to someone at risk, don’t do that—this lady has tote bags and mugs and needs a new pool.”

Tragic that we’ll never find out what Dilbert thinks about this war

great dan owen video where he effectively gets nvidia to admit their marketing speak about how DLSS5 works is a misleading word soup youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?...

huh, imagine stating that “the street finds its own use for things“ - in the era of AI gen revenge porn and hacked meta glasses for creeping on women - is a purely positive statement

It's like Dragon's Dogma got Tuvixed with Two Worlds

Maybe they ran it on Johnny Silverhand and he no longer looked like Keanu Reeves.

what’s telling about the DLSS5 stuff: for the last few years all of nvidia’s gaming tech has been previewed/debuted in cyberpunk, but afaik theres been zero mention of CDPR in this announcement

The developers did a lot of work to make the hair lighting accurate. But Nvidia is overwriting that hard work with a bunch of assumptions baked into the algorithm on what black people are "supposed" to look like

its good that i don't have a newsletter so that nobody has to suffer my ramblings on DLSS5, visual culture, Oblivion vs Expedition 33 character designs, and the very weird 2 hours I spent playing the FFVII remake for the first time this morning TL;DR - bring back "ugly" weird fantasy

Burn them to ash!

It's the worst of all possible worlds. They promise "enhanced lighting" and we get "realistic Jeffery Elfstein."

and i really do not want it to, to be clear i absolutely LOVED my time with the Oblivion remaster, and so much of it was down to that slightly awkward Bethesda charm. this just reminds me of those fucking terrible incel Skyrim mods that turn everyone into supermodels and k-slop stars

hahaha he's really gonna hate the author's latest book

maybe the funniest thing about DLSS5 is how it can't fix Bethesda's eternally awkward facial animation youtu.be/4ZlwTtgbgVA?...