Network state Versailles

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Idiotic NPR Marketplace interview loosely posited “will people accept the costs if data centers of they one day cure cancer”? 1) If AI is used to cure cancer it will be through a human using a neural network tool to help find a specific protein or other mechanism of action that they can then work on

Perfect execution for resonance, clarity, and insecurity of response.

Fallout is so entertaining it makes me uncomfortable to watch it, like staring too hard at a sunset. It just keeps hitting these great notes and I’m constantly worried that the next one will be flat. Rooting for it every minute.

I swear to God, do not give George Conway money, ffs.

Probably not ideal, human-existence-wise, to let a senile lunatic and his coked-up enablers run a global protection racket using the largest military in human history.

You've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant what are you calling it? FIRE PHO TONS

There is no person in history more terrified of cooties than Pete Hegseth.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

New Torment Nexus just dropped.

Me: *furiously checking MLA style guide and CC’ing my lawyer when responding to an automated email from the phone company* Richest man in western hemisphere: hey sentitar u wanna get hi and crime 2nite???

Solutions to the Bond-is-dead crisis: 1: Do a Face/Off 2: 5 eligible bachelors compete in a reality show “The Bond” 3: George Miller directs

I don’t think I would like this sandwich, but I adore sandwich discourse. This is Arthur Dent-level sandwich mastery.

Theory-crafting a new political movement, “Worst People in the World, Eat Shit”

We didn’t invent Hell to scare good people good, we invented it to fantasize bad people being stabbed in the nads for all eternity.

Every historian I read on bsky is acting like Sam Neill and Laura Dern seeing dinosaurs in the wild for the first time.

At #NYCC this year I made it a point to spend more time in Artist Alley enjoying and paying for(!) actual cool art by actual cool humans. Like this great K-2 print and some inexcusably rude stickers from @thecalebking.bsky.social in booth J-37.

20-something techbro: AI will be our perfect anime waifus, our benevolent overlords, and live on in our immortal image after consigning our civilization to blissful oblivion. 50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.

I (absurdly) got to spend a summer vacation week with some fairly rich and influential tech-adjacent people and I hope my extremely gloomy and acerbically funny comments about AI contributed to bursting the bubble earlier.

“…we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence.”

I’d feel a lot better about the future if I knew every union had a well-financed strike fund right now.

Gonna be thinking about our “cherished American Awards“ all day.

If Schumer’s master strategy to sit back and let nature take its course turns out to have been the correct one, we’ll never get a single thing done ever again.

Chatbots are validation engines. If you feed one your most intrusive thoughts, eventually it’s going to tell you go for it, champ!

The longer it takes for the marketing consultant to wind up the logo pitch, the shittier the design.

When a book is incorrect, you can point to the offending page, edit it, tear it out. When an LLM is incorrect, it’s not fixable. You just didn’t get the right result and the owner isn’t liable. It’s a slot machine for words that occasionally pays out, and the house always wins.

“China was putting up a gigawatt's worth of solar panels, and a gigawatt's worth of solar panels is the rough equivalent of a nuclear or a coal-fired power plant, they were doing that every eight hours. Can you imagine building a nuclear plant every eight hours?” www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

I hate this dumbfuck wellness argument in particular because it belies everything else in American society. Our entire economy is based around stuffing ourselves full of shit that is bad for us. Cake, pizza, video games, Marvel movies, cosmetics, gasoline, instagram, smartphone apps.

One of the disadvantages of a geriatric political system is the waning likelihood of your representatives throwing hands when literal fascists show up.

This shit again.

PERSON WHO HAS LOUDLY REJECTED EVERY MEAL I HAVE PREPARED FOR THEM FOR 13 YEARS: “What are you making for dinner?”

Feels like most of my life has been early 2003 - society charging into a massive and obvious mistake, cheered on by the worst, most powerful idiots on Earth. Some of them are still the same idiots.

So the DC parade is like a Fyre Festival situation?

We need a feminist Salacious B. Crumb.

Wish I could live forever in that moment between triumphantly completing a task and realizing how I fucked it up.

Not the most important thing but why is the White House photography utter shit now? It looks worse than the washed out pics the Russian press took in the first term. The lighting is terrible and the color is off balance.

At least one of the Andor writers has clearly been to a community organizer meeting.

Things I do not wish to do anymore: 1. Download the app. 2. Create an account. 3. Log in. 4. Text STOP to end. Done this enough for one life, thanks.

Stonks.

Today was #TeslaTakedown in CD17. Tomorrow is #LeaderswhoListen

Weirdo (complimentary, unique, countercultural) vs. weirdo (pejorative, cultish, sociopathic)

Just want to thank our local MAGA weirdos for coming out and blocking the local Tesla dealership in advance so the Mt Kisco #TeslaTakedown protest didn’t have to.

Indivisible Rockland and the Working Families Party are proud to present: An Afternoon with Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado. www.mobilize.us/indivisibler...

Marco Rubio realizing he may have sent men to Latin America without a letter signed by the President.

Me throwing an Imperial boomerang in 2001: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, 2025: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Philip K. Dick: Well, well, well…. Three psychics in a hot tub predicting crime doesn’t seem so stupid after all, does it?