"Journalism students are being told to expect a future where AI removes their voice and sands down their writing until it's toothless pap." www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Audiophiles will wax rhapsodic about certain manufacturers and the quality of the metals used in their gear. Researchers discovered self-described audiophiles could not distinguish the quality of electrical analog signals sent through copper and the same signals sent through a banana.

Shot: "Thanks to AI, millions of white collar workers can expect to lose their jobs." blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of...

"Billionaire Said A Thing," and the newspapers breathlessly print it without ever asking, "Is it true?" "Can it be done?" "Can it be done in that time frame?" "Has he ever done anything like this before?" "Is the budget for this even possible?" karlbode.com/the-press-is...

"Feed the hungry, Give water to the thirsty, Clothe the naked, Shelter the homeless, Visit the imprisoned, Comfort the widow, Teach the child, Ransom the captive, Heal the sick and injured." Yes, Jesus's commandments are partisan. And Republicans don't follow them.

Going after the Pope on Ash Wednesday is so unhinged

Rapist mentality and rapist language

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

Knew this was coming. If you didnt get it before when they ran this ad during the Super Bowl, hopefully its very clear now: we are the 🐶’s! www.404media.co/leaked-email...

This is alarming: www.axios.com/2026/02/18/r...

For some reason, my brain is insisting on playing "Charlie's Enormous Mouth," a song about a woman who gets addicted to drugs and dies of an overdose one night while her friends cheer her on for "one more big hit," and then they dump her body in a shallow grave. No idea why.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

We're splitting hairs over pedophilia. We're normalizing having lunch with the world's most famous pedophile

Sahashi Toshihiko's understated but lovely soundtrack to that anime where warplanes are powered by the magic of lesbianism is still lovely and understated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVk...

Called it bsky.app/profile/atru...

In other news, a research group is about to be audited by the IRS and all if its researchers prosecuted for mortgage fraud.

I remember arguing with someone over the use of refined plutonium oxide as an RTG power source for long-range space probes. I pointed out that if you swallowed a quarter-teaspoon of the stuff, you'd have a slightly elevated risk of colon cancer in 40 years.

To be fair, part of my writer's block as a programming blogger is half "Will what I write end up in some AI and I won't get the credit... " and half "... and will anyone ever read what I write when they all get their answers from AIs now?"

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

"The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam." - The Republican Administration, December 2, 2025.

The right is currently demonizing **rainbow crosswalks**. There is no safe space to retreat to where we won’t have to win the political fight.

The nice thing about being bisexual is that you don't see the great diversity of humanity as some sort of hierarchy. It's more like a buffet. A smorgasbord. A feast for the senses. Occasionally, a fondue.

The cruel anxiety that men inflict on young men going through puberty and maturation about their worth as men, their relative status in some bizarre hierarchy of masculinity, often manifests in some very strange ways.

These people never grapple with the reality that the right not only outspends trans people 20:1 but they also control social media algorithms and many legacy media institutions. They never ask the questions why public opinion changed and why certain issues are so central to the debate.

Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway. New: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

This is an excellent read and a lovely term, "clarity trap." The thing that occurs to me is that, with the purchase of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch started pushing the median voter needle rightward, and Matt Yglesias is following along a leash.

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

"Beware of dog." Gotta be careful of Denver. You might get licked.

My exact point right here.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

So, you know the Mission: Impossible theme, with it's four note, "Baaam, Baaam, BompBomp" opening? You could write that, oh, I dunno, like this: -- .. Today I learned that "-- .." is Morse code from "Mi". Clever.

Electric vehicle batteries are slowly coming down in cost. But there's a quicker way automakers are trying to make their EVs more affordable. Here's @andrewmoseman.bsky.social on their latest obsession: heatmap.news/electric-veh...

It is 1996. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2006. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2016. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2026. The American president was born in 1946.

AI writing facilitates "semantic ablation:" the slow removal of the spiky, quirky, humane way of writing, of having a writer's voice and your own weird fleet of metaphors, favorite words and phrases, memorized movie quotes and lyrics, and replacing all that with the most boring, most average words.

You have to wonder if the guys who wrote Postgres back in 1986 ever expected a day when PostgreSQL and its protocols would form the backbone of the entire information economy: devnewsletter.com/p/state-of-d...

NVidia introduced "tiles," computational units that allow for different parts of your GPU to do different tasks simultaneously. Rust programmers can now take advantage of that and write asynchronous, cross-die code on the GPU: www.vectorware.com/blog/async-a...

The Russian economy has entered the "eating its own seed corn" phase, a downward spiral in which the reserves intended to buffer against disaster have themselves become the last reserves of a state that cannot collect enough to survive. There is no backup. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Only because he's going to end "Presidential History" if this goes on. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Just a reminder that "porn addiction" doesn't exist. "Porn addiction" is a mask for being horny and being taught to be ashamed of being horny. That's all it is. quorumreport.com/quorum_repor...

"[April 21, 2024] Trailer debuts for first all-AI movie, Next Stop Paris, a romance for TLC television from producer of Sharknado movies." Wait, what? lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...

I have chronic shoulder pain after a rotator tear suffered during a fall while hiking. The criteria for what constitutes a "bad shoulder" is so broad almost everyone over 40 has one, but most people don't have pain: arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Anthropic is deeply troubled that many Pentagon systems are using Claude AI, and has attempted to limit or constrain the use of its AI in military decisions. The Republican Administrations says that anyone who partners with them must be willing to do what they command. www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...

The FBI has formally notified the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it will not cooperate with the state in the investigation of the shooting of Alex Pretti, and that any evidence it has collected will not be handed over. crooksandliars.com/2026/02/fbi-...

Good. New Mexico was barred from investigation a 1996 complaint of multiple sexual assaults by the feds, who were conducting their own investigation. The feds never actually moved forward, so New Mexico is going forward with its own investigation. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I was never a Grindr kind of queer, but this is sad: Grindr introduces GAI (pronounced "Gay-I") at $500 a month (WTF?) to help you hook up. This looks like enshittification run wild. Someone should start an alternative service. www.vox.com/culture/4791...

The mouseover text references "FOE." FOE is "51ERGS," 10⁵¹ ergs or 10⁴⁴ Joules, the typical energy released by an "average" supernova. 10⁻⁴⁰ FOE is the equivalent of being hit by a 2.5Mton car doing 90KPH. xkcd.com/3208/

PZ Meyers highlights the lyrics in what Lee Brice sang at the TPUSA "counter-halftime-show." You've got to admire the honesty: "I want to live in a country where trans people don't exist and I'm allowed to be pro-gun without having to defend myself." Tremble! freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

You will now crumble into dust. JWZ reminds us that "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" is 25 years old today: archive.org/details/flas...

The Republican Department of Homeland Security sends hundreds of "administrative warrants" to Google, Facebook, Reddit, and Discord, demanding the names and identities of people who have criticized the Republican Administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...