If only someone had warned us about climate change pretty much constantly since the 1970s.

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

As stocks slide worldwide, using AI is no longer a certain advantage for your company, at least not in the eyes of investors. it's time to rethink your AI adoption and deployment strategy. Here's what to consider, along with a few real-world examples. www.informationweek.com/machine-lear...

Your occasional reminder that LLMs are an inappropriate tool for any application in which the output needs to be true.

One week from today, Everybody's Perfect will be out! Two weeks from today, I'm doing a book launch event for it at Argo, on Ste Catherine near Guy metro, Montreal. There will be reading and signing.

OK, WaPo gets props for this headilne: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Correlation is not causation, but causation without correlation would be pretty fuckin' weird.

Reporting direct from the reflecting pool. It’s still very green, and there is a dead duck which I find concerning. (CW dead animal)

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and the Knicks parade in New York City represent “both a heartening reminder that we have not, as a public, abandoned our highest values, and a sad commentary on the political leaders who have,” Jamelle Bouie writes.

So we signed an agreement that ended the fighting and opened the strait only we're fighting and the strait is closed. These guys think you're stupid.

This article should have noted Trump’s unhinged lie yesterday that “Those ships are flowing out of the Hormuz Strait like nobody's ever seen before, actually…. they're pouring out and the oil is all over the place.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/b...

Jesus, this guy can’t even surrender right.

The only reason I can see to take a strong anti-trans stance is that our trans brothers and sisters are vulnerable and bullying the vulnerable is fun. As the poet said, fix your hearts or die.

Behold the wisdom of the American people.

Also The Godfather and Silence of the Lambs

Turns out, the Illuminati are fucking dweebs and losers

I've said it before, and likely will again: IPOs are when private equity cashes out and leaves someone else holding the bag.

He's been saying this thing about how easy it is to walk over the Qatar-Iran border for many months now. Clearly no one around him is brave enough to correct him. That's pretty terrifying.

Nice to announce this one. conversationtreepress.com/pages/the-ex...

Turns out “no more forever wars” means “we’ll lose quickly.”

No matter what you or I might think about the editing at the NYT these days, or how much Trump pretends he doesn't care, he *does* care a lot about what the Times says. So I'm really glad they are saying this. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Fuck. I have a lot to do today, but think I'm about to watch Relay again instead.

Spending a lot of time today thinking about what makes a story emotionally satisfying.

“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element.

The Trump White House picking a fight with the *Weather Channel* because they *reported the weather* is the most pathetic, easily triggered, loser energy I have ever seen

It’s not a peace deal and it won’t be signed today. How do newsroom leaders feel about publishing all those “Trump says he’ll sign peace deal on Sunday” headlines?

Of course they are. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“U.S. and Iran to close deal within a day, Trump says, but Tehran yet to confirm” oh no shit

I have the secret apprehension -- I can't call it hope and I can't call it fear -- that the hyper-wealthy will stretch things so far that the rest of us invent a different economy and stop caring about dollars at all. It's not unprecedented.

Fair point. So as I move toward the publication of the last book of the Aspects of Kithamar, I'll just mention that I have two other completed epic fantasy series -- The Long Price Quartet and The Dagger & the Coin -- that I'm quite pleased with and both available for TBR piles.

Co-signed, says this UChicago alum, and also this former editor-in-chief of @chicagomaroon.bsky.social, where this essay is published: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...

It’s been a long time comin, but here we are… www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

I am concerned that when my brothers and sisters in the Epstein class say end poverty they mean eliminate the poor.

Well this is nice. Good company to be in. www.amazon.com/b?_encoding=...

IPOs are the mechanism for private equity to cash out.

Very important point: SoftBank was pledging *all* of its OpenAI stock (worth $60bn+ on paper) to get a $6 billion margin loan. Banks turned it down due to concerns about the value of OpenAI stock. Banks clearly do not think OpenAI is worth $852 billion. www.tradingkey.com/analysis/sto...

Means I’m using DuckDuckGo or Kagi.

The Information reporting that OpenAI is planning to sign a 20-year-long lease on a totally unbuilt and theoretical 10GW data center that NVIDIA would partially finance. Utterly farcical, we’re at the end of the line folks www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

"Apple, Google, and Meta are very excited to announce the release of new AI-driven products. We guarantee that they will respect your privacy. Unfortunately, these products are not available in Europe, as they have laws to protect your privacy."

Headline: ATTACKS STRAIN CEASEFIRE Me:

I don't want to say smart watches are not quite accurate with their fitness metrics, but I was just awarded my daily step goal for the hand motions I made while eating potato chips.

The narrative of AI inevitably keeps me wondering whether anyone has found a genuine, scalable use case for it yet.

“Dissenting critical voices are easily co-opted by the longing to be both heard and admired” ~ bell hooks, remembered rapture

Mad Cow Disease, but for computers. Well done everyone.

Refreshing. Tired of the worst men alive defining what it means to "be a man."

our greatest business minds learning in real time that revenue - costs = profit

Widow’s Bay started great and just gets better with every episode.