Damn. Sucks that Gen AI and Disney can't give us the fictionalized version "Black Jet Down: Epic Fury" starring Jake Paul in cinemas by next week.

WTF is a Jelly Roll? No Shakira, no World Cup!

Hugo nominations are open, and we would be so honored if you considered the work we published last year. The Locus-recommended anthology is free to read on our website - thank you for your consideration!

The Hugo award nomination deadline approaches... If you're nominating, kindly consider the work Will This Be A Problem published last year, including Issue V of our anthology, which is on The Locus Recommended Reading List. All the stories are free to read on our site!

Oh hey! The Hugo award nomination deadline approaches. If you're nominating, kindly consider my SF novella DESCENT about parental expectations and planetary exploration [Its a finalist for the Nebulas and BSFA + on the Locus Recommended List] Read/Listen here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/talabi_05_25/

Kenyan bar DJs will slide from Celine Dion to Burning Spear like nobody else can.

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

I hate how he's sniffing his farts

Major Non-Nato Allies wanasemaje?

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

I was interviewed by @okayafrica.bsky.social about @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, paying writers, and creating room for African speculative fiction to thrive… read it here! www.okayafrica.com/what-its-lik...

Cancel the FIFA world cup!

BREAKING: Iran's sports minister said Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup after the US killed their leader. 'Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup' reut.rs/413RFjD

Rick James before he rubbed his muddy boots in Eddie Murphy's new couch, probably.

Qatar announced a production halt at a facility last week and declared force majeure on LNG shipments.

Almost 700,000 displaced, 84 children killed after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, UN agencies say www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Iran accuses the US and Israel of targeting civilians, saying more than 1,300 have been killed across the country.

Horrific.

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said. The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong said the annual 'Freedom Shield' exercises could lead to 'unimaginably terrible consequences'.

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people. If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

My administration wishes Ayatollah Mojtabah Khamenei and the people of Iran all the best in their fight against the Great Satan.

Drains across the Iranian capital Tehran are continuing to explode after earlier Israeli and US strikes on oil depots and infrastructure. Medical experts are warning the toxic smoke and runoff has increased the risk of deadly illnesses, including cancer.

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

This is going to be the most baffling fog of war the world has ever seen

Art really scored one against AI here.

Half of US Cabinet dies from fentanyl contaminated cocaine shared by RFK in Whitehouse toilet to celebrate bombing of Tehran.

Read here: zeteo.com/p/gaza-iran-...

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

It's so cool how you can clearly track whether or not we're close to bombing Iran based on the frequency of "photo of hot women in [Muslim country] in the 70s before Islam ruined it and made them unfuckable" posts across Reddit and other social media sites.

Join me in celebrating Trump's death this August.

The people outside of a country that they left for whatever reasons should not be listened to over the people who still live in said country. *Exile* politics is always fraught. Exiles have self-interests like everyone else.

Btw they are also bombing the homes of the main opposition leaders in Iran- because they don’t want a stable transition to a new government

Well in other news Saudi Arabia engaged in dirty double dealing, pushing Trump to strike while publicly claiming not to support an attack. MBS was worried about being hit by Iran if they were public w/their real goals. They got hit anyway www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

US and Zionist occupation citizens should listen to their leaders. Overthrow your pedophile death cult governments before they take you all down with them.

Death to America in our lifetime.

Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no idea.

The bread is stale and the circus clowns can't even juggle.

Kash will one day do like Kamlesh Patel and become an evangelical pastor to get past the corruption allegations he's currently piliing up.

Y'all gonna learn Chinese When the pumps go off Y'all gonna speak Chinese

Today's quick update [Feb 22]: - RSF attack on Tina, North Darfur for the second consecutive day. - RSF drone strike on Misteriya, North Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Over two years, Israel has spent billions killing tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, destroying homes, farms, and infrastructure in a genocidal war. Now it joins Trump’s Board of Peace, ostensibly to “rebuild” the same territory where it committed genocide. #Infograph

Former President Yoon sentenced to life in prison by Seoul court for his brief imposition of martial law in 2024.

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Nothing a genAI model spews out is 'great and watchable', it is at best a synthetic fascimile of something great and watchable (at current tech levels, far out of reach), because art is about human communication and genAI is about corporate dehumanization, breaking human communication. So, no.

The headline doesn't even begin to describe how wildly unethical the background of this story is, which is that the survivor only shared the story with one person- her psychiatrist- who is Kamel Doud's wife

We used to have this on KBC in the 90s. "Professional View" and "In Search of an Answer".