sam altman’s wife after sex: wow, you were… actually pretty bad sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

We have a big @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social episode this week featuring baker and magician Claire Saffitz. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts.

New awareness campaign

They look so good. @paljus.me and @chuff.dev look amazing too. Highly recommend Nibbles!

Fun fact: The book was originally named "The Widening Gyre" but both my US & UK editors warned that a) maybe not everyone would get the allusion, b) no one was sure how to pronounce "gyre". Fair points; I changed the name, and then put the title into a climactic speech.

I was reading a book by @scalzi.com and heard a line ("I am the Consuming Fire") and thought wow, that would be a great name for the book, before remembering he clearly agreed because it was in fact the name of the book.

Yesterday Reform UK were given the Rusty Razor award for the worst pseudoscience of the year. From denying climate change to platforming quacks, Reform propagate dangerous nonsense. www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/10/refo...

Horizon Zero Dawn definitely got it right that a malignant tech billionaire with main character syndrome would kill the world

Virgin sucks so fucking much. I feel like I'm talking to an LLM. They keep saying that they've raised a collection for me, but it keeps not getting collected and now I've been charged. Utter fucks.

Ji chicken still goes hard. I really should find Taiwanese plum powder.

A children's hospital that I was in when I was younger has been open since 1852.

NEW Renegade Cut about Cruelty Squad and Charlie Kirk www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Yb...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

What? An "AI" browser that totally tracks every single thing you do, almost certainly to train its AI model? Unpossible!

The Rascal does not dream series makes me nostalgic for a bunch of experiences I've never had. It's so fucking good. Just starting Santa Claus.

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Firework season is properly traumatising our poor girl again. This year she started getting anxious a few weeks ago just because the evenings were getting darker. Currently she is trying in vain to dig a hole under the WiFi router. (We've tried many things, free reign to patrol helps the most.)

In every way that matters, a heist is more artful than using GenAI.

Fuck, this hits me in my soul.

Know what's great fun, medical teams fighting over who gets to not take care of you.

Both Pim and Gameservatory are great, and are well worth your hard earned subscriptions.

I ate most of a burger today. I hate that it's something to be proud of, but it is, so yay I guess?

uh... does anyone know the extension for the Spire's IT department

🚨Dan and Phil confirm they’ve been in a relationship for almost 16 years.

Spice is the best MTG video maker, and it absolutely deserves nice things.

Seven made a load of stickers for @paljus.me and they're incredible. Highly recommend commissioning her!

So I've briefly mentioned that I'm currently dealing with a pretty severe eating disorder. I don't know how to deal with someone - a medical professional - talking about how "well", and "healthy" I look, when I am definitely not that.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Ok so I am trying to get 4,000 patrons for my podcast @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social by the end of 2025. To that end, I think in a the next month or so I am going to do a 24 hour live stream where every person who signs up can request me to perform a song, live, with no preparation. That sounds fun.

What an icon

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

let the gourd times roll

I hate how evergreen this is.

Anyone who sees this, help a fellow chocolate loving derg out.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

I've just been discharged by a psychiatric clinic because I'm too high risk...urrgh.

Tw: disordered eating, mental. Health, suicidality. In losing weight is fucking impossible, having eaten basically nothing for 2 weeks, my weight hasn't changed at all from where it was. I've already lost a bunch, but not losing anything is fucking weird. For context, I've developed an ED.

Well, that scuppers my plan to get it at launch.

Merve Öztürk, 25, who just begrudgingly ate one carrot, is now allowed to eat whatever the fuck she wants, because that’s definitely how nutrition works.

Randy, please, stop talking and log the hell off.

I love accidental inbox poetry.

There is a ghost who lives under our table and seeks offerings.

.... well i wrote one book about weird right wing internet shit and one book about conservative american religion

!!NEW VIDEO ON PATREON!! The next video essay is now available, close to a whole month in advance, to everyone who donates $1 a month or more! If you aren't a patron, and can't afford becoming one, it would mean the world to me if you'd share this post around. 💜 www.patreon.com/posts/yes-bo...

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Absolutely check out your local library! They're great community spaces, and it's rare that they'll have just books. If your library doesn't have digital services or a makerspace, walking through the front door and being counted among the patrons is a bonus when the librarians go out for funding.

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...