Hasbro owns the trademarks for Wizards of the Coast and is therefore the controlling company of Magic: the Gathering snd Dungeons and Dragons. D&D and M:tG will not get another cent from me until this deal is dead.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

idk i think in a time when it feels like nothing matters & all is futile it might actually be time to double down and write your stories & make your paintings & sing your songs & do your art. create the things that make us human and share them.

The Discord age verification discourse focuses on adults losing access to communities they have a right to access. That's important. I'm also worried, though, about the kids. They seem to be an afterthought in these conversations. They have much to lose too. 🧵 www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

Not to mention, of course, what happens when these kids grow up and then join us all online having learned nothing about how to safely navigate our digital spaces? Though, that problem assumes we'll still have an online environment for them to navigate when that time comes.

But a few things are on the horizon that ensures the creep won't stop there. For starters, the states and the federal government are increasingly imposing strict duties on websites to monitor kids. Discord is going to get this wrong one day. Some kids will bypass the verification measures.

Some kids will be exposed to content that Discord permitted for teen access, that the government has inevitably decided it no longer finds acceptable. Discord will land themselves back in court, and they will face increased regulatory threats over the remainder.

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

Woke up around 930-10ish. Used my phone in bed for a little. Now it's past noon. Idk how this happened

Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.

I've never wanted something to flop harder than this fucking misbegotten television show for transphobic 42-year-olds

Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something. By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.

genuinely like the most important takeaway from the whole Epstein saga is that there was no group of people with any degree of power (or desire for power) who were morally above it. it's left, right center, it's politics and royalty, it's higher ed, art and science research, no one's hands are clean

honestly “such good friends with both his ex-wives that they’re friends with each other” is a wonderful and underused trait in straight male characters, every woman in the orbit of Mickey Haller is such a goddamn delight

story land, route 16, glen, new hampshire, 1995

I ate my soup too fast. Pray for me

that lady in the pond in England was unfairly smeared

And that is how this super bowl, this lovely, shimmering object, embodies a story about the global interconnections of the medieval world, a world of diverse religious traditions and a reminder of a vibrant trade spanning the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean basin.

But porcelain was as costly as gold itself, so Iraqi potters invented an opaque white glaze that imitated the porcelain of China. A century later, they invented lustre, a technique to sheathe ceramics with a shimmering iridescent metallic pigment over the glaze. www.ashmolean.org/article/lust...

milt's iron horse restaurant, oak street, bakersfield, california, 1978

as always, people who have actually discovered an incredible productivity hack will simply use that productivity hack themselves, not sell their techniques to the masses in one-off classes

it’s just that the people playing apologist to predators in wider society usually do it for much lower, more pathetic stakes “we need his van for mutual aid” “he owns a 3D printer, tho” “he’s such a good organizer” etc.

the billionaires and cultural elites who assaulted girls — and the many more people who knew it was happening but just didn’t care or found reasons not to believe it — are not ontologically evil or a different species from the sorts of men in wider society, including crawling around radical spaces

Never Forget

Arch of Hysteria, by Louise Bourgeois, 1993, 📸 by @jaredctilton

I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.

the toothpaste is out of the tube on ICE now. I saw a woman who is a dressage professional post a fuck ICE video on tiktok.

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

affordable housing and access to health insurance are like. two of the biggest keys to a renaissance of american art

they were worried an investigation would publicly contradict the president’s lie so they just didn’t do an investigation

Like my only feeling trying to buy something on Amazon is that I’m under psychic attack.

fuck. did you know if you change things early in the plot, later plot elements need to change, too? someone should do something about that

Oh my god, they’re already not allowed to deport US citizens. This is not bargaining. This is acquiescence in the face of authoritarianism.

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

On my rare day out I did not find a life partner, but I did find a booth with lovely Black! Cinderella art by @littlelundmark23.bsky.social whom had a lovely and charming table assistant (that I also mentioned @citruscon.bsky.social to XD!) My sister was kind enough to buy it for me 🥹

can't stop thinking about this local street art i stumbled across today

My white-hot rage at seeing that the AI Summary dropdown in Gmail is now automatic can hardly be described.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

i went back to a tougher, pre-covid syllabus for my intro NT class this term. students have been rising to the occasion magnificently. like, for real, i was expecting a bunch of drops after day 1. i got emails and office visits instead. it’s making for a very fun teaching term!

Welcome to paradise, queen.

The Muppets scare me

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

beam me up lord

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Supporting example: this ancient glass pomegranate vase: phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...

no. what. what's going on. this is a matter of national security. who taught mariah carey italian