Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

It's 2026. We were promised flying cars. We can't even make Windows 11 look like Windows XP.

"everyone needs a joystick to hold onto" is legit quality journalism

I think both these things can be true at once

We proles could also be shot at any time in this gun-crazed country *and* we live our lives without influence, wealth, power, or security details. As a journalist, maybe you should try to understand why we're contemptuous right now, and consider the possibility that it's for a good reason.

yeah shaken their fists at yet another weak effort

The Child, aged 17, witheringly asks "where did you hear that? ChatGPT?" when I've said something she thinks is stupid.

Why hasn't this been the main talking point on "X" for the last five years?

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

"I’ve never been more proud of an invoice in my life," said an awful person, bragging about a dystopian vanity metric that's not only unsustainable in every way imaginable, but has zero bearing on productivity and is not an indicator of product value

"This is the publicly endorsed worldview of a company that is rapidly becoming load-bearing infrastructure for the federal government’s surveillance and enforcement apparatus, and it contains arguments that would be at home in a white nationalist pamphlet."

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Me, appearing from a gargantuan cloud of smoke: Stay in, get high and watch anime? Sounds like pretty good advice man

Palantir... where have a heard that before. Hey, is that the same spy-tech company the UK Gov gave a £300mil NHS England contract and a £240mil Ministry of Defence contract?

You know how you rehearse a perfectly lucid and erudite conversation in your head, and then it happens in reality and you go, "Good morning! CA BLH LEB SPA FA TURD CA? It's just that..." And you have to mime the last bit because it's all you have left? Yeah. That.

Soooo fkn good 🤩 Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII (2025 Mix) by Pink Floyd on Qobuz open.qobuz.com/album/gyoh6k...

Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age hillfort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn. www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

"Oshiroibana" (translated as Four-o'clock Flower) and was created in 1918 by the Japanese artist Maruta Shogo (1880–1961). The piece is a classic example of Bijin-ga, a genre of Japanese art that focuses on portraying beautiful women.

Well...

If sausage rolls are the extent of your culture, it deserves to be dismantled

America has more legal checks and balances in place for a single building than it does for... Everything else the President has ever done, including an illegal war

Whale oil beef hooked

Meta: "We will not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful." What a time to be alive

Here's the conclusion of my free newsletter going out tomorrow, on the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis. wheresyoured.at

Yeah, I have to say “spend decades screaming allegations of treason at your rivals, then absent-mindedly hand over decision-making to foreign tech companies, because you are basically groupies for the rich and powerful awestruck with admiration” would be exactly on-brand.

“British political class spends 50 years selling everything country owns to the super-wealthy, and then - panicking, because they realise they no longer have the state capacity to do anything the public likes or wants - outsource governance to Silicon Valley” Yes, I can believe that is happening.

Keir Starmer make one good decision impossible challenge speedrun

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

"Being middle-aged is worse than being old."

"We went through the late 80s totally undefined. That word sounds quite liberating, doesn’t it? Now everything is defined completely. In fact it’s disapproved of, not being defined."

Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this. kindlemodding.org

this goes hard as fuck

Communist party recruitment video bsky.app/profile/bran...

It didn't seem hyperbolic at the time, tbh fam

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

I'd be happy if I was that far away

Same. An American guy has my names and a Spanish surname. He's been mistaking my email for his for over a decade. I know his military record, alma mater, dog's breed and name, car make and model, job history, etc. He shows absolutely no sign of correcting this behaviour.

"The manosphere is dead and no one cares about Tate any more. Now it’s pseudo-intellectuals and right-wing commentators on podcasts espousing the same message in a different form, and it will go on to shift again."

This is so, so well-articulated.

🧵 thread and a half, this. Doing God's work watching this tripe so we don't have to.

"It feels like they went back in time and mugged that 22-year-old doofus kid. Stole her fairies and her heroes and her lovers and chopped them up to make monsters."

Cut my knuckle to absolute shit on a can of tuna. The doctor said these heal cuts 100mph faster

🧵 3 papers by me & my team Ullrich Ecker Fabio Carrella Emily Spearing Almog Simchon ask an urgent question: if you tell people they're being manipulated by AI — deepfakes, AI-written articles, microtargeted ads — is the manipulation defanged? Thread 👇 1/10

Psychopaths need help... to get them to be cruel and uncaring?

Read this fascinating article, you handsome sexy genius, you perfect human being, you marvellous bastard

Why am I only just finding out that Katy Perry kind-of killed a nun

One person *can* make a difference

A prominent Reform Senedd election candidate has said he will stand down after Nation.Cymru revealed an image of him performing a Nazi salute ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social