Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

AI firms' naked desire to eliminate knowledge workers' subsistence has forced their main market into a lose-lose situation. Either AI doesn't work, and your job sucks more, or AI does work, and you lose your job. That's a tough sell to the knowledge workers you're trying to sell to.

And anyway, Battle Royale (a novel then a manga and a film), is just Lord of the Flies with extra steps: the wrestling competition format of the same name, and a Stephen King book, among other things... A "battle royal", as Anne points out with many fine examples below, is its own genre.

Gaming, video watching show no long-term impact on attention. Social media use appears to steadily increase inattentiveness in children. Patterns remained even after accounting for #ADHD genetic risk

I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

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Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness. “Never used to be like this,” he insists.

I had this on cassette

I don't know what this is. Is this something?

Sounds like a skill issue. Git gud Galloway

Bought it on GOG and added a Preservation donation. Probably never get around to playing it, but fuck this weird Christo-fascist "boo sex yay ultraviolence" censorship. Kids can watch a person's head explode a million different ways, but god forbid adults see a flaccid penis

"Wrapped" is the single most creative way to sell "our service collects data on you constantly and that's fun." Spotify figured that out first. They have yet to hit a second innovation that endears them to users, despite trying such tactics as "ads for ICE" and "paying musicians bupkis."

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

...terrifying vision as skulls and skeletal remains shaped from the snow in his winter garden. The theme is suggestive of karmic retribution as a result of his murderous misdeeds. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe 🎨1 & 4. 'Taira Kiyomori Haunted by Strange Sights' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1845. 3/4

One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.

>> When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”

"...eroticism, like romance and seduction, cannot exist without risk. [...] And what the modern perspective on sex and love insists on is that uncertainty is indistinguishable from danger." superb, sad, stuff

Wow. I mean ... Hmm. Wow.

Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox

most of the prominent voices in U.S. media are some of the least remarkable thinkers and writers you've ever fucking seen because the extraction class dictating the contours of modern media doesn't want anything else inflammatory gibberish infotainment

Look up brand new slang that I'd never heard before... Find old reddit post from three years ago asking same question ☹️

Aside from the gravitational pull of these two heavyweights, if you have an interest in misinformation, or conspiracy theory, or the permeability of "reality" and fiction, then this conversation between Stewart Lee and Alan Moore is compelling.

"[I]ncreasingly like Orwell the Hitch is on your side, regardless of what your side may be, and if he is not, then you can still apparently act in his spirit, carrying his torch in whatever direction you wish [...] Which seems an odd legacy for a writer who didn’t allow for vagueness or bothsideism"

"No gods have heard your prayers..." 😂

Yo, you want a clickbait headline with an article that actually delivers? Yeah, thought you might.

I joined twitter in May 2007. I have studied or worked in/with social media since fucking ... *Faceparty*. The only way to survive a world saturated with social media in 2026 is not to take social media seriously.

Every single media lawyer I have spoken with this weeks agree that the BBC is doing exactly the right thing in admitting a mistake without admitting liability.

Gabecube, Gabecube, Gabecube! #gabecube

I'm just a boy, standing in front of a girl, asking her if they have any sub-£100 trainers that don't squeak like I've got guinea pigs tied to my feet

It’s raining!

People who underline library books in pencil should be given a warning. People who do it in blue biro should be hunted for sport

Some dangerous precedents here, but bits of hope too

My Outlook Calendar for the rest of this month is giving Jackson Pollock and I do not like it

I know that this information has been floating around for some time now, but if anyone needs some dots connected, here goes:

*We* do, Monsieur Couchfucker. It's you lot who've suddenly gone quiet

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

i fully agree with this theory and in my actual field, british architectural history, The Problem is that Salisbury Cathedral is built on top of a lake and no i am not exaggerating

“They are focused most intensely on Covid-19 shots, but are also looking at vaccines more broadly. Prasad wants to make it more difficult for vaccine makers to tell doctors they can offer their shots together, something providers have done for decades to more efficiently protect people from disease”

Ahh, so that's why I'm gonna die single

Ooh, pretty

This has cheered me immensely

I don't normally remember my dreams. They're always convoluted and complex. Usually bad. My favourite dream ever that I *can* remember was being married to Björk. Nothing naughty. Just happily married.

That "Hard times create strong men" crap is always being spaffed off by someone whose experience of hard times is his electric can opener being broken

Wtf

Incredible stories of historic war still being uncovered.

Wait wait wait. Nintendo descends like the four horsemen of the apocalypse upon every smol-bean DIY creative for even looking at their IP a bit funny, but fucking ICE / The DHS takes a literal shit on Pokémon and all they can manage is a fucking disclaimer?!

Just discovered and am now obsessed with art collective MSCHF 💜 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF?w...

Just discovered that big pharma marketers in the US call social media health influencers "patient leaders" and now I'm dry-heaving my way through this part of the research