The pub where I play pool has a TAB where you can bet on procedurally generated CG greyhounds. (Basically betting on a dice roll, go figure) So I got the idea of a companion mobile app where kids can rescue the virtual dogs, play with them and pet them, and that made me sad for non-existent dogs.

Scientific observation 🤔

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Three months ago I’d have agreed, but I think now everyone who wants to code or… whatever else AI can actually do will shrug and move to Gemini (probably Anthropic folds at some point and Google gets Claude Code in the fire sale), and everyone who wants an AI “friend” will unzip and switch to Grok.

iOS just tried to autocorrect “I lurve you” to “I force you”, and I’m rather glad I caught that one before hitting enter.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

Donna started texting “get rid of the hookers” before coming home, and it has developed into a running narrative about what a pair of very bored sex workers get up to while I code.

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run it's a clown car."

Half of me wants to recommend the "Behind the Bastards" episode on Scott Adams, then the other half slaps me and says "It's two episodes totaling over three hours, who's going to listen to that?" and then the third half whispers "…you did."

Scott Adams will be remembered for his famous comic Dilbert by some, but most will remember him for this:

Trust me on this. I can save the world

Towns in England with no reticulated water because of no maintenance in a privatised system. Note not just no potable (ie drinking water) but you can’t even wash.

I think it’s reasonable for employers to tell people to try tools, especially ones employees might have a knee-jerk negative response to. But if they don’t want to keep using them? Listen to your people.

Honestly this works for everything “I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅ “Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌

That affects people's mental models about women, y'know? It gets referenced in future talks. "Remember that guy who got kicked out" becomes shorthand that speaks to how real groups of people are thought of. Also it comes from a guy who calls men men but women feeeeeemales. That speaks to motivation

Kinda surprised to see so many people uncritically sharing this story in which - non gay bar in Salt Lake City hosts a Heated Rivalry watch party on a random Thursday, two weeks after the season finale - there’s somehow only one man in this non gay bar on this random Thursday night for this party

It’s going to be so embarrassing when the US army discovers generating nudes of the enemy isn’t, in fact, a win condition.

The absolute textbook nonpology in the middle. "We deeply regret that you didn't understand what we did, and apologise for your misinterpretation of our actions."

this meeting could have been you having a solo conversation with ChatGPT

The nutjobs are coming out of the woodwork with a new Star Trek show with a diverse cast coming out this week. It's fucking hilarious to see them complaining about DEI in Trek when its creator literally said the following:

People aren't leaving; looks like more have arrived since we have. Someone just shouted "suck my dick" and the crowd joined in with a spontaneous "suck his dick!" chant.

I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/...

doing war crimes and shattering the NATO consensus because of the fucking mercator projection

Look Edmund did some pretty bad things but he did redeem himself

The predictable consequence of Australia's poorly thought out social media ban for kids is that high performing teens get cut off from their work, studies, investors, colleagues, customers. We warned about this. 🙄

"Hahaha" said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the seventeeth time that hour. "Fuck".

“A Storm of TERFs” was my least favourite ASOIAF novel.

I was wondering why I got a password reset request for the Instagram account I never use.

Trying to sneak out with the recycling.

If I learned anything from watching cricket in my youth, it was that drinking so heavily on the way to an Ashes tour that it becomes the stuff of myth is how you etch yourself on the history of the sport.

Ending my day deciding _not_ to rant at someone on Discord about the death of media literacy because they didn't understand the use of repetition for deliberate effect in the anime boobs game.

Seconded.

Claiming companies "make their best efforts to combat" bad things when they're clearly making no effort at all, if not actively encouraging them, is why governments keep having to step in to regulate tech.

Describe your account in three words: lefty nerd shit.

“It’s doubtful that the shooting will deter anti-ICE resistance. The observers, I fear, will now go out in twos and threes, ready to record not just the ICE kidnappings, but also, potentially, each other’s deaths.” www.theverge.com/policy/85905...

Haircut!

Tailwind CSS has had to layoff 3 out of 4 developers due to impact of AI on their business. Their business model is to upsell to their paid UI components from their developer docs. But AI usage has caused traffic to their docs to drop -40% and revenue has dropped -80%. Another victim of AI tool use

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

Really, ChatGPT is just giving you a luxury experience that is normally only accessible to the rich and powerful -- the experience of filling your life with butt-kissing and sycophancy until you completely lose touch with reality.

Which is why stuff like the Online Safety Act is coming from the same people. Women's bodily autonomy is icky, so a sex worker having a debit card is dangerous to children but a man having a machine that makes CSAM openly is okay because it's a man controlling women's bodies not ourselves.

Remember when TVs stopped getting noticeably better generation-on-generation so manufacturers tried to gin up demand with 3D TVs, then Smart TVs, and it turned out people overwhelmingly just wanted a TV TV?

If you accept a knighthood, you should have to participate in at least one jousting tournament a year. The tournaments should be televised.

Remember when we naively used to celebrate tech companies going public, but then we saw how it inevitably made them hostile to their own customers?

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

"We didn't install third-umpire tech that actually works because we wanted to spend more money on high speed cameras to do pointless infographics" isn't the best look, Fox commentators.

Author fame accrues to the book, not to the face. There are at any moment only two or three truly A-level famous (living) authors, and one of them is always Stephen King.