The girl in this story should be celebrated, not punished. The boy should be disciplined, perhaps expelled, not arrested. The company that enabled a teenage boy to make child porn nudes of a 13 year old classmate should be shut down, and the owners charged. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

As I ride a Waymo through San Francisco and see every ad advertising some AI this and that, and people in need in every direction, I am trying to imagine, what would the world be like if the Bay Area, as a tech/business ecosystem, didn’t exist?

But are we getting paid as much as men to ruin things? NO! A woman has to ruin something 3 5 times harder than your average mediocre dude does to get paid only 75% as much! Keep fighting, my sisters.

Hey NYers, today is the day -- get out and vote!

Every time you like an artist’s artwork, an angel grows their wings. Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.

Someone is going to be murdered by one of these and it’s going to be an incredible detective story www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

This is a sad but correct decision. Thank you, @python.org, for committing to your values when it matters. I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.

Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

Hidden Door is forging ahead with the marriage of roleplay and fan fiction, built with humans, authors and AI. gamesbeat.com/hidden-door-...

Oh Paula, I would like a word.

It's Spooky Season, and if you relish exploring mysterious gothic horror in modern-day Amsterdam, you can now play Dracula on hiddendoor.co

Good advice, random door.

I've recommended this book before, now is the time to go order it!

This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...

These are very good words.

“I fucking love tropes.” - @scalzi.com Strong start to NYCC with this incredible panel on SciFi tropes with @cjfarley.bsky.social, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, @scalzi.com and moderated by @juliesnyder.bsky.social

I had my first run-in with Trump 2.0 complicity days after the 2024 election. Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others. Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever. wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...

Sometimes being a founder means staying up too late doing arts and crafts. We'll be at #NYCC tomorrow with an exciting launch, come find us (or at least find our QR code to skip the waitlist)!

😍 Ann Messner's "Du Bois: The FBI Files" at the "In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois" show @ Pratt Manhattan Gallery — making redaction tangible! (Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?

WHAT THE FUCK

What does it mean to "read for pleasure", and what does it mean that that's declining? I appreciate Mathew Ingram's pretty balanced take in his newsletter: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/so-whats-so-... ...and I expect that amidst all of the noise, we are finding new places and ways to read.

Okay bluesky please help me solve the mystery of why there is a blank VHS tape in this Tokyo subway station bathroom! (Also if this message was meant for me, please try again, I accept USB keys, parchment scrawls, graffiti, Signal, I prefer to be in a comedy or spy movie no horror plz)

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

He had me at “the Playskool version of Twitter”and at many more illustrations of sociopathy reduced to declawed swipes by neutered menchildren. How @davidjroth.bsky.social writes lifts one from an assaulting depression of nationality & unbelonging

This is going to immediately and enormously fuck up the lives of people you know and love. There are about 730,000 H1B holders in the US. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p...

I'm speaking at Medium Day 2025 in ... 10 minutes! My talk explores ways to reason about generative AI, and why everything is so dumb, and a few directions that I'm excited about anyway. medium.com/blog/all?top...

`ssh [email protected]` 🖤

New from me! We’ve got some fascinating data suggesting devs who *weren’t* worried about AI impacting quality are growing more concerned. Lots of nuance to dig into—grateful to folks like @mtrc.bsky.social, @hmason.bsky.social, and @brandon.insertcredit.com for weighing in!

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Plot cards have a huge impact on your experience in our game - and now they have a whole new look to match!

I love this post showing the care and attention the @hiddendoor.co art team puts into every world. And now your avatar can wear these fantastic Regency outfits!

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Sep 11th.

We had a ton of fun at the Toronto International Film Festival! Highlights were the AI on the Lot popup on Saturday, meeting with partners, and folks making the films we love.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

I'm on my way to Toronto for this panel and a weekend of film and meetups -- let me know if you're in town and we should catch up!

Having minor regrets about my chosen company name 😅

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

Live at 10am PT (in just 45 minutes!) ... and @hmason.bsky.social of Hidden Door will be joining us as this week's CHALLENGER for HAN TO HON COMBAT. Also Dan will be celebrating Skynet Sentience Day!

From behind a @hiddendoor.co a new challenger appears! We're very excited to have @hmason.bsky.social joining us tomorrow bsky.app/profile/hant...

TIL that you can be a Burger Scholar and open a burger restaurant and I may have another entry for the "careers I would have loved if only I had known that was a thing": www.hamburgeramerica.com

I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:

Just in: Anthropic has settled an AI copyright lawsuit brought by book authors. A judge had recently granted portions of the suit class-action status, raising the possibility of billions in statutory damages. I reached out to Anthropic, but they declined to comment or disclose the terms.

AI efficiency is important. The median Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 used 0.24 Wh of energy (<9 seconds of TV watching) & 0.26 mL (~5 drops) of water. Over 12 months, we reduced the energy footprint of a median text prompt 33x, while improving quality: cloud.google.com/blog/product...

How Comics Were Made is an amazing book and you, too, should get a copy.

Look at these wonderful people I get to work with! Sadly we missed some folks for the team meetup, so this isn't everyone, but it was nice to get together. (And yes, we are in a goth apartment with a neon Narrator.)