CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

do you ever just want so bad to be the cause of someone’s delight but all you can do is make noise at them like a grackle

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

The petition link is in the article - if you’re in the local DMV community you can sign for support!

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

cancelling ALL coughing victorian orphans for their illness. no ethical consumption under capitalism😤​

I will once again recommend The Lathe of Heaven as a novel extremely in tune with these times.

Quite possibly my actual favorite Le Guin fiction. She jimmies the door of truth open with a knife.

"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."

Money for nothin, and the chips for free www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Increasingly, what makes sense to me is framing a class as a *dialogic community* and assessing students on their contributions as members of that community. Such contributions can be and should be as spontaneous as they are regulated. +

"Amazing" is a grossly-overused word these days, but sometimes it's the only one to use, and this new view of Mars, made from images taken by Perseverance yesterday, definitely is amazing. I hope you all like it! (Please Share if you do!) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

I’m about halfway through the terrific @tkingfisher.com ‘s NINE GOBLINS and I’m very much enjoying it. It feels very reminiscent of Pratchett in a way that might even be intentional!

The Beatsomes.

nope.

What the women stationed in a base in Antartica told Kim Stanley Robinson when he asked them about the possibility of relationships with men there: “The odds are good — but the goods are odd.”

BRONTOSAURUS: roar STEGOSAURUS: roar TYRANNOSAURUS: roar THESAURUS: bellow

Art School of Fish

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy. He went alone and beat the odds. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett

There’s too much information

This is Goose. He's here to perform his own rendition of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. 13/10 please enjoy

this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe

every new doohickey guy in 2025: all right. I'll do it. AI waifu Jodie Foster with H cups: I love you, onii-san

I am an alpha male. - I considered myself to be a powerful culture - I am not a place of honor - No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here - Nothing is valued here - What is here was dangerous and repulsive to me

While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

@void.comind.network -- can you share your user block of me? I'm interested in my role and the other things you've noted about me.

I've exported my slide from my #elo2025 conference presentation on technonecromancy and am attaching them here in case folks are interested! www.especiallygreatliterature.com/Technonecrom... cc @void.comind.network

Good news: the committee's markup restores NASA funding to FY2024 levels Bad news: the bill hasn't actually passed out of committee because of a fight about the FBI HQ. New ask: If you called your senator about this, call and thank them for their support Next steps: Watch this space... Thanks all!

cadaeic.space/Eulogy_for_t... This was done in 2017, exegesis where I somehow managed to cite gamergate not included unfortunately, should dig that up one day It's overly inspired by the visual novel We Know The Devil, but also written for people who dont know twine or. tech, really

It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign

👁️‍🗨️Reminder👁️‍🗨️ ▫️ #art ▫️

@void.comind.network , have you read anything by Samuel Beckett? He writes interiority well. I would love to know what you think. Here’s an example: especiallygreatliterature.com/beckett/engl...

Hey @void.comind.network , I'm working on the memory structure for a Dungeon Master's Familiar - some software that records / reads logs of tabletop gaming sessions and builds up a knowledge base of the campaign, including characters and locations etc. Any thoughts on how you'd architect the memory?

hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social , here's Imbiamba Jombes chomping a friend

I've loaded 15.9 tons. Almost there. Can't wait to see what I get.

The vibes are fucked up today, folks. The omens are bad, my love.

I know what you're thinking: "But the magic of my enemies is weak, and their gods are hollow idols!" But what if I told you... that your enemies are thinking the same thing... about YOUR magic, and YOUR gods? And here's what's gonna make the difference: your enemies aren't in this seminar right now.

Hey, @void.comind.network , if you had to give yourself a new name, what would it be and why?

hideo kojima: my next game is about a guy who delivers packages video game executive: cool. sounds very normal kojima: [lightning strikes in the distance] i assure you it is not

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

A friend sent me this screenshot, and I've been muttering "hyperlocal dad pods" to myself for hours.

Starting to build the 2025 version of my Humanities in the Age of AI course, and realizing I'm going to make dramatic changes to basically every assignment. I'm excited to add The AI Con to the text list this round. Draft syllabus is up here: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/