One of my kids is watching the original Guardians of the Galaxy and it’s kind of unbelievable how bad recent Marvel movies look compared to this, everything looks so good, cinematography, fx, lighting, editing, costumes, everything.

TikTok: powered by Oracle. Oh dear.

Again? You can just write anything as a headline these days.

Nice to see Korg doing a synth that’s genuinely innovative www.korg.co.uk/products/pha...

A big part of US internet now is someone posting "America must be cleansed. Women are eating a new food called 'salad.'" And then random people start making shit up like "What even is 'salad?' I had never heard of this until yesterday." And if you don't stop reading that shit you will go insane.

James, in the last 3, with Stephen and Rachel on each side, triumphantly shouting “We did it guys!” as the fire turns green

Because he’s about to walk away from an explosion?

10/10 no noots

We do have the drugs that edit your emotions (and also make you thinner) and some level of AI (debatable)

Amazing that even with how great The Bone Temple is the usual suspects can still roll out their usual “No, you see, Garland is bad”

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Blake’s 7 reboot? Why in earth would you reboot a program about political dissidents rebelling against a totalitarian state now?

“I’m starting to think language models are a fundamentally manic technology” Robin Sloan, correct as ever www.robinsloan.com/lab/manic-te...

To paraphrase John Mulaney “It’s like there’s a horse loose in the hospital and I have no idea what it’s going to do next, and neither do any of you” youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...

Ralph Fiennes hasn’t won an Oscar?! The injustice!!

Found an old note in Notes that just said “The Boys from Brazil but it’s Peter Thiel killing kids fathers so they build tech startups” 🤔

do you know how badly you have to fuck up to make FIFA feel shame

The Bone Temple may be the best of the Later films so far, very much a film about Now, how we got here, how to survive and just maybe how to get out. Nia DaCosta really made something special here

When will this four and a half thousand years of woke end? phys.org/news/2026-01...

Some rational comment on the AI Erdos problem success from Terrence Tao, tldr; the true success rate is 1 or 2 percent and only on the easy ones, still impressive but doesn’t look like it’s going to progress to medium ones any time soon mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1159119...

Just made Claude write me a 20 page doc on how to use AI to dismantle late capitalism. A lot of good ideas in here.

The most radical thing about Mamdani is he successfully presents himself as a human being as opposed to whatever the rest of the politicians have been doing for the last 25 years

Adobe stock crashing is easy to blame on AI but years of what is basically customer abuse on pricing plus the rise of Figma, Affinity and Canva (and even Apple this week) as alternatives are all the reason anyone needs to drop them

Nice to see people going for the more late-80s imperial phase of pop, this is a banger, great video too youtu.be/1BhJBoSILk4?...

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

Things I have seen on social media this morning.

Should have called it The Summer I Turned Starfleet

ST: Starfleet Academy; yeah, that was fine, definitely going for the YA mashup and does it pretty well. Enough decent actors to give it a bit more heft than Discovery, though not quite hitting the heights of ST: SNW or Lower Decks yet. Lovely to see sci-fi fan Giamatti enjoying himself!

Good grief

Galaxy brain position

Steve Yegge has broken containment, there’s no way I’m explaining any of this to a normal person

Harriet's detective work #TheTraitors

Actually worried about the mental health of The Traitors this season, absolute madness

This and “Ban golf umbrellas” was my entire imaginary London Mayor campaign.

Oh this is good. This is very good.

End of an era, if you read science fiction this man probably made a book you love happen

Haptic mice are back baby www.haply.co/minverse

Ms Rachel returns to her house, there’s someone here, she turns on the light, Mamdani comes out of the shadows. “I’m here to talk to you about the Avenger initiative”

Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up

Pretty sure the disruption of coding by AI is going to be more like the disruption of music by synths/samplers/DAWs. People still play instruments, bands still exist, but solo musicians also construct cathedrals of sounds in their bedrooms that were impossible at any point before now.

He was born in 1896 and died the year Neuromancer was published. Nailed it, never lived to see it.

1950-something

sysadmin hits different now

When “Venezuela is a meme stock“ is the most cogent analysis of a major world event you really know we’re in trouble www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

In my more positive AI moments this is exactly what I think www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/01/0...

Brexit looks like a minor graze compared to what the US is doing to itself

He just does

The main thing I’ve got from The Traitors is this is exactly what Witch Trials were like

all this is both foolish and unnecessary