In MAWS everyone expects Superman to be evil. That he isn’t an Omni-man feels almost like a subversion.

🗣️ People, Not Platforms

The Onion is worth subscribing to for full-page ads alone.

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Man, Peter Grey using an obituary to further laud transphobia is as expected, but just shows how TACKY and schoolyard points point-scoring these types are.

Slay the Spire 2’s main problem is every update I have to play it to see how it’s somehow gotten even better

You people have no idea how much of TV got broken because empty-inside execs wanted to sound cool at parties, and "15 episodes a year of really popular TV" was just not cool.

Most importantly it gave execs who were good at their job cover to bring back TV they knew the viewers wanted and execs who were bad at their job -- some of whom actively broke networks they used to be in charge of -- an irrefutable data point, something to mimic and then pretend they always loved.

😕 "Holmes that's not a smoked kipper, that's naval treaty" - rip Hottest Watson David Burke

lygen, adj: lying, false. (LUE-yen / ˈly-jɛn) #OldEnglish #WOTD

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

trying to write fantasy will have you reading things like the wikipedia page for 'money'

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Psyched about this, Molly has not missed yet

More flexible, saves money, and, critically, (1) can be more trusted by the public and (2) doesn't hand sensitive private data over to actual fascists (3) preserves rather than relinquishing national sovereignty.

This has been said to death but I'll just say it again: if you're in the creative arts space stop calling your art "content". Call it "work"! Calling your art "work" shows it's the result of time and skill. "Content" makes something sound like it has no purpose other than to take up space.

I'm with "ban the pervert glasses" not "the glasses are bad at reading but they said sorry and I believe my glasses."

Rawbraining it

Love how these fuckers market eugenics as the real hard forbidden truth that the establishment doesn't want you to know about instead of just the dominant mindset of the worst and unfortunately most powerful people alive during the last century and a half

Unrelatedly, I loved the audio version of THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS but there's a bit where the narrator says 'edited' when I wrote 'elided' in the text and I was like "HEY! THOSE AREN'T THE SAME WORDS! WHO DIRECTED THIS?!!?"

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

This is sad. In the early years, when we were all blogging it was a good community. We stopped chatting after 2016 and I couldn't tolerate his Covid stances, but this is genuinely sad, for everyone who loved him.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

this website has to engage in a ridiculous discourse about whether or not it is good every 8 days. so i think we can clear it up. it is not good. it is largely annoying. many people on here are antisocial weirdos. but im posting with my pals on it. so net positive.

As they did when Kickstarter embraced blockhain a few years ago, we hope @backerkit.com demonstrates greater moral clarity should puritanical payment processors try to influence what projects they allow on their platform.

Yeah she knows, she cosplayed as Starfire

You can't fool me. That's Koriand'r, princess of Tamaran. That's a Teen Titan. That is a George Pérez original

Under diagnosed so I keep reposting when it comes up in sub threads.

Palantir “shamelessly used mock-MoMA branding for the logo + as a leitmotif for the entire [AIPcon] event… The conference employed, as a projected stage backdrop for Karp, Abstract Expressionish painting simulations… Flashing above their heads was the tagline THERE IS ONLY THE ARTIST AND THE WORK.”

If your opinion is that Bluesky has been a net-negative on US politics (lol) and you run a Substack (LOL), then you are not a serious person and should not be taken seriously

Council by-election on the 21st. Just saw the Reform leaflet. Candidate lives in London, nearly 250 miles from the local council ward. I know, I know paper candidates etc, but seriously, for a local council? Bullshit merchants, the lot of em

PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) is now PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome). The name change follows a multiyear process stemming from a recognition that ovarian cysts aren't the primary aspect of the condition, which affects multiple body systems, and many patients don't have them.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

So it turns out Shit Autocorrect will tell you that Mike Patton the musician is the same Mike Patton some dude who did assault. On one hand, this is a thing that happens to non-famous people all the time, but on the other, I'm looking forward to his album about it. metalheadzone.com/faith-no-mor...

I feel like sighing and wishing people had listened to the good folks at @medconfidential.bsky.social years ago

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

MBTI was created by a eugenicist too, so FAR worse than pop astrology (Non paywalled version archive.is/bxn2R )

The other thing is the robots are stingy with the porn and drugs. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

we don’t really need to report on/talking about this using dumb incel culture terminology. we can just call it “male body dysmorphia” because that’s what it actually is

This is great. Revolt of the victims. ‘There’s a saying that you are what you eat... As for me, I am a pigeon. I am stolen bread. I am garbage.’

This part right here. Heed the people you claim to be worried about or allies of who actually LIVE in these places. If those people don't think it's helpful to try to emulate the lightning in a bottle that was the HB2 boycotts in NC, then maybe listen to THEM about what they ACTUALLY WANT AND NEED.

It's the ableism. Not disablism -- ableism. Per Fiona Kumari Campbell: "Ableist systems involve the differentiation, ranking, negation, notification and prioritization of sentient life." (Campbell 2017, 287 – 288).

annoyed at anthropic’s not so subtle branding of claude as having some kind of soul and passing their research off in popular language arena as neuroscience eg paper published calls it “explanations” transformer-circuits.pub/2026/nla/ but on x they use the word “think”

i think my actual note is that ever since Highland Song I've been hung up on the idea of games that feel like they come from a real time and a real place, something I want to see so so so much more of in this medium (especially if that place isn't America)

Meanwhile YOU will be pissing half a river away to irrigate a monocultured green square that is indistinguishable from a godsdamned golf-course. We are not the same.

"Touch grass" you say! Mate I'm gonna go back to the dirt and blood under fingernails. The rolling eyes and the foaming mouth, and the honeyed tongue that spits venom and raises welt, reweaving myself amidst the roots and leaves and the dusty godflesh of fruiting bodies and intricate mycelium.

I'm telling you, it's a lot MORE effort to maintain digital archives. And since we've invented the printing press, utterly destroying an entire book is not on the table any longer, whereas you cannot read digital work without a stable electrical system.

"no one deserves [xyz]", bullshit. just because something is excessive or uneeded for one person doesn't mean it isnt necessary for another for them to reach any similar level of functioning as society demands