Government is a matter of making choices between mutually exclusive policies that have benefits and costs, and those costs and benefits befall different groups differently. 44/

19th BTWD. Saw a child enjoying a house being destroyed by a backhoe & heard a bus stop recorder version of Ode to Joy.

Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

“Drought Shakes U.S. Wheat Outlook, USDA Predicts Smallest Crop in 54 Years“ This seems bad, right? www.northernag.net/drought-shak...

Dr. Johnson knew three centuries ago

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

‪Happy John Constantine's birthday to those who celebrate. As this was 1988, that makes him 73 @jamiedelano.bsky.social

I feel like a relic today. I like books. I like having a personal library where I can always pluck something off of a shelf whenever the fancy strikes me. I like physical media. I like knowing if I want to watch or listen to ___ I can simply do so without paying a toll to a massive consortium.

One tiny empty nest. In need of wren ovation.

Bicyclist hurt in collision with sprinting deer on W&OD Trail

CHONKERS

The Book of the Year. @catamaroon.bsky.social My thanks to @garykwolfe.bsky.social & @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social for the @coodestreet.bsky.social podcast for letting me know it exists!

Greed puts out the sun.

When there are wolves again

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

*I'm pretty sure I could write a series of cyberpunk science fiction yarns that would dramatize every single one of these so-called "laws" *Especially since one of them, "Sturgeon's Law," was made up by a science-fiction writer about science fiction lawsofsoftwareengineering.com

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

are there so many dog photos that bluesky can not load them all

this is just to say I have had an issue fetching the posts that were on the timeline and which you were probably hoping to doomscroll forgive me the takes were so hot and so rate limited

Don’t ask me to hug planetary enshittification. /ends

lets go back to worrying about piranhas, quicksand and the bermuda triangle is what i am trying to say

Most people looking to invest focus on what to invest in or how to do it, but the real key to success is knowing what NOT to do. You need road map to smarter decisions & fewer regrets. How Not to Invest available in paperback format in the US from May 5th! Pre-order here lnk.to/hownottoinvest

What's surprising is that this crew is very unlike what you would expect from an uprising, riding popular popular anger about a stagnant economy, cronyism, and a system of suffocating local fiefdoms. We will see whether and how this conservative technocracy can meet the moment. For now, it provided

“No longer swallowing the frog” is my new catch phrase

A guiding principle of my life is, "there is no perfection without iteration." You must fail. You must be humiliated in the results of your initiative. There is no other way.

*For years on end, my feed featured tireless Russia cyberwar bots diligently pushing their flood-the-zone fairy-stories about every possible global development *Russia's Internet blackout and the loss of Telegram really seems to have slammed an Iron Curtain on their fingers

Clod Code: it was generated by prompting from a non-programmer and it doesn’t actually work properly, but at least there’s lots of it.

Over the moon and can't quite believe this happened, When There Are Wolves Again won the BSFA Award for Best Novel 🐺 Thanks so much to everyone who voted and congrats again to all the brilliant finalists.

Offer me everything I ask for.

The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.

i too would like a suit preloaded with snacks tbh

Viral Crypto Death Scam

13. Play against what's on the board, not against who you think your opponent is.

Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on reading it in April, he looks back on its origins – and how the idea of moving to Mars holds up today

And a thing I love about going is that there will always be someone there who's lifting more than you and someone who's lifting less, which means there's never a reason to worry about it at all.

Edwin Díaz gets a live trumpet for his entrance in LA

I just heard that Tracy Kidder passed away this week — I read his THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE as a teen, and it’s one of a handful of books I can point to as having a significant impact on my life, starting with going to engineering school. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

good news the dogs are still good

Happy to share that both When There Are Wolves Again and The Coral Bones are now available in the US 😊🐺🪸 www.amazon.com/stores/E.-J....

WHERE IS @darthbluesky.bsky.social

*Hahaha, that was steampunk, but steampunk was also a warning *The radical-science techno-surveillance oligarchy that rules the "World of the Difference Engine," it looks more up-to-date year by year

I’m assuming this is a non-controversial opinion here, but sometimes, after a long gap since you’ve last listened to it, “Train in Vain” comes on, and you’re just, like, “oh yeah - music - it’s really good.”

‘The bees would disagree’

I've seen a lot of demoralized posts (and emails) from people who didn't get into grad school this cycle. This was one of the worst cycles I've ever seen due to massive cuts to research funding, financial difficulties at universities, and technological disruptions.

next best thing I’ve watched this year after Sorcerer youtu.be/4q8wZ15ALz4?...

Bruce Sterling gave me this shirt in memory of our curiously neglected 1994 masterpiece "Big Jelly". www.rudyrucker.com/completestor...

EnKITTification Artist: bruised_blood https://b3ta.com/board/11426454 From the '80s Tech Today' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/popular/ #80sTechToday

“Some of theses I do for myself” Is a pretty good host joke

“Someone on LinkedIn viewed your profile” <deletes account>