null's Amazon page (with its three whole ratings) is showing "Customers who bought this item also bought..." books by @scalzi.com and @qntm.org so that's a small honour*. Almost like sharing a shelf.

Back among the Saes. There's a notable difference in the shapes of people here to home.

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

Big deal I can already identify people with near perfect accuracy

Another month, another milestone down. Stories for the void. Most things that happen, happen in obscurity.

Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding theintercept.com/2026/03/30/t...

in all honesty I don't think you can be properly anti-LLM when you have this little of a clue how it works

Way to instantly kill any theoretical credibility you might've had. The author, Steven Rosenbaum, tries to downplay this but the details make it clear this is a massive and disgusting error.

I can honestly tell you that if I were offered a seat on a rocket, I would have MANY questions and would not just get on, as the idea of being reduced to dust over the Atlantic Ocean does not appeal to me.

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

_0_ Days since being undefeated

Slightly bemused by the new Wuthering Heights. A sort of Tim Burton on Ao3 feel to it.

Let me get this straight: the FOUNDER OF BRITISH FASCISM’S grandson runs Palantir for the UK? He wears blackshirts, pals around with Jordan Peterson & Farage, gives speeches about “restoring the West” & reps the company empowering *multiple genocidal regimes?* History truly repeats itself as farce

With this project, I gave myself free reign to simply make up or portmanteau words as I see fit and it has been a very pleasant decision.

On the final read-throughs and personal edits of Dim Gods. Printing it out took most of the day as I ran out of black ink, then of blue ink, then of paper and had to make a run to the shop for more.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

I wish reporters would stop saying stuff like 'Scientists say we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' And simply say 'we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' It's not an opinion, it's a fact

x.com/ZiaYusufUK/s... This is certainly... something.

'The Welsh language is no longer perceived as an archaic and insular relic. And it was five/ six indie rock stoners who genuinely had more to do with that shift than any number of sensible Senedd initiatives.' Reissue of the Week: Precreation Percolation by #SuperFurryAnimals buff.ly/QsV26R4

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r... @desmog.com

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Preview.

Having lived very close to the center of crisis twice in recent years (3 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered, 8 blocks from where Renee Good was murdered), this is very true. The people who have come out of these crises in the best emotional shape are those who found community.

ICYMI: "Rooftop solar now covers hospitals, schools and public buildings. In 2025, the country installed enough to power over a million homes, all while under fire." DW www.dw.com/en/how-ukrai...

“On Tuesday, the Energy Secretary gave a speech with one overriding message: “Every solar panel we put up, every wind turbine we build, every heat pump we install, every EV on the road makes our country more secure.”

Beggars belief that Met Police is in talks with #Palantir about giving them access to highly sensitive data, when there’s already such concern over its links with ICE & Israeli military. Palantir already has UK contracts worth over £500m, incl. with NHS. We should be scrapping them not signing more

The Child, aged 17, witheringly asks "where did you hear that? ChatGPT?" when I've said something she thinks is stupid.

A minor delay working on these edits.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

Warning: Do not run AI Agents on any device used to access Signal or other content that you want to keep safe + unsurveilled. We made this graphic to be posted in your Signal groups to explain what the threat is. Share it widely if you can. More at AISnitches.org

All DG beta readers have checked in... Amazing people that they are. Time to get back to it. I'm still very excited about this project.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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Why would blue-collar warehouse workers be so angry at billionaires?

Brian, who wrote an excellent book relating the 19th-century Luddite movement to today’s tech backlash (“Blood in the Machine”), is absolutely the person to read on this.

#ForestFriday The trees have started Friday; they're dancing in the forest.

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including: - Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel - 5G LTE modem - 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

On Monday we reported on the 8 most insane fascist and antisemitic accounts JD Vance follows on X. @kylebazgo.bsky.social identified the worst of them, HowlingMutant, as Alexander Norden of NYC. He's very edgy, like posting about his sexually attraction to a pile of shoes at the Holocaust Museum.

*DEEP BREATH* I'm selling prints of my painting and illustration, for the first time! Locally printed, hand trimmed, on textured fine art paper in a wide range of sizes! Made with black walnut ink foraged by queer witches, brewed under the solstice moon. cauldronfirestudios.com/fine-art-pri...

Saw/heard on morning walk: - caterpillar crossing the road - little birds flying a hem-stitch ahead of me - meltwater in the ditches - nuthatch - gang of robins - 2 Canada geese overhead - stubborn clumps of snow - Busch & Bud cans a drunkard neighbor tossed - a bluebird calling "chirber- chirber"

A reminder for tomorrow: crimethinc.com/steal-someth...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

This Borges fanfiction is excellent.

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

Two recent studies have re-examined risk of birds colliding with rotor blades of wind turbines. Research found that there was not a single collision. "The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife." www.euronews.com/2026/04/11/t...

This is a great warning, but calling it "conniving" etc. ascribes human emotions and motivations to chatbots that do not exist. "AI" does not have its own desires and motivations. That doesn't mean it can't harm you. Cancer doesn't have motivations either. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...