@hironennes.bsky.social 's "The Works of Vermin" is a remarkable book and you should read it if you like anything weird or weird adjacent. Or just remarkable books in general. I have many thoughts and I might try to put them in order at some point, but boy, I am stunned.

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

It's a huge hit in Europe 🤣🤣🤣

Un beau texte pour les 15 ans d'une belle maison ! auxforgesdevulcain.fr/blog/l-histo...

Christ, this is fucking dystopian. How about free art classes, language courses, music lessons, sport sessions, further education modules or anything other than this. This is the antithesis of education it’s a campaign of national brain rot.

Street Fighter II and Soucalibur are only eight years apart, the length of time it now takes to almost make one game before it is cancelled.

We're launching a website. Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers. jank.cool If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

These are cool people and you should read/follow them:

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

@linguisticae.com & @tract-linguistes.org devaient déjà le savoir mais j'ignorais que la forme "nénuphar" était une erreur de l'académie française en 1935 ou que la graphie "événement" est née du fait qu'un imprimeur n'avait pas assez de caractère "è" 🙃 www.lemonde.fr/la-matinale/...

Duckduckgo conducted a survey to see if their users were keen on AI search. 90% ---yes, 90%--- voted against having AI in their search engine. This is glorious. Google et al. should take note of this. voteyesornoai.com

Birds I met in the past week.

Several thousand people protested in Paris Sunday over the death in custody of a Mauritanian immigrant worker, yelling slogans against "a police force that kills us", an AFP journalist saw. u.afp.com/SBLb

(best photos of the last week?)

I CAN'T WAIT (Also next month's my birthday in case anyone's interested. And I dont yet own a physical copy of any of the books in this series. Just saying. You do you.)

spider man fart from home

That's what we want to hear.

MIO is out and getting raving reviews! We helped the team polish their incredible story: ✏️ Cindy Asselin de Beauville — Narrative Support & Audit ✏️ @rikgodwin.bsky.social — Additional Writing ✏️ @iamleyeti.bsky.social — Narrative Support & Audit ✏️ Matthew Willis — Narrative Support & English Polish

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

RAPPEL : l'enregistrement de cette semaine est décalé au Mercredi 21 Janvier, et se tiendra à la librairie Le Merle Moqueur, rue de Bagnolet, en présence de Ketty Steward qui nous fait l'honneur de devenir "Abdaloff d'un soir"pour l'occasion. Soyez nombreux.

If you don't use the BBC Sounds app, you might not know that In Our Time is back with a new host, Misha Glenny (their podcast RSS feed is delayed a few weeks) So far, seems fine!

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

Je viens de retrouver mon "Tag yourself" préféré, je tiens à partager cette petite joie.

La magistrate Magali Lafourcade @cncdh.fr confirme les tentatives de pression et d’intimidation de l’administration Trump sur la justice française à propos du procès de Marine Le Pen. Elle en rappelle le contexte international : les sanctions US contre des juges des affaires Bolsonaro et Nétanyahou.

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Finally listened to this and A Meal of Thorns never disappoints! Great conversation on this (the?) founding text of dark academia. Particularly enjoyed the discussion on the portrayal of the arts, and of magic as mechanistic in many texts? Sadly, no talk of flowing scarves. Go listen!

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

On this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.

Watching the post stranger things conversations happen and one thing I don’t like about the modern media landscape is how many show-runners and authors feel like they have to explain what happens after the end of the story or at the end of the story. Bring back the David Lynch approach.

📣 Game devs, make yourselves heard!📣 ... And shoutout to all the teams who already took their stance on GenAI. You rock. 🤍

Donnez à Wikipédia. (Et à Mediapart, tant qu'on y est.)

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Essential viewing

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl

BROTHER DO NOT PERMIT THE BLASPHEMY OF THE OMNISSIAH TO TAKE ROOT IN THE HEART OF THE IMPERIUM SMASH THE IMPIOUS, THE CLANKING WORSHIPPERS OF THE MACHINE GOD

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

(Ah, dernière chose, on m'a aussi dit "Oui mais ça ne change rien pour l'éditeur et moi je perds une bonne lecture si je boycotte." Mais vous ne lirez jamais tous les bons romans à lire dans votre vie - désolé -, alors autant privilégier des éditeurs sans casseroles. ^^ Encore une fois, AMHA.)

I did finish up my first sculpture of 2026. Some times I can only help things by bringing joy to folks. So have a squish of beasts!

When you go to protests you’re going to encounter some corny and cringe people you’re not fully aligned with in various ways and I think that’s OK and not something to get Yosemite Sam mad about.

Watch out for the ONE question where they try to trick you by putting "I want AI" as the bottom option where EVERY other question has "I don't want AI" at the bottom!