Andrew Hastie is nostalgic for a car industry. He's too young to know that Australian consumers killed it off the moment they had a choice, writes Bernard Keane.

I'm a little ashamed to admit that TIL that the opposition to evolution in some sectors is because it means that white people and black people share a common ancestor and that narrative undermines white supremacy.

I think it’s important to remember that the prevailing philosophy in the Ruby community is MINASWAN (Matz is nice and so we are nice) not DINASWAN (David is nasty and so we are nasty).

The Bronze Roses.

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

I love how AI has made it that now when you do see a cool video of human achievement or nature instead of just enjoying it you also have to wonder if it’s real. It is sucking the life out of everything

Today’s Liquid (Gl)ass

Mothership has a simple 5-act structure that can help you build a great horror adventure in any system. 🚀 Learn about it in-depth in my latest video: youtu.be/AUXc8hjaBQw

This video about Dyson Spheres from @acollierastro.bsky.social is long, but worth watching through to the end. TL;DR—When he wrote that paper, Freeman Dyson was making a joke at the expense of SETI and, it turns out, Malthusians. Unfortunately, a lot of people (like Sam Altman), never got the joke.

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Quick, cheap, safe: choose two.

Translation: People are protesting in favor of free speech. (“Freedom of opinion” in German). One guy joins with a sign that says “Everyone should be well”. The other people tell him, “not that opinion”.

(via Ralph Ruthe ruthe.de)

For every letter of complaint there are thousands of people who feel the same way as the writer, but didn’t write for whatever reason. They will still likely take their business elsewhere and communicate their dissatisfaction to others, causing reputational damage.

Oh yeah hi Bluesky friends, so besides sharing my writing journey here on Bluesky, I am also on TikTok and am a menace to my Republican politician dad lol

please subscribe to my patreon so I can spend a week animating the dream I just had where a tiger chased me into an airport and collided with an airport tiger and they turned into a combo tiger that oozed around itself like when you watch your laundry at the laundromat

Agreed, and I think part of this is Pritzker gets more than most how being the anti-Trump isn't trying to out-funny the funny man, to compete in the irony-poised joke game, to be another outlandish character. It's being earnest and serious about the stakes of a real crisis, like a functional adult.

With the big fat release of The Between imminent, the absolutely lurid Arkham Herald on its way, and Planet Raygun on the horizon … @gauntletrpg.bsky.social is about to pop off. Oh, and Pizza Time! too. (Color art by @carlydraws.bsky.social, spot art by @tessfowler.bsky.social)

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Truth.

Truth.

I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.

nothing is wrong. there is no problem. but you can’t help but think that man outside the trolley window appears to have a lot on his mind.

I might just be a starry-eyed optimist, but I still think we could pull things around to a future of largely zeppelin-based travel.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

You can report this post for violating BlueSky's ToS. Also, I'd look into dusting off your Mastodon account if BlueSky lets this bit of disinformation and hate speech stay.

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

PSA this is also pretty much the NHS’s response & we don’t even have the “it is run by a lunatic” excuse.

Any university that does this needs to be left by students and faculty en masse.

Gamergate involved the abuse of women. People were a bit too eager to tune it out, perhaps perceiving it as a fringe or esoteric thing, but letting it happen, insufficiently challenged, has let the malevolence fester into something more.

I am teaching students in a game writing course this fall who have no memory of GG. I’m very, very careful in how I handle that history *because* the playbook that was first used in GG is still active & aimed at folks like me — not because I teach & study games, but because I’m a professor at all.

No, Anton, they did not. It’s an exciting announcement, but you should not lie about it. Especially not after getting on your high horse about Avi Loeb.

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments. An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

No, Anton, they did not. It’s an exciting announcement, but you should not lie about it. Especially not after getting on your high horse about Avi Loeb.

Anne Ruston was mischief making on ABC radio this morning. She said that we don't know what caused the toxic algal bloom. In fact, we do know. She's appealing to the conspiracy theorists. (Appealing to the party's base, I guess.) But she wasn't challenged on that lie. Gah!

Age verification? This is the Cybertruck I wanted when I grew up.

RIP David Baltimore. He is famous for breakthrough work that challenged dogma that information flows from DNA to RNA. In viruses, it is the opposite. This took virology in a new direction. This was NIH funded research. We stand on the shoulders of giants before us. 🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!

Ok so I think there’s something else here too. We associate noir STRONGLY with the mid-late 40s to mid-late 50s—post WW2. But the novels were mostly written in the 20s & 30s by veterans of WWI. The two groups don’t have the same PTSD or the same generational trauma response.

No ROLLplaying social encounters. Same goes for combat. And magic.

I’m genuinely confused about people saying “Kennedy must resign.” Clearly he’s not going to, and surely framing it as a personal moral choice absolves anyone who might be able to do something about ousting him from any need for action? To me it feels like grandstanding. What am I missing?

how dare you people say that Gamma World has silly things.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Some glaring typos in this post. “Look at” should be “make up,” and the words “many worry” should be removed.

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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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