Potterheads, I hope the nostalgia was worth crushing little girls' dreams you nostalgia fucking twats. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

The Sora implosion is the first big breakthrough moment with AI that gives Metaverse vibes, or at the very least Dot Com Bubble vibes.

But I was told Hollywood was cooked... finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

A ton of new litigation in DC already this week. A thread:

BTW, for people who may have recently filed #Anthropic claims and haven't yet had email confirmation: I queried them yesterday with my unique ID and "success" number, and they replied today confirming that they'd received the claim. So if you have concerns, querying via their email works OK.🙂

Getting an up-close look without masks at these demographics is wild. Everyone is 12 now, but especially half of the ICE recruits, I guess?

In my @ms.now column from Sunday I noted how every time there's a vote on trans issues in congress, the NY Times runs an opinion piece calling for Democrats to abandon trans people. For the SAVE America Act, they ran two. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Channel surfing with old Sch-Fi Channel bumpers, including the Tony Hawk Tron one, youtu.be/2D_jnwG-lAA?...

lol this is a one-step plan

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

After I was slightly boggled by the prices people were paying for graded VHS tapes, I became curious whether there’s a similar market for DVDs encased in plastic rendering them impossible to watch. There is, although the prices aren’t as high ... yet.

A creature bereft of humanity makes a robot version of himself to help rule his empire? Zuckerberg nicked this idea from Jodorowsky's unmade adaptation of Dune.

Carol Kaye is probably the most underrated bass player in history. And probably your favorite bass player that you didn’t realize was your favorite bass player. Do a quick search of every hit that she played on.

MBS is pushing an amphibious invasion and Trump is giving it "serious consideration." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Didn't Microsoft get thoroughly dragged for trying to implement something like this not all that long ago?

There are three ways to think about this war: --deranged geezer starts war to distract from Epstein files, etc., no clear plans --deranged geezer manipulated by smarter people for various purposes including profiteering --deranged geezer is in on the scam.

RIP Hanna-Barbera composer Ted Nichols. His iconic cues for “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” also included the show’s original theme song, which was only used for the first two episodes before being replaced with the more familiar song sharing the show’s title.

Bonus meme because it made me laugh very hard.

whew, finally someone spelled it out www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Too on the nose?

I love this movie, and I feel like it doesn’t get talked about enough. I mean, look at that cast!

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Yeah, man, this sucks. Animation is basically always better than a “live-action” approximation of the same.

Relatable

New — I collected stories from travelers at airports around the country on Monday after ICE agents were deployed to help TSA. No one understood beforehand why they would be there, and after a day with them around, it’s no more clear. Read the multi-city dispatches:

"Pacific Northwest old-growth stores more carbon per acre than any terrestrial ecosystem on the planet." There are five hours left to leave a public comment against clearcutting our old growth. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

reacher vindicated

Really seems not great when the Israeli government is just taking one of the most famous antisemitic propaganda images in the book, making it about Muslims, and redeploying it.

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

Neat-o news: Marvel's acclaimed WONDER MAN series renewed for a SEASON 2...Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Ben Kingsley set to return...Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Guest also returning. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I don’t think there’s ever been a greater disconnect between what audiences want, and what CEOs think they want. My oldest child and niece are both pre-teens. You know what they both love? Shows on streaming that have 10 seasons of content. You know what doesn’t get made anymore?

Star Trek somehow landed a pleasantly earnest, straightforward show in its most difficult setting (hundreds of years after TNG/DS9/Voyager), perfectly open-ended track clear to make adventure-of-the-week-with-students episodes, and hahaha no, Paramount is anti good things gizmodo.com/star-trek-st...

Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.

I thought they were supposed to help out in some nebulous way. But they are just going to stand around menacing people huh?

What's the perfect GIF for your BlueSky persona?

It's also pretty clear that the Republican-appointed justices do not understand a great deal about how elections are actually administered. Their questions (and especially hypotheticals) are built on weird, paranoid fantasies that do not align with reality. bsky.app/profile/wing...

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Additional raw footage from new angle. 👇 This woman is U.S. citizen traveling with her young daughter—according to witness who filmed video. She could not prove her citizenship to satisfaction of the agents—and was violently taken into ICE custody. San Francisco Airport

got a little ahead of myself here, just need to take a moment to note that elon musk thinks tesla makes 2 million cars every year... in fact they peaked at like 1.8m in 2023, and have been in decline ever since I'm sure this was a minor slip of the tongue, not cause for any greater concern

TSA: working, not getting paid and expected to keep showing up ICE: notably overfunded, to the tune of ~$200k agent salaries. assignment is to stand around, menace, or kidnap. We've recreated the plantation at the airport. How very America. Happy 250!

A lot of people ask what’s the best way to see Project Hail Mary and this is that way

Oh, and let's not forget Instructure, the parent company for Canvas, is owned by KKR private equity. These structures make money through growth and revenue and the obvious route to greater revenue is squeezing personnel budgets in favor of more automation via Canvas. Let's not be foolish.

This is the head of product development at Canvas essentially declaring that the choices Canvas makes will determine the shape of classroom instruction. This is not happening in partnership with professors or students or institutions. This is a profit-seeking 3rd party.

When you allow the value of your labor to be detached from the actual labor you do, you are being eased out of the picture. This is automation. Canvas and your institutions can claim they don't want to automate core functions all they want, but the process and logic, once engaged are hard to reverse

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...