Ebike food delivery folks violating virtually every traffic law and risking their lives to bring you a sandwich is precisely the cyberpunk dystopia we were promised actually.

Hello to new followers (no idea quite how you're finding me, but... hello!). This is the kind of thing I do. And my best work, every week, is in my newsletter, which you can subscribe to here: diagramclub.substack.com Anyway, thank you for following.

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Ursula Le Guin's short story "Solitude" presents a fascinating counterpoint to the concept of the Happily Ever After ending, imagining alternative ways of thinking about the world, relationships, and the self:

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

TGV complets, billets hors de prix : pourquoi prendre le train est devenu une galère reporterre.net/TGV-complets...

promised my patrons I'd do a longer-than-usual write-up on KPop Demon Hunters and finally made good: letterboxd.com/peevish/film...

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Albert Camus au-delà de la récupération réactionnaire. Très bon article de @revueballast.bsky.social pour rappeler que la pensée de Camus, inscrite dans un contexte, était celle d'un socialiste libertaire. Le dernier développement sur Camus le naturien est nouveau pour moi, et lumineux.

Afin de réconcilier tous les partis, le prochain Premier ministre sera un appareil à raclette https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/10/06/afin-de-reconcilier-tous-les-partis-le-prochain-premier-ministre-sera-un-appareil-a-raclette/

A bit of fan-art for @donoteat.bsky.social @postoctobrist.bsky.social @wtyppod.com Thank you for keeping me entertained at work, passing the time on long bus trips, and most importantly making me laugh and smile.

Les gens : "Trump n’est pas fasciste, allez réviser ce qu’est le fascisme !" Trump : "Les antifascistes sont des terroristes."

Warhammer is harm reduction

Il faut quand même avoir en tête qu'au-delà de son "dîner des sommets" à plus de 1000€ par convive aux frais de la Région, Wauquiez a aussi dépensé en 2 ans 123.168 € d'argent public en frais de restaurant ! Ce sale type parle la bouche pleine de bouffe et de billets !

Loterie ! Du coup je fais gagner ce nakiri forgé ! Lame en acier carbone 135cr3 manche en padouk et morta Affûtage à la pierre japonaise Pour être tiré au sort il faut reblousquer, liker et être Abonné 😁 Tirage au sort vendredi 20h !

New blog post with @theondrakguy.bsky.social, @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social, @petersmith.bsky.social , & @hereticmasked.bsky.social on Spawnism a growing nihilistic violent extremist movement, using similar tactics techniques and procedures to target & harm minors www.maargentino.com/spawnism-car...

Nous avons également les gnéxperts faisant de la gnéopolitique. Exemple : "Alain Bauer, médiatique gnéxpert, discourait doctement sur des déterminismes géographiques dont il peinait à comprendre les incohérences. Cette géopolitique de comptoir - une gnéopolitique - ravissait les gnéditorialistes.

Les abonnés de @politis.fr ont libéré le formidable entretien réalisé par @elsagambin.bsky.social avec la pédopsychiatre Fanny Gollier-Briant sur la santé mentale des adolescents et des jeunes adultes . A lire absolument, ici ⤵️ www.politis.fr/articles/202...

From my new essay Move Fast and Break People Pt. 4: The Apotheosis of the Lolcow… catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...

89e anniversaire de la Révolution espagnole. "Nous portons un monde nouveau dans nos cœurs." Buenaventura Durruti.

Please share your best spoon. Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳

Info utile du jour en #psychiatrie: les 🔟 principales idées reçues sur le suicide. Entre banalisation, instrumentalisation et expertises bidon qui pullulent dans cette triste actualité, il faut remettre un peu de clarté. C'est important, et c'est maintenant⬇️ #prévention

I HAVE A NEW SHORT STORY OUT! I’ve been struggling with whether to spoil the premise by saying the five words that would DEFINITELY get you to click. So I won’t now, just go read it & be surprised. At 2pm I’ll post the five words. ;) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” He has already made at least one run on the stove. A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Faut arrêter de dire que les gens sont « manipulateurs » ou « dans le clivage » dès qu’il ne sont pas d’accord avec nous ou veulent faire respecter leurs droits. C’est infantilisant et faux. Faut vraiment qu’on se remette en question en psy et dans le médico-social 🚨 🚨 🚨

always against the tanks

„Apple said in a paper published at the weekend that large reasoning models (LRMs) – an advanced form of AI – faced a “complete accuracy collapse” when presented with highly complex problems.“ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm. www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

Everything for Everyone

Très bon article de @nicolasframont.bsky.social. frustrationmagazine.fr/lfi-meute.

Personne ne l'a demandé, mais voici ✨ Ma review du corps exposé du pape ✨ Autant dire que c'est une cata, moins que Benoît XVI heureusement, mais vraiment dites vous que si dans mes villages paumés de Savoie je délivrais un corps pareil, je me prendrais une rouste cosmique.

Un psychiatre, il est payé au cacheton ?

Someone just spent $8 million on $TRUMP memecoins after the president announced that the top holders would be invited to join him at a private dinner at his DC golf club. The purchases were funded by a Binance account, suggesting the wallet owner is not based in the US.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

neonazis are murder nerds. big time losers who want to be the most special boy in the world, and use both myth & murder to do so: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

this was soooo good

Here is my NEW COLUMN (!!!) about Arctic exploration, icebound ships as metaphor, authoritarianism, and the powerful and insane lure of the ice: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

NEW PIECE: I'm finally back & just in time to provide the big picture analysis of the Trump Tariff stock market crash. I'll have a follow up piece about the stock market tomorrow & at least one payments system piece later this week. www.crisesnotes.com/trumps-liber...

Entre les socialistes de droite modérée, les écologistes mous et LFI qui raconte n’importe quoi sur l’international faut pas être découragé quand t’es électeur-rice de gauche je vous le dis.

Quelle position de gauche pouvons-nous avoir sur les relations internationales actuelles? Gérer Poutine début 2025 Ou: comment distinguer une approche pacifiste d'une approche de collabo? ⬇️

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.