i remember when the computer still demanded blood. my dad's Tandy took a mere pinprick from your finger, which was a revolutionary advancement from the bulky machines of the 80's that required a thimbleful to access usenet for a day. that itself was an improvement on the pint needed to join ARPANET

Going to start remaking hit songs with more direct language. Be on the lookout for my forthcoming Britney Spear’s cover: “Impress upon me that you care once again”

Bruce Lee’s bruised knees bashed a bundle of bumbling bandits.

« But the times are ours and how can we disown them? If our history is our hell, still we cannot avert our faces. » — Albert Camus; The Rebel, p248

If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

I wrote something to mark the final day of the year. cyberb.space/notes/2025/r...

Please, I am begging you, do not tell AI to translate for you. Do not just use a translate button on languages you can't read. Please ask a human being to help you. Machine translations are often close enough on a sentence level but that is NOT good enough for anything you take seriously.

Merry Christmas to everyone, but especially to Mrs. Karl Slartman who submitted this never fail rice pudding recipe that keeps me company every year.

Someone who keeps believing the local crockpot’s prophesies? That’s a seer sucker.

Finished up what will likely be my last full read of the year today. cyberb.space/shelf/olga-t...

Each time a person asks you for an antidote to their big money algorithmic recommendation model, share the work of one blogger 💫

As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them… so as to better sabotage them from within.

as part of a demonstration organized by @techworkerscoalition.org, members of unions like cwa and uaw, as well as other assorted supporters of the 34 rockstar workers fired for organizing activity, have gathered outside rockstar’s office in nyc to protest

Careful out there tonight for it's #Krampusnacht! Popular in German-speaking Alpine folklore, the figure of #Krampus is a devil-like horned creature who punishes badly-behaved children the night before St Nicholas' Day. More Krampus cards here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Quite clear that I am becoming a literary sicko as I grow older.

"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

One of the nice things about the Nobel Prize for literature is that it generates a surge in interest an author's work across linguistic boundaries. One of the weird things is that the author's old books will appear in your native language marketed as "new" or "the latest from" the author.

In many ways the legacy of a philosopher’s work is formed by the actions of its most successful misreaders.

Snow, rain, or shine - we're out here on the picket lines ☃️ It's DAY NINETEEN of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract! #nocontractnocoffee

What will enter the #publicdomain in 2026? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/ (+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)

A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757. Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

My least consequential English usage bugbear? “from whence” is redundant and it’s incredibly annoying more writers don’t realize this.

The most pressing issue of our time is that horrible situations are developing faster than the creative class can provide new metaphors to understand them. As evidence, I present the fact that people are saying “circular economy” and “bubble” rather than “malignant tumor on the market economy.”

work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for

I've started to take on freelance software work again. Here's some context: cyberb.space/notes/2025/k...

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

When I was an organizer talking with folks about forming a union, a common refrain was people wanted management to respect them and their work. I would explain that we can’t change the bosses heart, but we could build enough power to force them to pretend.

wake up after a bad night of sleep: 🙁 add a little reading progress popover to my site: 🙂

I am increasingly convinced that one of the core functions celebrities serve in today’s society is to be highly visible indicators of the effectiveness of different propaganda campaigns.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

this was a fun one cyberb.space/shelf/alexis...

📢 Register for TWC 101: @techworkerscoalition.org Onboarding & Overview. 📅 October 28, Tuesday, 5pm PST · 8pm EST 🇪🇺 October 29 1am CET (daylight saving differences) us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Pulled together some recent thoughts after a trip to Oman. cyberb.space/notes/2025/w...

y’all I’m going to be real, the workers at the biggest music venues in DC are trying to unionize we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily that won’t happen without noise please, bluesky, do what u do best @930club.bsky.social @theatlantisdc.bsky.social @theanthemdc.bsky.social

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

Just encountered this incredible web form design in the wild. Top tier.

The game's got new rules! The Blitz is starting to figure it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdHk...

Only Monday and I’ve already peaked.

Pretty pleased with this WhatsApp group I started for going to the movies this weekend.

No one, and I mean NO ONE, in Hollywood is talking about Tilly Norwood except over drinks for a chuckle. Actors are such an important part of the creative process - you want an actor who can surprise you every take, not one whose performance you dial up and down on a laptop. This is an ad campaign.

Someday there’s going to be a YouTube sized hole in the internet and historians will refer to the rumors of its existence with reverent awe and bitter remorse.

“Blog” comes from “web log,” ergo when I post a “book log” it is, in fact, a “klog.” No further questions at this time.

Based on a few scenes, and most prominently the final one, I'm pretty sure that Murakami is a big influence. But he never mentions that in interviews except for passing references to "Japanese narrative." So I'm left wondering if he wants to avoid direct comparisons?

Can anyone who enjoys Ocean Vuong’s novels point me toward some canonical examples of the non-western tradition he says he’s writing toward?