Bari Weiss's legacy:

“Police are scrambling” 😭😭😭😭

Played and enjoyed Still Wakes the Sea, about a 1975 Scotsman's worst day on the oil rig. Fun way to spend 4 or 5 atmospheric hours trying not to die (no combat, only light puzzles and navigation). It's also a Christmastime game!

Updated with a pristine, HD copy courtesy of Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social Watch Inside CECOT now

It's very easy: Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz. Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.

"enjoy some whimsy, dickhead" is going to be rattling around in my brain unceasingly going forward

Love when my interests intersect in a meme.

A reminder that The Escapist that people remembered does not exist anymore. Almost all the core staff packed up and left. Most reformed as Second Wind, which is doing decent work. The Escapist now exists to promote online gambling and act as a mouthpiece for unhinged venture capitalists. Let it die

Most accurate 2025 map I’ve seen yet

chat is this good? some guy with a chart said the economy is great and anything else is "just vibes" so idk what's going on

lmao no

AI Bro from yesterday blocked me. I get that he was upset that people mocked his profession and said it was bad and useless. There’s no way that would ever happen to me, someone with a theater degree

I’m sorry ezra but I could swear you told me the cruel folks were doing this the right way

*Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec*

Enjoying Still Wakes the Sea. Not selling me on being a Scottish oil rig worker in the 70s. Kinda wish the subtitles didn't translate meaning of the speech instead of simply transcribing it, seems like context is enough to get it.

Law professors: let your students use AI so they can experience for themselves in a controlled environment the multitude of reasons why they can't be asleep at the wheel. It's either your classroom or the courtroom.

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

“AI isn’t going away” is just “everything will be on the blockchain” all over again. Prophesizing, manifesting. Trying to justify those investments.

I hate Waymo cars so much even without the part where they run over neighborhood pets. Every time I see one it's uncanny, like realizing the animal I just touched is actually a taxidermy.

CELEBRATION, NO SLEEPING DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF SANTA'S LISTKEEPING

this goes hard as hell

We're about to get an unanticipated test of how robust the worlds' timekeeping infrastructure is to the failure of something that was widely expected to not fail.

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

choose wisely

In litigation, when one side destroys evidence, the judge orders the jury to presume that it was destroyed because it was harmful to that party. Thing is, that's just a codification of what people presume naturally in such instances. It's a legal right to go with your gut. As everyone will here.

actually I changed my mind, I love celebrity boxing matches now. I think everyone I hate should do them, because I'm really enjoying watching the worst people on earth get their shit rocked

lmao, boxing keeps on giving me gifts this week and I didn't even ask

The rule should not be chosen based on who it excludes. If the rule means that the output of an entire publishing house, which goes AI-edit forward in 2026, is excluded, the rule is functioning as intended.

2) when deciding if a clear rule is a GOOD rule, the absolute last thing you should be doing is crafting a rule and then looking to see if it excludes people you like and respect and frantically redrafting it if it does so that those people are eligible for your contest

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

COE33 is my personal goty and this is 100% the right call

Toilet's haunted

A LotR hospital with an I SEE YOU

I don't care if any boxer wins, but apparently I *do* need Jake Paul to lose

Mmmmm here's a little story that I think you'll like It's not about Shaq, or Iron Mike🎵

owned! owned in the court of public opinion!

this is still my take on the Epstein files destroying what’s left of Bill Clinton, by the way

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

This is like. Under 15 years ago. We'd drive 101 from Bay Area to Central Coast or vice versa and the windshield would be a mess. Hardly any now.

May I recommend a subscription to @theonion.com print edition as a holiday gift, because their ads continue to rule

there's gotta be some lottery winner or crypto guy out there who's burned more than this and gotten less out of it. what are you waiting for? spend some money on something someone will remember in two years.

Why yes, I am still playing Persona 5, why do you ask