ME: i should contact my ancestors for wisdom

ANCESTOR 51: you should restart the east india trading company

ME: no

My post on LinkedIn: "Almost every post I see on my feed on this site is about generative AI. I have never used AI to write code, and I hope I never will. My entire purpose as a software engineer is to solve problems by writing and debugging code. I'm good at it. If there's a problem I don't know how to solve, I will research it until I understand it. And I will write every line of code myself, knowing how it all works, so that if subsequent bugs or changes to the design arise, I will know exactly where to look to make adjustments. A few years ago, I realized I needed to emulate a certain function from a web app in a local Python script for parity to fix a very subtle but very critical bug in a game. The web app was written in TypeScript (a language I wasn't familiar with), and the person who wrote the web app was no longer available to contact. So I dove into the TypeScript code, figured out what it was doing, and rewrote it in Python. And sure, rewriting a single function into another language is probably the sort of thing an AI would be good at doing. But that was the easy part. Understanding that this was even a problem that needed to be solved in the first place is something that only a real human being would notice, and it required a ton of audiovisual context that I would have no idea how to even begin to describe to an AI. You need real people to solve real problems."

LinkedIn is a pretty terrible site but sure I'll bring my slightly hostile anti-AI takes over there why not. The worst that can happen is that I don't get considered for a job I'd hate to do anyway.

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.

We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

More Vintage Computing museums should rent out cloud access to their rare hardware.



SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) does it, and it’s freaking awesome.



I’m literally logged into a Sun SPARCstation…anyone can do this for free, right now. Just SSH in.

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

Opens slush pile.
Reads generated story... Bans.
Reads generated story... Bans.
Reads generated story... Bans...
Screams.
Closes computer.
Screams again.
Runs off into the woods.
Sees squirrel.
Hmmm... Squirrels have never submitted a generated story.
Squirrel gets treat.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.

Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“What we really hoped in our soul is that we could...have the world pause and remember that this is a beautiful planet and a very special place in our universe, and we should all cherish what we have been gifted,” —Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman. Mission coverage: spklr.io/6001EyN07

Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworld robot looks to the right where the cover of issue 235 is located. It features a tall spacecraft floating over a dockyard in a pink and purple sky.

Friday is a great day to subscribe.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
(Ok, so any day is good, but why wait?)

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

Walk with me... Nnedi Okorafor Writing Stories

Nneeded to express some thoughts on disability: nnedi.blogspot.com/2026/04/walk...

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Happy belated birthday!

posting this shit when you’re owned by a billionaire is basically a recruitment ad for socialism

Melina Matsoukas to Direct ‘Parable of the Sower’ for Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE) Melina Matsoukas is set to direct and produce the screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi odyssey "Parable of the Sower" for Warner Bros.

Melina Matsoukas to direct Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Parable of the Sower” for Warner Bros

"No matter how you feel about ketamine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"

Wait a minute.

ONLY 50? Is this a joke? Every one should. Every single one.

They're horrible at this truly. And yes I could do it much better.

Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

The first astronaut in history to speak French while en route to the moon — Canada’s very own Jeremy Hansen 🇨🇦

Bild Ist Donald Trump ein Sexmonster? Wahl 2016

Spiegel »Die Republikaner haben ein Naziproblem« US-Präsident Trump verwandelt Rassismus, Sexismus, Korruption und Demokratieverachtung in Tugenden, sagt der Journalist Tom Nichols. Die Republikaner hält er für politisch und moralisch ausgehöhlt. Ein Interview von Martin Pfaffenzeller 04.04.2026, 09.39 Uhr

New York Times: How Trump-Kennedy alliance is pushing thr boundaries of public health

New York Times: Legally creative, democratically dangerous: Trump's plan to twist the news Feb. 24, 2026

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

gee, why would there be regulatory challenge? oh because people will be dead, misdiagnosed or otherwise harmed?

im tired of tech ecos portraying the rule of law as something they should be exempt from