Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Thinking this morning of Kay Chronister's savage, hallucinatory "Ruminants".

www.thedarkmagazine.com/ruminants/

On Hachette's Internal Use of AI On March 19th Hachette Book Group made headlines for terminating a book contract with author Mia Ballard over her alleged use of AI in her novel Shy Girl; meanwhile, Hachette has negotiated

Hachette dropped author Mia Ballard's book "Shy Girl" over AI allegations the same month they contracted with Alighieria to provide AI-editing software. Cool, cool.

Fuck AI.

www.realclearbooks.com/2026/04/16/o...

Update: IT'S OUT

Do YOU know him? Have YOU heard of Kelwas?

buttondown.com/crosshatches...

Happy birthday!

Screenshot of Nicholas Guyatt's Twitter post: "Mandelson phoning into his old Times Radio podcast in January 2025 to complain about the security vetting. Stick around for Hugo Rifkind's penetrating follow-up question."

Our fearless 4th estate.

x.com/NicholasGuya...

The papers have read like Mein Kampf in the newsagents for decades, people have been primed for this stuff by reading The Mail, Express, Telegraph, Times...

Not trying to downplay it but IMO this is the expression of it or a new development it's taken, it's not the cause.

A black and white illustration showing the character Molly Millions from the works of William Gibson.

Pinterest threw this up and I love it so much; wicked cool depiction of Molly Millions. The related images section tells me that this was an illustration for an album or an audiobook or a combination of both, not quite sure.

Please slide into the comments if you happen to know who the artist is.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

The cultural sickness I get sad about isn't convenience it's... completism I suppose, the constant urge to revisit, the idea that gaps in a story exist to be filled in, or that albums are better with 2 CDs of outtakes, or that you know a thing most truthfully when you have all its production context

The above post but with the original and unremoved skeet wherein why from the Blue sky team says. Looking forward to what the AI sucks. Crowd actually has to say about this one.

Good thing i screencapped it

Headline from Press Gazette: "Guardian pulls quotes from interview in which academic compared 'anti-gender ideology' to fascism."

Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack - Topic

We trim yr hedges
We fight yr wars
Wait in the trenches
& we're fucked till we're sore

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTV...

@megapolisomancy.bsky.social get in here with the weird Bal stans, mate.

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a d...

Writers, we're caught up on the slush pile so we have a quick turnaround on submissions at the mo.

We tend towards the dark and upsetting. Ambiguity and discomfiting sharp edges encouraged. Our vibe was recently described as 'transgressive genre grime'. If that's you, shoot it our way.

This is the "cumulative disruption" measure in the crime and policing bill.

As I said last week, the police are primed to see all protest as disruptive. I mean, it's kind of the point of protest.

This really should be a much bigger deal.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

Tom Waits and Massive Attack announce collaboration The two artists (seldom releasing new material) have revealed themselves a pairing, with “Boots On the Ground" arriving April 16th.

I’m sorry WHAT

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Look at that line-up.

Go on, just look at it.

Stolen Children • EQUATOR On Switzerland’s hidden persecution of the Yenish people

Lots of cool stuff coming out of Equator, a new mag with an explicitly international outlook that challenges western dominance of culture and society.

This is a fascinating piece on how Switzerland harassed the Yenish and Sinti, two Traveler communities, from 1926-1973.

YES

I'm a vile Luddite so just download the mp3 & play it in VLC.

I say it every week or two but -- we live in robocop.

Fandom should be taken seriously in the sense that it should be studied as a phenomenon, the way epidemiologists study plagues

Make those novels short dammit! More words that count, less word-count.

Yo!

Abso-fucking-lutely.

"A Month in the Country" is one of the great English novels of the late 20th Century & you can read it in a day less the times you have to put it aside 'cos you're weeping your eyes out.

I heartily approve of his pastime, too: more people should be doing this.