I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

My greatest fear for AI.

So it’s no longer domimant?

Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps Meta plans to appeal as it faces down two other child safety trials.

"It was inevitable that the Torment Nexus would feast upon the blood of children, but just because we built it doesn't mean we should be held accountable for that."

This is no joke. Helium is only made slowly via radioactive decay and we use it far faster than it's produced in unusable quantities. It's critical for physics and astronomy tech as well. But kids love balloons, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:

The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

I feel that way about all the let’s-pick-these-characters-up-again-twenty-years-later reboots. I can’t think of any that have been good.

Bummed, but I think the people in that room will think about SINNERS a lot more than ONE BATTLE over the next however many years.

So many miseries have craz’d my voice
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

It is the worst

Congrats!

There have been some reported anecdotes of people giving AI data to analyze and it returns plausible results that it has just made up.

I once missed a flight because I got distracted by that very bookstore.

Toy Story 6 is just Toy Story where Sid is the hero, kicking off Sid’s remake of the entire series.

I think we've learned a lot since then about their views on the benefits of ruling in hell vis a vis serving in heaven...

Tired: AI will go rogue and enslave humans

Inspired: Tech startups will vibe code a platform for humans to sign up to be enslaved by AI

something something Torment Nexus something

Some people need to get a grip. It’s not like they were doing Jamaharon!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

They. Will. Steal. The. 2026. AND. 2028. Elections.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a row of chairs Alt: President Kennedy in a suit and tie is sitting in a row of chairs

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because Elon is intolerable.”

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Heat map-style graphic showing monthly mean global surface air temperature anomalies from January 1850 to December 2025. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. Annotations are shown for the year of each warmest respective month. All of these records have occurred within the 2023 to 2025 period in this dataset. Anomalies here are calculated relative to a 1850-1900 baseline. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp 6.0.0.

A data-driven mosaic of our warming planet - now updated through 2025 🥵

Download graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

I don't trust Trump/Miller/etc to respect those laws and I worry about the courts being too slow or SCOTUS being a bad actor. But four of the six states that swung to Trump in '24 have Dem governors who would presumably try to protect elections and Kemp and Lombardo might do the right thing, too.

"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?"

Now that's a Christmas movie.

From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).
With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

Especially because they’ve been defeated by exactly this flaw in how they do redactions before!

A huge loss for the neighborhood 🙁

Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro For the late Broadway composer, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as thrilling as writing musicals.

A fun walk through another side of Sondheim

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.