A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

The trees in the surround lots looking barren and windswept like it’s winter when the temperature is like summer.

23 degrees out but the trees still look like it’s winter . . .

I can live with that.

Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation

Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation theonion.com/napkinless-man-with-grea...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Food banks are not part of a safety net. they are proof we do not have a safety net.

Some people have misunderstood this.

We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible.

This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

You are winning at life! Love it!

They regret nothing.

Two bunnies snuggle closely together. One is white and the other is light brown. They rest on a person's lap with a burgundy blanket.

Cool. Now do UBI

A male eastern bluebird perched on a budding twig and staring straight at the camera ©️DTL 2026

Bluebird posting will continue until morale improves

IMHO, Conservatives feel comfortable crossing the floor to join the Liberals because Mark Carney’s Liberals are the pre-reform Progressive Conservatives.

I believe the NDP have drifted into the centre-left. Here’s hoping @avilewis.ca can pull them back to the left. It’s time.

Same text as in post. Via @UBIWorks.bsky.social #UBI #UniversalBasicincome

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

Ahu Tiiko is the first major setting expansion for the award-winning Coyote & Crow roleplaying game. This horror & mystery compendium is full of playable stories, complex NPCs full of secrets and rumors, creatures, monsters and opponents to challenge players, meta-media hidden cryptography, and more. Written by Kenna Alexander with art from multiple Indigenous artists, led by Jillian Dolan, Ahu Tiiko is a deep dive into a tiny pacific northwest village full of dark and terrifying enigmas. Pictured: The Standard Edition and the Night Edition (which contains mature, uncensored content, a textured cover, book mark, and is a limited edition) Indigenous Native American Futurisms NativeSky Indian First Nations TTRPG RPG Tabletop Games Gaming roleplay

Ahu Tiiko is now available world-wide!
Standard Edition: bit.ly/ahu-tiiko
Night Edition: bit.ly/tiiko-night
Digital Edition: bit.ly/tiiko
Roll20: bit.ly/AHRoll20
Foundry VTT: bit.ly/AHFoundry
Official Soundtrack: bit.ly/4dBvMjj
Aja Tea: bit.ly/TiikoTea
In-world website: www.ahutiiko.com

ANALYSIS: Why is Ontario instituting minority rule? | TVO Today Bill 100 will let provincial appointees overrule democratically elected councils.

Why is Ontario instituting minority rule?
Millions of Ontarians will find themselves living under minority rule. That most basic measure of democracy — minorities may be protected but otherwise majorities decide — will not apply across a huge swath of this province. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

a captialism pyramid t the base, industrial workers support the entire structure, bearing the weight of all classes above them. The Elite: Above the workers, groups like soldiers, clergy, and politicians protect or maintain the system. The Top: The highest point is crowned by a money bag, symbolizing that wealth is the driving force of the system

"Pyramid of Capitalist System," published in 1911 by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Issue 235 Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

The new Clarkesworld Magazine aka @clarkesworldmagazine.com includes my interviews with Suzanne Palmer & John Chu - @zanzjan.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social - clarkesworldmagazine.com

Had to turn off Meet the Press. Instead I’ll be watching the livestream of the Big Bear eagles’ nest. Little buggers are already starting to grow! #Nature

Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them.

Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading.

Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Men in any sort of leadership position need to adopt the same wary vigilance that women already have. Your community or organization is probably more dangerous than you realize, and we all need to tolerate borderline and boundary-testing behavior *less*.

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

View of spacecraft with three red and white main parachutes deployed, view of sunlit ocean behind.

View of spacecraft with three red and white main parachutes deployed, view of dark blue ocean behind.

✅ #Artemis II splashdown at 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST!

the only government services that make money are the mint and the IRS.

Dolts.

California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases—barely noticeable to a consumer. It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers.
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