OK YEAH THEN YEAH, SAME, HAD TO GET THE BOOK AFTER

huh, I just got this as a birthday present last week but haven’t started yet

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

really funny to me that the democrats always have 1-3 guys on hand to make sure the democrats can put up the performance of resistance while still ultimately getting the government to pass what the combined democratic-republican party ultimately wants

Sig meeting new cats

the US Navy is "urgently hiring" morticians

Why are bikes so fucking expensive? And forget trying to get TWO BIKES (so I don’t leave @soulfirephotos.bsky.social behind)

from my brother @thedjmaster55.bsky.social a thing of beauty.

turning into a pretty fucking great birthday <3

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

a woman sits in a chair drinking from a cup ALT: a woman sits in a chair drinking from a cup

Holy fuck never would I have expected to be glad that a Pope would be from Chicago

Gets laid off along with thousands of others
Needs a job
Few jobs exist
Thousands of others are also in need of jobs
Needs a job still
Wants to scream

Here's a dog

Sony Pictures Entertainment to Lay Off Hundreds in Reorganization Across TV, Film and Corporate

➡️ variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Screenshot of a November/2025 post from the official Bluesky account on xwitter saying "every time a software tool adds an AI feature nobody asked for, a human logs off".

Hey @bsky.app, this you?

I'm getting the strangest sense of Deja Vu.

I've been anxious of layoffs since this time last year. Our teams were being pushed far past our limits, but we kept delivering.

Apparently we weren't doing enough. I guess.

I'm devastated. I *loved* the work I did.

You don’t say…

It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now Even developers who successfully release big hits, like Fortnite and Battlefield, are losing their jobs

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I’m making more money than I ever have in my life, but everything keeps getting more and more expensive and it’s like they’re deliberately fucking with me

📸: @soulfirephotos.bsky.social

The game industry is so cool cus when you're a once-in-a-lifetime game dev you lose your job, but if you're a grossly incompetent business man who just fired 1000 people you get to make sad posts on the internet.

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist."

Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.