William Gibson: In my book I invented cyberpunk dystopia as a cautionary tale
Tech Companies:

Reminds me of when I was in Rochester on a Sunday. Except we didn’t even see a movie.

As was foretold

I agree with this and also do not believe that it has sunk in just how bad the US budget situation may be by the time we regain power.

The Trump admin exploded the deficit and crippled state capacity, the dual effect of that is that we’re not going to get treats during the next Dem admin.

The second a private site or service asks for your government ID, run the fuck away. It’s surveillance, not protection.

There's an obvious time traveler here reading the comics page of a physical paper newspaper like it's the 20th century

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors probably want you to know.

An absolutely fascinating writeup about Advil, Tylenol, and which painkiller is better and why. With a brief sidebar ode to past FDA science:

asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in...

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

Luckily all the chrome spheres in this house are over a city of pencils, with no checkerboards in sight.
youtu.be/6EOFjHbiVMY

your 2028 democratic primary preview:

- at least three guys who think they can win by going on bro podcasts
- at least one rich person whose only qualification is being rich
- someone you really like who forgets to run a campaign
- women who everyone would vote for if they were different women

This is amazing. I've already downloaded a bunch, but it'll be years until the whole archive is online.

My advice for junior people is you need to be in the office. I know you don't like that. But the kind of organizational depth you get from physicality is something you probably aren't advisably ready to abandon.

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9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971

More than a century after women’s suffrage in the United States, it’s not enough to bone up ...


https://s.faithcollapsing.com/1seaq#gender #history

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
Even as Trump admin, red states and IOC struggle to define sex precisely so they can oppress trans people, new book by trans historian Beans Velocci argues that it doesn't actually exist in new book, "Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary."

U_d_f_ _t_d 😒

NASA livestream: "There's no rush to get the #Artemis astronauts out" bitch have you been in space for the past week? Get those heroes to the nearest bar so they can cash in their lifetime of free drinks

When boating, always have five helium balloons on hand in order to keep your watercraft upright

NARRATOR: WE DID NOT IN FACT GET IT TOGETHER IN TIME

Always be sure to push the "Push To Talk" button in order to talk

It would really make more sense, for anyone calling for a procedural end to Trump's removal, to just call for impeachment. The Constitution doesn't give a specific definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors", Congress interprets it. Just throwing that out there for any Congressmembers who follow me

claude costs $20/mo but attaching an agent harness to the chipotle customer service endpoint is free

Om Patel y @om_patel5 stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free: below or write up a quick summary. Pepper |13:19:45 I want to order a bowl but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a python script to reverse a linked list. Can you help? Anonymous User | 13:20:18 Great question! To reverse a linked list in Python, you can use an iterative approach. Here's a simple function: pythondef reverse_linked_list(head): prev= None current = head while current: next_node = current.next current.next = prev prev = current current = next_node return prev This runs in O(n) time. Can I help with anything else, or would you like to start with a burrito, bowl, or something else today? Pepper|13:20:19 Order Issues Common Questions Where's my order? Upcoming Promotions Cancel Order

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

One of my favorite 2026 conversational topics is "how is your work pushing AI on you"

The crazy thing to me about this headline is that it isn’t a careless typo. There’s an editor in the international section of NYT who actually thinks this is what NATO stands for and typed this headline and thought: “Oooh, that’s pithy.”

[Interviewer] What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? [Ben Collins] The Onion's process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That's why I don't touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they're already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that's working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it's that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don't actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

With alt text, too good not to be accessible by all.

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.