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!
AI freaks on bluesky: umm all the AI doomers online are being completely paranoid about its impact on labor which isn’t measurable
literally AI companies: lmao you can use us to fire those uppity bitches so you don’t have to pay them a living wage
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
DISASTER
Otoh someone HAS done quilting on the ISSS so possibly I can't actually use that as an excuse DAMMIT
Indecorous in the extreme!
Also I am not sure what the luggage allowance is like but I suspect it's not NEARLY enough to include the right amount of knitting for that amount of travel time
The thing about dust bunnies is that they breed like, well...
That's very cool!
This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Idk I think maybe that would be really fun
This is the way. I found the same solution for my kids' collections and it is just delightful to have shells and stones, not problems.
Knitty is awesome indeed!
Excellent, thank you!
Yarny friends! What interesting/thoughtful knitting or crochet magazines are out there right now? I'm looking for publications that have features, not just patterns and techniques.
"One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation." #MinabSchool
t.me/politblogme/22
I really want every author pushing the use of GenAI in their workflow (like the one @societyofauthors.bsky.social was promoting in their magazine last week!) to sit with that.
"What are LLMs really good at? They’re really good at averaging what everybody says."
how ... aspirational.
Aesop: I TOLD YOU
I think that would have been pretty exciting for me, I never really got over my city kid excitement at seeing actual cows. Growing up in Cape Town there were plenty of vineyards and horses in the wider vicinity, but that didn't feel agricultural, just posh. You'd have to go quite far to get FARMS.
Here in Switzerland we've just voted on keeping cash around in the digital age (yes really) but I think Britain has just found the most British way possible to protect endangered banknotes. Just make them smutty. It's perfect. People will go to great lengths to preserve the potential innuendo
Because it's not about the animals coming in, it's about Churchill being kicked out, how WOKE and indeed EVIL
Personally I think it's *hilarious* that the fiver is to become a beaver.
I am an AI pessimist and yet I still overestimated its success. I am not pessimistic ENOUGH
A white bust sculpture is used as a knife holder, with multiple knives and a pair of scissors stuck into it, placed on a kitchen island.
What happened is I mentioned this absurd idea to a BBC producer and now I am writing an afternoon play for Radio 4 called THE CALL OF CTHUDO, to be recorded sometime in June with (ideally) various Green Wing alumni doing their best 1930's detective voices.
Hence the move. Yeah. Plausible
Oh yeah! I missed the play mats... ok then that's two things I guess but still remarkably unconvincing
The baby changing table is particularly weird. *Nothing* else in that place reflects the existence of children in any way. Can only imagine they put it in to say "look it's totes family friendly!"
My first thought. The asterisk came second.
Hi Bsky, sorry for the radio silence. I had a job offer fall through in January and have spent the year so far scrabbling to pay bills + feed myself + my cats whilst I try and get a new job. Accepting bird doodle commissions where I'll draw you any bird you want for a $10 KoFi
ko-fi.com/tytonidaeus
Anyway. Interesting. Where is this interview? I assume if it were easy to access your would have shared a link, but still I'm curious.
