It’s something of a curse to be able to parse headlines in 2026.

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles | Fortune

Subsense’s brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but would not require surgery.

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I keep saying this over and over but academia does not know how to deal with bad faith actors, and I suspect some measure of McCarthy-era academic freedom haze is a major part of the problem. If you trust that the system is good at hiring people, and that guardrails are in place, trust is inherited.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

how many times must academics demonstrate why Cofnas and his fellow IQ-truthers are wrong? They've been doing so for decades. At some point, you have to admit that Cofnas and his ilk (and you) are not looking for "academic debate" but to give academic credence to rank prejudice.

I didn’t know I wanted this until I saw it and now it’s all I want.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social · 2w ago

If anybody in SoCal wants to buy my 96 Subaru Sambar Classic, lmk. It’s in good original shape, runs well. Manual transmission. Very fair price.

More like david potty.

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

I read that Canadian Campus Antisemitism "report" so you don't have to (but you should). Simply put. we cannot accept the findings of this report because of its methodological flaws. Let's unpack a few of them. 🧵. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... 1/11

“In our capacity as academics, perhaps the most radical thing we can do is our job itself. How can anybody in their right mind notice the growing damage to universities & instead of stand against this, facilitate the destruction of expertise, of learning skills, and of academic integrity?”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last mo.

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Every time Lisa Hinchliffe writes a skitch post I feel obligated to hate read it and every time I hate read it I am dumber for having read it.

Morally, any cyclist in that group would've been justified shooting that driver.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last mo.

In case you're wondering how the driver acted after running into an entire group of cyclists www.the-journal.com/articles/law...

The only thing inevitable about AI is its failure I would love to put on a cap & gown and give this one-sentence speech to hundreds of CEOs

Futurism@futurism.com · 2mo ago

It's a bloodbath.

You can tell the New Yorker has all the best sports takes because the section is called “the sporting scene”, a phrase that definitely evokes the image of bloused trousers.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ah, I see the New Yorker opts to eulogize the World Cup with Onion-level Orientalism.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

solomon in 1 Kings 3

What’s the emissions save on drowning every neoliberal?

I think it’s so telling that this ghoul thinks lowering emissions is a “short term goal” that “isn’t sustainable” when we know both how little time we have and also how unsustainable the status quo is.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?

Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?

“We all know I refuse to look at climate evidence and that I’m definitely more conservative than Harper, but I’ll tell you one thing I love is industry for the sake of industry, no matter how short sighted it is.”

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As we build our military strength, we’re also building our economy.

I think it would be possible to not exist in a constant thrum of worry and depression about the very clearly spiralling climate situation if literally any politician gave like 5% of a shit about it. I could say the same thing about the cost of living. Or genocides. Or tech regulation.

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

"Since 2016, Postmedia has been majority owned by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey-based hedge fund owned by Republican megadonor Anthony Melchiorre, who dined with President Donald Trump shortly after his initial election that year." ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right

Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape

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Embarrassed to have had the thought, “I can’t believe Jeff VanderMeer spent 7 years writing a Shrek book.”

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Re discussions elsewhere: Honestly don't give a shit how long it takes someone to write a book. Proof = quality of what's on the page. I've written novels in 6 weeks (Annihilation), 6 months (Absolution), 18 months (Finch), 4 years (Borne), 7 years (Shriek: An Afterword), and everything in between.

Queens University hosting, not just guests from a genocidal apartheid state, but guests who are sexual predators too

We need to resist this shit SO HARD. Fuck this guy and this data centre. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Meta building its first Canadian data centre northeast of Edmonton | CBC News

Meta was revealed Wednesday as the proponent of a data centre in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton.

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I don't think the mainstream necessarily is aware of the deep wellspring of anger that's among voters right now imho people's lives aren't better, the government couldn't give any less of a fuck, and they're not shy about showing us that

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s going to make your fucking head spin how many mainstream publications and voices sound the alarm over the threat of leftism as it gains popularity and support. We’re inching up on a major battle and the lines are being drawn every single day.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Reasonable Concerns

The wedge on trans people moved exactly where we said it would. The people who gave it cover are still quiet.

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witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

My dog the long term says we need to cut this the fuck out yesterday. You what to know what isn’t sustainable? Environmental collapse.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2mo ago

“The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan,” Carney said. “In my judgment that plan was not sustainable over the long term.”

Like honestly I’ve yet to see the AI use case where I think, “oh, ok, I guess that’s worth all this other bullshit.”