The S1 literally said the potential value for the company would be more than the Earth's entire economy

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

SpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

to take an actual crack at this: requiring effort to access entertainment (set schedules, physical media, rare reruns, limited home access), often meant you proved yourself a fan by dint of the consumption itself, and I think that’s been replaced by toxic fandom to prove your bona fides.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

just in time for the markets to open! it's a Sunday miracle!

I knew several people who turned their whole lives around with the regular CERB cheques coming in. Test run for UBI.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Damn I missed this!

Denton Froese@denton1882.bsky.social · 4d ago

Correction: those are the howls of marathoners. The wrestling starts at 2pm. Still love this city, though!

Maud Lewis was 100% punk rock

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 7d ago

If there was a surface, Maud Lewis painted on it. She turned her small home into a colourful work of art. While she was born with birth defects, she never let that stop her from capturing the beauty she saw in the world. This is her story. 📸 Art Canada Institute 🧵 1/12

If not a bailout then certainly a well-timed announcement

This was Barron’s a week ago bsky.app/profile/quin...

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2w ago

waiting for the cavalry

You know, in the right hands, "Leaves of Grass" could be the cinematic experience that heals the USA

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

For the last several decades computers have been getting more knowledgeable, with things like Google and Wikipedia becoming very good at finding facts. AI has completely reversed that, but a LOT of people are still in a 2022 mindset and think AI is just "better Google" even though it's the opposite

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · last wk.

I am amazed that people walk into discussions among knowledgeable human experts and say “ChatGPT says…” It’s very insulting to do that, and it makes you look ridiculous. Everybody has seen LLMs spit out wrong information about *extremely* simple things. Don’t make a fool of yourself!

When they're not rotting their brains on X, all these tech CEOs are in the same group chats together, and the groupthink gets further from reality and into weird neofeudalist accelerationist weirdness

Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦@sschwinghamer.bsky.social · last wk.

*looks at the US* Great idea, equating money with political voice. Look where Citizens United has landed that poor former democracy. If you are a citizen, you have the right to vote and the responsibility to contribute back to the state according to your means. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's fun watch Bari Weiss grasping her way to figuring out what journalism is through her hires at 60 Minutes. Is it when you ask a prominent person a question and nod? Is it when you make sure that something Benny Johnson said on Twitter makes it into a reported story despite it not being true?

"The Toronto G20 police riots: a part of our heritage"

Mikæla@crashannburn.bsky.social · last wk.

Raising funds to produce a series of Anti-Heritage Minutes, like the first time you ate at Tim’s after they stopped baking inhouse, the 2025 World Series, practically every federal police action in the 20th century, CBC dropping the ball on Hockey Night in Canada, that sort of thing

So I've now come across two 'marketing' companies in rural NS that are charging local tradespeople and small startup businesses ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH for 'marketing plans' and websites that are all raw ChatGPT output. People are getting fleeced.

Alas this is now the actual language of top US officials

Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies.bsky.social · last wk.

I can no longer sit back and allow: Communist infiltration. Communist indoctrination. Communist subversion. AND the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify All of our precious bodily fluids.

So @doctorow.pluralistic.net's essays often circle around similar themes in various combos as he's working out his ideas in public, but every so often everything comes together into a really strong and insightful statement, like this one about teaching, skill, and AI pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/h...

Off to 70mm IMAX Odyssey this afternoon!

We just spent a week in the Kejimkujik backcountry and saw some of the effects of budget cuts first-hand. Firewood no longer provided, so campers are damaging the forest by scavenging. Garbage left at campsites now that enforcement from wardens is gone. (1/2)

Conor Curtis@conorcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.

(1/2) Actually: ottawacitizen.com/public-servi... And also: bsky.app/profile/cono...

Weeping in laughter at "Spaceballs: The Snyder Cut"

John Hudgens@johnhudgens.bsky.social · 2w ago

Spaceballs: The Extended Universe graphics from yesterday's SDCC panel - Part Two

I love that, like the opening spaceship shot from the movie, they just keep going and going. "Soaceballs The Animated Series Live Action" "Soaceballs: The Musical" "Soaceballs: The Retraction"

John Hudgens@johnhudgens.bsky.social · 2w ago

Spaceballs: The Extended Universe graphics from yesterday's SDCC panel - Part One

But one violent nut drove their car into a pride parade in Berlin and it's front page news worldwide

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

No previews (aside from the Dune 3 sneak peak). No commercials. Human introducing the movie. Humans greeting and thanking us on the way out. 70mm film projection. Odysseus was right: civilization CAN return.

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

Look everyone, if Hungary could fund the online right on a GDP 2/3 the size of British Columbia, let's approach this with some lateral thinking. Put me in Coach Carney, I'll get my hands dirty as hell spreading the money around. I'll do it for a reasonable % and a Senate seat after.

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2w ago

Incredibly funny how Orban's Hungary appears to have been a load bearing pillar of the chud internationale's infospace operations

Ladies and gentlemen. The weekend (markets have closed).

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.

I've been getting more serious about guitar in the last year or so and to push myself I'm playing my first live "gig" tomorrow: all 3 minutes of The Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" at a friend's backyard music party. I may not be very good yet but at least a pretty guitar makes for a rocking selfie!

I laughed out loud in this food court and people are looking at me funny

I can’t imagine a more personally humiliating thing than to be Chotiner’d by Douthat. Astonishing.

But mostly, a journey that should take half an hour ends up taking 10 years. Traffic.