J.T. Greathouse
@jeremyteg.bsky.social
BFA nominated author of The Tower of the Tyrant and the Pact and Pattern series from Gollancz. Other books cookin' website: www.jtgreathouse.wordpress.com
This bellicose, corrupt regime is a national embarrassment and an international danger. We could not hope for a more steadfast and welcoming ally and neighbor than Canada. 🇨🇦 I love Canada 🍁
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoMost American have zero interest in the US government treating one of our most important historical allies and trading partners like this. But the worst among us is running the country, thanks to the worst and most irresponsible voters among us.
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
btw i am ON THE COVER and WITHIN THE PAGES of the next GRIMDARK MAGAZINE ISSUE. live october 1st. if you know me this is a dream come true and basically the only publication i ever wanted to, ahem, crack. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's Bandcamp Friday! And while I do not make music, my good buddy Jack does. His band Timeworm just released a new single and it slaps. timewormband.bandcamp.com/track/thoughts
Thoughts, by Timeworm
track by Timeworm
timewormband.bandcamp.com
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
carbonbrief.org
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
I think it's important for Americans to understand that the rest of the world is making plans without us. We're about to be trapped and isolated inside the walls Trump is putting up literally and figuratively.
Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social · 5d agoYou cannot understate the incompetence of or long term fiscal damage being done by the Trump admin / Bessent Treasury Dept. UST are the water that lubricates the global financial system and they are making people not want them. www.ft.com/content/ecc1...
Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people
John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 5d ago
I’m excited to report that we have an Associate Game Designer position open on the D&D Game Design team. These roles don’t come along often and are a great place to take your TRPG career to the next level. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/hasbro/jobs/... #dnd #WOTCstaff
Associate Game Designer - D&D
Renton, Washington, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Wait, the official US White House website is featuring an arcade style game in which a cartoon white man in a suit chases cartoon black and brown people, eats/destroys them, and changes them into orange-clad inmates!?!
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 5d agoVery gross!
Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97X
He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.
Ed Zitron isn’t concerned about our AI revolution turning into a murder-robot nightmare. He’s warning that the companies involved are spending insane amounts of money that they will never make back—an...
vanityfair.com
How can it not turn out this way with infinite content machines? It can only "superpower" the existing internet economics of shrinking returns and pressure to constantly increase outputs.
More seriously, this likely is future of AI generated "content." A few grifters will make it work, but overall it will be a race to the bottom generating infinite content for increasingly small returns and begging for money and/or teaching grift courses on using AI (the real money)
Was just talking to a buddy about switching to ProtonMail. Seems like it's time.
Tuta@tuta.com · last wk.If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
This is a very encouraging sign. It’s also a reminder that Trump will attack the mail in ballots as they are counted on order to discredit or throw out Democratic votes. Vote early and in person or use a ballot drop box if one is available in your area.
Gen X, this is our retirement they’re talking about. Maybe we don’t say “whatever” this time.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last wk.Social Security benefits will be cut for tens of millions of retirees in late 2032, unless Congress takes action first.
Leaving aside the obvious potential for like half the country to have a foodborne illness in the near future, if you’ve interacted at all with actual farmers it is really hilarious that he thinks they’re gonna react positively to being told to work more and/or pay more people to do this.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoNothing could possibly go wrong.
Centrists cannot bring people on the left "back in line." They have to quit it with this rhetoric. If they treat people on the left as a greater enemy than Trump, the thing that is going to happen is that people on the left will fucking fight them tooth and nail. Include me in that number.
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
Ashley@ashleysays.bsky.social · 2w agoChefs kiss
I think the mainstream American political universe has not quite grasped how difficult it is about to become for Republicans to keep brain-poisoned Twitter Nazi freaks out of their campaigns. It's a solid 85% of their talent pool under 30.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2w ago"Parra also posted a racial slur to refer to Black people several times and the phrase 'White Power' in X posts in June and July."
God help the GOP if "Nazi infiltration of the Republican Party" ever becomes an obsessive media discourse object the same way "antisemitism on the left" has. Even the world's laziest reporter could find three of these guys on every campaign. It'll be shooting gallery.
The stellar, impeccably-managed response to the Spokane Complex Fires (thus far) needs to be studied.
'An unprecedented pace': EPA official says one-third of properties affected by the Spokane Complex fires have been cleared of hazardous household materials
A little more than a week after hazmat teams began removing hazardous household materials from properties affected by the Spokane Complex fires, an official from the EPA said roughly one-third of all ...
spokesman.com
I've been using LibreOffice for basically my entire writing career (I used OpenOffice for a bit before that) and I've never had problems with it. If you're looking for a Microsoft alternative, this is as good as it gets.
Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 2w agoLibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 2w agoLibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite
