Always enjoy getting an email from an old friend that says: Hope this email finds you still alive. How did we ever lose touch? I'm currently working on piecing together the nature of time and loss. Talk soon. ❤️

Legislators should spend less time pushing age verification schemes and more time dealing with the real problems on these platforms. People at Facebook should go to jail over this stuff.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4h ago

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Crime rates have fallen *massively* in the past 40 years. The homicide rate in Canada was 40% lower in 2025 than in 1985.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

It is so weird to think that the flagship product of one of the biggest companies on Earth right now is Bonzi Buddy That Tells You To Kill Yourself

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Thinking of starting a band of really jacked anti-imperialists called Manic Street Reachers.

I'm not trying to be glib, I sincerely believe legislators should force Chat GPT to shut down until its products stop killing people.

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Last two retweets both made me laugh, but this new Fire Emblem does look like it's going to take over my life.

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct 8.4.2026

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

youtube.com

Why does every Nintendo Direct sound like this?

every single nintendo direct is written like its advertising the first video game ever made. in this “game of strategy” you can choose to attack with swords [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a sword] or with spells [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a spell]

Pretty good, pretty good. www.maptap.gg August 4 98🎯 100🎯 94🏅 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 986

By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.

Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

this.weekinsecurity.com

Yeah, sorry, but some folks on here just got straight-up outrage farmed by the Verge. This is fine!

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

I wonder how much eugenics stuff is based on misunderstanding the phrase "survival of the fittest" to mean "those who are most physically fit will survive" rather than its actual meaning, "those most well-adapted to their environment will survive".

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

404media.co

I dunno man, maybe I am just too optimistic about my fellow citizens, but I just can't believe that "little girls have to undergo genital inspections to play school sports" has support from more than a tiny percent of the population. This stuff should be easy to defeat by anyone willing to fight it.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Night climbing deserves a quiet night.

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to work with Elsi, this beautiful red-sailed ship. It looked so tiny in between the massive icebergs of Greenland.

You know the winds of change are on workers' side when even Poilievre is coming to the defence of a union that's in a position to strike. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

I'm digging this record, but don't travel back in time and tell younger me, this feels very much like Rock Music For Dads.

All The Beauty (album), by Pete Yorn

11 track album

peteyorn.bandcamp.com

The thing that continually amazes me about genAI product roll-outs is that these companies can never articulate a real use case. They didn't start out trying to solve a problem and then figure out that this is the solution, they're just throwing AI in everything because they can.

Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth

Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.

blog.google

I thought this was a good look at AI coding tools from a veteran video game programmer. Good conversation in the comments, as well.

My Dinner With AI

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

grumpygamer.com

Seeing a few people sneer "oh look he's doing charts for dinner" again at this makes me rather angry. Especially if you a) read his very next post and b) see the further points made by @besttrousers.bsky.social just below. But people are just allergic to actually thinking about this for some reason.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7d ago

hmm let’s add a couple lines and see how it looks

One thing I can confidently say is that more than a few other books have been canceled for AI use--including by established authors and non-fiction books--that have just not made the news yet.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago

👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?

The more details one hears about this case, the more infuriating it becomes. It's unconscionable what was done to this man. People should lose careers over this kind of malpractice.

Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · 6d ago

Brandon Klayme’s wrongful conviction is the second for Crown prosecutor Melanie Perry Morning File by me

The cross-partisan opposition to data centres is one of the most interesting political developments in recent memory. It's hard to get people to agree with almost anything across party lines these days.

Country Music Is Coming Out Strong Against Data Centers

Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Tanya Tucker are among the country artists speaking out against data centers in both rural and urban communities.

rollingstone.com

Finished that game, it was a lot of fun. Now we've moved on to Escape Academy, which is a first-person puzzle game. It's a good time if you've got a partner who also likes puzzles. It's on PC and all the consoles. If you're willing to wait for a sale, I got the game and all 3 DLC packs for $10.

Escape Academy on Steam

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - loc...

store.steampowered.com

draglikepull@draglikepull.bsky.social · last mo.

If you like co-op games, and especially if you like same screen couch co-op games, my wife and I have been playing Nobody Saves the World, a cartoony Diablo-ish game, and it’s both funny and fun to play. Definitely gets a recommendation from us.