Very excited for this but have to say the idea that Neuromancer has ever been considered unfilmable is amusing to me. It’s a cinematic heist with a sci fi setting!

R.U. Sirius@rusirius.bsky.social · yesterday

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

prospect.org

I really don’t think this angle is working for the AI dudes, but too many of them have drunk the Rationalist Kool-Aid. They can’t help themselves. They think “we’re the only ones who can safely shepherd God into existence” is a compelling pitch for normal people.

Reuters@reuters.com · 5d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing reut.rs/4hvqeY1

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

Pretty sick of all this!!

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Sorry but if you want stupid Tilly Norwood news to go away, stop sharing the stupid articles about her!

I think things would be better if instead of displacing anger at the bad dad/husband/whatever in our lives and projecting those qualities onto internet strangers, we confronted the bad people in our lives directly and left the strangers, who we know nothing about, alone.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

themomoftheyear.substack.com

After a few days in Vienna I am fully tram pilled. Time to start laying rail Chicago.

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

My story “A Bug Screamed At Me, Yet I Must Carry On As Normal” is in this! The title pretty much explains it! You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!

Cryptic Frog@crypticfrogpub.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're so excited to announce Issue #4 of Cryptic Frog Quarterly! We hope it gives a little seasoning to your spooky season. 👑🎃 Find it on Amazon here: a.co/d/0cwANH1E If you'd rather wait, the stories will also drop twice a week for free on our website.

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Campaign Brandon is back. Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.

Brandon Johnson@brandon4chicago.bsky.social · 3w ago

Four years ago, we promised to build the safest most affordable city in America by investing in people. Together we’ve made progress on delivering a better, stronger, and safer Chicago and our work is not done. Join us!

not my problem

Besides the point but I like that no one on the left tries to pretend Macklemore’s music is good

That third one is by me :)

Cryptic Frog@crypticfrogpub.bsky.social · 4w ago

Issue #4 is right around the corner, coming in print and digital formats on September 21, 2026! Titles: The Old Man's Watch The Dowager and the Seedsnipe A Bug Screamed at Me, Yet I Must Carry On as Normal and more . . . See crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/.../cryptic.... for updates.

I am a newer Bears follower but I can say with 100% confidence they are going to win the Super Bowl

Earnest question, is there any easy way to mute posts that are just dunking on screenshots from Twitter/X? Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.

It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe

If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

theverge.com

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

I use AI at my job everyday, it's a requirement. My account was recently reset. I'd had it set to be as impersonal and clinical and terse as I could make it. Like a word calculator. When it was set back to the stock version, I was taken aback at how sycophantic and overly familiar it is.

I have some thoughts on grown-ups whipping votes to win a popularity contest on a website

I have an (obviously not true) theory that the 38 most influential users thing was designed to get me to stop using the For You feed

I really resent the way America treats quality and dignity as luxuries

😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸@caulimovirus.bsky.social · last mo.

this was from a few years ago, but i just stumbled upon these photos my friend had sent me from the Swiss hospital where she had just given birth