Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨

3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/

But why is academia sometimes so bad at thinking, it has one job

Anthropomorphic snake sits on a floor yelling " everyone start prioritizing creation over perfection now" with lots of exclamation points

A while ago, I was required to attend one of the endless stream of Ai-for-educators webinars. The warm up question was “the first word you think of when you think of Ai.” My word was, and remains, fascism.

Print article in the newspaper: "Only Elon Musk can bring me to Ryanair's defence"

Having flown on Ryanair just yesterday, I agree with every word of this from @mrkocnnll.bsky.social in the Irish Times

Use of ADHD medication in UK more than tripled in 13 years, study finds UK had highest relative increase of five countries in study, with 20-fold rise in proportion of women over 25 using it

Child1's GP said there's a perfect correlation between the decline in smoking and the rise in ADHD meds - many people were unknowingly self-medicating with nicotine.

I don't think he was suggesting child1 start smoking, at least I hope not.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

No puedo parar

american individualism runs so deep that they struggle to grasp the concept of being collectively responsible for what their nation does

A joke for the history buffs.

A ★★★★½ review of No Other Choice (2025) When Park Chan-Wook is inspired by The Looney Tunes, this is what we get. An absurdist, slapstick meditation on the impact of Capitalism on the expendable human labor force and the lengths one man wil...

Park Chang Wook really can make a film.

boxd.it/cJfpGH

Too few people are talking about the blood on Elon Musk's hands.

When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children.

Musk is responsible for the death of thousands

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.

1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral

[rant]

En Phineas y Ferb, Doofenshmirtz ha sufrido todo tipo de humillaciones, pero es un malo más bien buena gente. En la película, el Doofenshmirtz de una dimensión alternativa es un malvado con todas las de la ley porque de pequeño perdió su tren de juguete...

La sutileza está sobrevalorada 😀

in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible. I don't have any advice for how to do that. I'm sorry!

Cory Doctorow is great. From pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Boosting this because it deserves more eyes on it. Bob's great, and this video's a fine example of why. He covers an interesting bit of Hollywood history with ramifications beyond its own moment, AND manages to tie it back into modern concerns about how we value art (and artists).

Not funny (because too close to reality). 🙈 scarily accurate.

At the airport ...

The Halo TV show makes the same mistake that a lot of prequels and adaptations do: nothing can ever be incidental, it all has to be connected, all part of some grand design.

They complain about the male loneliness epidemic but do men even try to make themselves attractive by showing off their shapely legs and festooning themselves with embroidery and lace? They do not

Me too. Up to 20 books at the same time. For years

Es estupendo

AI Blackface just another predictable and horrific product of this evil coloniser tech

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

The CEO of Nvidia demands the peasants stop being mean about AI.

gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...

There's probably a dimension out there where not-terrible Scott Adams correctly read the direction business and technology was going.

There, Dilbert evolved into the full rich tech bro bad guy of the strip, and remained both funny and relevant.

We don't live in that dimension though.

i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics

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“Viva la revolución” grita Donut con la boina de Che Guevara 😀