Thomas Wilde

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The intro from last year's THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS is an essay by J. Michael Straczynski about his friendship with Ellison, where he talks about how he spent years trying to get Ellison into therapy for undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Fascinating read.

Reposting for some higher traffic: I put up a new piece over the weekend for my newsletter about indie games.

Ghosts of Dead Cities: Possessor(s) Well, that didn’t work out like I expected. The plan was to take this column weekly again, but then I got on a plane during a national flu spike. I’m fine now, but it was hard to get my act together f...

Sickness slowed me down, but I've got a new post up on my indie-gaming newsletter. This week, I've been playing Heart Machine's POSSESSOR(S):

I'm generally all right with Duck Duck Go as a replacement for Google... except that it keeps turning its goddamn AI summary option back on by itself.

I wouldn't be using DDG in the first place if I wanted that shit, man.

An instagram post by Sarah Michelle Gellar, where she shares a screenshot of a tweet by user @godimsuchadyke. The tweet is a photo of Buffy and Faith standing close together lesbianly from Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the caption "this was my heated rivalry". Sarah thanks user @godimsuchadyke in the caption of her post.

Everybody shut the fuck up and pay attention to the most important thing happening at this moment.

No, I don't think I blame them this time around. They've got hundreds of hours of video footage of this guy setting off a sad, slow suicide bomb, and no overt guarantee we won't do it again. Steve Bannon wants to run for president.

We need to clean out the rot before we rejoin the world.

Making the switch to Vivaldi to get off of Chrome.

The biggest adjustment so far is that it darkens the active tab, which is the exact opposite of how every other browser does it. For some reason I can't get used to this.

Hi, hello, other Californians. Turns to everyone else. Y'all can hang too, sorry about how many of your discord friends and long distance significant others live here. Our bad. Turns back to the Californians. Friends. Countryfolk. Lend me your ears. As a humble random f----- t----- from North-North California, I would like to submit. have we considered putting Gavin Newsom into a wicker man to ensure a plentiful harvest.

Good luck getting more than 500 dachshunds to all do the same thing at the same time.

A true Canadian hero: "Fuck AI, fuck it so hard, just fuck it to death."

Every time someone reminds me that Constantine is in the mainstream DCU now, it weirds me out all over again.

It's like if they'd just kept Warren Ellis's '90s version of Damien Hellstrom in circulation. It doesn't make sense in that context.

Hey, I write for Seattle-area tech media. What's a good way to contact you for comment about this? My DMs should be open.

Meta layoffs hit Seattle-area VR studio Camouflaj, developer behind ‘Batman’ game https://www.geekwire.com/2026/meta-layoffs-hit-seattle-area-vr-studio-camouflaj-developer-behind-batman-game/

Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now

It strikes me as a dude who has no faith in his own ability to accomplish anything, so he went for the most minimum, navigable way to improve the situation he could think of, and in so doing vastly misread the vibe.

We're past being upset about a lack of disclosure. It's Nuremberg hours up ins.

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

YouTube video by Pivot to AI US voters hate AI — and politicians are noticing

"To all the haters out there, keep it up. It's working."

—@davidgerard.co.uk

Great. Now Gemini wants to "help me write" in Gmail even when I've shut it off.

This is less a feature and more like a curse. At least Clippy could take a fucking hint.

Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.

Thanks. I've been looking for this (insane) post again and couldn't find it.

Please Seek Help Immediately Motherfucker have you listened to yourself

I love the @aftermath.site folks, but this headline and subhed are absolutely art.

The "somehow" is almost certainly a bad-faith brigade from /pol/ or something, but the real irritation is that it didn't have to be.

Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.

I'm going to try and read more in 2026.

Book #1: Chuck Wendig's BLACK RIVER ORCHARD. Kept me interested until the end, save for a couple of very "old man writing a teenage girl" moments, but it did feel like
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he wrote the whole thing with a bunch of '80s Stephen King open in his lap.

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

It's the movie that got me to pay attention to Shane Black.