Max Gladstone

Cool!

looking forward to bad guys 3

To give you advance notice, the RUIN OF ANGELS book club is on my BIRTHDAY so I expect more commenters than usual, especially as its one of my favourite books.

Do not make me speak to myself on the subreddit on my BIRTHDAY. Get your discussion points ready.

We're going to have to get a lot better, as a culture, at determining whether a given text outside of our personal disciplines actually makes sense, or is just faking the signals that generally accompany sense-making.

For a lot of reasons, but also for this

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

The f*&%ing library.

I actually laughed

ok @maxread.info knows I’m a fan but any accounting of stomp clap that doesn’t include early whoa-oh hardcore eg the Misfits is missing a limb. That yell-the-chorus punk (whose legacy is people who think all choruses are for yelling) is a vital part of this

then i'd just be waiting for a judge with a leek on its back

goddammit, *leeches

Can't be a nice RV though, to honor the intent of the founders you'd need, like, a fleet vehicle manual pickup with a mattress in the back

All Justices should have to spend at least a third of the year wandering the earth like Caine in Kung Fu

Always seemed to me that "circuit riding" was an elegant way (in pre-modern era) to enforce an age cap on the court. Yep, you have lifetime tenure... long as you don't mind spending months of your year on a horse, away from your office & support network, and also we still think leaches are medicine

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Always repost Prisencolinensinainciusol

Gaza in ruins.

Tasneem’s children scouring for food.

Tasneem’s flyer.

Gaza is destroyed. The civilians are trapped, starving, and under constant attack.

I’m helping to raise funds for my friend Tasneem so she can feed her family and one day afford passage out of Gaza.

Please give at the link, if you can and help others in need. ❤️🙏

www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

I keep seeing people say that Ana and Din from Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup are a riff on Holmes & Watson. This is a me problem but it makes me grind my teeth every time. Some of you have never read Rex Stout and it shows.

I’m a latecomer to Stout but I am such a partisan now, I want Saul Panzer in the Ana & Din books, I want Ana dropping odd lore about Montenegro and Budapest

One of the wonderful points to me is that Ana&Din work even on people who have not read Rex Stout, a borderline miraculous achievement when building so clearly on an established form

“Confound it Archie! Where’s Fritz, we must determine how to properly season these giant fish-men.”

going after that tall stream-star dollar

dang it Aidan I need to beat this octopus pirate demon lady in ninja gaiden first

Eater layoffs statement Today, 15 members of the Vox Media Union working at Eater were notified without warning that their jobs were being eliminated as part of a major restructuring of the 20-year-old brand. This was especially shocking considering that Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff told Puck’s Dylan Byers just last week that he did not anticipate any impending layoffs at the company. But, of course, we’ve learned that we cannot trust Jim Bankoff’s word when it comes to layoffs. This is the second major round of layoffs at Eater this year, following a round earlier this year that decimated Eater’s award-winning cities network. To be abundantly clear: these layoffs are a gut-job, one that eliminates roughly a third of Eater’s union jobs. It is also a cowardly capitulation to the fallacious insistence that generative AI is the future of search and publishing. We are devastated that our colleagues have lost their jobs, and we are deeply worried about the future sustainability of Eater without them. Eater is currently in the midst of celebrating its 20th anniversary, and right now, there is not much to celebrate. We will have more information forthcoming about ways to support our laid-off colleagues in the coming days. Solidarity forever, The Vox Media Union Committees

Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

Horrible, on top of so much horror. Thank you @walidhouri.bsky.social for taking on this difficult reporting

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.

Oh lovely. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

cartoon of Grover dressed as the evil wizard Jafar from Aladdin. He's close up on the left and in the background on the right. JANEAR JAFAR

Cartoon: JaNear! JaFar! :)

Doomscrolling, as we all know, is named after Doctor Doom's habit of reading the news and getting angry whenever Reed Richards is mentioned