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Imagine how much the world would suck if anyone listened to these people

Today's a great day for accountability 😃

warren buffett says we should tax the rich, and i say we listen to him

pretty stunning chart

If you're mad that it's difficult to have an objective and nuanced conversation about the pros and cons of AI your beef is with the developers and promoters of this tech who deliberately made that impossible because they benefited from the irrational hype!

it's so weird living in the Trump/Biff alternate timeline from Back to the Future

Apple Music pays around $50 million annually to sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

The NFL pays the performers $1,246 for the performance, the minimum allowable SAG rate for theatrical performances.

I love how that's considered peak success in the music industry. 🫠

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.

Note for anyone who needs it: “hide post for me” on original posts will also hide quote skeets

Not a huge deal (hopefully), but an important lesson to not automatically trust a website because it aligns with your ideology.

Got told, again, to keep politics out of my posting here as it will affect my book sales. Fuck that. My readership mostly knows my politics and doesn't give a fuck. And if you're a nazi cunt, or want to appease nazi cunts, you're not going to like my books anyway.

There are people in the world who say that there are only two genders: male and female.
But the heart and soul have much more personality.
It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words.
You were born to live freely.
Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Never do this. NEVER EVER. The odds that the AI will be wrong and you will harass an innocent are too high. AI is not magic, NCIS is a fictional TV show, and no matter how much you like Abby she isn't actually real.

This is a bad thing to do and people who suggest doing it should feel bad.

By Charlie SavageEric SchmittJohn IsmayJulian E. BarnesRiley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay and Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington; Riley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert reported from New York. Jan. 12, 2026 Updated 6:47 p.m. ET The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said. The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels. But the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

U.S. military manuals about the law of war discuss perfidy at length, saying it includes when a combatant feigns civilian status so the adversary “neglects to take precautions which are otherwise necessary.” A U.S. Navy handbook says lawful combatants at sea use offensive force “within the bounds of military honor, particularly without resort to perfidy,” and stresses that commanders have a “duty” to “distinguish their own forces from the civilian population.”

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Call me crazy, but if someone actually were trying to run you over, shooting them to death doesn't actually remove the threat. It just means their now-dead leg weight is still on the accelerator but there's no control over the steering.

These shootings are plainly retaliatory, and always have been.

Aurora Australis from Paekakariki Hill

Here's a nice picture I took, because the world isn't all shit and we need to remember that❤️

Don't let it exhaust you. Keep calling it what it is. It's not like they've been trying to hide it for the last year.

Been saying it for a year (privately, then publicly after leaving The Washington Post):

This is fascism. It's here. It is happening right now.

The Venezuela invasion may have overshadowed the grok story temporarily, but fully agree with the point here bsky.app/profile/adam...

What @smartbitches.bsky.social said.

smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/01/a-sh...

If you can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it--or promote it, endorse it, or care about it.

AI-generated cover? Same.

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

this puts a bunch of us in the awkward position of agreeing with yann's overall point but disagreeing with his entire argument

BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and links therein for instructions.

Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd

I’m boosting UBC’s posting because with 20 years experience with their geoscience department and its quirks, I still like it.

But if Vancouver (or Okanagan) aren’t your speed, almost every university should have similar postings up since the Dec 15 funding announcement.

given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards

Do I know any animators on here?

Making an 8-10 minute short film that plays like an animated children's book.

Specifically hand-drawn-style or paint-style, but still functionally CG using modern software and workflows. No AI please.

The Christian right’s deification of Donald Trump amounts to idolatry.

Trump’s malignantly narcissistic response to the murder of Rob Reiner reveals a deeply demonic figure: one callously indifferent to any life but his own, the antithesis of a true Christian.

It's kinda heartbreaking to see so many artists being like "can I post about OCs and not just fanart?", "can I talk about other stuff?", "can I post often?" because the other hellsite literally punished you for doing...normal things you do as an artist - as a person, even.