Will Morton

connection is my necessary thing and it comes to me in details — Cynthia Leslie-Bole, in “Feather & Fire”

Still as depressingly accurate 26 years later

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

speaking as somebody who's been in/around the field for a long time this is it right here

I'm pureeing liquid dead horse at this point, but: policy choice! technology cannot be uninvented, but specific networks can be broken. we do not have to live in a world with instagram and TikTok! a dozenish companies whose continued viability is contingent on existing laws! not inevitable!

RT: Taras Grescoe 🚇️ @straphanger@urbanists.social Make way for the new "Mayor Pete," Hizzoner Pete Fry. #Vancouver 's new mayor is the first in any major Canadian city to belong to the Green Party. He might also be the first mayor to come out of the punk rock scene... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If anyone needs me I’ll be over here picking fights about cheese on social media

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

@bruces.bsky.social oh hey look at that giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... German prosecutors accuse Ukraine of Nord Stream sabotage

"As history shows, Nazis indubitably sport a compact, severe little brush of hair, clipped with almost bureaucratic precision and planted beneath the nose... Yet this defining characteristic is conspicuously absent from our politics today." buff.ly/SQwmock

There is some mighty weird stuff going on up there: defector.com/there-is-som...

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

when you’re too dumb to know you’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - Francis Bacon

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

*Also, if you are Mr Big Tech Bro and exploiting cyberpunks, you don't make a trophy of one, God forbid. Instead, you leak something indiscreet that you want leaked anyhow, and you expect him to tell all his ratty little counterculture friends. #industry #bestpractice

I feel like we should be developing the general literacy that this is a form of very obvious engagement bait

I've heard the argument made that the software for the Apollo mission may have been the only *completely* debugged code ever written.

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Times Square, 1933 Hungry people line up for a sandwich and a cup of coffee

"Fukuyama, properly understood, was not saying that events would cease after 1989, nor that there would be no further world-historical struggle. What he argued was that liberal democracy had become the only real game in town. Therefore, future battles would necessarily be fought in its defence…"

Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker

Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...

"I thought you found me." Carmen let the sheet fall away. They smiled. Neither felt lost. Not anymore.

Psssssh I have no interest in silly vinyl t-Mordin! Buddy!

an AI cannot meaningfully be horny therefore an AI cannot meaningfully make music

American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this

I think if this app never grows its base beyond “the nerds & the queers” that would still be an incredibly valuable and probably sustainable thing

Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith decapitates Holofernes with distaste but determination, 1597. By Caravaggio, born OTD in 1571.

Remember, it's not gambling, it's healing your inner child.

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Good morning from Marcel Duchamp

My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

this is why, despite being pumped about AR and related tech, I have zero interest in owning any Meta offering they’d let mortuary vans bid on auto-detection of your grief once the pipeline exists

Being able to select text from a photo and plug it straight into the alt text is very cool. That’s all.

The simple facts are: 1. OpenAI deliberately designed software for carrying out autonomous cyberattacks (they were training it on something called “ExploitGym” for heaven’s sake) 2. They left it on completely unmonitored 3. Exactly what you think would happen happened

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

NEW POST Human collaboration improves with feedback, but not obvious to do well. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips, based on the principle that both praise and criticism should be seen as positive. martinfowler.com/articles/hea...