All I'm saying is Google had a vested interest in wrecking its magic search (people may have forgotten how insanely good it was, it was wizard level shit) because of how underwater they were on their AI investment and get you on to Gemini
Screenshot of book cover.
Screenshot of review: This generative and confronting collection invites us to re-think, re-position, and re-imagine the imbrication of queerness and Scottishness, alongside other social differences. Taylor has curated an impressive array of creatives, scholars, and activists who explore the tensions, possibilities, pleasures, risks, and glitches that emerge for queer and trans people navigating their senses of belonging to the 'wee nation' of Scotland. Senthorun Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
It’s an honour to be asked to review fab manuscripts about queer things ahead of their publication. One of the books I’ve had the pleasure of endorsing is Yvette Taylor’s edited collection, “Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland.”
Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/au/queer-in-...
An elderly Leonard Bernstein once stopped by the Philharmonie in Berlin to visit Herbert von Karajan. They sat down and talked for about an hour. Later, a Karajan assistant was asked what they'd discussed. He responded: "Their aches and pains; what else do old men discuss?"
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)
We have the CD set with Antal Dorati
of all of the operas written for the court!
this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal
I have at least 3 Lulus on DVD. I haven’t watched the Barbara Hannigan(!) one yet.
"You're right, my answer was based on outdated information. My bad! I sincerely apologize for targeting hundreds of children, and hope you'll forgive me for the error. Upon further research, I have identified another epic target and launched missiles at the coordinates 33°48'45.9"N 117°55'08.4"W."
Samuel Delany dedicated his monumental novel The Mad Man to me without ever having met me (and in fact only because of his reaction to a chapbook of mine that I thought had gotten lost in the mail)
* when I found out, I was at work at my desk and I fainted right to the floor
Barbara Bush for me - centuries ago
All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine
Here are my Obsidian bookmarks on are.na www.are.na/barry-hoggar...
I am trying anytype.io now. I like that I can sync to my phone over my local network.
fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this
Damning NYT story on the decision-making leading up to this war: "The president said he understood the risks of an attack, but he conveyed to Mr. Carlson that he had no choice but to join a strike that Israel would launch." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:
you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.
Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
They're calling it SuperBenghazi.
Janis outside the Hotel Chelsea, March 1969. Photo by David Gahr.
My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!
WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...
I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!
Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’
I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.
my beloved puppy
DO NOT OPEN
Yeah I have bathed patients for whom this would have been such a blessing.
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
We listened to this tonight. It’s an amazing curation of works. She sings and conducts. One of our favorite singers.
ludwiglive.nl/project/la-p...
Honey, Democrats like Schumer and Jeffries are sucking up to Trump by voting for his nominees and priorities while groveling in the Oval Office with absolutely *zero returns*. Mamdani gave Trump a fake newspaper and saved a human life.
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
