Woman Takes ‘Psychotically Long Walks’ Across New York City
https://laughingsquid.com/psychotically-long-walks-new-york-city/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Why the Human Brain Cannot Easily Retrieve Memories Before Age Four
https://laughingsquid.com/infantile-amnesia/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
@nyrath @galaxy_map you’re probably well aware of the excellent blog analyzing font usage in scifi movies called Typeset in the Future, but here’s a link to the Eurostile article over there for anyone who may have missed it the flrst time. I highly recommend checking the other posts on the blog as well as it’s a blast:
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/
AMAZONS 2 (1981)
Acrylic on Crescent Illustration Board - 24” x 16”
Cover for a DAW anthology featuring women characters written (mostly) by female writers. 1/3
Don't forget to pull up the ladder behind you!
#webcomics #comics
The critical thinking and empathy necessary to distinguish a piece of human writing from slop is a skill. It can be practiced. It is human labour, it cannot be jobbed out to rancid grifters selling "'AI'-detection services". Publishers will continue to be taken in if they do not grasp this.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%.
👉 Ireland / elsewhere please take note (!)
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/07/oregon-data-center-general-electric-rate-hikes/
Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.
Why isn't it just a web page?
So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).
Here's the full story:
🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage
#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering
If you are not completely allergic to Bluesky, please go read Ursula Vernon’s thread about her grandmother!!
Stacks: “Run HyperCard stacks directly on your modern Mac. No emulator required!” https://morphing.cloud/hypercard
This is totally fun. And this modern trailer does something super clever - it preserves the big twist. Not only that, it has zero shots of T-1000. Terrific editing.
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), Modern Trailer by Michael Edwards
youtu.be/GMejQs5Q5_4
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Down these mean streets a raccoon must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
PASSAGE: VERGE (1989)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48" X 36"
There are other, more metaphysical meanings to be derived from this painting, but at the time I was doing it I had decided to "step off the brink," professionally speaking. 1/2
Marked QL is available now ($4.99US) on the Mac App Store. Instant Markdown previews using Apex, a Markdown parser that combines CommonMark, GFM, Kramdown, Pandoc, and more.
"We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Well, this is horrifying. AI must die. https://www.bona-books.com/news/we-bought-an-ai-story
@fred @cstross @zzt @davidgerard I like to say that if I were still in academia, I'd tell my students this:
If you use an LLM to do your homework, you are responsible for its output. I will grade your essays as if you personally wrote them; LLMs are really bad at writing essays, so if you rely on them, you will fail my class.
And I would love to say this in the syllabus for a class that's required for graduation.
This is a masterful demonstration of the unsecurable nature of LLMs, and how prompt injection by dedicated humans who know how to write will always win.
FUZZY FIRE (1983)
Acrylic on watercolor board - 25" x 31"
I never heard the rumors of a missing H. Beam Piper manuscript, which ended up being this story. I was doing all sorts of covers for DAW as well. I took each commission in turn as a separate project, and didn’t know that there were going to be as many Fuzzy books as there turned out to be. 1/6