David Grover

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Trump claims bump after pumping slumping schlump's plum rump

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We developed the capacity to visually encounter the cosmic background radiation from the creation of the universe and we mostly find it annoying.

I went to school with one of the founders of bioware. I wonder what the feeling locally is about shutting them down.

genuinely insulting how studies and surveys routinely find how paying for basic human needs has no downsides for both governments and businesses and both routinely plunge their heads in the sand as it rots around them

Some more background on the role of the digital advertising industry in ad-based spyware delivery. At the core of our new @citizenlab.ca report is Discover-Tech, a company that was deeply interconnected with the ad industry for years yet operated as a facilitator for spyware vendors like Candiru.

"Software will eat the world" is kind of the a16z credo. When you look at how new tech companies value the size of their market, its clear that what they mean by "software." It isn't a million different companies sharing $36TT, it's one company with a boot on the neck of everyone who needs bits.

If nothing else, two fun facts you might not already know: (1) The Tragedy of The Commons is a specific, essentially wrong paper by a guy who turns out to suck, and (2) exploitative scholarly publishing is basically traceable to one guy, Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

It may make me sound like a partisan lib but I actually think it’s Bad that the President thinks he can use a small army of men with loaded guns to disrupt the legitimate electoral process in California simply because he thinks it’ll help him and his party politically this close to an election…

Prediction (and profanity warning): In the not-too-distant future people will stop saying "well that's fucked up" and start saying "well that's trumped up." Maybe not high odds on that prediction, but we could make it happen. It just takes an act of will.

Well sure we gave everyone the raw materials to create semantic bombs that can F up everything from the code that runs websites to your mom's trust in the voice on the line claiming to be her granddaughter. But just think of the benefits! You can have the bomb automatically book tickets for you!

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

The wings in particular are engineered to guarantee it’ll come back.

I think it was @tressiemcphd.bsky.social who observed that Dr Abdul-Sayed was a professor before he was a politician. You think the undergrads at Columbia (naive or not) weren't trying to disrupt his classroom? And probably coming at him better than that? That kid walked into the man's CHAMBER

I don't know whether anyone will read this, but it is, of all the essays I'll ever write, the one I've been preparing for the longest: on the memoir by the guy from Tears For Fears philipchristman.substack.com/p/the-madnes...

It broke my heart when Suzanne Vega eventually admitted that she wrote Luka about her own childhood.

Our society is governed by a reactionary's imagination of what an 18th century reactionary might have believed after he had a few beers

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Here is the actual sign for the American wine section at Andrew Hilton in Lethbridge. I know it’s real because I made it!

Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain says the electoral success of his political party would "inevitably" lead to civil unrest and rioting. His argument is increasingly that civil conflict has become unavoidable + absolutely necessary (if still partly regrettable + somewhat to be blamed on opponents)

congratulations to kelowna's newest councillor

Its axiomatic that the Everything Bagel is the platonic ideal of bread. This is just obvious.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Let this inspire and also enrage. When we prevail in this election & deal a blow to MAGA's fascist forces, let us not declare that "the institutions held" & it was a "free & fair election." We will prevail DESPITE the authoritarian conditions in which the election is being held.

Don’t laugh (and you can check it out yourself), but this is the IRGC model—they have plenty of side hustles to make money, fund their activities, and get rich at the same time.

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

omg this is al-sayed lapping rogers four or five times around the rink.

every culture eventually invents its own dumpling and its own bluegrass

Generational national trauma, huh bsky.app/profile/mc-h...