Kevin Aiello

A huge congratulations to @mayoroliviachow.ca and the incredible slate of progressive councillors elected in Toronto tonight.

Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Issue 73 Table of Contents and cover by Alyssa Winans! buff.ly/rmqKkVi

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Mindscape 372 | Erik Winfree on DNA Robots and Computers. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

We need politics that fights for all of creation, all the beauty and wonder of here. We are blessed to live in a temperate rainforest, and I sure hope that voters in Brazil, home to a miraculous tropical rainforest, make a better choice than we just did.

It’s time! Crucible of Fire, my debut novel, can be pre-ordered today at this link. www.warhammer.com/en-US/shop/c...

For fuck’s sake

Come on. This is completely insane. The John Roberts Supreme Court paved the way for oligarchs to try to destroy democracy. Obscene.

For those that might have missed it, Bluesky official app now works on iPad.

Also new in today’s v1.136 update: iPad support! One of our most-requested features is finally here in beta. Try out the Bluesky app on your iPad, and if you see anything off, let us know under Settings > Beta features.

the only appeal of an AI program to write a novel is that you feel like the actual writing part will be too hard and take too much effort. unfortunately, without the writing part, what you're doing isn't writing if I stand next to a robot while it plays the violin I can't say "look I'm a violinist"

Today’s discarded character-name: RasPutin, a wildly popular Jamaican pop-singer turned dictator.

These arguments always boil down to the same thing (yes I read it) "if you use your freedom in ways we don't like, we should take it away from you." Which is not, you know, freedom bsky.app/profile/pgou...

Musk's "flying car," in case there's any doubt, will never actually see any sort of meaningful commercial launch and exists entirely as stock-fluffing propaganda aimed at the U.S. tech media's unlimited supply of credulous dopes

90% of the emails I get these days are very obviously written by AI -- same structure, same tropes, same progression of paragraphs. It's fucking mind-numbing. It has somehow made my daily slog through email even more dreary.

I saw Digger today. It's great. 🪏 Visually stunning, stellar performances, hilarious, thought-provoking, brilliant sound & music. Climate crisis satire on a giant scale. Evokes Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Cinema Novo. Absurd to dismiss this film because it "flopped," or because it's "pretentious."

How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

Our subscription drive is closing in on its goal. So far, as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we've managed to give everyone but our authors a raise. We're only 20 subscriptions away upping author pay from 14 to 15 cents/word. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

I just think it's dishonest to say that the politics are unavoidable on other platforms, but they are on X. Its *point* is its politics; you're just saying they exist at a level you find palatable. The guys who doxed my family aren't on the other platforms; they're followed by staff members on X.

Some of you were asking for a tomatillo update. Here is the update: he is very handsome

So I think this is a new thing for #Ottawa, we now have both serif and sans serif waste. #recycling #garbage

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

Interesting case of fraud by making automated songs then automated accounts to stream them, pocketing $8M in revenue. Few/no real listeners were diverted to listen to the GenAI songs, but the funds he pocketed drank from a zero sum revenue pool that meant real musicians were paid less.

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

Read my first piece of Elizabeth Bear fiction (“The Job”) in @clarkesworldmagazine.com issue 241, and you can immediately see why she’s such a respected SF writer: a captivating, imaginative, moving piece of work.

the tech industry is about to invent books

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

New YouGov. Trump unpopularity in Europe: Denmark: -91% Germany: -78% Italy: -76% UK: -75% Spain: -74% France: -67% And it’s getting worse.

I'm two episodes into East of Eden and this is the best limited series I've seen since Adolescence. It's real filmmaking, serious writing, and storytelling that has been carefully thought-through at every step.

The Jesus that I personally encountered -- and he was right where I expected, on the 3rd baseline, box seats, garbed in a Gunnar jersey, sipping a Natty -- looked like a Jewish rabbinical student, bookish, but with a keen grasp of how the infield-fly rule is necessary to bind together the universe.

Beauvoir’s book was a big inspiration for mine podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

A cool thing to do if you're anxious about AI is read "Conscience", which is about a planet-spanning AI brain that keeps people alive inside itself to act as its conscience. You can tell your therapist that, for some reason, you thought this would help

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

John Wilson’s THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE is riveting & utterly wonderful & I feel like my brain’s spiderwebbed into sixteen different fascinations

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.

I know I haven't updated in a while. There's been a lot going on. - My calcium levels are still worrying. - My eye scans aren't good. - I have to get a CT scan soon. I need help to pay for everything to be done privately. Any amount would be helpful. Thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...