Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 6hClaim is anecdotal. Presented by someone with vested interest in making the company's tech appear stronger than competitors. It sounds truthy because AI researchers have frequently been short-sighted about potential consequences of their actions. It also sounds like an Underpants Gnome plan. 000
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here. 561055301
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 10/10/2026At a cider mill where they're charging $9.25 for a 12 oz container of apple butter. The spirit of my grandfather rose up and shook his head. "Thought I taught you better than that." So now I'm in line to buy 2 lbs of apples to cook down my damn self. 120
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register 1412645315
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I cannot think of a single time I've tried to import photos off my phone into the macOS Photos app where it actually worked the way it was supposed to the first time. I can't speak for anyone else, but over multiple phones and computers this process always feels broken for me. 110
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sure, my dog does all the standard barks, yips, and growls... But sometimes she makes sounds like Donald Duck trying to learn to speak Klingon. 000
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books. 382889564
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING: David Ellison and David Zaslav to merge into one being and rebrand as David+ 1628
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Being bloodthirsty enough to sentence a human being to die, yet unwilling or unable to properly execute the execution due to incompetence and indifference is the most American thing I’ve ever heard, actually 🦅 🇺🇸 332866
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are two wolves inside you. They are singing "Confrontation" from Les Mis at each other. 010
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today's Alarm Clock Question from my 7yo: What do you think dinosaurs tasted like? 🦕 🍖 110
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)openculture.comWatch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)It's common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors… we want so badly to touch their lives in some way, as their lives touch ours. 17122
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It'll wind up being Paramount/Warner A Skydance Company But imagine... Warnermount Skybro Parner Bro Dance Random Penguin 000
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They could have done the funniest thing, but didn't: Taylors Lautner Jr. 001
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂John August @johnaugust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This week’s Scriptnotes with Aaron Sorkin is one of my favorites. In the bonus segment, we discuss his never-made Houdini musical. 3253
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Now instead of dads missing their kid's big game and getting a supernatural lesson in parenting, they get a computer notification to be less of an asshole and move on with their lives. Liar Liar would take 5 minutes. 000
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂the mor juno ⋆.˚ @fwerny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026sorry kitten, mommy's not really in the mood, they just got a bad score at bird time in the new fire emblem game 041
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves! 7866791028
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This scene is one of the most honest and useful depictions of self deception in the history of TV. It's also what the overpriced consultants said when pitching [insert Dem here] on throwing trans people under the bus as shrewd electoral strategy. 010
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"I don't like bullies, and I won't become one." Nine words. That's the start. They attack trans people, journalists, immigrants, women in the military, etc. and what do you do? You start with those nine words. Because they're bullies. Loud, bigoted bullies with nothing to offer but hate. 021
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Yeah, I've been a tech nerd for decades but all the "AI" stuff really does feel like "Sooooo we're taking a type of computation that's actually bad at most things and putting it in a whole bunch of stuff to make it work worse because... if we don't the whole economy's going to crash or something?" 44910133
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am not okay with this for various reasons. variety.com/2026/music/o...variety.comDuncan Sheik, ‘Barely Breathing’ Hitmaker and ‘Spring Awakening’ Stage Composer, Dies at 56Duncan Sheik, who went from pop star with 'Barely Breathing' to Broadway composer with 'Spring Awakening,' has died at 56. 000
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So far my only complaint with Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave is that they swapped one of the buttons during combat from ZR to ZL, and my fingers aren't used to it yet. Only about two hours in and still very tutorial-y, but I'm already finding favorite characters and enjoying the tweaks to the UI. 110
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Is there a formal name for the performative credulity and elite deference that respectable media just can’t seem to abandon? It is clearly illustrated in the case of RFK Jr. Everyone involved is expected to maintain a fiction that nobody knows what everybody knows. 27573133
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There ain’t no manifesto like a Danish filmmaker manifesto, because a Danish filmmaker manifesto is cold and uncompromising. 100
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I will cry multiple times during each and every viewing of Up. I have watched it many, many times, and it always happens. It plays my emotions like a marimba, okay? Like. A. Marimba. 010
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sometimes when the pup barks at nothing I'll try and distract her by showing that nobody is at the door, but telling her she's a good girl who scared them away. But she is both too smart and too silly to fall for this lie and will go back to barking at nothing in 60 seconds or less. 000
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 426174343863
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: The Wonders will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran 060
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Oh look. Now I don't need to make a complicated wish list for Christmas. It's all right here. 010
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Friends from hometown are emailing about if we're planning to go to our 25th high school reunion. My only question is do I find a graphic designer to help me make a t-shirt that reads "Yes, my ex-wife lives with her girlfriend. Please ask about my kids or dog instead!" 000
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 13/09/2026ROY BATTY I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate -- ME Just watched my dog throw up half a tampon she found in the trash. ROY BATTY ... ME Yeah. That memory will linger. 001
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am already tired of everyone at A.I. companies releasing statements saying I WISH SOMEONE WOULD STOP ME 69210
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2026There is apparently no more searing hurt than an "AI" fluffer discovering their favorite science fiction writer disdains their beloved spicy autocorrect, it's a pain only matched by a conservative learning that their favorite rock band has been Marxist the whole time 572097224
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The only 9/11 history I will be revisiting today tbh 218325
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 10/09/2026ok here’s my oot remake link doodle 2883271832
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Everybody not in control of a major studio knows what to do with the Muppets. Either a) They have a variety show in crisis with a famous celebrity guest or b) they retell a piece of literature with one (ish) human actors and everybody else is a Muppet. There. Do one or both of those. 130
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Jessica Drew Quiroga @jqnotjq.lol · 10/09/2026Apple had to wait for pants to get big again before putting out a foldable 021
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers. 904434752
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Instead of amplifying racist smears against Mamdani, CNN could've spent this time reminding Giuliani that ceremonies will not be held at 9/11 Memorial Total Landscaping. 000
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thought I was having a weird dream about Chris Traeger obsessively talking about dog food, but I had just fallen asleep when a YouTube ad for Nutra Complete started. 000
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Jessica Drew Quiroga @jqnotjq.lol · 07/09/2026Maybe if Nintendo weren’t COWARDS 032
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The kids demand an Animal Crossing x MULE collab, but you'll never see that in a Nintendo Direct. 021
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I've seen so many things labeled as "made with AI" from creatives who I *know* do not use genAI and are in fact aggressively against genAI and I no longer thing this is conspiracy 15115
Chris Csont 🍂 @ccsont.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"There's a reason the rear view mirror's smaller than the windshield." One of those lines where Ted Lasso still has the sauce. 010
Reposted by Chris Csont 🍂Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026New tiny metal Chicago skyline dropping. #letterpress 17514