Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialMorgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads 186143465859 14.3K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialJesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama. 12463011458 6.3K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialNicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty. 6564214 564
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me. 12074291895 7.4K
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...mcsweeneys.netAn Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged... 010 1
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Idle thought that I’ve had multiple times: To what extent would the simple rule of “companies may not own other companies (including stock)” be feasible, and to what extent would it help? 000 0
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 10413170 413
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@ass.golf Today's QC gave me a good chuckle. Other than the art style, it totally could have been from 20 years ago - very old-school QC vibe. :D 000 0
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895442935 5.4K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialmcc @dryad.technology · 23/09/2026Faced with Democrats making historic and unambiguous errors and then losing elections, there's a group of people who decided the problem is people failing to clap hard enough. They then conclude the *specific* people letting everyone down is whoever they personally find most annoying on social media 47410 74
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialMighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn, 6277062029 7.7K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable” 620292374950 29.2K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/09/2026I don't think we should trust these companies. 🤷 39330 93
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialKen Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#StarTrek60th "He's brilliant, but his attack patterns show signs of two-dimensional thinking." Friend, if Khan had only played Squadron Strike, we would've been spared Star Trek V! Don't be like Khan! Elevate your game! 093 9
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“Argentines march on Peter Thiel's mansion” 8/30/26 www.france24.com/en/argentine...france24.comArgentines march on Peter Thiel's mansionIn Argentina, protesters marched toward a mansion reportedly purchased by American tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Activists accuse Thiel of seeking to profit from the country’s natural resources and wi... 1118872 188
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe 13139971090 4K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage. 292453841 2.5K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Waiting for society to acknowledge that Wikipedia is the real paper of record. 123937 239
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026the Simpson episode, this clip is from, is 32 years old. 316467 164
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/08/2026If Ray Bradbury came back as a zombie, the title of the story he would write would be "There Will Come Soft Brains" 3863840 638
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialTom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 04/07/2026"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...reuters.comNorway imposes near ban on AI in elementary schoolNorway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learni... 4841471270 4.1K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialIpsita 🎃Mad Social Scientist🎃 Chatterjea(she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The companies forcing their consumer-facing a.i. on children and college students have adopted "the first hits are free" 09727 97
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialComics in the Spooky Age 🧛♂️🧟♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958. 4147431194 4.7K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialplease stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"Weird Al" Yankovic has always been a real one. Just learned that he very recently turned down "a nice pile of money" to shill for A.I. Damn right he did. @alyankovic.bsky.social www.syracuse.com/entertainmen... 8374482214 7.4K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I'm finding it helpful to ask whether a particular use of technology refines or dilutes information. Blowing out a two sentence prompt into a two page press release is dilutive. Everybody can see that there's no value added. I think that's a major part of the objection to "AI slop." 1/? 1168 16
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248542011 4.9K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 26/06/2026When I was recording with the CBC yesterday, a Canadian pollster said that the only people who had a majority positive view of "AI" were people who earned more than $200k. I scrawled "class war" in my notes. 7343101 343
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 13/06/2026www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...mcsweeneys.netAI Economics for Dummies“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi... 000 0
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 12/06/2026@ass.golf Zlata's expressions on today's comic are just **perfect**. 10/10, no notes. :D 000 0
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialIain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 29/05/2026European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...zdnet.comEuro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs. 251268516 1.3K
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Just finished re-reading Jasper Fforde’s *Shades of Grey* (since we recently discovered he finally wrote the sequel). It’s even better than I remembered. Highest possible recommendation. 000 0
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary. 233168285155 16.8K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialIs This Hell? 🏳️🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026On the quarter-century anniversary of Douglas Adams' death, please remember that the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came 12411 24
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Stardew Valley Kerbal Space Program XCOM Enemy Unknown 000 0
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 27/04/2026www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comClaude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes roguePocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster. 000 0
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 27/04/2026www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...scottsantens.comThe Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBIWhy Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc... 000 0
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialHarebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Happy Earth Day. 3380943369 8.1K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you. 422967665 3K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialBarry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry 621376 213
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialDr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay 119111844069 11.2K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Many of the criticisms in this report are true or partially true, but the biggest problem that's brought down U.S. colleges is indeed the 50-year crusade by the right to wipe away any notion that higher ed is a public good, massively cut funding for publics, and create the student debt crisis 924185 241
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialLaura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side." 216102512834 10.3K
roaminump.bsky.social @roaminump.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Don’t know how much literal truth is here, but @kenburnside.bsky.social, I guarantee you will enjoy it: sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-pa...sightlessscribbles.comThe 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless ScribblesA fabulously gay blind author. 110 1
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work 341883443 1.9K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are! 109119954767 12K
Reposted by @roaminump.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 15/03/2026my editor told me that people were calling Trump’s foreign policy the Jolene doctrine bc he’s taking things “just because he can” and I said it was unfair to Jolene to name a doctrine after a motivation a third party projected on her and he got annoyed and said I should “go tweet that” 201292216 1.3K
