that KH Switch collection pack thing sure has some interesting cover art
interesting choice to give Donald a mismatched number of fingers on each hand, and a beak that absorbs into itself
*Your "smart TV" is a burglar crowbar for the slop racket
*I'm not sure how AI-refuseniks can even get properly indignant about this situation. Seems like this will need some real framing-work
blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-...
"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off
Join us in the resistance!
This autumn, we're organizing this exciting hybrid #PhD course on resisting #anti-gender politics together with the consortium InterGender!
Time: 24-26 August
Location: University of Bergen & online
Deadline for Application: 28 June 2026
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One thing a lot of 20th Century sci-fi got wrong was that the personal technology of the future would become increasingly unobtrusive and frictionless. In fact, as such technology has mostly turned out to be a vector for advertising, making it deliberately difficult to use has become the point.