Here's a possible antifuture LLMs are poised to push us down. I was originally nervous to post this because I thought it was anxious nonsense, but am glad folks have told me it resonated with them.

Skiantos
Please, please, please read what they performed at the Bologna Rock punk rock and new wave festival.

Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds
Good job, fungus!

Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives
These are so pretty.

I Want to Live Like Costco People
Headline sung in a very William Shatner way

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour
Uh oh.

This Forgotten Masterpiece Was Hanging Above an Elderly French Woman’s Hot Plate. Now, It’s Heading to the Louvre
I live for stories like this.

AI Graveyard
All that water and power wasted.

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes
Delivers what it promises, but in a content warning kinda way.

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
Funny, that.

Infinite Jeffs
Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff. Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff. Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff.

Rising Seas Could Encircle New Orleans by the End of This Century
I did gutting and renovation after Katrina for a little bit, and reading this hurts my heart.

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
"The platforms couldn't acknowledge that they needed governance because acknowledging it would mean acknowledging responsibility, and acknowledging responsibility would mean acknowledging liability, and acknowledging liability would mean the entire economic model collapses."

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria
Oh-ho!

Octopuses tweak the RNA in their brains to adjust to warmer and cooler waters
Good job, cephalopods!

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’
"The false “hard problem of consciousness” assumes upfront that there exists a metaphysical gap between mind and body. But this contradicts everything we have learned about nature in the last centuries."

Power On · Iconic boot chimes from 1977 to today
Hnnnnnnng

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
lol

Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
I wanna age into being an old man art weirdo, and this is helping that case!

They Live Adblocker
"A fork of uBlock Origin Lite that, instead of hiding cosmetically-blocked ads, replaces them with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live"

You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs
I do think we're going to reap the consequences of this pretty soon, but also those responsible will have long since failed upwards and away.

The Serpent in the Garden
Cultural Marxism is whatever bugbear you need it to be.

Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
It's comforting to know that we've always been the way we are, even before we were homo sapiens.

It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick
"Maybe we need to talk about the shitty things that they do rather than the things we have to do to stay and survive in the tech industry."