Phil SturgeonTech bros have two modes and it’s a) pretend a Philippine sweatshop is an all-knowing all-powerful god in the machine, and b) reinvent the bus again.
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DThe year is 2026. A cult of transhumanist billionaires has infiltrated every government on the planet. Their TESCREAL religion seeks to merge humanity with AI. The resistance from a ragtag group of transexuals, open source programmers, and the first American Pope consists of humanity's last hope.
Will they stop the cultists before the planet runs out of water? Will the clathrate gun get to them first?
Once thing is certain--you really want to miss the next episode of Oh My God What The Fuck Reality Seriously??.
Will they stop the cultists before the planet runs out of water? Will the clathrate gun get to them first?
Once thing is certain--you really want to miss the next episode of Oh My God What The Fuck Reality Seriously??.
The ContinentAll Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 240 of The Continent
The DRC’s latest Ebola outbreak is the 17th in 50 years. Mining-driven mobility and mistrust are fuelling the spread. Ironically, better containment has reduced severity but limited vaccine trials.
Simon Brooke“To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy that future generations are unlikely to forgive today’s leaders for.”
Limnetic Villains
mhoyeHoly shit, look at this.
New renewables, installed in just the last year, met _all_ new demand for electricity globally. Battery costs dropped 20% in 2024 and another 45% in 2025. Fossil generation is dropping in China and India and that drop is not slowing down at all.
My god, look at these fucking graphs. Look at them.
We are still in this game.
https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/04/Global-Electricity-Review-2026.pdf
XKCD Bot
kottke.orgFarmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
Jens Ohlig„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“
Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7
Todd VaziriI read the piece again and became even more disappointed.
2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."
2009:
