Monday Tweets

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.[image or embed]— The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) October 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.— William Gibson (@greatdismal.bsky.social) October 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM On a related note, I've recently seen AI believers complain about mechanomorphic thinking.Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.[image or embed]— Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) October 9, 2026 at 7:49 AM Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you…