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Welcome back, friends and freaks and fiends! For yet another year, I’m cataloguing all the year’s new horror books, both fiction and non, for my benefit and yours. I love building and maintaining these lists––it gives me (and you!) a birds’ eye view of the current state of horror publishing, and helps all of us discover and spread the word about new books.

My general philosophy here is genre-inclusive, not exclusive––I take a broad view of what counts as horror. Alongside traditional horror, here you’ll find all things gothic, dark, weird, and thrilling––and, hopefully, your next favorite scary book.

A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and the Unbeing delivers. The expedition discovers a massive, entirely novel, giant holobiont that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness. As the team pushes deeper, can they survive long enough to find what they’re looking for?

Writer: Zac Thompson
Artist: Hayden Sherman
Colorist: Hayden Sherman
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Cover artist: Hayden Sherman

Any experienced user will say no shit Sherlock. I still find it useful.

More technical info here - https://wiki.robotz.com/index.php?title=Adjust_the_Display_With_xgamma_and_xrandr

xrandr <monitor> --gamma 1:1:1

xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma 1:1:1

Standard RGB = 1 : 1 : 1

Example for lower gamma = .9 : .9 : .9

xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma .9:.9:.9

💁‍♂️ Nothing fancy. I just like darker black on my cheap monitor.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1003101/how-to-use-xrandr-gamma-for-gnome-night-light-like-usage#1061304

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20251126-12802.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=Home-%2CGlobal+DRAM+Revenue+Jumps+30.9%25+in+3Q25%2C+Micron%27s+Market+Share%2Ca+strong+30.9%25+QoQ+growth

Also Torvalds almost kill Linus Tech with a sword, so, worth watching.

Linus Sebastian is an investor in Framework Computer, Inc

CHAPTERSs ---------------------------------------------------0:00 Intro

• 2:42 Autobiography
• 4:08 Linus Builds a PC
• 6:20 CPU: What Does he Need it For
• 8:30 Motherboard: Why is ECC Important to you
• 11:18 Linus T Hates Zoom Calls
• 11:40 Linus T Side Projects
• 13:20 Storage: How Much Storage does Linus Need
• 15:00 Git or Linux? What are you more proud of?
• 17:35 Cooler: Why Noctua?
• 20:07 What do you do to relax?
• 21:22 If you could start Linux over again, what would you change?
• 22:40 Have you thought about other companies profit using Linux?
• 23:38 How do you feel about Microsoft owning GitHub?
• 25:18 Youtuber Merch
• 26:48 Have you ever wanted to walk away from Linux?
• 28:10 Case Choice
• 28:30 Cats or Dogs?
• 29:55 Power Supply
• 30:50 Here you go Reddit...
• 31:14 Gif or Jif?
• 31:40 What happens to Linux if you "Vanish"?
• 33:13 What are your Thoughts on AI?
• 35:25 Intel GPU?
• 36:25 How much code does Linus T Write?
• 38:23 Blame Linus for the Computer
• 38:40 How much do you travel for work?
• 41:10 Linus or Linus?
• 42:00 Does Linus T know about Linus S Linux Adventures?
• 43:20 You can see Linus S almost cry LMAO
• 43:50 Turning on the Computer
• 44:26 The Computer Lives!
• 44:40 Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo?
• 45:26 Setting Up Linux with Linus
• 45:43 Why Fedora Linux?
• 46:45 Is there too many Linux options?
• 48:30 Linus S broke Linux again...
• 49:48 Linus T Email Hyenine
• 50:40 Linus T Background!
• 51:10 iPhone or Android?
• 51:37 The Final Question
• 53:26 Outro

used to think that the hype surrounding artificial intelligence was just that—hype. I was skeptical when ChatGPT made its debut. The media frenzy, the breathless proclamations of a new era—it all felt familiar. I assumed it would blow over like every tech fad before it. I was wrong. But not in the way you might think.

The panic came first. Faculty meetings erupted in dread: “How will we detect plagiarism now?" “Is this the end of the college essay?” “Should we go back to blue books and proctored exams?” My business school colleagues suddenly behaved as if cheating had just been invented.

Then, almost overnight, the hand-wringing turned into hand-rubbing. The same professors forecasting academic doom were now giddily rebranding themselves as “AI-ready educators.” Across campus, workshops like “Building AI Skills and Knowledge in the Classroom” and “AI Literacy Essentials” popped up like mushrooms after rain. The initial panic about plagiarism gave way to a resigned embrace: “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”

This about-face wasn’t unique to my campus. The California State University (CSU) system—America’s largest public university system with 23 campuses and nearly half a million students—went all-in, announcing a $17 million partnership with OpenAI. CSU would become the nation’s first “AI-Empowered” university system, offering free ChatGPT Edu (a campus-branded version designed for educational institutions) to every student and employee. The press release gushed about “personalized, future-focused learning tools” and preparing students for an “AI-driven economy.”

The timing was surreal. CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375 million from its budget. While administrators cut ribbons on their AI initiative, they were also cutting faculty positions, entire academic programs, and student services. At CSU East Bay, general layoff notices were issued twice within a year, hitting departments like General Studies and Modern Languages. My own alma mater, Sonoma State, faced a $24 million deficit and announced plans to eliminate 23 academic programs—including philosophy, economics, and physics—and to cut over 130 faculty positions, more than a quarter of its teaching staff.

At San Francisco State University, the provost’s office formally notified our union, the California Faculty Association (CFA) of potential layoffs—an announcement that sent shockwaves through campus as faculty tried to reconcile budget cuts with the administration’s AI enthusiasm. The irony was hard to miss: the same month our union received layoff threats, OpenAI’s education evangelists set up shop in the university library to recruit faculty into the gospel of automated learning.

The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.

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Recently adapted into the Joe Lynch film Suitable Flesh, H.P. Lovecraft‘s cosmic horror short story The Thing on the Doorstep is being turned into a comic.

The first issue in the five-part miniseries will be published on February 11, 2026 from Top Crow and Image Comics.

Simon Birks (Antarctica), who previously penned a comic version of Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, writes with artwork by Willi Roberts (Antarctica) and lettering from Rob Jones (Hitomi).

The Thing on the Doorstep draws readers into the shadowed labyrinth of friendship warped by forces not meant for human witness. Daniel Upton and Edward Derby have been bound together since youth — until the day Daniel puts a bullet in his closest companion within the bleak walls of Arkham Sanitarium.

Art by @thesquarecomics

https://mastodon.uno/@greenpeace@mastodon.social/115650408016617096

⚠️ DISCLAIMER::: This is not an AI witch hunt. But seriously, if you do AI art , then post it on a fucking ai community. Otherwise you're just slop.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER::: This is not an AI witch hunt. But seriously, if you do AI art , then post it on a fucking ai community. Otherwise you're just slop.