Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
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Author of #litrpg series The Age of Steam and Sorcery, snowboarder, coffee lover. https://linktr.ee/patrickcharltonoshea Book One: Death Becomes Him out now!
The article says it’s likely “automated” systems, like bots and such. I don’t think so. Bots have been around since the dawn of the internet. Why a sudden switch to a different architecture? Then again, changes in Windows on the same timeline made the OS more hostile to users. This is user based
Jms Dnns@jmsdnns.bsky.social · yesterdaymaybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
go head on up to floor 7 if you’re gonna be a little bitch about it
Thus all advertising from One Nation and Advance Australia is neo-Nazi propaganda and should be labelled as such. I need the media and other politicians to stop legitimising this shit (not Andy!) #AusPol
Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social · 20h ago'The commission heard he was exposed to a range of conservative and anti-immigration views during his childhood from his mother, and from the members of an alternative subculture known as the skinheads.' lel www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
I try my damnedest to respect people's true names, because it's the right thing to do. However, I also know the pain of being deadnamed and having your name mangled, and I'm not even trans. I was born Patrick O'Shea. I changed it when I married. Guys changing their name is less common ->
Think about how you are in the shrinking bubble of people who know how to read and process the meanings of written words, and how a handful of billionaires are doing their damnedest to shrink it further. You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.
I honestly didn’t think that EA could get any worse. Little did I know. I feel very bad for the gaming industry to be honest 
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
If you like Japanese culture and history, follow Camellia Tea Ceremony. This thread in particular speaks to me, as I visited the Golden Pavilion about ten years back and it's SPECTACULAR.
Camellia Tea Ceremony@camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 23h ago🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥 True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. -Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫). In 1950, almost bald of gold, and having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.
There really waste blokes out there named Max who are doing the bare min.
Any game dev that hasn't taken advantage of linux yet is gonna feel really silly in a year
Jms Dnns@jmsdnns.bsky.social · yesterdaymaybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
I have found my new favourite meme response for slopists. Ahahahahaha 🤣
Fuck you Google, I'm STILL not going to use Gemini.
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
At first I thought it was a well meaning but ignorant author when they popped up promoting a LitRPG wth a genAI cover, but bsky.app/profile/mark... is just a bot that regularly shares AI slop. (Also, substack. Eww) @bookspotlight.bsky.social you might want to know about this one.
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It seems there's either a LOT of creeps here, or fewer creeps who are expecting their creeper tech (and faces) are going to get broken often.
3wombats@3wombats.bsky.social · 2d ago
He stole their money. Thats what actually happened here. At a good company, that money would have funded dev for all those people to learn, grow, and work on the next game. He fired them to take that money.
Shayna Moon (she/they)@themoonis.gay · 3d agohe got the bonus *because* he laid those people off, that's how it works
I really hope this takes off. There needs to be a creative storefront marketplace that actually bans genai and drop shipping, and I hope it's a 100% ban. Etsy is completely ruined and not artist friendly. Much luck to Fybe! fybe.art
I used to install safety cameras, the only tech in them is a cup and a piece of string - no metal at all. There is, however, a very annoyed redback spider from Australia. We're not sure why it had to be a redback, we tried funnel webs and hunstman spiders, but only the redback worked.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agoI have it on good authority that traffic safety cameras only contain angry bees and stale Nature Valley bars - don’t waste your time
Yo, where are all my respectable bigots & impoverishers of the poor at so I can have a chummy intellectual chinwag in the marketplace of ideas about how to monster the vulnerable but politely?
I 100% guarantee these are the same wankers who said they couldn't breath in an N95 in 2019.
Bill Madden@maddenifico.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is New Jersey. The ridiculousness of these cosplaying ICE Nazis is off the charts.
Hey, devs? I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're making a single player game? Start/Esc should ALWAYS, and IMMEDIATELY pause the game. I don't gaf how "epic" you think your camera is I just spilled something. My cat just puked. The dog got out. My kid fell. Fuck you, PAUSE THE GAME
What compelling evidence that we should keep talking about the possibility that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
DBurx@dburx.bsky.social · 2d agoCopilot confirms....
fascists will be like The Noble Wisdom of our Ancient Past but then you'll open an actual book and the noble wisdom will be "snakes flee at the sound of the mandolin because they have no spleen, the organ of lust" and "electrum makes you gay"
What I really detest is that certain agents and publishers think it's okay to feed authors' work into "AI detectors" without bothering to ask. Don't fucking do that.
Literary agents react to major crime book deal that collapsed over suspected AI use
Literary agents have spoken with The Bookseller following news that a crime novel sold in a 14-way auction in the US for $2.4m was withdrawn by its primary agent on Friday (31st July) due to suspected...
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Gamers! This is a great point! While the rest of the supply of ram is going to data centres that may never be built when the AI bubble pops, there's plenty sitting around in Flock cameras doing nothing but spying on you. Give it a new home and triple your FPS.
Adam@adubyab.bsky.social · 2d agoYeah yeah the precious metals, gotta pawn those or scrap yard it’s a pain. but the ram? the sweet sweet ram? That’s the royal jelly.