BrokenTripod
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Breaking Things. https://brokentripodstudios.com/ https://brokentripod.tumblr.com/ Currently: DnD (5e, 2024) homebrew campaign Previously: UE4 (no releases), TF2 (mod/map making community)
I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses
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The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
A little reminder that enjoying yourself is never a waste of time. Hours into a videogame isn't a waste of time. Learning something for fun isn't a waste of time. I love learning new things, I have so many I learned once and never did again. Never a waste of time.
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
Challenge for everyone: if you passed by or stopped shopping or eating somewhere or skipped an event because of AI advertising, tell them. Send an email. Doesn’t need to be mean or confrontational, but if we want to encourage local places to do better, we have to tell them *why* they lost business.
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo agoI'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.
I keep repeating this story because it is so illuminating: A teacher said that his students do not view AI as plagiarism, they view it as what they would have written if they had had the time. In my opinion, a watermark (which, to be clear, can be removed in text) destroys that illusion.
Futurism@futurism.com · 2mo agoHere come the waterworks — er, watermarks.
Remember when Facebook killed like 4 different websites by lying about their video numbers. I think you can just look around. People don't post to thread..... threads. People don't screen caps of funny threads posts. Even if the numbers are semi accurate, it's not going to serve you.
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...
"Why are you forcing this on your own customers?" "Well, if our customers were willing to buy our product, we'd sell it to them. But no one wants this even when it's free. So we decided to take their freedom away from them."
Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social · 2mo ago
"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in
The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
variety.com
