sometimes people get in algorithmholes on topics that I have somehow avoided and I often think to myself: thank the old gods this has swerved my brain
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REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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This website is just miserable, I make one simple post explaining the fact that Bombadil did not actually have big naturals and my timeline is swamped with ten thousand bad faith replies. Furthermore,
Yarn is the best, they also provide excellent support for your project, please do buy it to manage large amounts of dialogue in your game
Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner.dev · yesterdayIf we could ask a quick favour of any Yarn Spinner user, it would be for those who have purchased YS+ to leave a review. Less than 1% of purchases have left a review. Y'all game devs know how much reviews make a difference, and tools are no different. Help us stand out among AI-coded slop 🙏
If we could ask a quick favour of any Yarn Spinner user, it would be for those who have purchased YS+ to leave a review. Less than 1% of purchases have left a review. Y'all game devs know how much reviews make a difference, and tools are no different. Help us stand out among AI-coded slop 🙏
whenever I encounter technical problems at code checkin, I like to take a break and eat an entire curry, before crying
mostly my memories of ‘ron liddle’ are of stewart lee in an extended fugue talking about rons gravy-soaked shirt and his intense, gross, poppadom-eating technique. and that’s all I care to remember
it is the MOST melodramatic thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen drag acts in LA that had less pauses for effect
Scott@smadin.net · 2d agoThis is the first thing that's made me think maybe I should watch this show
We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED
one of the coolest things about the internet is that you can tell a writer/artist/etc that you like their stuff, and they'll probably see it
Very good paper on this by Pratchett & Vimes (1993)
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
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like the feature everyone is selling for their software right now is "new feature: you wont have to use our fucking horrible software as much, you can rent us a robot from us" which like surely this is a sign on some level that there is a design problem in the software ?? that you are renting me ?
"contribute data so we can offer more AI stuff" the dream they are selling here, to generate and manage tickets more "efficiently" to get better uh business outcomes or whatever, is a dream that can be solved by just not having worst-in-class UI -- AI does not need to come into this??
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This is going to be an absolute farrago, isn't it?
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I think people might be getting a little too genuinely angry with this column series
This annoyed me so much I sought out every arts critic who was pissed about the deep erasure of a book that is so about Glasgow you can smell carbolic soap off the pages
Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 3d agoThey moved Poor Things to London! But then a London so like Glasgow you could tell the locations.
mister spiderman was good. I appreciated the willingness to character complexity
I try not to screenshot content from other platforms on here, but this resonated so much with me it was perfectly expressed. I often share private details of my life but sometimes I don't, and people will try to coax these details out of me and if I refuse, they use it as gotcha.
always seeking a gourmand fragrance that doesn’t end up annoying me over time
not that I don’t appreciate oasis and the nostalgic resurgence of britpop but their influence as a band is something I can’t detach from the massive amount of misogyny I experienced as a girl in the UK at the time, their fans really dug deep into total wanker behavior
“You should turn your idea into a product in a way that best showcases the fact that you were the one who created it.”
Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC
If developers try to make something the world will like, it becomes generic…
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