Don't forget. Don't mess it up. Crow Country is pretty great, more people should visit this absolutely not haunted abandoned theme park.

BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.

"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." Good lord [positive]

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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Just buy Signalis. It's worth the money at whatever price it's going for.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

US PS+ Essential titles are up: -Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition buff.ly/xCRR6Ru -Big Walk buff.ly/ceyvWXX -Signalis buff.ly/0ZlCMA8

I think about this image every single day and how I'm also every person and object in it

We are going to spend the next 20 years discovering and dealing with the mental health effects of over-reliance on AI.

I'm getting that urge again. That urge to create, but the question then becomes "create what?" Maybe I really should start writing a book or something...

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>have the words "Militantly Anti-GenAI" in my bio >post in a way that in no way signals any support from me with regards to AI >gets a new follower that's basically AI slop

Oh hey, I'm in here!

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Aftermath@aftermath.site · 5d ago

What Aftermath readers hate aftermath.site/hater-week-rea...

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

Goodness, look at the time: it's earworm o'clock! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDv...

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The good thing about having a brush pen is it means I don't end up stabbing myself with something sharp and pointy when I try to put the cap back on.

spent like 35 minutes cutting this out frame by frame, here is my public service done for the day: files.catbox.moe/45cyy1.gif

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The nerve. The audacity. The absolute temerity of Sony to pull this shit. Sony want to take away your physical games away, yet will gladly sell you a turntable for your vinyl records. This is just beyond the pale.

Jon Cartwright@jon.gvg.io · last wk.

The internal conversations before posting this must have been hilarious

Bestselling (and one of my favorites...) mystery author Higashino Keigo has died at 68 from colon cancer. RIP, and thank you for the stories.

朝日新聞@asahi.com · last wk.

東野圭吾さん死去、読者に投げかけた最大の謎　「書きたいのは人間」 www.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 「容疑者Xの献身」が出た前年にインタビューをした際、作風の広がりについて問うと、こんな答えが返ってきた。 「ミステリーから離れたくない。でも書きたいのは人間。人の情念や本性からドラマが生まれるのだから」

I found a new type foundry that I've become suddenly obsessed with. 廻想体 ネクスト ユーピー（B） looks especially fascinating. moji-waku.com

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So I'm reading a book right now. It mentions the 'koto', a Japanese zither. The footnotes refer to it as a 'harp'. It also referred to the game of go as "a kind of checkers". Who's responsible for this...?

palmer luckey gotta be the easiest billionaire to actually annoy on a deeply personal level

On that sort of note, I got back into reading books a few years ago because I'd heard about the Denis Villeneuve adaptation of 'Dune', watched the David Lynch one, and went 'yeah, I'm gonna look into this'. Adaptations of source media can be a way into exploring said source media.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some academics turn up their noses at movie adaptations or popular history books, but I call them "gateway drugs" into deeper scholarship. How many of us fell in love with history because a movie (or book) sparked our curiosity first? For me, it was Amadeus - it sent me down an 18thC rabbit hole.

Currently doing something quite cursed.

Is Yukari even hated at this point? I'm out of touch with the current Persona fandom, but I know a lot of folks didn't vibe with her at all.

Yukari Takeba in Persona 3 Reload

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jake zula@critterisgrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

by age 30 you should have at least one overly-hated female character that you get extremely defensive about

Bethesda Games Studios’ Montreal workers are being treated especially poorly by XBOX and we won’t stand for it. Here are the details. If this upsets you let Microsoft know: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

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This survey is absolutely slanted dogshit. Work your way through the initial questions and give them hell in the part where you can actually give comment. Canada should be spending money to support human workers and human-made work.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

Yep. Science SARU cooked for the new Ghost in the Shell. Three episodes so far and they've all been bangers.