Davis Bickford

@davis.social

Artist • Game Dev Pug Dad • Husband • ND • he/him Half of @twigbit.games 🔗 Links!: davis.social Art-only feed: https://bsky.app/profile/davis.social/feed/aaabpqcklbun6 🦋

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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

one thing I miss from the pre-genAI days is that there was no questioning that human nonsense was simply human nonsense. a dog piloting a plane? some silly human toiled over that in photoshop. now, when something is nonsensical, we question if it’s ai and don’t get to enjoy it the same way.

I’ve been going through my game design notes and found a speech by the villain, a character that hates (and lacks) imagination. He puts it down as “nothing more than a combinatorial rehashing of reality.” I wrote that ~8 years ago and now the character feels like a semi-prescient proxy for AI slop.

Davis Bickford@davis.social · 3w ago

PlayBound is a game about a 6-year-old boy named Kelvin whose parents have become fatally boring. And this is a thread about PlayBound where I’ll be dropping some updates as I rebuild the game in Godot ☺️

A drawing of a chibi boy wearing a backward tie dye hat, a white shirt with a design like the famous 90s solo jazz pattern, a blue towel, a purple fanny pack (aka bum bag), and 90s  shoes with lights in the soles.

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

one thing I miss from the pre-genAI days is that there was no questioning that human nonsense was simply human nonsense. a dog piloting a plane? some silly human toiled over that in photoshop. now, when something is nonsensical, we question if it’s ai and don’t get to enjoy it the same way.

At the end of the day what people keep asking for is the ability to know when something is or is not AI so they can make their own informed choices about how they interact with it. Hopefully tools like SynthID become widespread so it doesn't fall on the user to make their own determinations.

AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU

Companies creating or using AI-generated content have to label it clearly for users to know, as part of an EU guideline implemented on Sunday. #EuropeNews

euronews.com

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.