"Dames. They's nothing but trouble. I's know because I's was a dames, and I's was nothing but trouble. The boss be a dames too, and she's savouring the constant gender euphoria of being nothing but trouble."

ocatg | comms open@ocatg.bsky.social · 2d ago

straight t4t polycule

I'm not saying it doesn't HAPPEN, but "all weird indie TTRPGs are a kink thing" is reductive. There is also "designing RPGs to publish your worldbuilding bible", "designing RPGs because you invented a neat dice trick", "designing RPGs to win an argument", and "designing RPGs as an act of self harm".

Writinge about literature ys not undirstondinge a booke completelye and then sayinge somethinge clever. It ys, by contrast, failinge agayne and agayne to undirstonde a booke completelye and makinge the moost descryptive notes possible about the resultes. Meaninge ys a process, not a schoolboy prize.

This thing is 30% ears #art #pokemon

just received one of those fun targeted twitter phishing emails and its honestly surprisingly convincing and the way the phish works is low key genius

This Arcane and Mysterious Diner Still Makes Milkshakes The Esoteric Way

"meep meep ass location" i cannot breathe omfg 💀

Yeah, no one said that. You can’t just create an argument that you can refute while not listening to everyone who kept saying that it was being blown out of proportion because the bigots seized on it as an anti-DEI story and evidence of the scandal of black intellectualism. They were clear about it.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

i think it sucks a lot that the dude facing professional disgrace killed himself but the solution is not no professional disgrace

That Saber were willing to conceal this much AI generated content represents such an astonishing breach of trust with the customer, especially after only disclosing it when forced to. How are people to trust them not to act this deceptively with other titles?

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 4d ago

Saber finally added the AI disclosure to Steam for Rideshare “Stimulator” and it’s even worse than I said it was. I can see why the CEO crashed out when I pointed it out.

(1) clearly invoke your 6th amendment right to counsel (2) clearly invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent (3) shut up You can’t talk to cops. They aren’t your friends. Theyre not there to help you. They’ve targeted you & are looking to build a case against you. Don’t help them.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 5d ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

put more thought into this concept than it really deserved

small funny@smallfunny.bsky.social · last yr.

is your friend group five weird guys, eight robot masters, or four heavenly kings

Geology Building xkcd.com/3284/

I am trying not to repost/post easy "Boo AI bad" content anymore because I am preaching to the choir but like Holy fuck seeing credulous morons act proud of generative trash and crowing about forcing people out of artistic work makes me incandescently furious on behalf of both Artists and Art

YOU CAN NOT FUCKING DO THIS TO ME

In a twisted way we owe out thanks to Matt Karch, because he accidentally laid bare the true intention of genAI adoption: a weapon against a company’s own labor to either break or displace. Most tech CEOs are too polite to admit that.

Mitch Dyer@mitchyd.bsky.social · 5d ago

this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right

good to have someone who speaks your love language

It's a very Katamari on the Funk kind of night.

What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 6d ago

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it

The rare non-art post... Damn Not something I'll ever forget

The US really just doesn't have the architecture to do Dark Souls 3-style eclipses

AraInfo@arainfo.bsky.social · 5d ago

⚫ El eclipse solar sobre Zaragoza, en imágenes. La silueta de la basílica del Pilar y el Ebro dejaron algunas de las estampas más espectaculares de la tarde. 🔗 arainfo.org/todos-los-de... 📸 Fotos: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

The more time passes the more I think SCOTUS legalising sports betting was a huge deal for the entertainment industry. Everything from TV to movies to YouTube is now competing with (and applying the techniques of) gambling

feeling cute, might steal the sun later

I dunno, the idea of D&D 5e / 2024 Universes Beyond makes *some* sense considering the ubiquity of the system framework, but it feels like a swing in the wrong direction considering how gigantic the homebrew scene already is Like?? SW5e *does* already exist, amongst so many other custom settings...

Animal Crossing Wild World (2005) #acww

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

carlsonlab.bio

Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫

Chartreuse monks of France: we will distill the world's finest herbal liqueur Trappist monks of Belgium: we will brew the world's greatest beer Benedictine monks of England: we came up with a juice that makes you explode

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️@shoshana.bsky.social · 2y ago

That's a weird label for a bottle of Bucky (For those who don't know, Buckfast is blackcurrant wine that's 14.8% alcohol and has 90mg of caffeine per 5oz. This bottle is the size of a can of Coke and has 210mg of caffeine compared to 32mg in a can of Coke plus the alcohol of 4 glasses of wine)

This sleeping dog is very heavy