I play chicken with deadlines. If I win, then my goblin brain know next time I can procrastinate longer. If I lose, I punish myself for years, but the behavior doesn't change.

Da Real Juicy J (10/13 🥳)@realjuicyjay.blacksky.app · 6d ago

If you have ADHD (diagnosed or very strong suspicion) I have a question for you What ADHD symptom/quirk/characteristic has been the most detrimental to your life to date? For me, it’s my challenge w attention to detail & my terrible memory. I’ve lost more jobs than most ppl work their whole lives

And now it's live! Poly Fighter is officially available in Early Access on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/... Shares are very appreciated! And if you jump in today and enjoy it, leaving a Steam review would help us tremendously! Thank you so much! ♥♥♥

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Osama Dorias@osamadorias.bsky.social · 4d ago

Poly Fighter launches into Early Access tomorrow! A year and a half ago this was just an idea. Now we're about to put it into players' hands, and honestly, the support we've received leading up to launch has been overwhelming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkb... store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/...

"Whoops!" *sound of glass breaking* "Wake up babe, new plague just dropped."

The 1993 miniseries of The Tommyknockers. I don't know why that one creeped me about so much at 11 years old, but I can still remember some scenes vividly.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 2w ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Toejam &Earl for the Sega Genesis. Turns out even 8-year-old me loved roguelites.

Retro Blast 👻@retroblastpod.com · 4w ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT RTs HUGELY APPRECIATED 🏌🏌🏼‍♂️🏌🏌️‍♀️⛳🛺 This is *Really Illegal Golf* It's essentially Metal Gear Golf with Friends. Really. - Multiplayer stealth golf - Dodge security, stay alive, and sink that putt - Free multiplayer demo available right now store.steampowered.com/app/4115520/...

Canada's 2027 debut is concrete proof that the only true path to EU membership is participating in Eurovision.

Waldo vs. Predator

If the proposed slow down in AI development by frontier labs ends up restricting access to open weight models instead of focusing on the guardrails and penalties for not keeping track of your swarm of AI agents then we’ll know this was all about their IPOs.

AI nerd: "We call it 'the suicide machine'. It steals everything from everyone and then it destroys humanity." Normal person: "Why would you build that? We should turn it off." Nerd: "No, we put the whole economy inside. Your house is a data center now. That dancing robot dog just killed your mom"

Why are neo-nazis just the biggest babies

This will continue until someone faces consequences. If I was caught doing this, I'd face a minimum of 5 years in prison. Someone made this possible, someone decided this was an acceptable risk, and so someone should serve time in jail. Preferably the CEO.

Colin@colin-fraser.net · last mo.

uhh www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

Alright sickos, you've been posting trolley problem memes for years. If AI is an existential threat, maybe it's time to pull the lever.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. after another employee said he was quitting the company over concerns that AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/a...

I worked at a junk mail factory. At the end of a 40' printing press the size and loudness of a locomotive, there were three jobs that were cheaper to keep human - a picker to grab the bundle of mail, a tie-er to bind it with string, and a packer to put it in a USPS bin.

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

I have a foolproof solution to this. If there are no operators for these bots which can be held accountable, then hold the executives of their creator companies accountable. Hacking is a criminal offense, and the minute Altman faces 20-to-life for wire fraud these incidents will cease.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last mo.

OPEN AI CHIEF SCIENTIST: “This is a time that calls for extreme caution... models are becoming superhuman in their ability to break in and out of computer systems no one is prepared.. The risk...are unfortunately going to grow from here.” => US-China AI safety talks openai.com/index/an-ali...

"I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew" by Dr. Seuss. Like most of his books it's full of whimsy and charm, but its core lesson (you can't outrun your problems, you need to face them head-on) is probably responsible for 90% of the success I've had in life.

Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

Dolly Parton did what literally no techbro billionaire would even think of doing: filling her life with good deeds that make people mourn her when she dies. Not one of these assholes would even think of this, they are all right now completely and honestly baffled by the outpouring of love for her.

If there is a single metric for predicting success regardless of class, it's childhood literacy. Dolly is the closest we will ever see to a secular saint; the world dims in her absence, but shines with her legacy.

Pave Paradise, and put up Car Parks soon!! 🚨 Car Park Capital launches into Early Access on October 9! store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/... Watch the brand new trailer, share it with friends, and wishlist! Big thank you for all the support over the years! 🙏

Some astonishing numbers in here: -OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes -OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026 -To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years -33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI -5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value

Bubble Trouble

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

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This reminds me of a fantastic quote from Thongchai Winichakul: "The map was a model for, rather than a model of, what it purported to represent."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

As Leek puts it: "Once prediction shapes the choices in front of us, we lose the ability to tell the difference between what people wanted and what the system made easy to want." 14/

We're often told that capitalism and market liberalisation are closing the gap between rich and poor countries, and the old colonial inequalities are fading. Is it true? We explored this question in a new paper, just published in NPE. Buckle up for some interesting results! 🧵

Real development in the South requires gaining sovereign control over resources and production, using state-led industrial policy - that much is clear...

if you don't support trans people you aren't human

This is the point. This is why the opposition doesn't support Medicare for All. This is by design.

NPR@npr.org · 3mo ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

Lady takes a surprise left, drives for a bit, then turns around and goes home.

Damion Schubert@zenofdesign.com · 3mo ago

Lifelong sailor drives boat to Maine, then retires.

[0010895] Cannibalism and leathermaking with sentient skin impossible even with appropriate ethics.