you can pick a spot on the moon that gets sun in which case nighttime is only ~1.6x colder than the coldest recorded temperature in Antarctica! (but day is ~1.8x hotter than the hottest day on earth.) or: always night, where it's ~3.3x colder than Antarctica. dealer's choice

Micah@rincewind.run · 14h ago

building a city in antarctica is orders of magnitude easier, cheaper, and safer for its inhabitants than building a city on the moon

building a city in antarctica is orders of magnitude easier, cheaper, and safer for its inhabitants than building a city on the moon

Dag.@3fecta.bsky.social · 15h ago

Just the low gravity and the lack of atmosphere create so many health problems. Bone density loss, muscle atrophy, heart not working as hard. Cosmic radiation. But sure we are building a city up there in 5 years.

news headline: CEO of a Tech Company Says "Whatever Bullshit You Want To Be True Will Become True If You Give Me More Money"

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 15h ago

Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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if you're not a UK citizen, download and/or spread this report from amensty international! this is the one that JK rowling abused the UK legal system to hide, as well as the reason amnesty international was forced to issue their undue apology to her as an american it's my duty to do what they can't

Train Gal@traingalart.bsky.social · yesterday

It would be a shame if somebody were to have already downloaded it on multiple devices and also share a link for others to download it :) drive.proton.me/urls/18WJXSR...

nothing like having a mini existential crisis while Pinky and the Brain is stuck in your head

I’ve seen literally one example in the last couple years of an AI actually trained on local data, it was an art installation where a huge team took several petabytes of photos. unless you’re ready to do that, you’re not gonna have a “locally trained” model

Alanah Pearce@alanahpearce.bsky.social · 3d ago

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 3d ago

I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping

1163 episodes in and One Piece still has the ability to make me cry

there are now two months left on my contract! if you have an opening for a weird little goth that specializes in systems (namely, people-as-systems), complex deliverables pipelines (eg cinematics), or a "runner" who needs to pull a lot of teams together. consider the Me.

uncle leyla ✨@leylses.bsky.social · last mo.

✨hello bsky game devs: i am once again actively job hunting // reposts appreciated✨ i am an experienced (8 yrs) producer (ex-xbox/ZOS) who specializes in creative pipelines. i come very highly recommended. i can work in big orgs or scale startups. i'm also funny. my slack posts rack up reacts.

I‘m pretty done with VR sadly BUT if somebody comes up with an actually good pair of glasses that puts a big ol virtual screen in front of your face for watching movies or playing games, I’m in

had a dream that I was on the verge of explosive diarrhea so I woke up and in a panic ran to the toilet where I proceeded to let out the tiniest fart

has anyone made bespoke arcade cabinets for cool-ass couch coop games? I wanna go to an arcade with cabinets for like, Towerfall and Overcooked and Heave Ho and stuff

“My warning to my fellow Republicans would be if we don’t get this right, don’t blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism. We’ve got to blame ourselves.” worst_person_you_know.jpg

Vance to GOP: Don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism — The Hill

Vice President Vance issued a warning to Republicans on Thursday about the momentum of progressive candidates on the left, saying GOP members can only blame themselves if they don’t persuade young vot...

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I thought Avengers Endgame was cool

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 4d ago

Name a popular thing that you enjoy

what's a game you like? that one

Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 6d ago

No hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.

currently debating how doable it would be to set up one family member who only has an ipad with a moonlight setup where they can remotely play it on my pc gonna say not very, but this is how desperate I am

Jason Singingpigs of Pipeline@singingpigs.online · 2w ago

how have I never had a friend group with consistent gaming systems trying to figure out how to play Big Walk with a group whose pile of devices include a Switch 1, a Chromebook, and an Xbox

I have this idea where we take everybody who talks like this and give them more money than god and the power to make all decisions. it's called capitalism and it'll be the foundation of society

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

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

I have this idea where we take everybody who talks like this and give them more money than god and the power to make all decisions. it's called capitalism and it'll be the foundation of society

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

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

oopsie, this guy's got priors kotaku.com/space-marine...

Why A Space Marine 2 Exec's YouTube Comment Became A Lightning Rod - Kotaku

The CEO of Saber Interactive left a controversial comment on Asmongold's channel

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"features that users like" and "features that will keep users on the platform" don't always overlap. and of course you know which features tech companies prefer to go after

This is the entirety of the tech industry right now, but it's never been stated this honestly

TQ 🌿@witchytq.bsky.social · 5d ago

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

thanks to the four of you that grew up without anarchy I'm also in group 2 and I want everybody in group 1 to know that I live in fear of opening the bathroom doors in your house

poll.blue@poll.blue · 5d ago

Poll results after 24 hours: what kind of home did you grow up in: 1️⃣ bathroom door always closed, whether in use or not 🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (1) 2️⃣ bathroom door closed while in use, open otherwise 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️ (4)

I'm the kind of person who looks at a fantasy map, finds the closest thing to the edge of it, and goes "hey so what's going on there"

OK wait: The "pipeline rerouted because of grave of fictional character" story was never true? It's a silly season spin-up reposted by the BBC, Guardian etc.? The pipeline never went near the "grave" and was never rerouted? Rusty Foster with the links: www.todayintabs.com/p/dobby-s-gr...

Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Real

Harry Potter Adults are still the worst but not because of what they're currently being blamed for.

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god PLEASE don't make me watch my baby get stuck with a needle 5 more times than necessary it already makes me so sad 😭

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

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NEW: CWA union members have inflated a giant rat and deployed a wall of red flags representing laid off Xbox workers outside the Bethesda office in Rockville. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who is apparently at the studio today.

it's so annoying that film execs are like "wait what if we did creepypastas" as if they hadn't already been trying and failing to do that for years hey maybe Backrooms worked cause they gave a really good artist a bunch of money to make a movie

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 7d ago

The JEFF THE KILLER horror movie is finally happening. Here's everything you need to know: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/396301...