insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

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seems like the appeal of AI is being able to blame shoddy work on the machine that did it for you no, it doesn't make things better, but it's nominally nobody's fault that it sucks

Prisoners in Auschwitz would put on stand-up shows. POWs under German occupation would put on stage shows. Enslaved people in the antebellum south created entire genres of music. Etc. Joy is not a luxury; it is survival necessity.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

I've been doing a podcast with @pottedmeatfp.bsky.social on AI Skills called The Skill Tree that is itself an AI skill! Check it out! github.com/Driftful/ski...

✏️ Ideation: Because Planning Needs More Than a Mode nicknisi.com/posts/ideati...

Ideation: Because Planning Needs More Than a Mode | Nick Nisi

Claude Code's plan mode is a great starting point for thinking before coding. But for complex work, I needed more than a mode. I needed a system. Here's what I built.

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well. The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions. We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media

Every businessy guy I have ever met who finds out about Crash Course tells me that we're not just decreasing our revenue by not building a paywalled business, we're also decreasing our impact. This is wrong...and this video shows why. complexly.info/CCcoin25-6

I hate fraud so much. I was lucky to be raised by a deeply ethical dad who worked in the real estate industry in Florida and so was constantly bringing home stories of the worst kinds of guys getting rich in ways that they felt were "illegal but fine" but were actually the worst kinds of theft.

To improve the speed of my app, I will be randomly deleting 10% of my codebase and its included libraries, focused on areas I am least familiar with.

Is it easier to load a lifted pickup truck?

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @jordan.har.band on advancing the proposal for RegExp.escape to Stage 4 today at TC39 🎉 It lets you escape arbitrary strings so they can be used in Regular Expressions. RegExp.escape("(*.*)"); // "\(\*\.\*\)" github.com/tc39/proposa...

GitHub - tc39/proposal-regex-escaping: Proposal for investigating RegExp escaping for the ECMAScript standard

Proposal for investigating RegExp escaping for the ECMAScript standard - tc39/proposal-regex-escaping

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We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”

The difference between $1 Million and $1 Billion is about $1Billion

There is a lot that we could and should do to increase housing affordability, but the basic reality is that a nice suburban 1950s family house would be *tiny* by contemporary American standards which is why they were affordable on lower incomes.

I’ve always felt that the thoughts about tabletop idea development could be applicable to any creative endeavor that requires feedback.

Erik AS - Game Designer@eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've been thinking a bit about playtesting in board game design🎲✂️. I tend to see playtests as three-layered, where each layer serves a certain purpose for me; the intimate idea testing, the design test, and the public test.

I've been thinking a bit about playtesting in board game design🎲✂️. I tend to see playtests as three-layered, where each layer serves a certain purpose for me; the intimate idea testing, the design test, and the public test.

But another theory behind crime’s growing importance may have little to do with total numbers at all For reasons I explain in the piece, Britain appears to have lost faith in the ability of police to solve crime. Trust in police is plummeting - a pattern seen more starkly among women… 7/8

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Data showing the top 16% of remote workers outperform the top 5% in-office, while the bottom 12% underperform the bottom 5% in-office, makes sense. Top performers thrive with extra time from no commute, but underperformers struggle without oversight. RTO penalizes top talent for others’ inability.