Deeply disturbing police brutality against an anti AI protest in Montreal, Canada a few weeks back. At this point, if you use AI and LLM, save the little white justifications you make to yourself. This is what you align with, like it or not. williamwilsonphotography.substack.com/p/montreal-p...
Montreal Police Beat and Hospitalized a Photojournalist (me) at an Anti-AI Demonstration
I was diagnosed with a concussion, lacerations and swelling. Police have opened an investigation into the incident.
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Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
Thank God for Google Alerts thenerdybird.com/thank-god-fo...
part of doing a large project is just managing your own belief that the thing you imagine can exist, will exist, that somewhere within what you're making it already is.
Good morning and I hope you’re having a great day. I am about to ruin it with this long form story I did on how private equity is ruining cookies but also people are building shit cookie companies to get money from private equity on @weareravenous.com. www.weareravenous.com/the-curious-...
The Curious Case of the Soulless Private Equity Cookie
If you’re going to pay more than $5 for a single cookie, it should at least have some soul.
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when someone my age is like "oh you gotta watch avatar the last airbender" im like buddy im an adult i watch adult shows like the weather and the news
MARBLE SOULS coming 2026 wishlist now - store.steampowered.com/app/4531440/...
this quote from patreon.com/merrittk is incredible "Video game developers once spoke of being inspired by childhood experiences exploring caves or growing gardens. Today, they talk about being inspired by their childhood video games."
dude that's so unlucky - I DO have a mouth but I don't need to scream at all
We can finally give you our impressions of the Steam Machine, and more importantly, the groceries we got after selling it. paletteswap.site/dif...