We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI. TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner

We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the...

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Watching an endless loop of ten second clips? Haha this younger generation. When I was your age we used to watch a variety show starring an ostrich puppet, a man with a cowboy hat and a reel to reel sound player. It was so racist Harry Connick Jr. made a formal protest. It was three hours long

Animals - Masashi Ichikawa

You've been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner Co: 🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀 Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn. yarnspinner.dev/mesaves

"what does it even mean to be nonbinary if you just present as your assigned gender" well for one thing i am able to compel computers to treat me with fear and respect

so, I got a bit sick of people asking me about generative AI and @yarnspinner.dev, so I wrote some LinkedIn-style (sorry) thought leadership on the matter hey.paris/posts/genai/

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity

“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that ever...

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

Pink - Emi

the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.

Do you come to AUC #DevWorld or #XWorld? Might want to keep 2-5 September free this year. And plan to be in #Melbourne. #conference #event #iosdev #macos #appledev

interview about a cool upcoming game that uses Yarn Spinner!

RPGFan@rpgfan.bsky.social · 2y ago

We chatted with #Demonschool creator Brandon Sheffield. Not only a beautiful blend of SMT demon hunting, Persona‘s social management with quick tactical combat, but also inspired by numerous classic horror movies... All of this appeals to me! Full Q+A👉 www.rpgfan.com/feature/demo...

Some people are paid to watch the tinder for a wildfire alight in ember and only call when the chemical cascade begins its exponential. Others are sentenced to get in there and fucking rake the firebreak. Are you paying someone to rake, or are you waiting to watch the firestorm. Make a choice.

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

Very Strawberry - Tomomi Imura

Brian Moore - Nitehawk Jarrett

I love this quote from Ed's essay: "true masculinity is a sense of responsibility for both oneself and others, and finding strength in supporting and uplifting them with sincerity and honesty" Yes.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2y ago

Newsletter: Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA pivot is really just the continuation of years of rotting out the core products of Instagram and Facebook - and begins an era of unrestrained, unrepentant growth where tech will proudly make their products even worse. www.wheresyoured.at/the-slop-society/

This is it in a nutshell. They don't want to work out a picture, they don't want to have an idea and develop it with sketches or brush strokes that take it in new, better directions and they certainly don't want to learn from mistakes, they just want to be given something.

Jon Lewis@jonlewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period. I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.

fuji-iBondi - Hiroyuki Fujisaki

OnlyFans model creates SFW content on PornHub, publishes post to LinkedIn explaining that she gets a much higher rate on PornHub vs YouTube ($1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340), and then LinkedIn takes down her post and bans her. www.404media.co/why-this-onl...

Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub

Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.

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GirlTalk - Emi

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

FYI, folks from Bluesky. Workers at The Barn, among other agricultural buildings, are now shutting the door after the horse got out. Shutting the door, telling people the door is shut, is a form of accountability for the horse that’s now completely free.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2y ago

FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.

i think it’s unfair to expect regular people to know precisely how journalism works so i will say the answer to “why did they sit on that story for so long” is often “because of lawyers”

"Look for the helpers." Friend, you are forty two years old. You are supposed to be the helper.

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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I was recently asked about the difference between how a human brain learns and how a contemporary AI learns, and to me that's a bit like asking how a real tornado differs from Sim City tornado

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

Cab - Tomoko Nakamine