hey, uh, i heard you picking up all the health and ammo i keep just outside my big room. is there something we need to talk about, or
So when you go, I won't cry, Cause even though it hurts it's the thousandth time. Don't stay, Cause I don't even know what I'd do anyway~ I'm actually very self-confident and not particularly lonely, but man this still hits like a truck
Bird Brain Birdbrain
Alt: Kasane Teto from Bird Brain, swaying peacefully to the sound of loneliness
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Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
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American working class voters really have the worst loser mentality, it's both sad and kind of contemptible at the same time. So many have lost the desire to win, to be on top and in charge, and are actively hostile even to the idea that they could hold the commanding heights of power
And ultimately, in this, it is a microcosm of capitalism itself: toxic and miserable for everyone involved except the very few at the very top
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterdayIt's all part of a culture of fraud and bullshit. It's all bad for us - bad for our brains, bad for our souls, bad for our environment, bad for our social skills and communities, bad for our economic health, bad for our political stability. It's only good for billionaires enriching themselves.
Imma be honest here: I don't get the Laika the Cosmonaut Dog obsession going around right now and it stinks of an anti-communist psyop to me. People are acting as if it was some kind of unique tragedy, like no animal had ever been used in scientific research before or since, or like it would
oh hey, this article is a pretty good summary:
The Unwilling Guardians: Why Liberal Opposition Falters Against Fascism
When fascism ascends, the conventional opposition often proves surprisingly ineffective, even complicit. This paradox becomes comprehensible when we understand not just political theater but the under...
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Smug Scandinavians and other northern Europeans who are all like "idk man our society just doesn't have problems" are going to about-face so goddamn fast once capitalism really starts collapsing globally that I'm honestly not even inclined to make fun of them too hard about it
who remembers when people using ChatGPT to write stuff commercially was just bizarre and fringe instead of common and sad
Airship Assault Workfrank
Alt: The Unknown, from the crazy Willy Wonka pop-up event written by ChatGPT back in the day
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That's how collaborators work. "Liberals are the enablers of fascism" isn't a cute slogan but a dry statement of political fact
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last mo.104 democrats saw billionaire pedophile Nazis go "we need to create both a panopticon and also make it impossible for kids to hang out anywhere for free with their friends" and went hell yeah this sounds great, sign me the fuck up
I dunno, I guess if you wanted to compress a good 70% of the things I say on this site, it would boil down to "learn to recognize your enemies and treat them accordingly". Your enemies are individuals, groups, or classes who have material interests in direct and antagonistic opposition to your own.
Thing is, if Amnesty didn't have this policy they wouldn't be able to operate, given that the United States is the world's largest rights-denying organization
ergopraxis@ergopraxis.bsky.social · 5d agoAmnesty's capitulation is unacceptable, because a human rights NGO is not simply a discount think tank (viz. a double discounted research university). It's part of its job description to specifically leverage its resources to stand its ground against actual and threatened SLAPPs from bad actors!
I think the hardest part of writing a redemption arc is walking the line between a character who doesn't really need to be redeemed because they didn't do anything that bad, just made some kind of mistake, and one you aren't really interested in seeing redeemed because their sin is too defining
After several hours, I have succeeded in setting up Visual Studio with freeglut and GLEW, and got a test window program to build and run. Now I can start the rest of the OpenGL tutorial while I finish out the C++ online course I've been reading
THIS APPLIES TO JOBS TOO. IF THE JOB IS TOXIC, QUIT. YOU CAN FIND ANOTHER JOB, YOU CANNOT FIND ANOTHER HEALTHY BODY TO INHABIT.
Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is good advice for anyone. If a person or situation seems off leave. I once had a doctor's appointment and when he came in I could tell he was upset and agitated. Did I leave? No. Did I have to repeat a painful medical procedure because the first doctor fucked up? Yes. Be smarter than me.
Minefields were a crime against humanity almost exclusively deployed against South Asian and Pacific nations that dared to resist US imperialism, and the US ought to be held financially responsible for dismantling all of them as a form of reparations
Let's use clear language here: their artificial models are not engaging in hacking. That's not how code works. What is happening is they're running code with indeterminate effects in an unsecured network. The fact that some of those effects are malicious is the negligence of the human operators
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d agoBREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.
love to be out here working in the heat next to cement mixers and excavators having chest pains
For over a millennia, western people have been taught that the peoples of Asia are naturally inclined to cruelty and brutality, comfortable living under tyranny, and contemptuous of human life, liberty, and individuality. This belief operates on an unconscious level in tandem with the propaganda we
Ok, this is coming up a bunch but, am I correctly understanding it that a lot of people here don't know that Russia is an Asian nation??? Is this not widely known??????
The idea that the CPC would even think to bother engaging in Western social media campaigns to boost support is actually incredibly funny
oh no those terrifying asiatics are at it again, won't somebody stop them
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 7d agoThe Library of Alexandria will burn infinite times until the scourge of class society has finally been ended by socialist revolution and the establishment of true communist society
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
I tipped $3-5 on each of my 5 Lyft rides during this recent trip and somehow am a 10% top tipper, which somehow feels much more like a statement about everyone who uses the app regularly than it does about me
Fuck it... I am gonna specifically raise money for a motel stay. It costs roughly $975 for 15 days. I can afford maybe $300 of that without being in danger of not eating. Paypal: @lilithsfane Chime: $alexisvoidling 0/975
Alexis Voidling irecommendrevolution@alexisvoidling.bsky.social · last wk.The guy who is doing this is now allowed back in the community center, he had been banned for his actions that escalated with another person previously. Now I can't even safely get a free meal. I have a full time job and spend more than I make every month on survival as it is. I can't keep this up
The sin of China is that they are successful; nothing more, nothing less. To the western mind, any nation that is not white and succeeds at building prosperity on its own terms is monstrous and evil
For how much longer? That's entirely up to us. Everything we need to tear down this sick society is available to us right now, except for the political will and the organization. So, let's get busy creating those, huh? Join your local communist party *today*.