Incredible article. There are bit of this I could apply to my former translation/localization work outside of games, which imho shows that the gnarly systemic bone structures that allowed AI to wreck working conditions actually long preceded AI. 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

productionalchemist.com

Yeah... you can't get me to read all that slop. Free Palestine.

There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter. And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 8h ago

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

One thing that makes me feel insane is that the primary use of AI is to mass produce the pornography that they are trying to make it illegal for humans to make. But also, the AI isn't even good at it. None of it is hot!

There are definitely some people who were confronted with both the fragility of human existence and systemic violence for the first time through Covid19 and decided they would learn absolutely nothing from the experience.

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Mark Walter (le même Walter de la Coupe Walter de la LPHF) fait l'objet d'une enquête fédérale américaine pour avoir fait plus de 16 milliards US de prêts frauduleux www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Dodgers, Lakers owner's financial empire reportedly a target of federal loan fraud investigation

The companies backed by the owner of the Dodgers may have failed to disclose loans properly.

latimes.com

How about every time the government has to order workers back to work for the sake of the "national public interest," the CEOs of the companies they work for have to go to jail for a year, as punishment for being so bad at their jobs that they created strike conditions at such a crucial industry.

Canadian employers urge Carney to stop some strikes before they begin

Employers are urging Mark Carney’s government to allow the labour minister to preemptively limit strike action in some sectors. Read here

financialpost.com

Ok well apparently I had a lot to say & I will be sending out a newsletter about it all tomorrow but I can’t pretend any of it will be very professional bc I’m mad and tired

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 2d ago

This is the WNBA & Indiana Fever’s fault. This is from XX XY Athletics’ IG account—that’s Sophie Cunningham with Riley Gaines & Jennifer Sey. The worst transphobes. I haven’t written about it bc it’s gutting how unprepared the league was for this & now we have explicit hate visible at games.

Louder for the coaches wearing the correct t shirt and yet still behaving in an appalling manner: "Either you want trans people in your stands or you want transphobes. You can’t have both. And I can tell you that if you choose the transphobes you will be on the wrong side of history."

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 20h ago

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

One thing the first bit of Brand New Day gets right is the feeling of the college drop-out (or, hell, the athlete who has to abandon their athletic career too early) when you're watching all the peers your age keep going, hitting milestones that just aren't and never will be ahead of you anymore.

When trans people bristled at policies that required time to be on hormones before being able to join elite competition it was because: -time on HRT was arbitrary -testosterone level achieved was arbitrary -maintaining testosterone levels continually is arbitrary -no one else had these restrictions

I was not having a good day and then the meaning of today's date hit me and it is freaky sometimes how this happens to me almost every year on this date without fail. The body never completely forgets, we just learn to grow around the scar tissue and keep moving.

hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again

Je l'ai vu hier soir (VO avec sous titres) et c'est facilement le film le plus bizarre que j'ai jamais vu et j'en ai vu des films.

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 2d ago

when i see someone who missed out on Her Private Hell at her local theater

Just wanna say that if you’re a women’s sports fan who has felt increasingly isolated by the growing transphobia in & around women’s sports & are looking for a community, I run a queer women’s (& some men’s) sports discord for paid subscribers of my newsletter. You can upgrade here for access:

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As a couple places I used to check in with have stopped updated or wrapped up: Where are higher-ed educators going to learn about new in-class activities? Looking for inspiration! #HigherEd #AcademicSky

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

I loooooved Björk in secondary school and I've been (sort of) rediscovering her since my brief jaunt in Iceland in July. I'm not a huge fan of live albums but I think both Pagan Poetry and Losss for Cornucopia (2025) are probably my favourite versions of both those songs.

Britta Curl energy:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

today's youth will never have the experience of scrolling the 40 or so channels you had at 1 AM on a friday night looking for something interesting or horny and catching the back half of eXistenZ without having any idea what it was

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

So weird how "just stick to sports" doesn't apply when it comes to hosting anti-trans hate rallies at WNBA games

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

AI IS BASICALLY A SEX WORKER might be the hook for my new class…

Britain as a whole has to get over the idea that mowed grass lawns everywhere is a good thing.

Skionar@skionar.bsky.social · 7d ago

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

Should we be worried that the only kind of desire implicitly permitted online is the desire to be thin (or muscularly dehydrated in a particular way for the dudes) and gambling?

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

...What a disappointment.

Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater)@catvincent.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh no, not Brit... www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

It really worries me how much more difficult it is to avoid the surveillance panopticon, gambling, and both generative and agentic AI. Positioning yourself against all three really starts to feel like you're isolating yourself socially and professionally, if not outright engaging in self-sabotage.