It's weird that if you set an AI agent to searching for 3D models to train on and it got them by hacking the Disney servers, and then used them to train models, it would all be perfectly legal. I don't know why corporations are not worried about this.

Currently reading “Ready Player One” with no background except a lot of people hate it for some reason. Impression of first few chapters: This is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Guess for twist: the mad billionaire uploaded himself to the matrix.

The experience of being on Reddit right now.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · last mo.

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

This should not be allowed, the constant text messages bring the Democratic Party into disrepute, and I'm not surprised that older folks with memory issues just keep donating, forgetting that they already gave.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.

Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU

Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...

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deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Note to self

WADJET EYE IS 20 YEARS OLD!! Which means it’s time to celebrate with another group photo. It’s frankly ridiculous that the universe has allowed me to continue doing this for so long. I’m grateful for it every day. Thank you all.

Floating Universal Basic Income as the tech oligarchs eye the destruction of what remains of gainful employment is just a weaponized mirage. The political class isn't going to pass this. Neoliberals are relentlessly destroying even the meager social programs that remain. Stop it with this nonsense.

It was Schumer & Jeffries who believed that the best strategy to beat Trump was to do nothing and hope that he would step on enough rakes to make the midterms a cakewalk. Well, Trump stepped on the rakes, but the do-nothing left a big opening on the left flank of people demanding they do-something!

I made an alt account for testing some stuff for work. I followed no-one and posted only test posts. It's very interesting how many obvious bots immediately followed me: all with the standard "I hate Trump blah blah" posts.

For anyone going to the ICE protest in Berwyn PA today at 4.30pm, please check the weather before setting out. If there is heavy rain or thunder we will cancel.

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

I don't think the average "gamer" really understands just how dire it is yet. Like, games are still coming out and things still feel 'normal' if all you do is browse Steam, but the industry is very much hemorrhaging amazing people at an unsustainable rate and you *will* feel it in time.

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Entire Luna Abyss dev team Kwalee Labs has been laid off a month after release ➡️ gameinformer.com/2026/06/16/w...

2 important things about today's column 1st, we need to talk about how insane it is that Elon Musk abused his X platform to whip up violent race riots in Belfast, and yet 3 days later becomes the world's 1st trillionaire. How is this real? 2nd, also important... www.inquirer.com/opinion/elon...

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.

The Video Game Soda Machine Project just got its first update in nearly five years. That's how much I'm enjoying Perfect Tides.

Perfect Tides

I'm currently streaming Perfect Tides, a coming-of-age point-and-click adventure from Meredith Gran, on Twitch, and I stumbled across this bodega soda machine.

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I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

Saw Backrooms yesterday and I have never seen so many teenagers in one room in my life! Found out the director is only 20. A breath of fresh air in our age-dominated world and a great movie.

Crazy how everyone in the UK is sweltering while here in Philly the Memorial day long weekend was cold and rainy. I did not move here for this!

I'm just irritated that this new dystopic right-wing prophecy about birth rates totally contradicts the previous utopian right-wing prophecy about computers making labor obsolete, which has an unclear relationship to the one about moving to Mars. Just give me consistency

Like, what do you think will happen if Dems change their platform on racial prefs? Fox holds a party to proclaim the new greatness of Dems? Musk tweaks the algorithm to not bury Dems? Of course not. They'll deploy the trolls to broadcast that Dems abandoned minorities. There's no upside.

Some places are just the opposite of haunted. Every time I go up to my office in the attic I just get a sense of complete tranquility and calm. Right now, it's raining lightly, a little pitter-patter on the roof, and the light outside is silver-gold.

Democrats could promise every single resentful white working class guy in the country his very own rainbow unicorn & it wouldn't matter because those guys *never hear what Dems say*. They get their information about Dems entirely second had, via sources committed to making them hate Dems.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

Big turnout for protest against ICE moving into an office in Berwyn PA (Philly suburbs) - more info here www.teslatakedowndevonpa.org/westlakes

If your novel features an American protagonist, he probably doesn't say "sticking plaster" when he means "bandage" even if he is a seemingly ageless vampire born in colonial-ish America and your editor absolutely ought to have caught that, but I guess this is just where we are now in terms of QC.

If you happen to live near Philadelphia, come protest a sneaky new ICE law office that they stealth opened in a business park on the Main line. Monday May 4th, 4.30pm. Details: www.teslatakedowndevonpa.org/westlakes

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