Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

theatlantic.com

super nerd

The Fed says it’s data-driven. But when consumers start skipping car payments, it’s no rounding error; it’s a flashing alarm.

They’re Skipping Car Payments; That’s The Final Warning Sign

Auto loan delinquencies just hit a 15-year high. Consumers are skipping car payments, signaling deeper financial stress. Markets haven’t priced it in yet.

forbes.com

This is why I don't like AI use for ANY reason, even if it's just to dunk on AI. Any use takes up resources and energy that could be better used doing literally anything else. Any "good potential use" for AI is annihilated by how much energy it takes to make it. Throw it in the trash, it's no good!

Anna 🌿👁️@annacwebs.bsky.social · last yr.

A regular reminder that using Grok is actively poisoning my former home of Memphis, Tennessee, a relatively poor and majority Black major city in the American South. Allowing the DoD to use it will escalate this dramatically. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

It's almost like it's the diff between a generation who got calls mostly from friends and one that gets calls mostly from scammera

Katie Notopoulos@katienotopoulos.bsky.social · last yr.

I have learned that Gen Z expects the person calling to say "hello" first, instead of the person answering; upending a century of phone norms. You know what? fine, I say. Phone calls aren't what they used to be anyway www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-phone-...

anyone saying this has also probably not paid any attention to the indie dev community's broad feelings on this subject, nor the ridiculously high quality of the art coming out of it year after year

Endless Mike@squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · last yr.

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

You know what would encourage people to get more physical activity? No, it is not wearable fitness trackers. It is: 1. A liveable wage so people have time for it 2. Safe parks and other infrastructure for such activity But that’s too hard.

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

Micah@rincewind.run · last yr.

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

raidou!🌸 #SMT #DevilSummoner

Everyone go buy Raidou Remastered. I've only just beaten the tutorial but as someone who played the original on PS2 I can already tell this is gonna be an all timer PLEASE we need a Raidou 3 we need this game to get 17 trillion sales

A new video game company is birthed!! It is us, Odd Object. We are @fourbitfriday.bsky.social and @hryx.net and friends. Today we announce our first game, Scrubbin' Trubble, a co-operative roguelike coming to PC later this year. 🫧⚔️ Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3276700/...

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

"Save time with Gemini!" "ChatGPT gives you answers." "Ready for Apple Intelligence" "Powered by Galaxy AI" "Do more with Copilo-"

I'm increasingly mad at the casual usage of ChatGPT with seemingly no regard for the ethical, environmental, and educational impacts. People are inventing problems to solve with their wasteful technology that genuinely makes things as a whole, worse.

!!! A new Kawaguchi manga?! AHH! What a treat!!!

ATTENTION PEOPLE IN THE FIRST 5 MONTHS OF BEING 27 YEARS OLD: make sure to remember to celebrate your 10,000th day alive! if you forget you'll kick yourself forever

To celebrate last week's launch of Blue Prince we're running a GIVEAWAY! 8 lucky folks could win a copy of Blue Prince on Steam, Xbox or Playstation. To enter follow our account, like and share this post. Good luck. Winners will be announced on April 28th.

dungeon crawler (but you make the dungeon)

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2y ago

It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing

The gobsmacking bit is that vaccines are popular, access to abortion is popular, the educational system is popular, the postal service is popular. People love the weather service, Medicare, and Social Security. So what explanation can there be other than racism, misogyny, and greed?

I have never played Skies of Arcadia but I REALLY am hoping that SEGA re-releases it soon!! The character design and art looks INCREDIBLE! #SEGA #Skiesofarcadia #Aika #Fanart #Art

When we're done with all of this, we should really get rid of: - the two party system - the presidency - the US Senate If we had a parlimentary, multi-party system, we could have elections in months to remove this clearly insane guy from office. Instead, we have to wait almost three years.

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

My only hot take on Switch 2 pricing is that we should all be paid more

excited for kirby air riders!!! 🌟 ✦ #ambirdoodles #kirby #art

Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored