Last week I interviewed the wonderful Casey Yano from Mega Crit about Slay the Spire 2’s placeholder art and how it proves these studios need to STOP with the gen AI placeholder nonsense ✨ Had a great time writing this and hope you all enjoy! www.gamespot.com/articles/sla...

Slay The Spire 2 Is Choosing "Shit" Art Over Generative AI

Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano spoke with GameSpot about why Slay the Spire 2 refuses to use generative AI for placeholders and the importance of "garbage" ar…

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It is hardly news that the noisy correlation-based data on ultra-processed foods is very low-quality, but it turns out that the UPF randomized controlled trials probably don't offer strong evidence of the harms of "ultra-processing," either. Gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The evidence against “ultra-processed” foods is weaker than you think

New analysis suggests other factors may explain the harms blamed on “ultra-processing”

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They sell nanobubblers at the bodega next to the Kratom

Instagram is tee vee. Bluesky is newspapers. Newspapers are blogs for billionaires.

This is Ear Notching. Mutilations like this are common at factory farms and almost always performed without anesthesia. 🎬 Mercy For Animals 🐷

everything is gender and we are being held back by the widely held belief that being a woman is bourgeoisie

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job

Hang this whole thread in the Louvre.

Scott Wachter@fs-scott.bsky.social · 2y ago

I mashup a lines #futurama with pics from #gundam every day until I don't part 1. #zetagundam #charaznable 🧵

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Sarah Perez@sarahp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

27% of medically important antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in pig production—almost as much as human medicine. • Pork causes 787k foodborne illnesses/year • 60% of sows carry Salmonella • 83% of Campylobacter on pork chops is resistant to antibiotics AMR already causes ~700k deaths globally.

Here are just 4 elections coming up in the next 10 days to know about. -- 1️⃣ This Democratic lawmaker in North Carolina gave the GOP *the* decisive vote to pass a pro-ICE law last summer. She faces a primary from a local progressive pastor, part of the Moral Monday movement.

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts

North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

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Pokémon gang violence is out of control. They're robbing our local Pokéfans. They're bringing Trubbish. And some, I assume, are good people.

No white person complains the first time they have to buy mayonnaise and paprika

Couldn’t agree more. Going vegan didn’t limit my food. I eat better and more creatively now than I ever did before. 🌱✨

Dr. Pamela Isley, radical queer ecosocialist, for President.

ADHD is looking at other people’s high caffeine intake and shrugging because you can’t feel it at that dose.

tony shaloub as nixon in a slapstick comedy

“Interesting” that millennials have 69 and alpha has 67, and yet instead of 68, zoomers have absolutely nothing, thanks to joe biden

I don't use any Britishisms because I am going to Heaven actually

the game that I like playing right now should be game of the year

Also, what are you you doing with your money if you aren’t supporting them? Do you appreciate knowing what’s happening in elections? I sure do!

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped. ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file? ME: that's not- CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-