Man, Dinniman's descriptions of violence have gotten SO much better. I'm on Dungeon Crawler Carl book 7 now and it's such a far cry from the first three or four books. I can say I like this book without reservation rather than liking it enough to put the audiobook on while I work

Only a few eps into the X Files and I'm already amazed at how they just go for it every time. A show like this would usually show restraint and be like "its what you *don't* see!" But episode two is like "the government is making UFOs and by the way HERE THEY ARE"

I have got to stop using gesture typing. My thumb will slip and the sentence will read like "I've gotta go to the store go store to get some with go eggs" and I'm constantly sleep deprived so I'll be like "looks good post that"

I wish I could revel in the moment of the games industry burning down, free of the knowledge of how many careers it is actively destroying

Push Square@pushsquare.com · 7h ago

EA Studios Brace for Layoff Bloodbath as New Owner Debt Demands $700 Million Cost Cuts.

If AI disappeared today then I'd have a lot easier time trusting smart people to be smart.

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 4h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

Do AI people think we're all just begrudgingly using these fucking things and not avoiding them at every opportunity?

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 12h ago

I have one answer.

"You guys think this stuff is extreme but it's just like, regular, normal, every day queer culture" Crowd Control season two is off to a great start.

idk if this is a lukewarm take out not but it's weird to me that fandoms from shows like TADC and Steven Universe get blanketed with such bad reputations but star wars fans can be a pillar of the fascism culture wars and ppl are just like "yeah some of them are trolls"

Wow I knew flock cameras had 2-3 lbs of copper but I had no idea they had 1-2 grams of gold what a cool little factoid

Just Jill 💖@justjill.sheshed.rocks · 2w ago

Friends, meet Rufus. He has important information he shared at the 7/13/26 Huntington City Council meeting on flock cameras. The really important stuff is at the end so make sure you watch and hear what Rufus has to say 😜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

I don't really have an objection to the CEO saying Bluesky is open to all; it's kind of his job to do that. But as others have pointed out, the design of the site means it's harder for trolls/bots/chuds *and also* influencers/hypebeasts to get traction. The "bubble" here is actually normal humans.

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

I have never watched The X Files so I don't have nostalgia for it but I started watching it and let me tell you something: It's objectively excellent.

Ottawa not being its own federal district is such a massive case of being a blessing and a curse.

Bon Clay is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's just so satisfying to see someone go that hard for another person.

Baseball has the sexiest uniform in sports but nobody is ready for this knowledge.

Bought some Macintosh's toffee in a fit of nostalgia forgetting I have old lady teeth now

My nostalgia compels me to go see a new Spider-Man movie every time but I wasn't expecting much this time around bc of, y'know, the gas being long gone from the tank But I got a really solid, character driven movie with respectably little "go see Doomsday please" mcu stuff

Watching the new KotH season and I'm genuinely surprised that that anyone, even the chuds, can pretend that Ronny Chieng is anything other than an absolutely perfect match to play the Olympic level hater that is Kahn Souphanousinphone. Chieng's hater energy is unmatched among comedians

it all just sort of makes sense, now, huh. all this shit was just generated by AI and he believed it all enough to parrot it on his podcast, and his fact checking team had to clean up after him this is a really massive blow to popular science. Everything is in question now. does he realize this?

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

Man i keep catching myself looking at the Google ai summary and being like "cool got it" before being like "WAIT NO" I get how one can fall into it but man idk I guess I'm genuinely surprised about Green's whole ai thing. Glad he's talking about it at least?

there's clearly no point in scolding most people for their indifference to anti-trans bigotry. the refusal to leave Harry Potter behind, the hemming and hawing about the NYT's puzzles. people won't even put down their toys for us. I cannot express the white-hot frustration boiling in my stomach.

I got to talk about Lupin III to someone who couldn't leave the other day so that was nice.

Dave Mustaine is too much of a shithead and it comes through too much in his music to actually fully commit to enjoying Megadeth no matter how fucking top-to-bottom tasty Rust In Peace is

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

I don't care what anyone says, Leia force pulling herself back onto her ship after getting blown up was the hypest shit in all of Star Wars

So let me get this straight, Belmonts Curse is getting a very rough Switch release but there is no news on a Switch 2 version?

french hick badger man

The Deniers are really that Star Wars thing of "we'll give them more depth in a theoretical comic miniseries."

I feel kinda complicated about the Aang movie. On the one hand it id undeniably gorgeous holy shit. I'd give anything to see it in theaters. On the other hand I...kinda think the writing was pretty weak? I thought they were going to do a *way* cooler reveal when the plot first started to unfold

I think the facade of malicious confidence Jax projects is far more relatable than any sad and nervous closeted trans girl fiction has presented to me, and I say that as a sad and nervous formerly closeted trans girl