Scott Wiener is so fucking creepy!!! making an AI chatbot of your woman opponent so she says all the things your campaign wants her to say is deeply misogynistic!!! holy shit!!!

I’m just basing this on what other species do when one of their own goes rogue but I feel like if a guy’s business model involves making everybody stupid & gatekeeping the collectively earned knowledge of humankind in order to charge people for it we kind of have to rip apart & eat that guy.

Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · last wk.

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.

also not "technically mine," in any moral or legal sense 🙃

Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w ago

Nope. No, you haven’t.

Exceptionally well done look at the shape of war in Ukraine, new kinds of hell defined by cheap and abundant and expendable drones, a new far-ranging kill later on top of 20th and 21st century weapons and machines www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone

Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...

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Heartbreaking but it hits every New Yorker at some point.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

yellow skies over brooklyn. mask up, friends.

Maybe America’s fast, inexpensive, and ubiquitous train service, which connected even tiny commuter towns within living memory, before it was all abandoned by car mania. You can still see tram tracks throughout smaller cities!

Scott “bell beaker” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Happy RIPCON3 to all who celebrate

Stephen@tgk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

You can say a lot about Lindsey Graham but at least he got to see the thing he most wanted before he died, bombing school children in Iran.

People tortured themselves when this game came out to little actual use, even critically. But I think a game about being both defined by and estranged from your career, of watching your colleagues get zeroed out, could not be more timely.

prepared for the day's fresh new horrors

New Ghost in the Shell bangs and if you disagree you are a fake fan I’m sorry.

forcing devs to crunch before laying them off is stealing from them and you cannot convince me otherwise

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social · 4w ago

more information on how layoffs have impacted microsoft studios continues to trickle out. today I've confirmed that blizzard china suffered layoffs, and id software lost around half its staff just as it released dlc that required "significant" crunch

So this genius CEO expects xbox to have ~12% of the world's population playing xbox every single day? It's time to end CEOs, man. They get paid way too much to be this fucking stupid. We don't have to live like this.

Christopher Dring@dringo.bsky.social · last mo.

Big cuts, but Xbox has managed to avoid closing any studios today. Double Fine and Compulsion go indie. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will have new owners. Arkane Lyon process starts today. CEO Asha Sharma wants Xbox to reach 1bn players a day (it currently hits 1bn a year).

a question to vex the great philosophers of our age

Happy Independence Day!

ID4

Alt: White House explodes in 1996 movie "Independence Day"

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it's like staring into the heart of Chernobyl

Mike Ginn@shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · last mo.

We need help. How to do we fix this

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

It's "Oops! All Metaphors" all the time

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · last mo.

lmao wtf

GUIDE: Welcome to the Great American State Fair! TOURIST: Incredible! And which state are we in right now? GUIDE: (violently shaking their head) Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

went to the regional mini horse championships, like a normal person

Finalmente a tecnologia sendo usada pelo bem da humanidade

lol Rodneyse might be out, the Brooklyn Dem machine might finally be broken (after years and years of the vilest corruption known to local politics)

I think part of why people aren’t that upset about New York democrats getting primaried is that almost every Governor and Mayor of New York for the past twenty years has been a criminal????

the key to understanding the rich pricks fretting about the left destroying 'the democratic party' is that when they say 'the democratic party' they mean their gentleman's club. that's where they go to do insider trading & extort the elderly with scam texts. you're not allowed in there

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

There’s been more elite Democrat anger at Democratic primary voters than outrage over the life imprisonment of anti-ICE protesters — including a couple whose only offense was printing zines. Look at what they choose to talk about with the media and what they ignore. It’s revealing!