Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Anybody have any very large photos or textures, e.g. 4K x 4K or 8K x 8K, in lossless format (e.g. PNG) that I can use for testing a library? RGB or RGBA 8-bit-per-channel preferred. E.g. MetaHuman textures etc. I'll delete when done testing unless you tell me it's publically shareable.

Anybody have any very large photos or textures, e.g. 4K x 4K or 8K x 8K, in lossless format (e.g. PNG) that I can use for testing a library? RGB or RGBA 8-bit-per-channel preferred. E.g. MetaHuman textures etc. I'll delete when done testing unless you tell me it's publically shareable.

Product idea: physical desk globe where all the continents can synchronously slide into a Pangaea configuration .

Eclipse Coolness xkcd.com/2914

Underneath solar panels, plants grew much more and used less water, "Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and unworthy the Head of a civilized nation

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

EA’s CEO got an $8 million raise thanks to how well Battlefield 6 performed — four months after the devs responsible for making the game got laid off. https://t.co/KZKhVBOL6O

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Cloudflare has stopped verifying my Firefox ESR browser (the last version supported on Windows 7) as human, so this may be the end.

Linked 404media article is confusing to read because they quote YouTube as saying "We terminated these channels for *linking* to content that violates our nudity and sexual content policy", then ignore that point entirely for the length of the article. That's because the YT quote was added later.

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Using AI for "research" makes all the information suspect. This is also something I'll never understand abt AI users: If I was someone who actually believed in the "info" ChatGPT mashed together, what would I need you for? Research AND writing done by ChatGPT? Why would I need the middle man?

A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Omg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡

It is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

hank green admitted to using AI to help research a recent video. and here's him talking about using it to help edit his book.

Mugi@tsumugi-chan.bsky.social · 5d ago

For the sake of posterity: Here's Hank admitting he's writing his new non-fiction book about cancer with the help of Claude Might want to skip buying this book, folks!

yada yada, redacted poopy spaghetti western: ick

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

I'm not sure if I'd ever seen a photo of John Fetterman before, but I've seen two different photos of him RT'd on my timeline in the last 24 hours, and both times I assumed it was some guy cosplaying a wizard until I read the tweet.

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.

State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.

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Reminder that Hemingway did not write the six-word story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sal...

For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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Some quality-of-life changes I've made that have stood the test of time: velcro instead of shoelaces (since 1990s) replace all socks with 40 identical pairs (since 2000s) liquid hand soap instead of bar soap (since 2010s) Main thing they have in common: you just have to know it's an option.

After checking that it's not April Fools' Day, WTF wow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdX...

Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You Think

YouTube video by minutephysics

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Dear AI-hater insiders at companies using generative AI to generate image assets: US courts & Copyright Office have ruled that AI-generated images are not covered by copyright. Anyone can use them for any purpose. Your mission: disclose assets that aren't copyrighted & can be freely used by others.

Just like you can call Elon Musk "pedo guy" because he won the lawsuit about it. (Well, not JUST like, he used the phrase on somebody else.)

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

“PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!” trib.al/e8IVBnp

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...

It is 2005. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2012. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2018. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations.. It is 2025. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2026. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allega--

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...