This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.

sometimes that adult section of our brains force us to say NO to some things we *really* wanted to say YES to and even when we *know* it was the right decision, it can still hurt, and that sucks.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

It very much feels like the premise of Verse is Epic thinking that no one is ever going to really write any code in Verse, LLMs will, and therefore prompting LLMs be the way non-technical people get things done in U6 (rather than using Blueprints). But if this is the case, why create Verse?

Apesar dos pesares, o Rio de Janeiro continua lindo

New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

we can move further and faster than the US by, wait up a second let me check my notes here, adopting a lot of US AI tech and then putting it into all of the below

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2w ago

The AI minister thinks the UK should focus on being the world's best AI adopter, not the world's best AI model builder He said Britain can move "further and faster" than the US in applying AI across healthcare, public services and the wider economy (3/6)

You have to give it to AirBnB, they managed to create a lower life form than landlords. It’s impressive.

2024: "All they have to do is release the hostages" 2025: "All they have to do is fully disarm" 2026: "All they have to do is allow us to keep killing them and fully colonize Gaza"

Regina John Hakmann 🏳️‍🌈@reginajohnhakmann.eurosky.social · 5d ago

" Itamar Ben Gvir wrote on Telegram, adding: "The assassinations in Gaza must continue, the encouragement of immigration must happen, Israel must win." !!! www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

This is Microsoft (who own LinkedIn and are first and foremost an AI company now) using free labor to improve their other AI, don't fall for this shit

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

Updated with comment from LinkedIn executive. The button will help train LinkedIn's models for identifying AI slop www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

Let's just give even more fiscal incentives for Big Tech to build lots of city-wide data centers, that might help

Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 5d ago

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Tip of the hat to mainstream media, who credulously gave us those "Musk is getting out of politics" headlines last year and those "Musk has regrets" headlines last week, and will give us those "regretful Musk is getting out of politics" headlines next spring.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

NYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.

At what point do the purely economic issues with a wealth tax become irrelevant? When does stopping this sort of craven inequality become a social necessity?

‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans

As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays

theguardian.com

This is very much the reality of Google's business model, rather than the narrative they're selling of being climate heroes building AI climate solutions

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

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.

amidamidi.substack.com

This kind of obvious bad faith pisses me off. LLMs do not model factual information, only token order statistics. LLM training is an intrinsically lossy process. And the models themselves are proprietary; even if they worked like libraries they move knowledge from the public to private malefactors.

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

I really think "automation" is just the wrong framework for thinking about LLMs and what they do, both in theoretical terms and as a practical matter of their use. It's just a broken analogy and it leads down the very dumb road of saying things like "oh so are you against compilers bro"

I’m still thinking about the Codeberg blog post’s use of the term ”single-use software” blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

"America’s capitalism adds up the profits created by privatizing public goods without subtracting the value destroyed. We've created the largest enshittifying machine in history with financial logic that leaves out half the equation." - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math

Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.

open.substack.com

I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

I've always been fond of this Kubrick quote. He's talking about movies, but I think it applies to creative leadership in games as well

would you pay $50k to flip a coin: heads you win a million dollars, tails you lose it all? assume in this scenario you are exactly you as you are, but $50k richer.

This is such an incredibly good read:

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

The source of that danger is financiers, and they are motivated by a mix of solipsism and a belief in *other people's* solipsism. For them, the most exciting investment hypothesis is that "hell is other people": locusmag.com/feature/comm... 39/

Anyone who played XCOM knows the right answer to a 50% shot

XCOM: Soldier vs. Viper 'Hop On' Attack

ALT: XCOM: Soldier vs. Viper 'Hop On' Attack

static.klipy.com

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

historical accuracy meter

"Indie games will save us as AAA shoot itself in the foot" the players say as they refuse to pay prices where indie game dev is viable for anyone that isn't a millionaire. Let's look at the economics of Silksong as an example.

Escher 2.0 This is mesmerizing!

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · 2w ago

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

variety.com