Just a friendly reminder, you don't need...that shitty wizard series...for references for wizards. If you wanna draw a wizard or magician fight, look up irl photos of music conductors. You're welcome.

Ah, they've decided to soft launch the bubble bursting.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.

Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown ft.trib.al/Q4kiCJJ

trying to make new friends as an adult

If Werner Herzog (rightly) said this to me, I would simply crawl into a hole and die. (also, gonna adopt “Go ahead and fail” when dealing with AI bros)

andy™@andylevy.net · 2w ago

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

An unfortunate, perhaps uncomfortable reality: You cannot have a democratic guardrail against a bad choice, because the freedom to choose is the freedom to choose *poorly*. Nothing good can free you from the need to persuade.

Jonathan Bernstein@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

True and notable that Trump would have failed such a test. And yet? W could have passed, and he still didn't have the *political* knowledge needed to be a competent president. Carter & Nixon would have aced the toughest possible such test, and they were different kinds of awful at presidenting.

They won Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammys for "We Are Young."

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Tell me a fun fact.

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Dan Johnson will design games for food@coil.bsky.social · 3w ago

But would you kill for him?

Haaaave you met Charlie? www.dashingschipperkes.com/available/

and so on

Re: the discussion that “all the good people are dying” I’m just gonna put this here and say; be the change you want to see.

It’s hammer time.

My brain is a machine that turns [every goddamn thing I encounter] into [game mechanics]

Dave Breens@baldbreens.bsky.social · 4w ago

A very real problem we're having now is that the medium is no longer new, the new creators are inspired by other video games instead of other art. Miyamoto made Pikmin because he liked being in the garden, but every ONL game is being made because open worlds are cool and UE5 has nice visuals

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

Annoyingly, Carney's Liberals are unlikely to respond to this in the "aggressively support cultural craft" angle they really need to - the Canadian Media Fund and such support cultural *industries*, sure, but there's a lot (especially in newer media) that's left in the cold.

World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther@corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is an insane demand, no Canadian PM could say yes to it

Don‘t forget games.

The Long Dark: Winter Survival Game

ALT: The Long Dark: Winter Survival Game

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Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · last mo.

Also - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.

I really can’t get over what a rookie mistake it is to look the Government of Canada in the eye and say “We’re gonna need you to piss off Quebec.”

Buy all the Canadian video games you can afford.

Discovering a new type of guy

I was supposed to play BattleTech for the first time today but got busy so I am just pushing little plastic robots around on a map and saying 'pew pew' sadly to the dog.

most americans are probably not tracking this story, but fyi the cultural temperature up here around this issue is still best described as “seething” and “intense”

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

BREAKING: The U.S. is imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products after last-ditch negotiations failed. Canada promises to match the tax.

If nothing else, there's value in proving a willingness to walk away from the table.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last mo.

Mark Carney suspends trade talks with U.S., says Canada will match new tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’

Day 1 to 8 weeks 🥰

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines. n.pr/45oln5k

Is there a summer COVID-19 surge this year? Yep, it's ramping up again

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.

n.pr

this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen

Just a warning to my fellow analog game devs - adobe stock is a minefield of GenAI images. An image I was using, that I downloaded almost a year ago was tagged GenAI way after it was uploaded. So keep track of your downloads, check them regularly, and stick to catalogs like Unsplash, if you can.

Hard to get details because it's paywalled, but I'm calling bullshit: No chance this story is actually "LLM-based system produced an actual physical viral organism". Something statistically similar to a digital model of what a virus could look like? Plausible, but that's miles from this headline.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG

public libraries ftw

I saw a post saying that any critic would get a backlash after trashing a popular film. And I'm just not sure that should be normal. It's fun when a critic hates something! We should want reviewers with high standards and weird/obtuse opinions. A film isn't a sports team you support!

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

QRP with your most popular piece on bluesky Of course it's the frog

Cloudy🐈@hellocloudy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky the thing i made in 15 minutes and thought maybe 3 weirdos would find funny