"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!

Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie

Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.

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This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 10h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

"AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." Good lord [positive]

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Must-read essential level insight from Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net for @thenerve.news: 'This has created a situation in which everyone – "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies.'

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

So strong is the appeal of Big Walk I bought it despite having no friends whatsoever.

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

If this means I can play a version of Lost Odyssey that isn't a jank-ass emulator version then I am, as they say, in.

Digital Foundry@digitalfoundry.bsky.social · yesterday

Report: Microsoft to bring Xbox 360 games to "Xbox PCs", handhelds and Project Helix.

This is objectively hilarious. Rod Liddle was the epitome of Trash Wealth. Stewart Lee did a whole 15 minute bit on how sloppy the fucker was. It was his whole thing. Trying to pass him off as Jim fucking Morrison is an impossible task even for professional white-washers.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterday

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

If I am ever to warrant comment upon dying I hope people would do me the honor of being honest. Rod Liddle lived to offend. He made sport of targeting the most vulnerable in our society. He deserves to be pinioned for that, no matter his corporeal status. It's the opposite of sad.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

I have never seen a social platform so united as on the death of Rod Liddle. Right across the spectrum on here. Not even the standard self-righteous micro-bollockings in the replies. Imagine what kind of cunt you have to be to stem the high-handed whining on BLUESKY. Remarkable.

The feminists, there.

in time the rod Becomes more mock’d than fear’d

Holland insisted on a finished script before they shot it so unsurprisingly it's thematically solid and talks to something all of us in living in this post-2016, post-pandemic world can relate to (that is, isolation). The trend is... they made a good movie.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2d ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Makes Almost A Billion In Three Days https://kotaku.com/spider-man-brand-new-day-mcu-marvel-opening-weekend-billion-2000721174

We'll remember him for "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" "Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously, not while you were sober" and "Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography"

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness

Normalise calling "the RAM crisis" something else, like "the RAM piss take" or "the RAM swindle" or "theft"

Oh that's fun...

Sam Vimes@samvimes6.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just a reminder that these rights were reciprocal. Brits could remain in the EU and EU people in the UK. If the UK reneges on this then the EU has every right to ask Brits to leave. They probably won't, because they're not evil bastards, but they could.

I had a chat with @harvey1966.bsky.social about growing up poor, dealing with the deaths of his parents, and how those things shaped his outlook on work and life. www.gaming.firezidechat.com/p/firezide-c...

Firezide Chat with Harvey Smith

A chat about deaths of his parents, growing up in poverty, and how those things shaped his outlook on life.

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indiana jones and the big big hole “this was jesus’s hole,” he moans dryly

Companies creating or using AI-generated content have to label it clearly for users to know, as part of an EU guideline implemented on Sunday. #EuropeNews

AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU

Companies creating or using AI-generated content have to label it clearly for users to know, as part of an EU guideline implemented on Sunday.

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anti AI stickers, feel free to use, i don't wanna make money out of it. (inspired from a design i fouind online and can't find again, so if you ever find the original, high five to em)

New Spiderman is probably the best MCU film since... God I don't even remember. For once, one of these films actually has something so say and, until the very last scene, commits to it. That last scene does undo a lot of the work, but even the attempt puts it in the top five MCU entries.

what the fuck why does this @stupidtwink.bsky.social comic keep happening?

Transparency@transparency.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jez San, founder of Argonaut, donated 2 million pounds to the conservative party in 2025. He was the biggest individual donor in Q1 of that year. Please, be informed before purchasing anything. You can emulate PS1 games on basically any device these days (even your phone) with ease.

AI is supporting conservatives, you don’t need it for your point

I'm looking for 3D artists specialized in Hard Surface modelling for SciFi architecture, Characters and vehicles, please reach out! Really really cool video game project in the works!

I am allergic to anything even tangentially "self-help" coded but this is a good-ass (and short) video.

golden apples 🍎@applecider.bsky.social · 5d ago

man this video is called "how to be more confident" but it should really be called "how to develop self-esteem" and the section about stopping negative self-talk hit me so hard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d14p...

This looks fucking rad and the demo was rad

Limbic Entertainment@limbicgames.bsky.social · 5d ago

🏴‍☠️ The wait is over -> Corsair Cove is out now! ⚓ Set sail and build your adventure with: 🏗️ 130 buildings ⛵ 30 ships to command 🏝️ 3 unique islands 📖 2 game modes 🐷 And, of course… countless pigs …and so much more! Buy it now: https://shorturl.at/X53Dn

Beira's Place was literally founded because Rowling was outraged that existing rape crisis services weren't formally refusing employment and services to trans women. Transmisogyny is literally the purpose for which it was founded. It has no reputation to damage.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

Question: net loss or net gain that all the vocalists on Monster ended up being *actual* monsters?