Unity literally announced the "AI makes a game for you" thing as an April fool's joke in 2012 - dunking on the creative bankruptcy of the whole concept - before announcing it with a straight face just the other day.

Rune Skovbo Johansen@runevision.bsky.social · 2d ago

Did you know that Unity announced this feature more than 16 years ago? Yes, all the way back on April 1st, 2012: web.archive.org/web/20120501...

'We don't work for AI': Greens vow to regulate artificial intelligence

'We don't work for AI': Greens vow to regulate artificial intelligence

The Green Party says it will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) so its benefits are shared with New Zealanders, not just the technology companies that operate them, if elected.

rnz.co.nz

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

news.berkeley.edu

Party Vote Green everyone and lets get them to 20%. Not only would that mean Mike Hosking is on a one way flight to Sydney but also tax reform leverage

Bernard Hickey@bernardchickey.bsky.social · 20h ago

Game over. We can give up on substantial tax reform for at least another three years then. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/opportunit...

Now that's the kind of cyberpunk information warfare I was promised. For better and worse.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · yesterday

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

I'm going to listen to Benjamin Clementine next Saturday in Wellington, but I thought I'd share the song I have in my head right now: youtu.be/ugGN_Z1jPoM?... #music

Benjamin Clementine - Nemesis

YouTube video by BenClementineVEVO

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modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · 2d ago

Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Seriously? Amazing. So honored. Wow.

George Sandison@georgesandison.bsky.social · 2d ago

The juggernaut keeps on rolling - THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @stephengrahamjones.com wins the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel at the British Fantasy Awards! @joemts.bsky.social

You may have noticed I’m a fan of good public policy for the public good, & this one proposal by Greens, I think is an absolute bottom line MUST DO reform to ensure our democracy remains secure #ForAllOfUs Love your work ya big Woke tree huggers! 💚🕊️ #nzpol #NZ www.greens.org.nz/greens_annou...

Greens announce plan to get big money and influence out of politics

We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

greens.org.nz

Its kinda wild seeing corporate management just obliterating the gates that keep them relevant ; namely the assurance that customers are getting quality products made with all the resources and institutional knowledge a corporation entails

WIRED@wired.com · 3d ago

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

If the price of Labour's fresh, locally-made school lunches and school buses, and the Greens' employment for 16 to 24 year-olds, is the cost of billionaires increasing their wealth a little more slowly, I'm ok with that. #nzpol

Election live: 'Exactly what we need': Youth worker praises Greens policy about getting young people into work

It's a busy Sunday again for the political world, with most of the parties out on the campaign trail.

rnz.co.nz

Labour says its school lunches would be made on-site, cover all 244,400 students already involved

Labour says its school lunches would be made on-site, cover all 244,400 students already involved

Labour has confirmed more details of its plan to reinstate the former school lunch programme from Term 1 2028, if elected.

rnz.co.nz

Trump destroys the world energy economy then sells out Ukraine and blames them. What a cunt #auspol #nzpol www.dw.com/en/trump-sla...

Trump says Ukraine should elect a new president, slamming Zelenskyy for not making a deal with Russia

President Trump has criticized Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not making a deal with Russia to end the Ukraine war. Trump also warned Kyiv against targeting Russian oil refineries that will supply the US wit...

dw.com

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d ago

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

'We're probably going to see a bigger shift between corporate publishers looking for efficiencies and smaller publishers insisting that the humans involved are the whole point.' www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

wired.com

I dunno, I think it's pretty reasonable not giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy who has overseen the extrajudicial murder of at least 235 people in the waters of Central and South America, and who has directed unprovoked military action against two sovereign nations.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway

Nailed it

AI truly is digital asbestos and it's going to be the death of so many industries. Not becayse it's better, but because it's poison. You'd think legacy publishing, of all things, would know better. Fucking appalling.

WIRED@wired.com · 3d ago

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

I watched a lovely, capable person dissolve into a jumpy, near-tears wreck because the “solutions” copilot was giving her about her laptop didn’t work. “I don’t know what to do,” she said despairingly. There were still plenty of things left to try. She just couldn’t conceive of them.

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

news.berkeley.edu

Her career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Congratulations, excellent choice! apnews.com/article/nobe...

South African-born jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international justice

Navi Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The South Africa-born Pillay was honored for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

apnews.com

End the cruelty. End the corruption. End the tyranny. Vote them all out.

A product no one asked for, that no one wants, that doesn't do what it claims, that burns money

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents

It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.

futurism.com

Just finished reading 'The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy' by Gil Durán. An excellent, but terrifying book, of interest to everyone everywhere, because a small group of billionaire tech CEOs are causing trouble for everyone. (1/2) #reading #nonfiction

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

wired.com

Saw Evil Dead: Burn last night, and loved it! The cinematography was excellent, the story was carefully constructed, and the movie managed to keep its connection to the early movies while being fresh and original. #watching #horror

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Long overdue for NZ to end its alliance with the US, but we are accelerating it further to "enhance warfighting and intelligence gathering" and be in direct alignment "with the strategic imperatives set by Pete Hegseth". Unlike Greens & TPM, Labour has given no signal they would change this #nzpol

Warning NZ could be cut off from Five Eyes info for not signing up to digital super-system

A Defence Force commander warned New Zealand would be cut off from information exchanges within the Five Eyes intelligence group if it did not sign up to build a new digital super-system.

rnz.co.nz

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 4d ago

seems bad tbh funniest bit is how NZ immediately rolled over after the threat www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Goodnight.