When you have a bigger audience and would prefer to use them to brigade people rather than reconsider a position you clearly did not state honestly.

Yes, it does in fact matter that you "only" used the Theft, Lies, Stupidity, Surveillance and Ecocide machine for its stolen knowledge (which was still incorrect). And then hid that you did so. People yet again devaluing coding as one of the creative jobs we can apparently sacrifice.

Whatever your opinion on AI, I think we can all agree "we didn't disclose AI use because we were worried doing so would normalize AI use" is a bullshit, self-serving statement.

Jack Ryan 🙏🧪@jacksonwryan.com · 19h ago

House House updated its FAQ regarding AI use: "In the final stretch of Big Walk’s development, LLMs were used sparingly by House House to help work through difficult technical challenges and bugs." bigwalk.game/faq/#ai

Loooove having hours of my time wasted by stupid shit in GitHub Actions' "it's Javascript but not really" expressions.

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This thing was on pre-order twice as long as it was on sale. I guess the faithful will have to wait on the Roadster as their "mock me" signifier.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

Tesla’s Cybertruck, the hulking, stainless-steel pickup that inspired devotion and derision with its science-fiction looks, will cease production next year.

On the one hand, interesting. On the other hand, AI is going to turn this into a tax dodge.

Kelly Robson@kellyrobson.com · 4d ago

From the Canadian Prime Minister: "In Budget 2026, we're backing the Canadian artists who tell our stories. That means if you're a Canadian artist, you won't pay tax on up to $45,000 of income derived from your creative work." Holy shit.

Hack TV producers making "legacy" remakes or sequels will be forced to apply for a licence to do so. Alex Kurtzman will be the first person added to a lifetime ban list.

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 6d ago

Now that Bluesky is the official social media app representing the popular will of the United States of America™️, what is our first cultural decree?

Monorepos: not even once.

Wildwood is a fable of the absolutely insane lengths people will put themselves through to not adopt. Also there's a rat character and they're a good guy, so obviously 17/10.

The incompetence of BC drivers is constantly astonishing. This morning's commute, I had to get past three separate, unrelated crashes at the same bridge. What the hell?

Actually, a lot of programmers were yelling this from the rafters but we got drowned out, partly by techbros and our bosses pushing this stuff as hard as possible, and partly by...artists focusing the discussion entirely around them. Lots of people think AI art in games is bad but AI code is fine.

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · last wk.

when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷‍♀️ (but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)

Hahaha the Brownshirts got doxxed. The masks weren't going to work forever, you fascist goons. The funniest part is that a bunch of these dumbasses panicked and searched for their own names from DHS IP addresses, adding themselves to the list. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents

The leak reveals undercover agents, surveillance groups, and sensitive DHS access.

arstechnica.com

Game store is asking $55 for San Andreas. Not sealed, not special, just Sam Andreas. The most common game on the most common console. Pack it up, gaming is over.

I swear, at this point if you handed me the Death Note, I would write "Funko Pops". How is this cheap, ugly garbage still growing?? My favorite nerd shops are all being gradually consumed by the cancer.

"Use the bio scanner to retrieve physical sample data on the Flurian creatures." Me, revving my mech's 2500 DMG flaming chainsword into life: "Hear me out"

Koenig and Stewart in the same week. Feels bad, man.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: Patrick Stewart, acting legend of "Star Trek" and "X-Men" fame, dies at 86.

Absolutely hysterical watching the touchscreen Macbook reveal with its "OMG LOOK" zooms and swooshes, as if they invented touchscreen laptops, or OLEDs. I'll be over here on my much sleeker Yoga, a touchscreen 120Hz OLED convertible I bought two years ago for half the price.

When I open PRs I try to write something informative and useful, but sometimes a PR is tiny and straightforward and I can't be arsed.

Holy shit.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: At least 30 people are dead in a crash between two trains in central Spain, local media say. The crash is the second major train accident in Spain this year.

Haven't used Netbeans in a while, nice to see how it's progressing. Long-standing HiDPI issues are *nearly* fixed in Linux, Markdown support is now built-in, etc. Kinda crazy how long it's been since I did any PHP. (Yes, Netbeans is my hobby PHP editor, I can't justify a JetBrains subscription.)

Me, after seeing a horde of incoming fauna, launching artillery rockets at it, setting off nuclear mines, climbing into my mech and spinning up my minigun full of incendiary rounds: "FOR THE ECOSYSTEM!" Yeah, as fun as Riftbreaker is, the premise is *intensely* dumb. ;-)

Having attempted to play the Zero Escape games, this tracks with the FUCKING AWFUL level of writing contained within. Pretty decent escape-the-room puzzles surrounded by inane, juvenile garbage where the horrible characters open their stupid mouths. You know...An anime game.

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social · 2w ago

Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi thinks the game industry “shouldn’t outright reject” generative AI, says cancelled game could’ve been salvaged if his team had used…

“Absolutely f*cking not,” Knight responded without hesitation. “AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.” theplaylist.net/wildwood-tra...

‘Wildwood’ Director Travis Knight Calls AI “Theft,” Says LAIKA Will Never Use It: “Absolutely F*cking Not” [Interview]

Travis Knight rejects AI in filmmaking and discusses the extraordinary challenges behind LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood.’

theplaylist.net

The iPhone Duo: You're Folding it Wrong. Honestly, no matter the manufacturer, folding screens seem like the dumbest, most over-engineered solution to a problem that didn't exist, especially when you add a hinge design so complicated you're having problems manufacturing it yourself.

Inevitable, but still absolutely gutting, especially as a Babylon 5 fan. Everyone loved Walter in Star Trek but I think even Trek fans would agree his role as Al Bester let him really flex his chops. One of the best strangely likeable monsters in any show.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social · 2w ago

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Shoutout to Ubuntu for having the PHP patches in their servers so early I was safe before I was worried I was vulnerable.

It's pathetic that Ethan Klein cheating on Hila is what crossed the line for the H3 crew but not defending a genocidal apartheid state

Load in day was, as always, a shit show. PHP kinda blew my day up. I've had a perfectly normal 4 hours of sleep from the corpse, I've got eggs and ham in me, the room opens in four hours. It's time to lock the fuck in.

Having to deal with another eye-rolling day of nerd gatekeepers crowing "who still uses PHP?" Right, because I should move to....server-side Javascript? That's so much better and never has any vulns whatsoever, right? Yeah, you just wanna feel special.