I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.

this might actually be the most immersion breaking thing you could have in virtual miami

[intro text scrolls down the screen like in “Star Wars”] www.wsj.com/style/design...

Want to help out the economy? Ban online gambling.

Thomas HD@degolierthomas.bsky.social · 2d ago

in the two weeks since online gambling was banned in Brazil, nationwide retail spending rose 6.5% and 10% in the South and in areas of the Southeast.

#PSA

The fact that the current crop of AI doesn't do most of the things they claim it can do should not obscure the fact that the current crop of AI is very very good at helping scammers and criminals and bad actors flood the zone so completely the zone feels like it might collapse.

Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻@mrose.ink · 7d ago

This is what I need denialists to understand: the AI evangelists' wildest fever dreams (sentience, the singularity, whatever-the-fuck) don't need to be real for the tech to be hugely consequential. A machine gun doesn't need to be superintelligent.

I’m going to PalmCon along with a crate of Petty Rhymes and Devouring Things copies!

Being an artist in these times were AI is everywhere feels like having magic powers. You have the power to create something that comes from your soul and is not generated. That's amazing and I am glad I can create and animate my ideas, I hope artists will keep creating in those dark times.

I'm still mad that LLMs are built almost entirely upon stolen data. There is a reason why copyright and patent laws exist. Without them, a civilation stagnates, because there's no incentive to create new things that can just be stolen instantly.

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · last wk.

it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Sure do love the default Threads algorithm

Absolutely what this student says. One of the most profoundly sad things about AI boosters is that they seem not to understand that the journey is more important than the destination, the thinking, the understanding, the revelation that comes along the journey is what matters, not the end product.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Opening Threads to see the lack of bots and only the bad opinion-havers.

The proliferation of slop really is just this, but now we have to deal with people saying sawdust enhances the flavor.

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

Bugs 🔜 MC Atlanta@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3w ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Freak out and sell everything

Grim reaper is accessorizing well

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w ago

Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.

"Excuse me, this is a long shot, but do you have anything HALLOWEEN II related for dogs? My dog only likes part II."

Yesterday was Sunday and the day my wife's computer died. So today's Monday and it would be great to sell some books to pay for the dead computer's replacement.

Joel Flanagan-Grannemann@servantand.bsky.social · last mo.

Why I have problems marketing my book series: 🧚 There are Fairies, but not your typical Fairies. 🏹It's an epic fantasy but focuses on dialogue and character moments, not big battles and fight scenes. 🌙Large cast of mostly women. 🔆Ceremonial magic! 💚💜🤍 www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

This is why pervasive use of GenAI by university students is such a problem. (*) We do not set you an essay on the fauna of the lower Carboniferous because we want to read it (*) We do not make you write a computer program from scratch because we need to run that program (1/2)

Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep@innkeep.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Could really use that last commission slot. I hate asking for more work when i still have stuff to finish, but I really dont want to get an overdraft before husband gets paid on Friday. 🙏

Amber (Moose) 🫎@amberharrisart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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This October, ghosts, grief, and a gas station attendant in a supernatural mystery. Rooney and Orion coming in with an emotionally-packed ghost hunting adventure! The world of the dead is a lonely place for the living. books2read.com/u/mvxNGl