Alright, I'm going to do a thread about this: Race science is objectively, scientifically incorrect, even if we set aside the obvious moral arguments against it. "Race realists" love to accuse anti-racists of relying on ethical arguments over "hard facts", so let's use only hard facts.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ifollowed sports science and related discourse for decades and there's always been an undercurrent of race science in there, but usually at something of a whisper. over the last few years there seems to be a resurgence of the very overt stuff. this post today from a fairly famous fitness influencer

Library funding is tied to usage.

Leute, es brennt richtig!🔥 Unser Support ist voll mit Menschen, denen das Jobcenter die Miete kürzt. Wir können das nicht alleine stemmen. Eine Betreuerin hat sich an uns gewandt: Ihrer psychisch kranken Klientin wurden 168 € der Miete gestrichen! Sie lebt da seit 9 Jahren!

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

public libraries ftw

Also when you do research without AI this track just starts to play out of nowhere, which makes doing research even cooler youtu.be/pF4MBS5a3wQ?...

American Dad-Doing Research

YouTube video by Lyds

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · 2w ago

it's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun

Was at a birthday party yesterday, took place in the party basement of a dorm. Some of us found the billiard table and had a go. Fun evening. BUT! Then the most random/coolest thing happened. Some random woman moved into the other room and started her Nunchuck training like for an hour

Bruce Lee Nunchucks Training

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Everytime Tech-Bros suggest a usecase for AI it always kinda boils down to: “Imagine not being human” Got to say, worst pitch ever

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Something tells me the people who were laid off were actually responsible for making the game a success. This is fucking disgusting.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2w ago

After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

🧪𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 With the recent beta, you can now see the compile status of your Blueprints in the Spreadsheet and jump straight to any issue.🤓 #UE5 #UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5 #GameDev #Unreal

E. schreibt:"Mein Kind und ich wurden wg. Eigenbedarf gekündigt. Uns drohte Wohnungslosigkeit,als einzige Hilfe teilte das Jobcenter mit,dass wir im Zweifel in eine Flüchtlingsunterkunft ziehen sollen.Nun hab ich eine Wohnung gefunden, aber die wurde vom Jobcenter nicht bewilligt,zu groß&teuer. 1/3

Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]

That moment when your narrative designer tells you, the programmer who has no formal training in story/dialogue writing, that she likes the new scene structure a lot and compliments your instincts

Daniel Craig's Smug Look at SNL

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Was? Hätte man schon bei der Maskenaffäre machen können? Was? Sogar schon bei den seltsamen Spendendeals und Immobiliengeschäften? Die CxU scheint nur eine Sache mehr zu lieben als Korruption und Machterhalt, ihr verklärt-romantisiertes Familienbild

Ben@gamepsychologe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Einer geht noch 👏

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

Huh, such a nice dude, absolutely no clue whatsoever why she would leave him /s

One of the most infuriating things to me about this is the whole thing around Ninja Theory and their new Senua game. If I got this right one of the reasons they did show the game before the announcement that they gonna sell NT was to peak interest for buyers. What?

Knoebel 🛬 Gamescom@knoebel.bsky.social · 4w ago

"They didn't even wait to see if the product is successful before they got rid of the team," "[...] There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft. In fact, they have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don't even think that they're aware of." www.gamedeveloper.com/production/-...

Wieder greift die Union unser Recht auf Informationsfreiheit an. Wieder stellen wir uns dem entgegen! Lasst uns den Sieg vom letzten Jahr wiederholen! Unterschreibe jetzt die WeAct-Petition von FragDenStaat: campact.org/OVaSq

„Union will Lockerungen beim Mieterschutz“: Hierzu sollte man wissen: Bei CDU/CSU gibt es mehrere Abgeordnete, die auf dem Wohnungsmarkt Geld verdienen. Carsten Körber (CDU) erhielt als Immobilienmakler seit der Wahl 62.000 €. Siegfried Walch (CSU) listet 20 Mieter:innen auf. 🧵

Ok this is a weird one and not sure if lot of players think this but I have seen this from players AND from clients: "The complexity of the development of a game is linked to the filesize of the game" Like. No. Just no.

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · last mo.

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

today is my birthday ✨

#7月2日はナズーリンの日 何か急に描かなきゃという謎の使命感に駆られて。 「チーズを食らうナズゥリヌス」

🚨Die Bundesregierung will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen!🚨 Die Pläne, die SPD und Union heute für das IFG angekündigt haben, bedeuten faktisch eine Abschaffung der Informationsfreiheit in Deutschland. Was geplant ist und was ihr jetzt tun könnt 👇

Arne Semsrott@arnesemsrott.bsky.social · last mo.

NEU: Die Bundesregierung plant den schwersten Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Das IFG soll abgeschafft werden. Das ist nicht nur ein Bruch des Koalitionsvertrags, sondern beschädigt Presse- und Informationsfreiheit massiv. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/poli...