Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it
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I write about space, in several places. Used to write about other stuff? But now pretty much it's space. I also talk about gaming here, though. Also politics, sadly and mostly unwillingly, but I do try to damp it down a bit
Okay yeah this is a hobbyhorse of mine It is NOT hard to find artists online, especially right here on bluesky, and I'm sure you can find hardworking people who'll get involved for a cut of the revenue and a CV-boosting spot in the credits So why choose worse art and a sales-wrecking disclosure
Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis.me · 4h agoHoly shit this blog is amazing.
SO many people in the quotes and replies saying "I would commit actual crimes to be able to use software like this, it runs on anything and you can actually train people on the workflow" It's like Lotus Notes back in the day
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 14h agoThis is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
One thing I'm taking away from this situation is that Xi is neither willing nor able to go into Taiwan anytime soon. This would be the perfect time.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d agoU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
"A fantasy writer". About Sir Terry Pratchett. Oof.
katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d agookay now he's gone too far
Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.
This is really valuable because it gets to the central issue with the dudes who love code generation: they don't want the product, they just want the clout. They're a new version of those insufferable poseurs who don't want to make art, but just want to be SEEN as an artist. Lots of those here.
Darío@dariosamo.bsky.social · yesterdaySomebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.
I keep thinking this is a reference to the d[imension] hopper in Robert Asprin's Myth series I know it's not but I hadn't thought about that series in a decade
Jon Cartwright@jon.gvg.io · yesterdayAnd the Game Award goes to...D Hopper!
Frankly, if *anyone* has the right to speak up about this, it's porn creators, who are often both directly under the barrel of -- and made scapegoats for -- the kinds of censorship and surveillance governments want to do anyway
Hypno-Scream (Comms Open)❤️🩷💜@hypnoscream.bsky.social · last mo.Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.
Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.
Again this is why Carney's "all pipelines" strategy is fucked East Asia is going hard on solar because it's cheaper and because of the strait mess, while both South Asia and Europe are reeling from climate change effects So who the fuck is Canada supposed to be exporting to?
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d ago"It's as if we have to mourn the future."
again, if i had a calculator that gave me the wrong answer one (1) time, i would throw it out and never use it again and could probably bankrupt the company by simply telling people what happened
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d agoGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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www.gofundme.com/f/fund-expen... Hey! We have the last Aerosmith: Quest For Fame in the world. We're trying to crowdfund to cover the expenses to preserve it. This is a unique piece of rhythm game history, and we plan to place it in a public arcade! Any support would be wildly appreciated!
The most infuriating thing about this shit is how it gets completely fucking blanked by every single "media studies expert" you see on this website Say what you will about debatebro culture, this whole Westworld robot "I see nothing there" behavior is turning out to be so much worse
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.
Catching up on Deltarune and a minor plot point is "oh who would even want this old television" My brother, that is an immaculately maintained cathode ray tube, there would be a line out the goddamn door
This was and is the consequence of "most people will be fine" responses to covid that carefully left out what happens if you aren't part of "most people". Like, sorry, but almost everything in 2020s politics is downstream of the wholeass plague that started it. Blank it and you're useless.
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d agoNot a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Incredibly funny that the response to this is "well actually it's only for GOOD jobs", as if the problem will get solved by more rock bottom retail gigs "You can still do fruit picking for a dollar an hour what's the issue" the boomer says, to the zoomer headed for the bridge he sleeps under
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d agoENTRY-LEVEL JOBS ARE VANISHING: NO-EXPERIENCE HIRING PLUNGES 73% IN JUST 4 YEARS
"But it's actually just a tax on the owners!" yes that's the idea If you own a business in a particular jurisdiction you are very literally profiting from its laws and services and protections, even if you do not personally live there Paying for all of those things from those profits makes sense
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Me: "Snez is dropping in around a week, might as well try out this stellarconduct thing, oh well off to Inazuma I need handguards" "Oh there's one now" *Some poor ghost samurai is reduced to leptons in seconds* "...uh what the fuck just happened"
Not going to link for obvious reasons, Other Site, but allegedly an Ekos poll has the NDP up to 20, due mostly to progressives fleeing the LPC Apparently not keen on Carney's agenda of "fuck your wildfires, export more tar slurry and import more tanks to defend the tar slurry"
Today's reminder that there are somehow still dudes on this website who call this "Glonzo slopulism" Obviously they will not see paradise
Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (NBIM) lent Meta money so that they could build this Louisiana data center.
What's funny is that I've known game journalists personally for like thirty years—no really—and I have NEVER been able to dislodge this shit from their brains I've never understood it, from moment one, and it's so much weirder now that Nintendo dominates Japan
Keith Stack@keithstack.com · 5d agoIt’s pretty funny how whenever Nintendo has the most successful console, everyone just kinda pretends it doesn’t count as a real video game system.
So the Dems' instinct on everything is to try to change the subject to topics that they're more confident in and poll better on But this is what fucking happens when they change the subject. On LGBTQ people, on civil rights, on foreign policy, on ANYTHING. Change the subject and psychopaths win.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
The funny thing about the ChatGPT freakouts over "virtual girlfriends" and such is that Claude is as bad as ChatGPT ever was, but Anthropic just doesn't seem to give a shit And since it's pundits and professionals getting hooked, they aren't calling it out because it's THEIR chatbot buddy too
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4d agoI’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more
Not disagreeing with sentiments, but not sure why this six month old article is blowing up rn
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Got overly tired and mixed up which Deltarune slot was Normal Route and which one was Weird Route, fuck Actually I have no clue whether chapter 3 is part of the "weird route" per se but things got pretty dang weird out of the blue