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Stephanie Gerk

@stephgerk.bsky.social

Cake & grief counselling will be available at the conclusion of our friendship. Writer. Comics. Professional Podcaster. Streamer. (She/Her) Co-Founder of the FAIR Comics Initiative. https://stephaniegerk.com/

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Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 3w ago

Twitch and Amazon are being sued in a class action over claims that the tech companies harvest creators' video streams without permission or compensation to train Amazon's generative AI program. Story: www.courthousenews.com/online-strea...

Online streamers sue Twitch, Amazon over generative AI training

The proposed class of video streamers claims their content is being used to train Amazon’s AI models without permission or compensation.

courthousenews.com

This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · last mo.

Saber Interactive has denied renewed claims that it replaced a former Lead Writer so it could “use ChatGPT” in the development of the recently announced title, Rideshare “Stimulator.” In a statement to PC Gamer, Saber also acknowledged previously undisclosed genAI use elsewhere in the title.

Saber Interactive Acknowledges Undisclosed GenAI Use In New Game, Denies Replacing Lead Writer With ChatGPT

A former Lead Writer at Saber reiterated previous claims that she had been “replaced” with ChatGPT “midway through development” on the project.

thisweekinvideogames.com

Stephanie Gerk@stephgerk.bsky.social · last mo.

For you fellow fans of the timeless classic: VAN HELSING. It’s getting a pretty steelbook release WITH SPECIAL FEATURES. I tell you this so someone will stop me from buying yet another copy of this ridiculous film.

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.

Alex Jones saying there's going to be a national draft in 3 weeks.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Once again reminding people who run companies that they have autonomy, and that there is freedom (and money!) in trying to appeal to actual humans and not the machine pretending to be billions of them.

To me, you will always be the guy who understood the internet the best because you saw its worst parts, and still held out hope for something better. How do you think the internet has evolved, and how do you think about covering it through The Onion now versus when you left NBC? It’s reverting, at least for young people, to something closer to what was exciting about the internet 10 to 15 years ago—a means to an end to meet people in real life. That’s how I moved to New York, met my friends, discovered music and movies I never would have found. It destabilized culture in a way that let me exist functionally for the first time. Then people got the wrong idea—that being on the computer all day was the point. It never was. The internet helped me understand a world that had seemed vacuous and weird. Now we’re back in a place where the people who consolidated the internet seem to think the goal is to keep us on the computer feeding the machine. I don’t think that’s what people want. For us it’s the opposite: How do we get you back into real life using the information? The Onion, at the end of the day, is a really good sentence generator for the real world—the distillation you can say in the elevator. We want people out in the world talking to each other again—which is part of why we have almost 83,000 people getting a physical newspaper in their mailbox again this month. We view the internet as a means to an end to get people into The Onion in real life. Dominating ChatGPT is not the goal.
Dual Wield Studio@dualwieldstudio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To those willing to wield the wedge, you have our greatest thanks - the Wedge of Destiny Shield Pillow has been fully funded! Preorders close tonight and will be unavailable after April 30, with limited additional quantities available late 2026.

Ashley Cooper@ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4mo ago

IDW and Star Trek Book Club invite you to check out @jlawrenceart.bsky.social & my Lower Decks story, "Girlfriends", as a preview of Star Trek: Celebrations! Read the story today, grab your copy tomorrow! www.startrekbookclub.com/29449/previe...

Preview of "Star Trek: Celebrations 2026 #1"

A new preview for Ashley Cooper and Ben Khan and Jamila Rowser and Jarrett Melendez and Karim Diané and Meghan Fitzmartin's "Star Trek: Celebrations 2026 #1" has been added!

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