baffling to me that ppl i know follow this slop account
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Tim Maughan
@timmaughan.bsky.social
should be writing a second novel https://timmaughanbooks.com https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h agowell at least indie game devs on steam understand the true meaning of cyberpunk: cat girl dating simulators
Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animation in THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), the earliest surviving full-length animated feature. Her attention to detail was stunning, note the wobble of the chess piece.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
genuinely some of the greatest animated films in the history of cinema. and patlabor 3.
Lew@strongest-lewman.bsky.social · 4d agoYoooo I can sell my old Sentai Filmworks set and upgrade!! WE GOT MINIPATO AGAIN!
Justin couldn't directly come out and SAY it, but he said that while they can't go into too many details, this release will be "everything you want." Implication: they're going to do what needs to be done to include the original Japanese audio, the re-recorded Japanese audio, plus the English dubs.
Lew@strongest-lewman.bsky.social · 4d agoYoooo I can sell my old Sentai Filmworks set and upgrade!! WE GOT MINIPATO AGAIN!
this is about climate change (check the thread) but holy shit could it be about so many of the “futurists“ i met and worked with in (what increasingly feels like) my past life
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 4d agoHINT: Bill Gates isn’t blurbing your book because you told him a hard truth. He’s blurbing your book because your call-to-action fails to hold power to account.
reminder that They Reminisce Over You is actually the fabled great american novel youtu.be/9Dr3_-pqJK4?...
C.L. Smooth Performs “They Reminisce Over You” Inside the Caddy
YouTube video by CadillacChroniclesTV
youtu.be
probably not b/c most people don’t have a verge subscription
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d agodo people understand what a monumentally xenophobic, protectionist shitshow this is all going to be
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
dropsitenews.com
absolutely heartbroken by this news. had pleasure of hanging out and chatting with John in Submerge the first time I ever visited Detroit - hard to think of a warmer, kinder, more generous, more genuine person I’ve met in my 35+ years in the techno scene www.detroitnews.com/story/entert...
Music community mourns 'Ambassador of Techno' John Collins
The prominent DJ was considered a historian and mentor in the techno and electronic dance music community.
detroitnews.com
Girl, you wanna dress to feel hot, dance all night, do drvgs, have random encounters with eccentric strangers and maybe fuck them? You want a spiritual experience with 100s of your new best friends? Brooklyn queer nightlife is giving that 4 nights a week.
My beef with Morrissey runs all the way back to 1986 when he said this about Black artists. Nineteen Eighty Six, while the Smiths were still active. It’s not a “later phenomenon” don’t try and lie to me www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
alternative headline: How big tech broke search to force us to use their AI products www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I thought, I’ve tried everything else, why not give AI a shot?’: the long-lost family reunited by ChatGPT
Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was haunted by the story of a half-brother given away before she was born. How did a chat...
theguardian.com
Very Savvy People are always asking, "what do you mean by fight?" Well, I guess they could start by not actively helping?
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2w agoIt is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.
tfw parts of the novel you’re working on keep happening, but in russia or ukraine or dubai www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Ukraine strikes on Russia’s ‘Amazon’ warehouses bring war closer to ordinary people
Kyiv’s attacks on Wildberries destroy billions of dollars worth of goods made, sold and bought by everyday Russians
theguardian.com
New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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@gooberzilla.bsky.social can’t reply to that blomkamp thread but yeah, hard agree. i’ll never defend ppl using genAI but i do understand how it appeals to filmmakers when it’s beyond impossible to get new ideas off the ground now, and boy did NB get fucked by sony and other studios his entire career
The economists have found this comic and they're all responding by angrily doing the same thing as chart guy
when ppl talk to me about the way they use genAI which is special and important because they are smart
Tim Maughan@timmaughan.bsky.social · 3w agowhen ppl talk to me about sports
“rejectionism won’t stop AI” is s thing that fucking cowards say
these are smart people. or so I thought. these are people who I believed wouldn’t prioritize so-called convenience and their own laziness over, well everything that’s absolutely rotten about the provenance and ongoing development of these products.