there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

Twitch's "Allow your channel content to train generative AI models" setting is here and on by default. Go turn that shit off, streamer!! The toggle is under your Settings, then 'Security and Privacy'

Years ago we found a macOS libgit2 bug, where libgit2 was losing a macOS error message, causing the error to just print "(null)". We fixed it, only to find the macOS error was "error".

I like the EU, I think it’s pretty neat. But the fact I cannot watch this rather civil discussion on chat control from an EU country is INSANE to me. t.co/M0k2e9ItHN To be clear, I can watch it from Switzerland.

I like how both X and Bluesky are absolutely deranged platforms but in their own unique ways.

made with #raylib! 🤯😱

Almar | MAKING DEAD RIG@repunkgame.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Announcing: DEAD RIG 🚨 If you miss PS3-era survival horror and Dead Space, this is for you! - Limited resources; customizable "tools" - Strategic dismemberment - Short highly replayable scenarios: loot, monsters and paths are all randomized WISHLIST NOW!

If you have loved ones that may be autistic, especially if you see them struggle with the weirdest things, encourage them to get a diagnosis (as long as they have the means). Being autistic SUCKS, but having a diagnosis helps with finding ways to deal with it. I wish I got tested 20 years ago.

The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en

A data center being built with investments from Google will be partly powered by a natural gas project that emits the yearly emissions equivalent of putting more than 970,000 additional gas-powered cars on the road. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

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Yep, fuck this.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Everything in the final version will definitely 100% be human made" - But Owlcat says gen-AI is being used during The Expanse: Osiris Reborn development www.eurogamer.net/owlcat-gen-a...

a resource-intensive feature that nobody asked for which solves no known problem AND is functionally not just useless, but actively makes the product worse? SOLD! 100 BILLION TO OPENAI, NOW!!!

PLEASE be good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0We-...

Gothic 1 Remake | Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by THQ Nordic

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Remember: LLMs and bots and AI-generated things should always be called ‘it’. Regardless of the style or tone of voice, there is only an ‘it’ there. Don’t humanize it.

backend eng? come build this app with us. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... we’re a tiny team building a very big app. if that sounds fun, lfg!

Bluesky Jobs

Bluesky Jobs

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What a horrible thing we keep doing, building spaces for communities, only to torch them so a small handful of millionaires can become billionaires, displacing the people who made them rich in the first place.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 8mo ago

Discord has confidentially filed for an IPO, according to Bloomberg. Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Last night I finally finished the main story of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. CHEESUS Chrust, this is game is something else. It's incredible and will probably be rembered as one of the best video games of all time. The story, characters, voice acting, artistic vision, combat, MUSIC...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

"The product of writing is not words but meaning. And generative AI can’t understand meaning, or perspective... It can only algorithmically guess at what you expect to hear, with varying levels of success." Thanks RPS for talking to our Narrative Director @chrisgardiner.bsky.social for this one.

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you're using AI to generate "concept art" and then creating an in-game asset based on what the AI plagiarizes, you're using an AI generated asset.

Boy, did I just learn my lesson to now ALWAYS check at the bottom of a game listed on Steam whether or not it uses AI bullshit. Thank god for Steam's uncomplicated refund policy. What a "fun" time we live in.

“Windows […] will become an agentic OS” or “Windows further advances Linux adoption” www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"

Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.

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TIL Ampersand "&" is just a sloppy handwriting of Latin word "et" which means "and".

What an absolute clown show…

How is scum like Hasan actually allowed on any platform whatsoever? Calling for and celebrating violence and death is one thing, but now he is shock torturing a dog because it isn’t staying perfectly in frame during his stream? This is straight up illegal, especially in the state he’s living in.

Mocking AI and its usage/fanatics is good and right, actually Making jokes about the "hard R" is thinly veiled excuse to reference racist jokes, slurs, and sentiments in an 'acceptable way' This is not a difficult or subtle difference, it's actually quite blatant and clear Don't get it twisted

"People smarter than you already figured it all out" is the stupid people's way to tell other stupid people to stay stupid, ignorant, and uncurious, because they need to justify their stupidity somehow. The question is not WHO (smart, not smart) made it this way. But WHY.

I think I unlocked a new rabbit hole this morning... youtu.be/qlrpeYdm9Ec?... The things the human body can do, it's mind blowing.

WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)

YouTube video by BEATPELLA HOUSE

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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

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