Kim Wincen
@wincenworks.bsky.social
Law graduate (New Zealand), debt collector, former fraud investigator, huge nerd for all things story related (but also super cool), a man of semi-reasonable means and taste.
Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods. https://to.pbs.org/4qKob6I
Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts
Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representati...
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Anthropic can fuck all the way off with this. This is like Jeffrey Dahmer being morally outraged that somebody snatched a piece of human flesh out of his mouth.
Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of a massive, illicit "distillation attack" to steal Claude’s AI capabilities. In a letter to US officials, they accused Alibaba of running 28.8 million fake conversations with Claude to train a competing AI for free. Alibaba declined to comment.
i created this meme like 4 years ago on twitter and it went super viral and i think i got like 20 death threats. that's how you know i was cooking with this one
weird how he can get flown back to his home country within days, yet everyone else in ICE custody rots in a hole for weeks or months until they get sent to whichever country has the most diseases in its prisons
Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK
genuinely concerned about the fact some people might be unable to distinguish the difference between "identify with" and "identify as"
Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.
This is very in character for Milo, who spent years claiming he can't be racist because he was married to a black man - and who has always struggled with the concept of liability.
The first question I had as an immigration lawyer when I saw this headline was how Yiannopolous got into removal proceedings. He has no criminal record, so he was likely referred to court after a USCIS denial. A racist text to his ex *strongly* suggests marriage fraud dam.tmz.com/document/c5/...
None of this is true. Arion Kurtaj wasn’t sentenced to life imprisonment; his own legal team argued that he was “unfit to plead,” which means that he was unable to understand the nature of the charges against him or to assist meaningfully in his defense. They requested he be evaluated.
I am so tired of people claimimg that settlements and court rulings that find platforms have duties of care are always an evil plot against a kid in a garage with a dream (and 100s of millions in VC funding, presumably).
"Friggin Go Away Nazi Freaks" Covering up fash propaganda in Penrith, NSW
NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.
🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
We need a horror movie about Katie Holmes’ rebranding when she and Tom Cruise were dating.
I am begging websites to remember they are read by human beings, who possess at least some small amount of dignity: aftermath.site/video-game-mov...
I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Film as an industry is so weird - they take these incredible, hyper intelligent, boundlessly hard working creatives, give them the resources to realise the vision they’ve described, then do everything in their power to sabotage it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?
Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figure
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I pitched a show two years ago about this to Radio 4, to tie in with the release. They said they had already made a programme about computers fairly recently.
“Grand Theft Auto VI” is about to be the biggest pop media event of the year, if not the decade. The data backs this up. Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower estimates “GTA VI” has already received about 4.6 million preorders.
whoever blocked someone for this was right to do it. this is a straight up lie lol youtu.be/LmfFpg15ECI
Harry Potter did NOTHING for literacy
YouTube video by Caelan Conrad
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Whilst Rowling’s personal beliefs are awful her books are imaginative and truly wonderful on a grand scale and she did something no one else had done in decades she got kids to read en masse
I see Milo is in the news again, so that's my cue to repost the greatest tweet of all time
Shepherd Book got done dirty.
Firefly Gina Torres
Alt: A short clip from Firefly, in which Gina Torres’ character, Zoë Washburn asks “Preacher, don’t the Bine have some pretty specific things to say about killing?” To which Ron Glass’ character, Shepherd Book, responds “Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.”
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Name a character who deserved better.
And to be clear - this was a jam of 1500 amazon employees... and one of the greatest things they did was come up with a desktop app that tells them what fucking ctrl-c does... THIS IS THEM BRAGGING!!! This is them putting the best face on what they did...
Amazon's AI is awesome article they decided to write and promote - no one forced them to do this The author can't actually say what they did When they mention all the others, one of the top two examples is - a desktop pet that reminds them of shortcuts? WTF? www.aboutamazon.com/news/workpla...
I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.
Amazon’s HR leader, Beth Galetti, shares how AI tools are empowering employees to build and how the company is investing $2.5 billion to prepare people for the future of work.
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I would move away from calling this "politicization" and call it a criminal conspiracy. Hegseth is explicitly denying promotions on the basis of race. That is a constitutional violation and a crime.
Aside from the obvious, what I hate most about this is that he's politicized the military for at least a generation. The next Democratic administration will be *forced* to politicize promotions and firings as part of a fundamental, necessary course correction. We will need to purge MAGA and rebuild.
the reason I was pushing everyone to make ps1-style graphics in about 2015-2017 was b/c nobody was doing it; now that everyone is doing it, I would no longer advise this
I tire of "low poly" or "PS1 aesthetic" 3d models. We should make shit that looks like Half Life 2, the objective pinnacle of video game graphics
because i know people don't click articles, the packages look like this
Oh come ON www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
The iconic voice of Peter Cullen during Toonami's promos assured a generation of aspiring nerds that "actually, anime rules" aftermath.site/peter-cullen-t...