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We need more honest language:

Theft Tech (AI)

Grift Tech (crypto)

Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)

Why am I so against generative AI in games?

Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

1998 for me. I got to April with like 12 albums, and gave up, because man. The late 90s.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

All of the truly great advice I have received can be boiled down to “I am cringe, but I am free”

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"

My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

How does he get along with Francie?

I say this with empathy toward every struggling actor who is just trying to make due:

Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line.

It. Is. Wrong.

I especially hate it when I check out a menu, see the ingredient I'm trying to avoid clearly listed out on half of the menu items, assume it's safe to order something where it's not listed, and bam! Onion central.

I'm lucky it's only a sensitivity, but still. It sucks.

I took another stab at this, showing more of the sky including the satellites and planes zooming across the horizon, and this time better utilizing the foreground 🛰️ 🗺️

All bad things lead back to Reagan chart

not the main point but it should be illegal to interview someone more than 3 times for the same position

It's me. I'm today's person. W ha t

100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.

I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!

Let's all be clear that QAnon never cared about child sex abuse, the whole thing was always an excuse to demonize their enemies and share titillating (to them) images of the sexual abuse of children.

The only time I have EVER encountered explicit child porn online was on a QAnon Telegram channel

Yeah, but the loved ones that know Shep well enough for that also wouldn't use that kind of app...

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

*shakily removing glasses*

Only One Bed is characterization! It's tension! Every choice says something! Does someone sleep on the floor? can anyone sleep at all? does someone get up with a blanket for the person on the floor? do they go to bed on opposite sides & wake up cuddling? ENDLESS VARIATIONS to tell a story!

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To be fair most of the people stealing from me in America are the overpaid non-retail workers.

The retail workers usually know better, they'd actually get punished.

(I don't use cheques because I'm lazy and I hate tracking them)

I mean, we all saw this coming. How often do the [m/b]illionaires ever keep their promises?

Digital art of three semi-anthropomorphic cats posing epically before dramatic clouds

A commission for a friend of the purr-fect trio of adventurers, they are the Order of the Untamed! They are Jake the Mighty, Lord Bao Bao, and Elwood the Silent.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

It sounds to me like it's a spin-off of the idea that "if you can't keep your home clean at all times you're a dirty, lazy person" which harms so many folks with executive dysfunction or who just wear themselves to the bone with it.