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YouTube video by EndVertex For-Profit (Creative) Software

I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...

I just stumbled upon this in my YT recommendations--excellent work!

The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

this encapsulates what all of this administration is about. they aren’t “accidentally” destroying departments. they are intentionally destroying the government so they can become the government. the only issue they have with the system is they don’t profit from it or control it

I’m not necessarily saying humans are too dumb to be worthy of our spot at the top of the food chain but I will say that if there were 100 gorillas and one gorilla took 55% of all the bananas the other gorillas would beat that gorilla to death with their bare hands.

Democrats looking for a ‘good’ billionaire to save us is like the Titanic hoping the iceberg will apologize.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Post from NLRB Union: Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.

Today:

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

The Generative AI Con It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

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Montreal will continue the largest pedestrian street program in North America, committing $12mil to 9 pedestrian streets over 3-years.

“These projects are not only good for the economy, they also contribute directly to the quality of life of the population.” @valplante.bsky.social

DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized

Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.

www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...

She was and is a real hero.

I am horrified by how much time my children spend rotting their attention span on TikTok. I've set a rule that after every fifteen minutes of TikTok, they have to watch one hour of TV.

my immediate takeaway from the SCOTUS TikTok opinion is that there’s barely any concern for user speech. the existing legal frameworks just aren’t designed for social media.

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

My AI TED Talk:

For decades we’ve built our society around computers outputting objective measurable truths. What if we instead based it around the computer being wrong all the time?

Only Joe Camel can save democracy

Today’s Historic Front Page: November 6, 2024
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if it’s what it seems to be, it should go without saying that the Democratic Party needs a complete restructuring if it ever intends to hold real power again

"Liberals" and "Centrists" who ensured Trump's return are attacking people who BEGGED Biden/Harris to offer a bold alternative to fascism and genocide. They're GLOATING about the looming horrors. Rotten to the core, mirrors of their MAGA partners.

New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.

NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_gun-toting_incident

https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-marcellus-williams-an-innocent-man/

remember who he pardoned and who he let die

"It's so overs" - whoever invented cricket I guess

Based on the title I was certain this was a children's book about a grumpy mouse

Bluesky telling me I am the 599,167th member, which makes me special and unique

Here's one of my six posts

I re-watched the first 3 on Blu-ray recently and the green sheen on them was way too distracting, especially in the climactic Neo-vs-Smith fight. It's like they were fighting in slime