Molly

instead of doomscrolling consider playing DOOM RPG imo

Has anyone in the real world noticed? Is there any kind of visible uptick in the rate at which new software features ship? Is software getting noticeably better? Does any of this trace back to any kind of objective measure of creating value?

I'll be honest, this isn't about AI at all, it's about the increased expectations of productivity put on tech workers due to a declining rate of profit. all these new tech cos have sky high 9/9/6 expectations for workers; AI is, like all things, just a convenient proxy for exploitation.

It’s weird noticing even the people who seem to be deriving maximum benefit from genAI are ALSO miserable from it. I haven’t had a job in a year because it’s destroyed my career and livelihood, meanwhile the people who should be profiting from it can’t unplug long enough to watch a movie anymore

if you miss the era of Maxis releasing a new Sim(Thing) every 4-6 months i cannot recommend enough you just look at what kairosoft has available on whatever platform you like best, there'll be SOMETHING up your alley

In this story, there is a lot of support for trans people that you rarely see covered in the media unless they're being attacked. Businesses and individuals all standing up and saying 'I will not be a part of this' and I think that needs to be highlighted because it can feel lonely out there.

people have needs, and sometimes one of those needs is playable Maria, and that's okay.

Go to the training room if you need to practice tongue and body control.

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slowly beginning to realize how much of the thoroughly fucked up nature of modern software engineering/architecture was caused by some dudes at google and facebook deciding that having to occasionally speak to their colleagues was some kind of affront to their entire being.

It's so striking to me all the essays about the death of the humanities and who and what to blame and blah blah blah and the answer is pretty much the undergraduate business major and everything it represents.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

'Games Where a Person in Front of a Greenscreen Talks Directly to You' a list of games by MichaelKlamerus | Backloggd Does not count games filmed on sets and the actor must be looking directly at the player and talking to them

sorry I don't have time for discourse. I'm doing important work here
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sorry I only trust the guys who want the red and blue pages, they seem way more reliable

are they red or blue

I believe this, but also I believe it will not slow AI adoption because the people making the decision to use AI are not the people who will have to do the increased work.

AI is best understood as an exercise in re-classifying skilled labor as unskilled labor, in order to pay less, to break unions

There are countless actual human beings right now being denied personhood, and you're publishing articles wondering if the world's most expensive game of mad libs knows what it means to dream.

To repeat.

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And to repeat:

The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet,

and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism,

are the same faction.

i'd also like to directly confront the idea that, well, for "some reason", things that used to be forums, wikis, websites ended up on discord.

it's not a mystery. running a website, wiki, whatever, is hard. maintaining a community is hard. getting people to engage with things is hard.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

The advertising during the game stood out for a high number of celebrity cameos and advertisements for futuristic technology, particularly for products like electric vehicles, virtual reality and cryptocurrency.[136][137][138][139] There were many cryptocurrency-related ads drawing comparisons to dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000,[140][141] leading some to refer to the game as the "Crypto Bowl".[142][143]

does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked?

anyway

the halftime show is a master class in joy as resistance

even though creative people mostly aren't adequately supported and valued by our society, it's been consistently easy for companies to take bad faith advantage of the feeling that being involved in any of these creative industries is totally inaccessible because there's a small grain of truth there.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

General rule for all game-critical UI and text: if you personally think it's obnoxiously large, make it slighty larger than that.

lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved

protest sign ideas:

It's Okay To Give Up Hitler Lost This Fight Too

You Are The Cybertruck Of People

The World You Will Not Live To See Will Be Beautiful

Do You Want To See Something Worse Than Hope

If Even Elon Musk Isn't Happy Maybe You Should Try Something Else

It's Okay They Won't Miss You

the purpose of a system is what it does

Revealed: Something a *LOT* of us have been banging on about for years now.

Also, the explicit reason why I refuse to promote or repost Substacks, no matter how interesting the content may be.