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We really are in the stupidest of timeslines.

The fact that the Nobel Peace Price was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan woman, is just absolutely priceless.

Please consider participating, these guys are making a truly lovely game!

YouTube video by Offline with Jon Favreau Is The Internet Making Us Talk Like Trump? + How Language Impacts Our Politics

Smart people talk about language and politics—go, watch!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7P...

Human translator here. While commendable (seriously!) there is a downside of clauses like this: AI checkers that falsely flag normal speech (and —) as AI are forcing the translator to prove they didn't use AI in order to get paid. What a Time to be alive.

Ja, auf jeden Fall! Gerade die Entlassungen nehmen ja exponentiell zu, seit die Covid-Blase geplatzt ist. (Und auch sonst, KI-Heilsversprechen sei Dank.)

Zumindest für mich heißt es noch ausharren, irgendwann wird es wieder besser. (Zweckoptimismus FTW!)

(Das klang jetzt wie schamloses Angeben, war aber gar nicht als solches gemeint – wir alle werden ja eigentlich immer von Verarmungsfantasien geplagt, und das wurde ja nun in den letzten Jahren auch nicht unbedingt besser.)

Ich vergesse immer, meine abzuschalten, obwohl ich seit Monaten eigentlich kaum Kapazitäten frei habe, nachdem ich sie irgendwann im April mal kurzzeitig wegen Verarmungsfantasien angebappt hab. Aber andererseits ist man ja doch immer offen für Arbeit, irgendwie.

Yeah, I canceled my Prime on Jan 20th, was going to subscribe to Paramount and then didn't, same with Disney… No more FB (which hurt the most), no insta, no Twitter—it's all just entertainment, I'd rather stick with my principles and do _something_, however insignificant.

Sure hope that Netflix isn't doing anything disgraceful soon—I'm pretty much boycotting everyone else at this point. There is not much else I can do, but at least they're not getting my money.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

I've been doing about 100K for the last 2 1/2 months (with external proofreading) and I am ready to retire. Pretty sure I will not have time for a complete second pass myself.

A week.

What's with those people?

Pacific Drive has been one of my favorite things in 2024, I can't wait for this DLC to drop!

Also, check out the amazing voice work!

I keep watching the WH press briefings out of curiosity (and to see what's going on as part of getting a better idea of the other side's information environment), and OMG, they've descended into a complete fantasy world. The spin is absolutely unreal—at least in the AP's yt chat no one is having it.

Hollow Knight: Silksong credits (Windows, 2025) - MobyGames The official game credits for Hollow Knight: Silksong released on Windows in 2025. The credits include 97 people.

I know Silksong credits discourse is maybe over, but I got the full credits up on Mobygames for anyone who wants to see what the full team of the "game by three people" ends up looking like www.mobygames.com/game/246839/...

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one.

AIKilledMyJob@pm.me

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

The Author’s Guild has a good explainer on the settlement, and according to them, it’s not too late to provide your info: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Travel advice from the Canadian government to Germany:

"Exercise a high level of caution".

"Crimes committed by far-right extremists against individuals belonging to ethnic, religious or political minorities occur".

That about sums it up I guess.

travel.gc.ca/destinations...

AI Podcasts Hosts Have an Existential Crisis—Intentionally Translating complex information into captivating podcasts is no simple task. Is AI up to the challenge?

TIL: AI podcasts. What? Why? Who'd want such a thing?

Danke, dass du das tust! <3

Oh, yeah, I saw that article the other day. Crazy. Just crazy.

Ah, to have the funds to just do things one enjoys!

(I hear what you're saying, it's always amazing to watch people truly enjoy what they're doing. Joy can be contagious, and these days, we'll take whatever joy we can get!)

Dieses ganze populistische Geblubber der letzten Tage macht mich so unfassbar wütend, ich finde überhaupt keine Worte mehr dafür. Ich bin einfach nur müde.

I'm sorry to hear all that, Jenn! I, for one, always enjoyed reading your blog and LinkedIn posts. Please know that you are valued.

Take all the time you need to find your bearings again!

Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor.

Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster

*un-critical. (Really, where's that edit-function?)

Wow, yeah, the NYT is being weird* about AI in general, it seems. I was trying to find the review, but so far to no avail. Could you point me towards it?

*like not really that interested and/or too un-ciritcal. Like they just copy the headlines.

Journalists stop prentending that using synthetic text extruding machines to extrude synthetic text is "interviewing" them challenge

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Close-up of a tabby cat sitting on a blue comforter.

Came home from Gamescom with a cold, but I've got the best nurse.