Isel@Ardyn is real and in MTG! 🎩

What in the actual fuck is wrong with these pathetic excuses for humans?

Starting night 2 of Bloodborne. Game is sick so far.
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At least she gives things back when she's done?

Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Do I get tacos or Japanese curry tomorrow?

A phoenix with spiky red and orange feathers and trailing patterned tail feathers, perched on a tree surrounded by flames while leaves are falling

Fall Phoenix 🍂

Anyone who loves this country should be deeply alarmed.

Anyone who doesn’t have four grandparents born in the US should probably be personally terrified.

This so obviously violates the constitution that I feel like taking it up can only mean bad things.

Overturning birthright citizenship will create stateless people pretty much immediately. After that, it will be a path for yanking away citizenship of non-white people and any and all dissidents.

incredible to think that in about two week's time, the entire games media ecosystem is gonna have to stop what they're doing and revise their goty lists when sting puts saturn baroque in a box that you'll be able to buy at a store, in person, for the first time in nearly three decades

Ah, so I'm still boycotting Eurovision this year I guess

Thinking about adding a 30% surcharge that is for "human-only creative actively avoiding and combatting AI"

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

Horses Is Tame Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

#mizroxcard page posted on Patreon earlier

Well, this is a much wilder ride than I innocently expected from the title!

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

grok doxxing -- or, if i may, "groxxing"

Has a Texas law created ‘abortion bounty hunters’? – podcast In this special episode, the Guardian US reproductive health and justice reporter Carter Sherman speaks to people who are using, providing and protecting abortion pills and those fighting against them...

A first-of-its-kind Texas law takes effect today. It aims to dam the flood of abortion pills into the red state — by letting people sue one another.

@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.

www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days

Who needs this footage exactly

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Screenshot from Tumblr, user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.

Seems more promising than "there was an em dash it must be fake!"

And yeah, I might not be able to remember every detail about the stuff I've written, owing to my moth-brained memory, but you risk me launching into a loving 6 hour presentation if you ask me questions about a scene or character.

Me: I should work on more of my gaming backlog
Also me: Or I could buy more games

Every other set of Magic the Gathering is mid AF now that Rebecca Guay Bitterblossom Faerie is here

🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨

A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.

Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

My guess would be the platforms didn't want to run afoul of payment processors, of which they are increasingly putting their noses where they don't belong. The same thing happened with Vile over the summer

Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

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