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It's all a marketing ploy:
bsky.app/profile/vala...

I'm not touching climate-dooming slop factory, but if you're so confident in it, ask it how many "c"-s there are in Pacific Ocean that you have to pronounce like in the alphabet.

And even then, they already wasted the water and produced the emissions. We know offsetting isn’t real, you can’t put the climate impact genie back in the bottle. AI: not even once!

guy who's only played disco elysium before: lemme make you a drink

You can just switch to DuckDuckGo and completely turn off their AI functions. It's a bit unwieldy, but it's better on privacy, too.

Can't help but think this was an inspiration for Infinite Jest...

My favourite DF story is an exercise in reading the most possible into a playthrough. It's called Matul Remrit, written by @bravemule.bsky.social, plus a handful of other contributors (for the multimedia elements!).
You can read it here:
lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortre...

That's alright, it sounds like it was self-defense.

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

Well, I guess today the opiate for the masses is opiates...

add this to the pile of reasons against taking the blue pill

I bet xkcd is fine (refuses to investigate further, just to be safe)

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

If you're from a country with a weaker economy or difficult entry requirements into the US: do not spend money on GDC. Do not book a ticket. Do not book a hotel. Do not pay for a visa. Skip that cynical for-profit extortion, or the US will take your money & spit you out.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I think Ready Player Two (2017) by Shira Chess is exactly about this. Well, not about moms, but how the short bursts of gameplay of 2010s mobile games were designed for lulls in domestics labour. But how those things were incorporated and marketed under the cozy label would be new!

If you need evidence on how complete Celeste mods are, here's a 50-min video essays on the Spring 2020 collab, calling some elements "gameplay fanfic":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w...

I'd sign up very fast

This is a must-play from the jam so far: it's an information game set on a social media feed. You gather usernames and hashtags so that you can respond to DMs from your less terminally online friends asking you to explain the latest thing that has happened.

Millennials: That was close, did anybody get bit by the Greedy Fucker Zombie that makes you a Greedy Fucker?

GenX: No (wearing a scarf inside)

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What prevents you from answering emails from that box? You're an adult, you can do whatever you want.

It checks out that Tennant would have 1 in Physique

I think more and more about cohost (RIP Eggbug), how it had a similar-sized team doing outsized work to maintain a public infrastructure. They folded after two years.
I don't know how itch is managing all this, but they'll have my sympathies every time.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

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an unmatched go-bag energy

Usinge AI to learne to wryte ys lyke having a robot go to the gym for you

Biggest take-awaye from NYT article on loathsome AI-focused schoole ys the trend of seeing educacioun as an individualized luxurye item and not as a part of civic lyfe. We lyve yn an age wher the moost privileged are activelye hyperselfish. Thei make an ego factorye and call it educacioun.

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!

Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
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I heard Realis was crazy weird this week