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All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me

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How did you celebrate anti-communism week?

Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?

In Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani It is in his bittersweet and touching book on the Asian expulsion from Uganda that one can trace the beginnings of author and intellectual Mahmood Mamdani’s world-view. He captures the terrifying expe...

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guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Tech's current model seems to be

1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout

We only have one line, but we have a similar system in Cádiz Bay (Bahía de Cádiz), in Andalusia. It acts like a tram inside cities (Cádiz, San Fernando, Chiclana) and like a train in the sections between cities. It also serves a ~300 000 population of those 3 cities.

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Has GamesIndustry.biz became The Onion now?

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

Why are we all seeing more AI ads on social media?

"You can simply publish tons of different versions of low-effort bullshit, and largely people will only see the ones that perform well," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes.

Let's get into it:

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

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China Miéville: Marxismo y Halloween (subs español) Plática del novelista y activista China Miéville en la conferencia "Socialism 2013"

Es buen momento para recordar la conferencia de China Miéville sobre el temor domesticado y una defensa de clase de la fantasía, los monstruos y Halloween 👻
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A Japanese organisation representing Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Studio Ghibli, and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorised use of their IP.

(Read more: Automaton)

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

100% this

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

So Microsoft wants Copilot to play the games, Twitch wants AI to stream the games, and a whole bunch of publishers want AI to make the games.

Very sustainable much inspiring.

a stunning display of capitalism brain rot at scale

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Tale as old as the industry itself. Big conglomerate jumps into gaming when the market is riding high on some market wave, finds out making games is hard, actually, and leaves the space.

A few years go by, the video game market surges again and back they come.

To add clarity to this:

Influencers in China that discuss topics such as medicine, law, education, or finance must prove they are qualified or certified to do so, in an aim to clamp down on misinformation.

Right now it impacts large influencer accounts (1m+ followers) + bans false advertising.

not using generative AI for anything is incredibly easy and fun

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Feature: "This Is Where The Game Truly Begins" - The Secret Weapon Behind Nintendo's Most Iconic Box Art Designer Tim Girvin shares how he levelled up Nintendo's packaging in the '80s & '90s

"This Is Where The Game Truly Begins" - The Secret Weapon Behind Nintendo's Most Iconic Box Art.

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"You Wouldn't See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out" - Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling "The use of AI upscaling is disastrous in this book"

"You Wouldn't See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out" - Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling. (Image: @Daniell3C4st)

It's all very IBM & VW 1930s...

Hora de sacar el cartel:

The Luddite renaissance is here Two weeks ago I stood outside the Apple Store on West 14th Street in Manhattan and watched someone dressed as Death destroy an iPhone with a rock. People...

The tech media is largely failing to tell this story, so I’ll mark the moment: fall 2025 is when the new Luddite movement really began to accelerate.

For the first time in a long time, there is palpable energy – *positive* energy – in tech.

New from me:
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