Ernst-Jan van Melle

Man that looks tremendous

I just saw the teaser trailer for that new Michael Jackson biopic and it pisses me off so much that it's his NEPHEW playing him when there are THOUSANDS of real talented Hollywood peadophiles available.

bluesky mods retire bitch

mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges

A twitter user named vydamo saying "it is with a heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar. Most of my early followers know me as this ape. My kids know me as this ape. I met my wife when I WAS this ape and had my first kid when I was still proudly wore this ape. By extension, it is part of me." "I travelled around the world with this ape in my pocket. We went to the most luxurious hotels, the craziest night clubs and the most serene beaches. We had it all. Unfortunately, what blur is doing to apes is frankly unacceptable. Since the creation of Blur, the ape floor price has tumbled from 85e down to 12e."

"I hope one day we meet on the other side, until then, goodbye." Attached is an image of a high bored ape cosplaying as judge dredd

"My kids know me as this ape"

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

When I'm at cons, I like to think that I'm pretty civil, i like listening to people doing their spiels. But there is something really freeing when someone hands you their book with an AI cover and you just know straight up "lol you're a chump, you're not even worth humoring"

Best of luck to those trying to use LLMs to build consistent and reactive story worlds in their games. The drift into ridiculousness is real. This shit is gonna forget your lore bible in seconds, lol

adorable when bro-y comedians say they ‘killed’ or ‘destroyed’ when they mean ‘the people i performed my little jokes for had a really nice time’

These AI bros really don't understand anything do they? Do they really think that airlines would be using these "inefficient" routes if they costed billions??? Airlines??? The same companies that have squeezed passenger space to MAKE billions and charge exorbitantly for extra luggage??

Get rekt nerd. You can't comprehend the brilliance of guys like QBert and Bad Boy Bill. They make original music scratching off the break and you're posting TikToks

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I'm thinking about how children weren't allowed to wear face-covering masks or full face makeup at a halloween event this past weekend, but these fuckers are.

Nazi shit

i think the moment you establish a centralized authority that dictates what is acceptable or unacceptable within the confines of an artistic space, you've completely lost the plot

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

Ready for a prestige TV series about a post-Trump era where a truth and reconciliation commission has come up short, leaving a Dexter-like figure to go down a list of ICE goons. You don't even need other characters or plot. Or at least I don't.

Live footage from the White House Ballroom

Ahistorical nonsense. Trek survived past the first couple seasons because of a very dedicated audience of somewhat horny women. The famous letter writing campaigns were led by women, zine culture and slash fiction were where the franchise lived in decade long gaps.

"Rafael purchased AI technologies made available through AWS, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude ... The materials reviewed also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank"

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

I was pleased to learn that the great Colin Jeavons is alive and well and celebrating his 96th birthday

The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that

With AI I'm finding out that, apparently, people didn't want to make art, meet people, learn how to play music or discover new places. They just wanted the "achievement" of having done those things, like cheating on a videogame to get some medals.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

i am sympathetic to this, but purchasing and owning physical media solves at least 20% of these problems