Daryl Surat

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC The video-game publisher no longer plans to put out PC ports of PlayStation games such as ‘Ghost of Yotei’

NEW: Sony no longer plans to release PlayStation games on PC, sources tell Bloomberg News, a major shift in strategy that sees the console maker returning to exclusivity after six years of flirting with multiplatform.

Ghost of Yotei and Saros are not coming to PC. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

BREAKING: James Talarico wins the Democratic Senate primary in Texas.

Talarico ran on fighting corruption in DC, and winning back power for working people.

In an era of vast inequality Talarico told voters that “billionaires are waging class warfare against the rest of us.”

(Long overdue) Important Update Dawn of The Anime Nostalgia Podcast published a post on Ko-fi

I finally had enough energy tonight to do an update on what's happening with my podcast & streaming! TL;DR version is I'm taking a few months off for health reasons. More details here!

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

Racist fascist dog killer murderess Kristi Noem committed perjury today when she denied calling VA hospital ICU Nurse Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.

Normally someone would go to prison for lying under oath, but in MAGAworld you are celebrated and get to keep your job.

Being middle-aged, it's bad enough that the world I grew up in is disappearing. Now our written history is being gaslighted away by AI and younger generations. You've gotta mention these are Canadian prices! $88 for Killer Instinct? $95 for Illusion of Gaia? At least show me round numbers!

Watching Marco Rubio trying to navigate through foreign policy while he's hopped up off that blow is something else.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Snippet of Javascript code from pixelframe's "Pokopia Font Logo Generator", as embedded in the HTML document. The code is standard non-AI image manipulation, handling the resizing of the background "Ditto Blob" of the Pokopia logo.

Fortunately it seems to NOT be AI.

This tool runs entirely "locally" in your browser, the image generation is written in Javascript. (Whether they used AI in writing that code, I cannot tell. That is a whole different mess though.)

For the nerds: The code starts at line 2089 of the HTML document.

Danhausen made tv before Royce Keys

I now feel more complete as a person now that I own all of Crying Freeman

After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.

Just want to mention that media outlets keep trying to use "slop" to mean "artwork of low quality." Do not comply. Slop = genAI content, ONLY. It's not "art." It's the reconstituted sludge of stolen artwork & knowledge, regurgitated for diseased pigs. It's sawdust & snot packaged as applesauce.

✨What's inside Document #1 (The Four Page)✨

MediaDo explains by utilizing their MediaDo Translation System (MDTS) which is described as a AI-assisted translation system in which they believe "will significantly reduce the time required for translation & translation capacity"

✨What's inside Document #1 (The Four Page)✨

In the document, it states that "print books still account for 90% of the publishing market in the US and globally" & "physical distribution network is the single greatest barrier to entering the global market"

So what's their solution? AI Translation

Media-Do recently published the Investor documents about the Seven Seas Acquisition which includes a lot of information that I've seen that hasn't been reported on yet

So here's a thread breaking down what I found & what it could mean for the future of Seven Seas Entertainment

(Long Read Warning)

Why are the lesser evil people doing nothing to stop the evil

And other questions for the liberal mind

The NYT style guide

Many have asked about AI and translation following the acquisition announcement. Seven Seas remains committed to human translators and the high editorial standards our readers & creators expect. Nothing about the acquisition changes how we translate our books. More info shortly.

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