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I got well qualified on the ATSA!! holy shit!!!!

it is satisfyingly poetic that the richest man in the world wants nothing more than to be good at posting but sucks so bad at it. grimm’s fairy tale type shit. just need the last part of the tale to kick in though

"$20 each for five Siri-enabled devices"

so people got spied on without their consent by a private company and their reward is, at most, a crisp C-note. great country we've got here.

screengrab of Reuters story noting how telecoms leveraged the Supreme Court Loper Bright ruling to crush net neutrality

some folks think I'm being hyperbolic or alarmist when I say that federal consumer protection is effectively now illegal under our corrupt Supreme Court, but I'm not kidding

And net neutrality will be far from the only casualty. It's going to get very, very, very ugly kids

nobody is above the law*

*except presidents, banks, tech, CEOs in general (unless they steal from rich guys), pigs, scotus, congress,

i think people are downplaying the harm of the Carter administration for the same reason Oppenheimer is known as the guy who REGRETTED building the bomb; knowing that just SOME of our oppressors are human enough to feel guilty is the most comfort we can receive from them while under the systems boot

a strange stout mecha, freshly landed pens up at the top. A figure stands grandly, surrounded by long trumpets emerging from the capsule. The landscape is a grassy, sunrise in a forest clearing.

our realm’s radios / are noised, thanks to the cruel work
/ of the soundsucker

i've just learned that humans are just about the sweatiest animals that we know of. this means challenging aliens to a game of basketball, a particularly sweat-inducing game, is tactically sound, since aliens would *likely* overheat way before humans would. this is my PhD thesis about space jam

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

HARD❌

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

EASY✅
House was old and fucked!

All this just so you can generate ugly weird looking pictures of the shopkeeper in your DnD game. What a steal!

"spaghetti + awesome sauce!!!" flug holding a fork infront of a spaghetti with a rainbow sauce on it, possibly the mentioned awesome sauce

Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

my christmas present to myself is me writing “out of the park baseball: nfl edition” on a sheet of paper and taping it over my laptop screen. the system lag is unbelievably bad but it’s still a solid alternative to madden

Happy Gummigoo 🐊🍬💚💛

Wow. In all the years of running Techdirt I never once thought to put together an after-the-fact "hypothetical portfolio" that out performs a sensible portfolio and tried to make it seem like young men were missing out by not betting on shitcoins.

I must not be good at journalism.

welcome to the cocktagon

just a whole buncha dr. kleiners watching old mst3ks playing out of a low poly 3d monitor together on a team fortress map because whatever new rabbit equivalent either got shut down or made fucking unusable

took the atsa today... that shit was Hord

Here’s a drawing I did in my sketchbook of an AI data center burning. Pen and ink on paper.

Here’s a drawing I did in my sketchbook of an AI data center burning. Pen and ink on paper.

Using AI to write your games does two things to me:

+ It disrespects the necessary processes of design
+ It cheapens your own abilities.

There is no quick and easy way to design the nuts and bolts of your game. There is no way of getting good beyond constant experimentation and failure.

By choosing to use AI art, AI writing, AI anything in your product, you are sending this signal to me: "I have zero confidence in my ability to try hard and create anything, so I would rather steal the work of others and put my name on it."

Your AI works have no soul, and show no grit.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

literally every reaction I have to "the current culture" I try to gut check against this trend

going outside is so dope when it’s nice out. but inside is cool because that’s where you can plug in your electronics and watch tv shows. so i don’t know. hopefully this post wasted your time in some way

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term -The Onion

Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."