David Gray

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

"'What's going to happen' asks Professor David Zeltzer, 'when we have (computer) animation of photographic quality?' The prospect of the 43rd, computer-generated, series of Terry and June being made long after the two stars have retired is a prospect that could make us rue the day computers were ever allowed into television But also imagine all of the repercussions if a false computer generated image was broadcast showing Neil Kinnock being punched by Margaret Thatcher, the thought may be amusing but the consequences more than a little troublesome. You'll never know what is genuine television unless you're told. Could you ever believe news again? "

From 1988.

https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-57?view=theater#page/n67

And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.

A woman says "it's weird how 9/11 became a national holiday." Another woman, with horror on her face says "Oh No! That means..." We cut away to see Jack Skellington from Nightmare before christmas approach a door in a tree shaped like the twin towers. He emerges from an airplane bathroom in front of shocked passengers and says "what's this?" We see the plane about to crash in to the towers. Jack once again says "what's this?"

picture of the baby with the caption "Head is too big"

Reading a guide for taking a proper passport photo and I like how critical this caption is

A SKELITIN GIVEN THE THUMBS UP "I MAY BE STUPID BUT AT LEAST I DONT TGHINK CHATGPT HAS A LITTLE PERSON INSIDE WHOS MY FRIEND" - THIS IS NO CONSOLATION IN A WORLD WHERE YA GOTTA DEAL WITH THESE GPT PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, TALKIN TO THERE CHAT BOTS LIKE THERE REAL PEOPLE, DRIVIN THEM NUTS BY TELLIN EM TO WRECK THERE LIVES, CREATING DELUSIONS AND THEN REINFORCING THEM, A MILLION TINY DIGITAL FINGERS RIPPING EVERY ONES LIFES TO SHREDS, EVEN IF IT DOESNT WRECK YOUR JOB OR YOUR FAMILY IT LITERALLY MAKES YOU COGNITIVELY DECLINE THE LONGER YOU USE IT, NATION OF PEOPLE WHOSE BRAINS ARE TURNING TO SOUP JUST SO 1 FUCKEN GUY WHOSE OBVIOUSLY LYING ALL THE TIME CAN MAKE MORE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR HIS OBVIOUSLY FAKE COMPANY, AGGREGATING THE SUFFERING OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO CHASE AN ACCUMULATING PILE OF MONEY, EVERY HOLY BOOK AND SOCIOLOGY TEXTBOOK IN THE WORLD WARNS US ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC GUY BUT HERE WE ARE FALLEN FOR IT AGAIN , AT LEAST IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND WATCHING DA SUN SET AT 4PM - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

I MAY BE STUPID , - dashare.zone ADMIN

Live Laugh LOval Office ❤️

SORRY THIS IS SO FUNNY THOUGH

Five guys with the f and the E light off

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch

Google Gemini prompt: Make me a poster of the last 10 British prime ministers. Resulting image is wrong in pretty much every way possible.

Update: AI is still flawed.

Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

After years of hearing about how this one puzzle "killed adventure games," it was time to track down and bury that myth...

Go read my latest for Endless Mode about Gabriel Knight 3, gaming in the year 2000, and how more games need Cat Mustache puzzles...

Which one of these two men had full naked sex with the Emperor of the Chrysanthemum Throne? Ffrom 10 - 12 we'll be playing #ck3, from midday onwards we'll be watching more of Edmonds on #DOND . There'll be more naked sex to come!! In the first half, presumably. At twitch.tv/eddiepurple_arcade !

Weather good, we are gradually working our way north in search of the Loch Ness Monster.

chiptune.app/browse as viewed on mobile

Once again I am endorsing chiptune.app as my favourite music streaming service (it's free.)

Forever charmed by Monkey Island II's iMUSE implementation, Lucasfilm/Arts' sound engine for smoothly and naturally transitioning from the musical beats and moods of one screen to another.

It's something you lose out on in the CD audio based re-releases of this, Dark Forces, and X-Wing/Tie Fighter.

Two CD albums of 90s synth library music. One is called Business Direct and the other Headline News.

Why yes I am a music lover

YouTube video by Koji Kobura GoldenEye 007 N64 "Pause Music" (K.O. II + OP-1 Field REMAKE)

Excellent use of an OP-1/K.O. II.

Not every indie studio needs to be Hollow Knight: Powerhoof's quiet success story The makers of The Drifter have achieved something many others in the games industry are chasing: A sustainable business.

Really happy with how this one turned out, thanks so much to @dave.powerhoof.com for talking to me.

Hopefully some good advice in here for indie devs and those curious in the indie industry.

pon farr compilation

A face gazes over an abstract landscape made of lasers.

The world, but it's VIRTUAL.

Business people shaking hands, surrounded by business clip art.

A golden figure smashing through a mirror reflecting an idyllic blue sky. What does it MEAN?

Niche aesthetic of the day: corporate stock music album covers from the early-to-mid 1990s.

96 Years Ago Today: Stock Market Invincible

96 Years Ago Today: Stock Market Invincible

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Screenshot of an IMDB listing for an actor called Joe Depasquale

I've discovered Joe Pasquale's arch nemesis