Claudia Doppioslash

Google claiming credit for the work 5-6 CG houses did, regardless of perceived quality, in order to boost their AI offerings in the market should be a much larger story.

I hate when the president spawns in on the roof and breaks all his pathfinding

Reality coded by Bethesda confirmed

Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google A researcher has scraped a much larger dataset of indexed ChatGPT conversations, exposing contracts and intimate conversations.

Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google

🔗 www.404media.co/nearly-100-0...

still laughing at the gatekeepers thing

even cavemen drew on walls with charcoal, you have just decided you don’t want to but also that how you feel about not wanting to is someone else’s fault

if you don’t want to feel unaccomplished then do something

Returning to this: creativity is a PROCESS, not a product. When you use genAI you are gatekeeping the process away from YOURSELF.

GenAI zealots consider this a selling point because they think of art as product, and of the process as mere IMPEDIMENT to product.

does anyone else have the problem where this is just the default way you sit at your desk

I'm part of a bigger research project in which genAI has been used quite a bit and, after a few months, we've hit a point at which there is a huge amount of information, more than one person can usefully read or take in, but no one knows anything. It's like we're suffering from information bloat.

The MaterialX Chess Set in OctaneRender 2026.1.

The MaterialX Lama Stirling with MaterialX BSDF layers in RenderMan XPU.

Join us on August 5th for the MaterialX Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2025, featuring presentations from Autodesk, IKEA, Lucasfilm, NVIDIA, OpenPBR, OTOY, and Pixar.

events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-...

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

On a more serious note, time to complain to:
- Your MP
- Oxfam
And might as well sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Proton VPN Signups in UK Surge 1,400% After Online Safety Act Comes Into Force Minutes after UK's Online Safety Act came into effect on July 25, Proton VPN reported a 1,400% surge in new signups from within the country.

A great time to be a VPN company

Let's get an entire country to send their passport off to random third party age verification services, that's a great plan.
I'm sure that data will never leak 🍿🤡

And kill off the last few hobby forums while we're at it
cyberinsider.com/proton-vpn-s...

YouTube video by ACMSIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH 2025 Real-Time Live! Trailer

This SIGGRAPH 2025, join us in the Real-Time Live! show on Tuesday 6:00pm. It's a great way to relax and enjoy some state-of-the-art technology and thrilling demos after a long day of papers, sessions and lectures:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dY...

Hey we are hiring people who are good at C+ and can do pretty pixels simultaneously:

adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/extern...

“I’ve never thought about this topic in much detail before, so it seems pretty clear that no one else ever has, either” is such a hard blind spot to overcome.

YouTuber and TikTok influencers are especially prone to this but this self-caricature happens to a lot of people on a lot of social media. Bloggers and newsletter writers too.

Sometimes change is abrupt, but I think usually we don’t notice the things we’re slowly leaving behind.

I can’t remember the last time I went to the beach with my grandparents, or they prepared me my favorite meal…
One day, we did something together for the last time and I didn’t even notice.

From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.

It's fine to shout that the Emperor has no clothes even if technically he's wearing a single sock sometimes. Encouraged even.

genAI has sucked the oxygen out of every room for two years now and its value proposition as pitched is that they're basically magic and will replace all human thought. We shouldn't say "it's sometimes useful" for the same reason we weren't saying "it sometimes drives straight" about the Cybertruck.

Just set up a mailing list. Join here: mailchi.mp/e27e37c9ebb4...

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

It's another summer scorcher, and people are hiding from the sun behind telephone poles and in the silhouettes of palm trees.

My new book argues that shade can protect human health, enhance urban life, and maybe even save the planet.

Preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/shad...

Me pushing for a wealth tax on Good Morning Britain earlier

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas. I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

On hatred.

Steve Rotheram, Labour mayor of Liverpool city region, has told Robert Peston he is deeply critical of Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint the former editor of the Sun newspaper to a new Whitehall perm sec position in charge of all 7,000 civil servants engaged in communications and PR

Statement here

Wow, this Amazon Q security debacle is wild

The malicious prompt in question displaying inside of a customer's Very Enterprisey(tm) endpoint security tooling during the attack window.

AWS security bulletin: aws.amazon.com/security/sec...

"This issue did not affect any production services or end-users."

Weird how customer logs show the wiper prompt executing.

Anyone else see "clean a system to a near-factory state" in your logs?

Guillermo del Toro - Studio Ghibli Masterclass (2013, TIFF festival) ❤️
Now online (80 minutes) >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Uo...

People really need to stop getting mad at itch and start looking at the kinds of fines you risk if going against the Online Safety Act (up to 18M GBP or 10% of your gross income I believe?). Be mad at itch for bad comms on compliance issues, not for BEING STUCK DOING COMPLIANCE, for fuck’s sake

YouTube video by BBC King & Conqueror - Series 1 | Trailer - BBC

It me. Once again reminding you that every Norman horseman in this should be on a battle pony.

youtu.be/anS9xQEPTsU?...

A US farmer stands in a field while wearing a chambray shirt.

A old ad from the clothing brand Big Yank. There are drawings of three men wearing chambray shirts.

... onto fields and into the factories of a booming postwar America. When Upton Sinclair helped popularize "white collar" and "blue collar" as shorthands for socio-economic class, he was talking about the chambray shirts covering the necks of laborers.