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I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all.

I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn.

Please, share this. 🖤

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

spin jump

your regular reminder that this company can get straight in the fuckin bin

A photo of an unused store space, with clouds and a red minecraft poppy edited in

Took a picture of an unused store space and decided to edit it.
#photography #liminalspace #dreamcore #photo #edit

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

An upwards-tilted black and white photo of a road sign. Behind it are trees and powerlines and a blustery cloudy sky. The sign reads: (up arrow) Dubois 10 (left arrow) Paradise 3 (left arrow) Desire 5 (left arrow) Panic 7

The Pennsylvania Conceptual Zone

Kodak XX
Nikon N90

#filmphotography

The duet scene from Evangelion 3.33 but it's Rowlf the Muppet at the piano with Shinji

We're gonna need a complete teardown of the media, same as with the ballroom. And I say this as someone who has been part of that machine for many years. It's moldy all the way through. We have some wonderful independent pubs doing real work but everyone else needs to be tossed in the fucking bin

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

godzilla wishes you a happy birthday

We're in a period right now where cheap shit looks expensive. All these fancy low-effort graphics. It's not about style, any style can be good, it's about effort and genuine care. Look for a soul in stuff. You know when it's not there, complain about that

weird ps1 game i found

He is talking about executing civilians

if you aren’t able to support, sharing gets you a hug 🖤

thank you to all those who shared 🫶

& if you’d prefer to give directly:

venmo @healthypersuasian
cash $kungpowchickaa

she works her ass off at a plasma center, also rescues cats & chickens, gives away free eggs, & helps others constantly 💕💸

this should be as much of a story as A Past Notable Instance of Art Theft, imo

if anything this is so much worse given there was deliberate contact with the artist

every AI generated pixel, every AI generated token I see makes me want to use the internet less. it makes me want to log off and spend the rest of my days reading books published before 2020. this must be how the paranoid creatives felt in the 2000s when cross-site tracking and the patriot act also pushed them offline. this must be how those creatives who refused to give up their own methods of distribution felt when things like facebook and twitter and youtube monopolized attention through the 2010s and turned the internet into a small collection of walled gardens. I don't know what kind of creative you'd call me, but I cannot abide by the internet being polluted by mushy, merely-probable junk data which is drowning out what had once been a place to find real testimony, real human effort and art whose maxim is to bridge the gap between us. sure there will always be oases, places where human creativity continues to thrive, but I'll forever miss when the entire land was covered in green.

Someone sent me this. Apparently, there’s a bot around here that decides which art is AI and which isn’t. And it also seems that a lot of people have me blocked because of this. 👇

clearsky.app/postmodernad...

All the key art for my games is made by the hand of Paco García. A wonderful artist.

it's annoying how cosine is called "co-sine" as if it's a luigi and not a mario

Good stuff here.

"It is clear that supply and demand curves are not sufficient for understanding the housing crisis. We can build all we want, but if we are building houses as financial assets and not as places for people to live prices are going to stay high."

Ridgeline lead 'disappointed' in Battlefield 6 credits A year after EA shuttered Ridgeline Games, Marcus Lehto expressed disappointment about his former teammates being relegated to a "Special Thanks" section.

literally how are we still in a place where doing this is considered acceptable by _anyone_ in this industry www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rid...

It's miserable to see Gamers* simply not care about genAI usage in Embark's games, because I genuinely think it's maybe the biggest act of "shooting yourself in the foot" you can do to your game's identity and cultural impact.

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FIREFOX USERS

Mozilla shoved LLMs into your browser a short while back, here's how you get rid of it

-Search about:config in the URL
-Copy+paste the following terms in the search bar one at a time (you can copy them from the alt text or the next post!)
-Toggle each one to False
-Humanity Restored

I love whatever is wrong with them 🙂‍↕️

"No Kings" Protest (and Arrests) Begin NSPM-7 is already being used to detain protesters

NSPM-7 is already resulting in fed arrests of protesters:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/no-kings-p...

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

Bill Nye having to give this speech at all is absolutely wild and that he has to do it from behind protective glass speaks volumes about the mess we're in right now

Given that context, I find it rhetorically important to be vocally against AI.

I look forward to a day where public discourse might be about the ways in which these tools are useful and the ways they are not. But not when they are transparently being used as cudgels by your boss to pay you less.

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.