Dan Cooper

This is delightful news, thank you!

The worst part is, I understand every word of this.

@foldablehuman.bsky.social Have you ever considered doing a piece on 'Rebuild of Evangelion?' I rewatched your two earlier videos this morning and wondered if you'd ever felt the urge.

Not only is it the best Doctor Who ever, it's one of the finest things made at Television Centre. Pulling together everything the BBC could do well. No coincidence the staircase is the same one used in The Forsyte Saga! The Beeb had all this stuff on tap and then Birt sold the family silver.

US Corporate law people: NVIDIA's an investor in OpenAI (both in the early round and the recent pledge of $100bn going forward). Surely OpenAI couldn't then invest in a competitor without making some sort of disclosure given the potential conflicts?

If you're looking for something dirt cheap yet Rick Owens-y, you could do a lot worse than checking out some of Converse's 70 Plus, which are now all half price in the sale. I've bought three pairs in that series, the latest of which are these, which I'm already deeply smitten with.

You're telling me Tron: Ares, the sequel to a visually lovely but deeply unsatisfying film where the highlight was the soundtrack, itself a sequel to a visually lovely but deeply unsatisfying film where the highlight was the soundtrack, is visually lovely but deeply unsatisfying where the high...

That's my deliberately generous, even-handed take on the matter.

The fact the person in question started making sarcastic jokes in response to said serious case would likely prompt my less even-handed take on the matter.

I genuinely don't envy any social media platform head who can't breathe online without a lot of people messaging them.

But I don't think it does anyone any favors to cosplay as a pugnacious, take-no-shit type that refuses to engage with people trying to make a serious case about their policies.

A screenshot from the Free Press website. Headline is 'My Favourite Actress is not Human' followed by subheader '...and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen this is one of your better chances'. Byline is Tyler Cowen. Features an image of AI model of a young girl, who looks about 16.

Not sure what the worst thing I saw yesterday was - Michelle Mone whining that she's the real victim of her own apparent fraud, or this, where a man who looks to be in his 60s admits that he likes this teenage looking AI 'actress' because she's a virgin.

I’m over American tech executives who think gender diversity is a contagious disease you can get by watching a Netflix cartoon.

Being anti-science is absolutely rooted in racism.

Oh awesome, thank you!

PIF head MBS is a 'keen gamer,' which makes me worried for the safety of game critics. Given what he did to someone who wrote newspaper columns criticizing his country, I'd hate to think what he'll do to someone who gives the first PIF EAFC game less than 10/10.

Given what's happening under the Ellisons at Paramount, I'm sure we can expect ideological compliance officers at every major media company in time. But I'd theorize we won't see a memo handed down from PIF or Kushner demanding it. (Why? 'cos people will likely self-censor ahead of being asked.)

'... the bigger issue is that we'll see censorship, either directly or self-censorship, of topics in EA games. The obvious thing to go would be LGBTQ+ experiences in 'The Sims' and 'Mass Effect.'

'Ah Dan,' I hear you say, 'This is Saudi's PIF, they want this as a soft power / influence / post-oil revenue stream' so they'll want to fatten consumers up like a pig for slaughter. They'll make the games cheaper, and get the FIFA logo back on EAFC where it belongs...

You can easily imagine the new owners insisting on firing a huge chunk of EA employees and expecting AI to fill in the gaps. But then the remaining employees will be left fixing all of the unusable AI shit, slowing down development and harming the games' quality.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

Except, of course, it's already proving out that AI produces material that looks a bit like work but that's so riddled with errors that it increases the work to correct it downstream.

Video games maker Electronic Arts strikes $55bn deal to go private Saudi-backed transaction orchestrated by Jared Kushner and Silver Lake is biggest-ever leveraged buyout

EA's new owners believe that profit can be maximized with the use of AI. Which will reduce the cost of making and maintaining its core franchises to supercharge profits.

Even so, at the most generous of estimates, EA would need to produce a decade-long streak of record profits to even get close to paying all of that debt down before its owners get itchy.

Of course, EA's steadily profitable and regularly makes a decent chunk of cash. The company expects the launch of Battlefield 6 to cause a sharp increase in revenue (if not profit).

www.ea.com/news/electro...

The deal will see EA's balance sheets saddled with at least $20bn extra debt. Plus whatever extra goodies its new buyers want to toss on to ensure a healthy return on their capital.

I read someone saying they thought EA going private (via an LBO) would be great as it'll mean the end of micro transactions.

Oh, my sweet summer child...

I know Campbell but never heard of Moyers. Will check it out, thank you!

Yes, that four hour marine disaster video is as good, and compelling, as you all said it was.

best meme i ever made

Emphasis on performatively twee shit, right? "Oooh, I love drinking gin out of a teacup with my Kath Kidson bunting up while tutting at the news."

I won't even look, I don't want to have to block that many people.

That's a very good point that I hadn't considered, I shall dial down my cynicism accordingly.