@matthewblest.bsky.social
Artist, animation, game design
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
Did a new one
07.08.2025 18:46 — 👍 2504 🔁 980 💬 11 📌 14
A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right
behold the "HTML bomb"
It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to
when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper
Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way.
colton.dev/blog/curing-...
“Quirky” and “conscientious” teenager Mary Walker, 18, from Broughton, was predicted a string of A*s at GCSE. “We rewarded her by sitting her next to the boy who liked to throw glue sticks,” Walker’s class teacher Liz McHodge, 58, explained.
04.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 124 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2Motherfucking wind farms…
30.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 46228 🔁 17432 💬 1153 📌 2317You might want some netting around the blueberries, birds love them and they will be gone in seconds 🙂
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Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
22.07.2025 19:04 — 👍 18169 🔁 5327 💬 115 📌 253
Still can't believe NIN are doing a Tron Soundtrack, younger me would have passed out.
17.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.
In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
05.07.2025 09:53 — 👍 16300 🔁 6232 💬 364 📌 503Farewell to Mark Snow (1946-2025) — composer of memorable music for TV and film for 50 years.
He literally leaned into THE X-FILES theme on his keyboard after creator Chris Carter rejected previous attempts. #MarkSnow #TheXFiles
RIP Mark Snow. “I want to believe…” #music
filmmusicreporter.com/2025/07/04/m...
Millions Hunt. One Runs. Everyone Watches. Watch the Official Trailer for my new film The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 7!
01.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 2109 🔁 382 💬 124 📌 342You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
13.06.2025 06:48 — 👍 5623 🔁 1444 💬 63 📌 62Denis Villeneuve Is Directing the Next James Bond Movie!
Wow, this is a great idea.
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
22.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 37139 🔁 7892 💬 406 📌 313
There are so many negative things happening all around the world right now. The news that Rick Moranis will be returning in the new Spaceballs movie, has put a much needed huge smile on my face!😆😆
12.06.2025 19:09 — 👍 252 🔁 19 💬 14 📌 3
One of my favorite songs from half a century ago finally has an official music video, and it is tremendous.
07.06.2025 17:48 — 👍 101 🔁 24 💬 10 📌 4
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
06.06.2025 01:17 — 👍 27094 🔁 4456 💬 517 📌 435The UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a *fifth* time over AI training data transparency.
Please watch the electrifying end to Baroness Kidron's closing speech ahead of the vote. Creators have no greater champion.
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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
26.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 6449 🔁 2075 💬 122 📌 62
RIP George Wendt
20.05.2025 19:49 — 👍 619 🔁 226 💬 12 📌 34
An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666
14.05.2025 00:23 — 👍 17890 🔁 6490 💬 7 📌 255
Tomorrow. FUTURERUINS.COM
13.05.2025 23:42 — 👍 130 🔁 28 💬 18 📌 12
Deposition xkcd.com/3088
13.05.2025 19:11 — 👍 2451 🔁 238 💬 30 📌 5Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
