Westin Lee

wait who is taking money to hock Tilly? Eline doesn’t have money, does she?

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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All that's really in this press release is the Dutch lady who made up Tilly has partnered with a social media manager. But the language makes it look like a Powerful Industry Executive is signing on. Nope. This is as serious as the AI "studios" that all offer AI filmmaking schools.

Just a reminder that when you're making things your brain literally has no ability to judge quality. You just have to keep going. I wrote this story a couple of years ago and I'd long considered it too long and clunky. It's back from the editor and it might now be my favorite story in the series. 🤷‍♂️

I am capable of writing a range of tones and genuinely enjoy some melancholy and angst, but I think I may be a "idiot narrators have stupid adventures" writing savant.

The prequel story set on the colony remains the most interesting thing in the franchise.

feels like a part of the Kelly operation has been fighting for this one for years and finally got the yes

this cures what ails me every time

Sam Altman @sama• 28m Enforcing the SCR designation on Anthropic would be very bad for our industry and our country, and obviously their company. We said to the DoW before and after. We said that part of the reason we were willing to do this quickly was in the hopes of de-esclation. I feel competitive with Anthropic for sure, but successfully building safe superintelligence and widely sharing the benefits is way more important that any company competition. I believe they would do something to try to help us in the face of great injustice if we could. We should all care very much about the precedent. I saw in some other tweet that I must not be willing to criticize the DoW (it said something about sucking their dick too hard to be able to say anything critical, but | assume this was the intent). To say it very clearly: I think this is a very bad decision from the DoW and I hope they reverse it. If we take heat for strongly criticizing it, so be it. • 31 17 33 • 256 ıll 19K ..° +

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Sam Altman’s “The Aristocrats”

Scientists don’t want you to know this (because it is a lie)

I hate that I know that this works but it d o e s

Reminder that if you see something horrific, there is good evidence that playing Tetris as soon as possible helps.

Giving yourself PTSD from seeing photos or film clips doesn’t help anyone.

Absolum is one of those games where every bit of the execution surprises and delights. Sooo much going right in there.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I’ll tell you one thing that works great in Marathon: human voice actors.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Really impressed by y’all’s homages on this one

I can't believe I didn't know about this.

Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online.
Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio.
An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow.
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...

“Roughly $24 billion of Paramount’s takeover financing is coming from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. [The] journalist-killing kingdom is poised to become a part-owner of one of the world’s most influential news organizations.”

A society is judged for how it treats its most vulnerable. This is a society failing that test to a monstrous degree.

Plug it into my veins

If we’re free to break this up like Murph it’s not just easy, it’s trivial

Battleships and zeppelins.

It's tempting to be doom and gloom but this also reads as the ghouls going all in on battleships.

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

If the people financing the AI bubble are saying “I don’t know, let’s see how this plays out,” so can your idiot C-suite.

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

I don’t especially want more responsibility, but I *do* want to hire artists and writers…