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Josh: “Radian’s approach to AI in development can be summed up as total rejection. We don’t use it, we prefer our contractors not use it, and we consider it a problem when others adopt it in the game development field. I’ll try to give some context on this. First of all, the proliferation of LLMs and other generative AI products is an active, top-down consolidation of power by tech capital. These big companies, already unaccountable for how they mistreat both their workers and their customers, are pushing these products in the hopes that they will become a core tool in the work process. That gives them the ability to demand any concession they desire, and it removes the ability for the people doing the actual labor – ourselves – to negotiate that relationship. As one of our members put it to me recently, “AI is an industrial relations issue.” If the tech bro CEOs have their way, the next generation of game developers (and all other white-collar professions) will be useless without a subscription-based chatbot offering advice. We would rather see our colleagues using open-source tools and their own brains to operate, with full control over the process and the results. This sentiment is shared by plenty of other developers whom I respect.

If you needed another reason to buy Gunner Heat PC, they recently did an interview on AI usage in gamedev and their response is absolutely worth highlighting:

"First of all, the proliferation of LLMs and other generative AI products is an active, top-down consolidation of power by tech capital."

A full image of Altar Piece by Keith Haring, a golden triptych on a red display

Keith Haring Born Reading, Pennsylvania, 1958 Died New York, New York, 1990 Altar Piece, 1990, cast 1996 Bronze with white gold-leaf patina Edition 2 of 9 Denver Art Museum, Gift of Yoko Ono 1996.204A-C This altar piece by Keith Haring is the last work the artist completed. He worked on the wax mold while he was hospitalized for AlDS-related illnesses. The triptych format echoes tracitional Roman Catholic altar pieces. The image of the crying mother holding an infant speaks to the inconsolable losses from AIDS. The mother's tears fall on the crowds, seeking solace and mercy from the ADS epidemic. Touching Harms the Art

Close-up of center of triptych with a crying Madonna holding an infant

Exhibition entrance sign in blue and gold: Art AIDS America

For the first time since 1988 the U.S. government is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day. So, I'm posting a few photos from a 2015 exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum. Hard to pick just one. Here is an Altar Piece by Keith Haring, his last before his death. #WorldAIDSDay

wintertime walk :)

Collecting for the cult

PRO TIP

If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot

leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.

I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.

I don't do black friday deals , these lil brush packs are always pay what you want starting at 2 bucks
so you can always grab em cheap and maybe also give me an extra tip LOL UwU

I don't use the clip studio store page~

its genuinely not worth knowing

Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers Dear Minister Simeon Brown We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...

Support this open letter written by trans and takatāpui rangatahi: "To be transgender or takatāpui is a taonga. To deny our young people access to life-saving medication on the basis of an imported culture war is cruel and abhorrent."

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

The U.S. government’s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time Perhaps AIDS activists’ famous slogan, “Silence = Death,” needs an update for this troubling moment.

which also includes using social media, i guess -- which makes the slogan on the ACT-UP shirt even more important

The same dem consultants that bought us "nothing will fundamentally change" and "no daylight, kid" and muzzled Walz to a 30 second soundbite in support of trans people and are backing Cuomo and Adams against Mamdani, and supporting Newsom, would *love* to run on bikeshedding and policy wonkey.

This is what is feels like whenever someone tries to hype up the combat of a gacha game that doesn't even have a jump button

oh thank goodness, everything I heard was about the first DLC they put out. Glad they figured out how to balance everything

not suprised lol, the balance has been iffy with Gearbox taking over

בבית הלבן מודאגים מהמדיניות של ישראל בסוריה ההסלמה האחרונה בין ישראל לסוריה גרמה לתסכול רב בוושינגטון כלפי התנהלות ישראל. בכיר אמריקני: "אמרנו לביבי שהוא חייב לעצור. הוא יחמיץ הזדמנות דיפלומטית ענקית ויהפוך את הממשלה הסורית החדשה לאויב של ישראל...

White House stenographer Barak Ravid claims in his latest piece, soon to be cross-published to Axios, that Israel is extremely frustrated by Trump's seemingly unconditional support for Syrian reconstruction.

They are angry that sanctions were lifted and angry that al-Sharaa got to meet in the WH.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl

Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic 2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.

"When we look at opinion polls about what actually motivates voters and their choices at the ballot box, trans issues are often dead last. And it’s worth noting that much of that polling makes no distinction between positive or negative views of trans rights." www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...

But now we come to an equally vital issue, one which practically merits an essay of its own: the fact that committed, passionately ideological transphobia is, at present, almost exclusively an obsession of political and media elites. The seizure on the New York Times’ brief gloss of the Future Forward report was the result of wishcasting on the part of this group, many of whom have been sealing themselves up in a closed loop of extremely online life. An oubliette of their own making where trans people loom large in their demonology of the world. The fact is that most Americans are not on Twitter. But much of the media, a shocking number of billionaires, and most of our political class are. On such open social media platforms one is far more likely to be exposed to the bleeding edge of esoteric discourses from and about very small communities—including transgender people. If ordinary voters don’t care too much about us, it’s because they don’t interact with us regularly, recall. But someone like David Shor, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, or Marc Andreesen is likely seeing people with trans flags in their usernames troll them and spoonerise their names on a fairly regular basis. It’s a simple matter of perception: we’re prone to overindex on those things we experience frequently. The classic bubble.

this is a key point. various elite centrists and liberals have become radically pilled on transphobia (likely on Vichy Twitter) and joined the right-wing exterminationist crusade

One thing Gwen understands more than most about the Texas and Oklahoma crack down on trans people existing in the university is that this is part of a broader movement by TPUSA and astroturf right wing groups to push society to make having a job while being openly trans impossible again.

i understand. im saying that if i had trans students in my classroom and i received an essay like this i wouldve done the same thing she did, bc as their teacher its my responsibility to protect them from exactly this sort of hostility. even if i knew what would happen to me after id still do it

The other thing about the OU student who wrote the bad essay on God-given gender roles is that she herself is rejecting those religious ideals about femininity by going to college, playing a sport, and having a mother who is a media personality and lawyer for Jan 6ers. Trad for thee but not for me

She didnt even hit the word count like come on

Love seeing people being banned from banking for drawing a big fox wiggling toes on a skyscraper between ads for the giant revenge porn machine that permanently denatures lakes and makes everyone into delusional Nazis.

Rich people and their pseudo-artist sycophants hate college the way they do because it's the only place they heard someone tell them they were uncool, or wrong, in an unvarnished way. It gave them lifelong complexes and all their politics are outgrowths of it.

one of the things I think is wild is that recorded music is recent enough that these comparisons never really work. arguably, the whole thing--recorded popular music--is a boomer phenomenon and is on the way to being something totally different than what we have all always assumed was permanent

got distracted before i could find a new sketch brush. painted a small tree instead.

My brown tabby cat Barby sleeping

A brown tabby cat with Mr. Penis in epic font is below him dramatically so

Who fucking did this?!?!? Look-a-like.... god lol LOLLLLL

Lmao no amount of control over what people see on social media platforms is going to convince them that Marc Andreessen and people like him aren't the villains in a dispute with Pope Leo XIV

Haircut... again.