It’s absurd how hard I laughed at this today - all day long.

Gen AI hypothetical: If Stephen King were to train an LLM exclusively on his own written work (he wouldn't), the resulting model were good enough to generate from (it wouldn't be), he used and edited into a coherent novel, and he disclosed this to his audience. Copyrightable? Ethical?

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

I hope Quentin Rigaux finds a worthy funding to make his French animated feature film "Cosmo Princess".

This is great to see - will be interesting to see how Xbox reacts long term.

For those who don't know what "detach quote" is or how to use it, it's described here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

As long as *YOU'RE* doing the thing.

Okay, the normals aren't quite right, but they ARE making me a bit optimistic.

I'm not sure I know what is happening, but I am definitely enjoying the process. Can comfortably map any continuous function (with the correct domain period) onto a sphere now.

Ironically, an explanation of the matrix transform that I need was in here. THANKS @dmgregory.ca

Actually I'm not sure this is right, because the normal vector to the planar noise will be relative to a 3d field, rather than relative to the circle. Maybe I have to also transform into radial coordinates before the change of basis.

Okay now how do I take the normal vector from planar 3d fmb noise and put it on a sphere.

Universal Basic Income.

I follow Nathalie largely for the experimental games, but the voice of a victim is always worthy of amplifying. I am advocate in the courts of people who were both victims and silenced. Listen well.

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT 😍 PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite – Master the ball and flippers to collect resources and defeat your enemies! Demo coming in January, wishlist now! 👇

I want this but to convert all text to Reverse boustrophedon.

Bsky remains lawful neutral, so I am keeping it. But I am in the process of extracting myself from other social media.

no idea

pals you gotta quit spotify

Today's casual reminder: The third trial of the Nuremburg trials was the Judges' Trial. I've seen a lot of U.S. state and federal judges continue to uphold the law, but I worry about others.

I was supposed debug something to do with bevels but I keep ending up with some kind of mosaic art instead

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11. If you're a creator please show up! You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.

If I rent or buy a movie from #YouTube, it’s far more expensive if you do it from the mobile app instead of a desktop browser. This shit makes me reconsider piracy.

Windows 11 is scraping data, Google's new Android build is bypassing end-to-end encryption to scrape data, and discord is expanding it's collection and sale of data. Unplugging has never sounded so good.

This is my new response to anything someone does.

The programmatic solution to revenge porn is to *checks notes* register the photos with a centralized database?

Satisfactory reduced the Tier 4 by so much. Holy cow.

Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & a socialist princess fight a cabal of post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 & help me finish #2 (pictured)! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #gamedev […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Apple and Google have immense power to shape what content is available on our smartphones. When they cave to government pressure to remove certain apps, politicians get to shape how we communicate. We should be in control of what happens on our own phones — not the government or corporations.

"Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in the background with access to personal folders - Microsoft quietly added a system-level AI agent with broad file access." Linux never sounded so good.

Snake Eyes. Digital color over ink and marker.

I am so glad "Socialrizzism" is not in our lexicon.

First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!

"It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors" This is how you know that you have made a Judge upset.

"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board." — Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Cartoon for you :)

You touch Linux for 5 seconds and everyone has an opinion

I'm appreciating the "it didn't happen" shift to "what happened wasn't that bad". Next is the "it was bad, but we can overlook it."

Sorry, been busy fixing bugs... Is it too late for a release trailer? 😬 Get it on steam here; s.team/a/2980260, I've heard people say it's good! #gamedev #indiedev

Patton Oswalt got banned from Bluesky for expressing how he feels about rich people who rape children and the apologists who try to defend them. Me trying to decide if this was ethical censorship that is being uniformly applied to the site:

Just played SplitFiction for the first time. Not quite all the way through, but a great game.

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

Looks like Patreon and Ko-Fi are next for companies closing payment accounts over NSFW content. Not *all* nsfw content, mind you. Imagine a credit card company dictating morality.

"Fuck hash tables" is the hot take that I needed this morning.

Keys to the office? Check! ✅ Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻‍♂️

Just finished my first playthrough of Hypogea. Definitely check this game out.