Also maybe they were friends. Maybe they had an expansive and historically complex notion of friendship, and our very narrow and marginal status for friendship is the problem.

Actually you know what, let me just

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

You can't tell from the NYT article or the Global Forest Watch report, but China had a net forest *gain* last year. They gained about 9 million acres of forest. ♥️🌱 China has grown forest cover from ~5% to about 13% of the country. India is doing the work too. It's not all doom and gloom.

The thing that really gets me about the growing number of stories about AI agents deleting databases/files and breaking businesses is how the business owners are all like “look what the bull did to my china shop, the bull I invited in and gave all the keys to”

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

"If only men wield weapons, then all tombs with weapons are male. If only men are ever found interred with weapons, then it’s unlikely women ever wielded them. We only imagine some version of what we’ve seen. It takes a lot of unlearning to learn history." Great guest post from @isabelleroughol.com

A game you've completed more than six times

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

I am looking for environmental artists, particularly people with a strong background in concept work for interior locations Atmospheric/ Liminal vibes appreciated You can apply by dropping your art in the replies, or send your portfolio to: [email protected] Humans only. no ai.

I think the greatest trick for getting good at creative work i know is - finish making as many mediocre things as possible. Just finish stuff, again and again. Share it or don’t, but put a bow on it, put it aside, make the next thing, repeat.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

It should honestly be very simple: is it trained on copyrighted material? Done. Thats it. It’s illegal. There are no other arguments to be made. There’s all sorts of other arguments we can make after that, but until they fix that then it doesn’t matter. It’s illegal. They should be in jail.

Heads up Narrative friends with Warhammer knowledge Games Workshop are hiring a fiction/background writer for Age of Sigmar jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

<me, standing in the corner, staring at my shoes and whispering to myself> uhhhh happy international beaver day

As the Artemis II mission approached lunar flyby on Monday, the crew shared an emotional moment when they called down to mission control to request that a previously unnamed moon crater be dedicated to Carroll, the late wife of the mission commander, Reid Wiseman. nyti.ms/4e6nVKO

I had a furby that said “I love you” in response to stimulus in the late ‘90s. Even as a small child, I did not take this to mean that the furby was processing deep complex feelings for me. Maybe because I’m actually conscious of my own feelings 🤷

Funniest possible outcome of the Iran war is going to be reversing Brexit.

_Nods, heretically_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NO...

Trying to explain to anyone outside of the psychology field that -Freud is highly discredited -Limerence, Ennegram, Meyers Briggs, love languages, 25 age of brain development, the colloquial ideas of trauma/gaslighting/etc are pop psychology Is fucking impossible. Y'all love your unscientific BS.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

art gallery: You finish that painting of Frodo and Gollum? Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Sad day for me. My role at DICE as Studio Art Director has been eliminated and I’ve been impacted by the layoffs on Battlefield. I’m very proud of our work on BF6, my team at DICE, and my own impact since joining 3 years ago. I learned a ton, and got to work with amazingly talented people 🙏

how many of those 1000 will ever work in the industry again. how much development knowledge did we just lose again

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Don’t become a technical writer just because you’ve read somewhere that it’s easier or more lucrative – it’s neither. This is true for any profession really: Sucky reasons are sucky. passo.uno/how-to-becom...

If you promote AI and are an expert, you've a responsibility to call bullshit on whoever claims that humans can be replaced by LLMs.

The age old solution for having no VO budget was to record that shit with team or family members, because there will be at least one who will 100% be up for that. We have forgotten the true knowledge of the ancient ways.

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis Gideon Mendel’s The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. gideonmendel.com/the-ward/

Am i meant to be working from home to save the economy, or returning to the office to save the economy? Getting a lot of mixed messages these days.

I don't know how to speak about being Jewish right now. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-pr...

After hanging out with this dude in Pokopia for a while, I now am a Trubbish fan. ♥️

These well-dressed rats will be going into our galleries from 28 March as we reimagine and update our very popular Rat Trail: a challenge for visitors to find rats hidden throughout our displays. Each rat represents a different experience of rural childhood. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rat...

quote with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack

I had a nap and missed this utter horseshite article from GI Dot Biz The survey was of 68 people, in Bristol, by Meaning Machine Games who *checks notes* sell Gen AI Slop NPC's for a living SURE, THIS IS TOTALLY LEGIT REPORTING

"More than anything, though, fascists set up real-life trolley problems to get people to agree to their horrific premise that there must be people tied to the trolley tracks." More than ever, centrists agree with those premises and manage the bloody outcomes. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

I've only known Baby Globe for five minutes but if anything happened to him I would become John Wick

Incredibly Gaelic and incredibly funny that the throughline of a lot of Gàidhlig games has been “I am just trying to do my job no thanks to THE ENTITY…..”

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

This is a very important quote from the interview that I hope every single company hoping to capitalize on the gaming industry reads and internalizes. Games are a unique market, and you can't just apply strategies from other industries and find success. This has been proven time and time again.