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Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.

RE9 was good! A very solid entry in the series. Probably in my top 5 but not quite sure where yet.

I got this today after paying a family’s back rent to stop an eviction that had been filed. I feel that weight in my bones, and I’m glad she gets to sleep tonight. No one should ever have to feel that fear.

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"If you run out of arrows, make sure to loudly announce this to your enemies. Be sure they know you have run out of essential munitions. Be sure they are aware you are having severe logistical problems." - Sun Tzu

Sharing before I get blocked to flag that he is in fact showing his whole ass here.

We have had the technology to do this for a *long time*, so why are they doing this *now*? Is it so they can say “we’re using AI!” to try and please investors?

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

The extent to which 'AI' is robbing writers, academics and artists of their work just got even worse - now they want to steal our reputations too, putting words into our mouths after we've died. Just think for a second about the horrendous ways that could be exploited, intellectually and politically

Some folks are sending students to use claude to teach themselves how to code for class instead of just...teaching the students to code. So now I'm giving them extra resources so they can actually learn.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Amazon data centers are on fire after Iranian missile strikes on Dubai www.404media.co/amazon-data-...

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths apnews.com/article/isra...

anthropic is *not* a company that will benefit our planet and society, i don’t care how mad they make the losers in our government or whose friends and family work there. my taxes should not be used for their services. defund them, defund all those ai companies

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

Eh fuck it, I'll shoot my shot. If you need someone to helm voiceover for your project, I pretty much do it all: casting actors, directing recording sessions, helping navigate agencies/unions/etc, you name it. 100% "damn this voice acting's awesome" rate 😊

Is your Rep on this committee? Time to make a cup of tea and give them a call!

it would genuinely be the funniest thing in the world if one of the richest person in the worlds personal newspaper got overtaken in print memberships with a paper that has stuff like this in it

The people are revolting!

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

here’s one way to help ❤️‍🩹

Again, to use @anthonymoser.com's Kirby device: Don't post shit like this. The idea is not to "just" go ahead and sign up with a "birth sex" license. That frame sucks. The goal is to remove trans people from public life.

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

Oh noooo, the company that extracted our data for their models is having others extracting data for their models

Extremely revealing details in this interview

more people should connect the dots that an AI exec at Microsoft who's worked at the company for 2 years is taking over Gaming very likely because both Phil and Sarah didn't want to bend to AI in Gaming 🐸☕️

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

My "No, your use-case does not negate all of the horrifying externalities" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

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Over on dead-Twitter, @geoffreylitt.com asked the following question last week: "I desperately need a Matt Levine style explanation of how OAuth works. What is the historical cascade of requirements that got us to this place?" Here's my attempt at an answer: leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:3v...

No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

“This is an Xbox!” I shout, revealing yet another Copilot implementation.

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

a LAMP? a SMART LAMP? What the fuck is OpenAI anymore? AliExpress but with an LLM attached? Jesus christ. Consumer devices are a terrible business too

any locally run LLM - regardless of what datasets you plan to feed it - has already been trained on personal data/stolen work, on thousands of GPUs, in a huge power/water hungry data center, for months its why you should laugh at any "artist" that claims they only trained an LLM on their "own work"

disappointing but not surprising. Cory’s libertarian ideals have always been what gave me pause about him and his work. this is an excellent rebuttal and rebuke of Cory’s posturing on LLMs. the neologism seems to have come for the neologist.

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

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When I was just starting out, I was taking a cab from one convention party to another with an indie darling who was coming off of a bunch of award wins. In the quiet of that car he told me “[game he made] was my twenties” and I have never really stopped being haunted by that convo

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

I say this as someone who loves technology but hates the tech industry - why do we have to love technology? why do we have to give something like AI clemency for its errors? It's a product we are being sold, it should have to earn our money or attention.

Oh man, is it time for some motherfuckin Ryan "The Steve Jobs of MMO Marketing" Dancey? Anyway, check this shit out medium.com/@kaitave/wha...

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Romance about fortune tellers who interpret dreams would of course be oneiromantasy

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

I'm running a sale on my Itch this month! After you've got HARDCASE and 199X: COMPLEX from the No ICE in Minnesota Bundle, come snag HARDCASE's expansion (plus the other two 199X games) at a tidy discount: itch.io/s/180121/bun...