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Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a safe new years everybody!

We need to do something about this shit. Props to @bennjordan.bsky.social for pressing this issue so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

I realized that Megabonk actually has a native Linux build, so I dusted off the old Steam account, saw it was on sale (as if the low base price wasn't enough)! A quick purchase later I fired it up. Not bad for my 4th or 5th run I think

i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles. are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?

Lets say, theoretically, I have; a mechanical pencil, an eraser, and a good supply of blank sheets of A4 paper. What would be good to know to learn to draw (i.e. with the resources I have)?

i get why they'd redact evidence of trump in the files before they're released, but going through and deleting the files with pictures of trump that they accidentally forgot to redact post-release is just absurd. we already know they were friends and spent time together. what are you doing

TU Delft maakt pijnbestrijding voor vrouwen wereldwijd simpeler en veel goedkoper, maar het demissionaire Kabinet heeft blijkbaar geen €100.000 meer liggen voor drie cruciale stappen en dus loopt er nu een crowdfunding Er is op dit moment nog maar € 3370 binnen! www.supporttudelft.nl/project/chloe

Reposting with alt text because I felt it too important no to share

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Based as fuck

Drop Fortnite

Many peers have said to me "Wow, great work cara, but if you want ME to do the coding for you next time just ask." The assumption that women and girls don't want to or can't learn programming is almost as deplorable as pushing them to use generative AI instead.

"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds

Good look at what would happen if S230 gets pulled medium.com/wikimedia-po...

this article really lays it all out on how much we rely on section 230 please do not rest on your laurels, contact your rep and advocate for protecting Section 230! www.congress.gov/members/find...

republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle

This was a brutal presser to listen to. These new policies from RFK Jr. et al., WILL lead to death, are anti-scientific, and steeped in eugenics. This is one of many reasons we are leading the charge for RFK Jr's impeachment and removal from his cabinet position. #impeachRFKJR

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

the good news is that the media attention and support from an audience has helped Horses do well enough that Santa Ragione has been able to pay all its owed royalties and loans. so it's not in debt. the bad news is it's still not enough to keep the studio together. www.ign.com/articles/hor...

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

Shoutout to all the people implementing open source engines for old games!

If you read one thing today, make it the first several paragraphs of this story.

His warning takes on even greater urgency today.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Sounds about right.

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

"Our reality is being destroyed all around us"

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Took these a while ago, but decides to show Manon the pleasures of travel by train and being a corporate slave

Add to this that social media age checks in Australia are being outsourced to KWS, a US-based subsidiary of Epic Games -- created by startup SuperAwesome (youth-targeted ad strategies). "We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies" www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/partne...

So, an agency that wants to run ads for gambling funded Australia’s (terrible, misguided, authoritarian) campaign to ban teens from social media because now the government is abandoning a plan to ban gambling ads citing the age verification law as a rationale www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...

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This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research: Whose ideas are you presenting as your own? (Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)

Ergens gelezen. Goed economisch beleid is niet belastingverlagingen voor de rijken. Het is investeren in de mensen – in gezondheidszorg, infrastructuur en onderwijs – om een ​​sterke middenklasse op te bouwen. Je laat de economie niet groeien door middel van die onzin van het trickle-down-effect.

When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

I forgot where I saw it, but there was a post from a guy that advicescompanies on LLM use and they decided to create software without coding anything themselves. It worked, had a product, felt good. Then they wanted a tiny change; absolute dread and uncertainty. They knew nothing about the software

From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

"everyone is 12 now" still undefeated. This makes no sense until you realize their audience didn't emotionally develop past middle school. Just picture a bunch of giddy kids clapping along like "haha the turtle has an RPG and they photoshopped Santa hats on the secret police". It all makes sense.

Weg van Big Tech: @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social is weer live met twee nieuwe stappen! Met in stap 7: instant messaging. Zet de stap: www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/12/11/w...

i stand by this statement every year

I hope this will spread widely: Liam Neeson chose to narrate an antivax documentary which backed RFK, said vaccines cause autism and called lifesaving Covid vaccines “dangerous experiments” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso... Shame on him. His career won’t end over this but it should.

Online leeftijdsverificatie is riskanter dan fysiek je ID tonen. Waarom? Iedereen moet dan gevoelige gegevens delen, puur om websites te bezoeken. De EFF legt uit waarom dit een probleem is. ⚠️ #privacy #leeftijdsverificatie

Fortunately the EGS was already a hill I decided to die on. I don't know if the EGS finally implemented a shopping cart or how it works, but consider not downloading or even adding to your library (if the EGS even has that) the game

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

I have made it to Cloackwood mines, blasted through everything. I think I got pretty lucky with the two magic resistant guards before the boss as I got them quite easily. Even the boss went down fast. Now where was that knock scroll...

The last number I saw was that the UK media are putting out 154 articles about trans people - almost all misinformation - every single month on average. It feels like at least one of those breaks through each week to become a huge conversation. It's exhausting. medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...