To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

that whole time when musk was running around the oval in a ketamine fueled frenzy feels like a fever dream

Don't mind me, I just found a good excuse to repost my Majora's Mask saga with the new 10 photos feature.

Dog Date

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Got an ad for a sneaker that has a built in garage with a working door for your Hot Wheels car and was, for some reason, surprised that it only came in kid sizes

This is a *preposterously* good deal

Just a little guy for #junicorn 🦄

Important context: the "late rapper's estate" is actually just a white record company exec who took over complete ownership after Tupac's mom died. The idea that his "permission" provides any kind of ethical basis for a deeply ghoulish practice is absurd.

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

It's about time for me to get my shit together because my Pngtuber art is complete

Once again, sex workers and porn artista were among the first early adopters of bsky. They built the platform up and brought their audiences with them. Now that they have enough mainstream appeal, they want to exile the very people who made their site worth being on. A tale as old as time.

"Creators who get sucked into bad deals in the next 18 months will be the ones who mistake Hollywood’s sudden interest for validation. Please know that Hollywood is trying to import an asset it doesn’t know how to build internally. That’s leverage and should be treated as such."

Good to see people being Extremely Normal about GoW: Laufey. Oh, man, well, I'll be over here waiting for that excellent game to come out, hmu when it drops.

and help each others, when you can 👍

Always report scummy, predatory publishers like this to Writer Beware. @victoriastrauss.com

youtube.com/shorts/dZHBe... Still so happy with how this turned out.

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

An additional layer to this: If you are in the UK like me and don't/can't use a VPN (unlike me) you have to verify your age/identity to even interact with affected accounts' posts now. All of them. Perfect shit circle.

The Blue-Whale Mermaid floats elusively across the ocean - for Mermay! 🌊🐋🐋🐋🐋

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Shoutout to everyone who choose to create in spite of everything

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

🚨InPrnt Scam Alert🚨 There's an InPrnt scam going around (I received it today and was immediately suspicious). It seems to come from a legit InPrnt address, it's very well made, but it is fake. I have confirmed it with the InPrnt staff themselves. Do not click on the "Verify My Account" button.🙏

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Just a reminder that Epic laid off 1000 employees which is 20% of their workforce so they can generate and promote fucking garbage like this

Yeah, no, I've never once wanted to offload my work onto a plagiarism machine. I like the work. The work is the point. I want to do it my damn self. Keep AI away from me.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture!

Max needs our help, everyone. Max has been a huge supporter of indie horror and indie authors for years. Whatever you can help with will be much appreciated.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Annoy the living daylights out of both payment processors and your local government. Never let them know peace while they are disturbing yours.

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

You don't hate AI enough.

We really need to normalize loudly saying that these people want to bring back chattel slavery and very specifically the slavery of Black people. Which will sound weird and extreme to the vast majority of less clued-in people but it’s just plainly true at this point

I love this game. A Short Hike is a delightful little cake bite of a game, and I regularly return to it when I'm feeling down or brain-clogged. It's a feel good game that doesn't ask too much of you while giving you a shocking amount to do in a small, beautiful, charming map.

A Short Hike is one of my all time favourite spirit-raising one-evening games - if you haven't had the pleasure, pick it up now for a few quid

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is SUCH a good metaphor for AI. The gold is an illusion that turns to ash and it has a hugely destructive impact on a business.

Calling AI use “gambling behavior” is so right in so many ways. I hadn’t quite clocked it such a manner but boy that ain’t wrong.

it suddenly occurs to me that most every sf movie or tv show I can think of defaults to showing any planet onscreen as a full disc as if the sun's directly behind the camera, and how the reality where you see less is actually way more breathtaking

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

These takes are so stupid and so cringey and we need to stop entertaining them as anything but

'We've been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security' is an extraordinary thing for a video games CEO to say on record: aftermath.site/video-game-job...

Good riddance, Sora. What you made with Sora did NOT matter. You could have rebuilt a war torn country with the money corporations spunked on that. Ended world hunger. Eased housing crisis in several places. And for what? Glorified piracy and a complete disregard for art. Fuck it, fuck it to hell.

BREAKING: Progressives in Congress just introduced a raft of bills to put money back into Americans’ pockets and kick big money out of politics. Half of Americans say it's tough to afford food. 44% say they can’t afford healthcare costs. 49% of households don’t make enough to cover essentials. 🧵

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

I love that in Tasmania you can apparently just have a local monster that you have to orient your whole life around as it destroys every traffic cone that angers it