Microsoft’s own researchers said AI use leads to cognitive decline: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Keine Listen und Register von Personengruppen mit bestimmten Merkmalen jemals. Das betrifft uns alle. Jetzt mitzeichnen: epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

lmaoooo this though

Würdet ihr jetzt bitte mal! Ich halte nicht viel von Petitionen, aber ich halte Gott verdammt noch etwas von gezeigter Solidarität mit den betroffenen Menschen und diesem rechten Schmutz der da gerade fabriziert wird. Alerta antifascista! epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

people keep voluntarily impaling themselves on the "you should all stop being mean to AI because it is BIG and STRONG and my FRIEND" stake, and I'm politely asking them to stop because it's embarrassing

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

lol I forgot the original post covered this

Opinion | Why aren’t the buses free yet?

the prophesy has been defeated

The 4-hour retrospective on C&C by Giant Grant Games has a section about the history of games and game publishers that points out how in the 1980s and early 90s, so many video games were slop, bought off of an ad in a gaming magazine; it took the publisher system to institute quality standards.

Die historische Vondelkerk in Amsterdam wurde in der Neujahrsnacht durch einen verheerenden Brand fast vollständig zerstört. Der Turm der 154 Jahre alten Kirche stürzte ein, Dutzende Häuser wurden evakuiert. Die Einsatzkräfte erklärten das Gebäude für nicht rettbar. #Amsterdam 1/

Here's to actually supporting Ukraine and not just expressing concern. To building a Europewide economy and not just standardizing parcel sizes. To a sovereign EU Parliament and not just intergovernmentalism. To a year when three things hang from the Kremlin: the EU flag, the Pride flag, and Putin.

TQ288: Letzte Folge Technikquatsch #Podcast für 2025! Wir lassen das Jahr entspannt ausklingen und reden ein wenig über unsere kleinen Vorsätze für 2026. Mehr Spielen, mehr liegengebliebene Projekte anpacken und auch mehr #Linux. Viel Spaß und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! #tech #gaming

I'm still gone at people repeating that you can't put the AI genie back in the bottle. It's not a genie, and yes, you can. You're just repeating billionaire propaganda, where they're enriching themselves by automating theft. Let's put the billionaires back in the bottle, and chuck it into the sea.

Again,

Touchscreens in car dashboards are one of those things that will make me rant and holler about Design Ethics for hours and hours. Many graphic designers are Evil. I'm grateful to be merely Stupid.

All the games are on sale, because it's winter! store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa... 🔥 IMMORTALITY - $9.99 📹 TELLING LIES - $4.99 ☕ HER STORY - $4.99 And you are obliged to 💫Wishlist our upcoming projects PROJECT C and PROJECT D whilst you're at it! #SteamSale #SteamWinterSale #Cheap #Art

Das Problem ist schon lange nicht mehr Juli Zeh, sondern die Medien, die ihr eine Stimme geben.

This is good to see. I've been driving a rental the past couple weeks (was in an accident - but just bumper damage, thankfully) and it's a VW with 90% touch driven controls. It's OK enough most of the time but if you need to quickly adjust/check something, it really sucks.

Wir haben über das Spielejahr 2026 gesprochen. Es ist eine Ausblicksfolge! Das ist keine große Kunst, aber ich liebe solche Folgen, wo wir uns ganz aufgedreht am Tresen der Games-Kneipe treffen und unsere Einschätzungen austauschen. Viel Spaß damit! www.gamespodcast.de/2025/12/28/r...

Angebote für Studierende, "die noch nicht so gern prompten, weil sie lieber selbst formulieren und denken wollen." Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.

fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped

Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos. You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.

“We’re going to ship lower quality stuff, faster” seems like an exceptionally clear sighted and honest explication of AI’s value proposition, I’m just not convinced that a) people will want the lower quality stuff, or b) that it will actually be faster

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year. Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

When are these genAI people going to understand that human error is the foundation of art. I - and I believe many others - don't need a company that uses insane amounts of water to generate these sterile digital products, and erases the messy reality of creation. www.ft.com/content/9b1b...

I mean c'mon, how can you say things like this? Fun is a human response to intentionality and happy accidents (something the great Neil Newbon mentioned before), and no model can be programmed to make these mistakes intentionally... If they do, then what's the point of humanity?

Hah I found that great quote. The deities bless this wonderful person that is @neilnewbon.bsky.social

probably the funniest missing skybox texture i saw while compiling qbj3

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

Welcome to v4 of the Blue Sky Game Dev orientation 🧵! Let's get you started with the basics of Bluesky, finding other devs, and posting about your games! Btw, this is based on the artist orientation thread from @purlane.ink; make sure to check it out if you’re also on the art side of game dev!

Technikquatsch #Podcast 287! Stollen, Backen, Essen, #Tech! #Larian Kontroverse um #genAI für Concept Art, #Firefox soll AI-Browser werden, #VibeCoding garantiert Chaos. Die Association for Computing Machinery #ACM stellt ab Januar auf #OpenAccess um. Viel Spaß und ein schöne Feiertage!

Spoiler: Deutschlands größte Hochschule nicht unbedingt Deutschlands beste. www.spiegel.de/start/iu-int...

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

Merry Christmas 😊

The following day apology text

Drunk texting

Seldomly, I work with young students or even pupils at school, and what I saw was that they are really interested in the topic of travel influencers or “expat influencers” who subtly promote authoritarian regimes. Still, the topic remains largely overlooked.

Von wegen, wir müssen mehr arbeiten. Was wir wirklich müssen: Milliardäre angemessen besteuern. www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

Tiny question for those familiar with German law: should I refer (in English) to *the* NetzDG, or just NetzDG?

60+ seeds for the Internet archive torrent archive.org/details/60mi...

I'm sure Bari Weiss will react to the 60 minutes episode being circulated very reasonably and maturely.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

trying something new out where I ask my patrons what they want me to work on each week. poll is live with options for each of my mods from ds1, ds2, ds3, bloodborne, ac6, sekiro, etc! www.patreon.com/posts/please...

So i guess one of the packages that arrived earlier for my wife contained catnip toys.

Gifts for the Gift God, Eggs for the Eggnog!