I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up

Directly translating removes the original intent of the text and can easily result in mistranslations. Localization by experienced and professional translators and editors results in better translations.

Rowling discourse is running around again, so here's my twenty cents (sorry, inflation's a bitch) She's alive and funding a crusade. I can separate the art from the artist (the art here sucks too tbh and I read it as a kid), but I cannot separate the MONEY from the artist. 1/

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Go fash lose cash bb

yeah man blog post is all ready to go. the one where we write up the layoffs like we're lelouch code geass. nothing will go wrong

I want everyone being extra smug about this sora shit to know one thing and one thing only: You earned it. Take another lap. Bathe in the schadenfreude.

Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..." The witch did not roll her eyes. "...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws." "She asked." "You've made her a monster!" "Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does." "Removing what?" "Someone's right to be who they are."

Small note. Mass layoffs like these are also a tactic to devalue the work because workers become more desperate while companies create false scarcity. Do not, ever, forget your worth. Don’t let them win. You make this industry exist. They don’t.

it's a deadname, because i kill you if you use it

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My Chuck Norris story. I programmed the Chuck Norris show back to back with the Mr T show on Boomerang on Sunday’s action block. Chuck’s wife called and said that they were going to sue us because he didn’t get residuals or some bullshit. I kept scheduling it. They didn’t sue. The end.

personally, i do not buy this excuse, and you shouldn't, either. genAI is, as much as we all hate it, not the culprit in this case. it is just your standard greed and malice. an archived page isn't live. it can't show you ads. it can't selectively show you a paywall. it can't harvest your data.

Really disappointed by @digitalfoundry.bsky.social that I would trust as a reliable source to not be more wary and actually point out the all the issues we all see as concerns. I get you got to pay the bills, but this is harming your reputation to showcase what can only be called AI slop.

The DLSS tech stuff just reinforces my idea that AI bros have no sense of artistic direction. I am just fucking done with this AI crap.

digital foundry: "it's quite difficult to argue with [dlss 5]" is it really that hard to predict issues with a technology that considers artistic intent a problem to be fixed also every example of dlss 5 i've seen makes everything look like a shitty youtube thumbnail, like are we serious

This is so disrespectful to the intentional art direction of devs. If devs wanted to lean in to hyper realism they would. This also drastically changes key aspects of visuals like character features, focal points, lighting and so on. What a terrible invention. Nvidia should shelve this one 😭

i think a significant part of the problem in today's world is that people like this are not experiencing a state of decapitation

Broadly fascinated that the people currently in charge of Tetris are just like flagrantly terrible. Henk Rogers is ligitious rich asshole who brags about how Tetris made him stupid rich and somehow he's not the most miserable person involved with game these days.

Sketched up a CSM inspired character. #sketch #art #oc #CSM #chainsawman

This guy's been a really good friend to me for... fuck, a decade now? shit I'm getting old. Anyway! He's a great dude, and if anything he streams is interesting, think of it as doing me a favor to give him a look.

Early stream today but were making it happen today! Into the Bayou for a Good Cause! Hunt Showdown Charity Stream and DLC Giveaway www.twitch.tv/oddmanjon #pngtuber #vsky #twitch #charity

Apology and statement on the recent Patreon post about the Researcher app I announced yesterday to patrons. www.patreon.com/posts/apolog...

The truth can be harsh. That doesn’t mean that anything harsh is the truth.

There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking” Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

futurism.com/artificial-i... People don't want to waste their time with interchangeable extruded Content (how I hate that word), as it happens. The sooner we get these parasite executives and investors out of media and the arts, the better.

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

An underrated reason the "AI" "revolution" is shit, is scraped "generative AI" is a *LOSSY* record of all human data. An "LLM" model can recreate past images or sentences, but not in the form someone labored over and loved it— it can only preserve it by making it worse. Pirates should be archivists

With a broken Blue Bomber heart, I am no longer the voice of Mega Man. I was asked to return for Mega Man: Dual Override, but only on the condition I work without the protections of a union contract.

oh so NOW transitioning on here is ok

Speaking of, if anyone needs a ui/ux person let me know, someone very dear to me was caught in the layoffs today and is looking for work

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Hunt Showdown Charity Stream, Raising Money and Giving Away Some DLCS www.twitch.tv/oddmanjon #vsky #charitystream #streamsky #vtuber

I truly hate that the default way to share a creative work is to toss it on a site like this instead of a place where people can go and see your body of work presented with less emphasis on temporal context

Evangelicals should be missing from everything, but are not. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 is the problem.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Donk. This Foone is under new management: I'm Alice Averlong now.

@heroforgeminis.bsky.social Love the Accretion Disk spell effect attachment but why do the decals project onto the edge instead of the surface? could do a neat galaxy effect (among other possibilities) if it went onto the surface.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

The financial oligarchy needs to be obliterated

Today is the first stream of my Donothon for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. I wont lie a bit nervous but I'm excited. March Donothon Begins! Starting it off with Hunt Showdown and some Giveaways www.twitch.tv/oddmanjon #charity #vsky #promosky #twitch

A US consulate was attacked a few hours after the killing of Khomeni. And it calls to mind the most common excuse I heard about voting for Trump instead of Hilary in 2016 (from the ones that weren't just onboard for open hate). Benghazi. Well, assholes, how about that.

They like rape. They like war. They like theft. They like dominance. They don’t do distraction because they don’t perceive a need for distraction. This is all fun for them.

What, as a disabled person, am I supposed to be grateful to this country for? I've had to fight for years to get support that still isn't coming and my disabilities are *because* of this garbage-ass country! "hurf durf if you don't like it leave" eat my ass and choke on it