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The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical. They're AI-generating the music here. Fuck that.

They've got Bandcamp Friday for games now????

It’s now a Sin to use AI in class

Totally unnecessary and not narratively or thematically necessary skating mechanics. I think it’s awesome that there’s a skateboard in kingdom hearts 2. It’s so not useful nor can you access it most of the game. It’s great. Jak 2/3 having a relatively robust tricks system was good too. Put me in

It is increasingly clear that there is a crisis of trust in legacy media, five-alarm fire stuff. It is bad for any news outlet to have a reputation that wards off people it should be talking to, and the wary are growing in number lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

"45% more affordable (starting at $649)". My immediate reaction is that this point is at best only partially accurate, and at worst willfully dishonest. Previously, the Expo Floor Pass was all you needed to get in the door. For GDC 2025, it was $249. (1/5)

Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will. "I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself." automaton-media.com/en/news/fina...

Hey y'all, we just posted a Sound Design intern position here on the Respawn Jedi team for Summer 2026! Come make some really cool stuff with us *Caveat is you must be a student graduating no earlier than December 2026 jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

PSA about D*scord's TOS changes. You need to email arbitration-opt-out(at)discord(dot)com to NOT waive legal rights. A template: "I am opting out of the agreement to arbitrate for the account (username) as of (current date)", OG post: www.tumblr.com/eggseventy/7...

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

they don’t want you to know this but vancouver is awesome

What service do people use to learn languages these days? Not Duolingo

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials. My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

Moving in a week!!! I am full of equal parts stress excitement fear joy a million other adjectives. Excited to get there. Excited to see the other side of all the stress. Will be making drum and bass to relax.

"3 devs with support from a few contractors" I counted 110 people or companies in Silksong's credits. And that's just those credited. We all know not everyone gets credited. Especially when it's just a company name listed in lieu of credits. So tired of this faux rags-to-riches narrative.

Man if the democrats collude with trump/cuomo (likely) I hope we Never Forget That lol, absolutely ridiculous shit happening here

Polling shows Zohran Mamdani leading with Jewish voters in NYC’s mayoral race. But the New York Times keeps framing him as “alienating” the community—while ignoring polls that say otherwise. 📊 Read @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s breakdown.

got 3rd place on zzz drip fest : )

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

One of my absolute favssss go check it out

cool

We’re looking for a Junior Sound Editor to join our Linear Cinematics and Marketing team. This is a unique early-career role built around growth, mentorship, and hands-on training, purely creative.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

a key thing about LLMs that i hope and pray people eventually realize is that it’s just fundamentally impossible for them to do anything better than a human. faster, sure, but not better

Anyway in less angry posting here's a song I worked on with some friends that I forgot to post about on Blue Sky www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyha...

How it feels seeing more and more people accept the incorrectness machine that dries up riverbeds and eats the powergrid into their lives

In Ep 227, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)" we detail US media's trend of reporting on Israeli war crimes months after Palestinian reporters already did and the broader regime of dehumanization targeting Palestinian media workers

lol. lmao even. same government pushing AI investment btw. lol

AI 👏🏻 IS 👏🏻 JUST 👏🏻 A 👏🏻 MARKETING 👏🏻 TERM remember that: - there is nothing "intelligent" about it - it comes at the cost of people's livelihoods and damages vulnerable communities - genAI hurts the environment the easiest way to help stop it is to simply not use it 🫡

I want to keep my dumb car and my dumb house full of dumb furniture and dumb appliances and I want all the AI-infested, data-stealing, hackable "smart" devices to leave me the fuck alone.

We gotta do something about people watching tiktok on full volume on trains man. like we gotta fix this culturally

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence. If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

if you cannot win an election over 3 years away against the most loathsome people in the US while they are doing things like *kidnapping the fucking ice cream man off the street in broad daylight* without a ritual sacrifice of at-risk people, you are not the future of humanity. dream bigger, better.

Haha you guys sure showed that AI sucks by using AI to show AI sucks. We’re all laughing about how much AI sucks thanks to you using the AI service and wasting energy and polluting low income communities and stealing from artists and writers to show AI sucks. Too funny!

— Voices of the Chord (ft. kanalia) [AMV] [Hiroyuki Sawano Cover] Out now on youtube Link below:

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Got really mad about everything but I got it out of my system maybe

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

I don't see nearly enough people talking about it, but HarmonyCloak, an adversarial noise tool that will make any audio file you process it with "unlearnable" by machine learning genAI slop, is JUST around the corner, and they are also running a survey for musicians

Cracks me up every time you talk to a cat in a video game and the voice is clearly a human man going "meow." gotta be one of my favorite bits

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