Now that AI gen video is collapsing, I can’t wait to see what kind of Christmas advert Coca Cola makes this year: probably gonna consist of plastic miniatures and cardboard backgrounds

I saw an interesting argument a few weeks ago along these lines (about AI ads specifically) It boils down to the idea that young people see AI as a tool for bullshitting people (teachers, parents, whoever) but they don't want to be on the receiving end of BS, and they're keenly aware when it happens

Cannot believe “man who has never run a profitable company shovels mountains of cash into a bonfire“ isn’t a viable business model, what’s the world coming to

Free newsletter: The AI industry is lying to you about progress. Only 5GW of data centers are under construction, it takes 6 months to bring online a single quarter's worth of NVIDIA GPU sales, and LLM code is actively breaking big tech. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

This is the really big news here imo, its not just the sora app thats gone but chatgpt wont be doing videos either. This is a massive hit to openAI. Hopefully this hit causes internal bleeding that kills them as painfully as possible.

but-but-but it's inevitable???

Oh... oh that feels so fucking good y'all. Domino #1, down.

It’s been aptly demonstrated that derivative AI exists for no other reason than to be invested in. That’s literally the entire point of it. It kills jobs, hogs resources, and makes the very products it’s shoveled into unattainable as a combined result of the harm it does. It’s not for us.

Theater/opera person, here: this is likely due to "bleed," which is a phenomenon we're literally trained for. When acting (or in this case, role-playing) a character for a good while and there are intense situations (such as an RPG finale), the emotions of the character can literally become yours!

The money continues to go to the wrong people.

This interview is wild. The CEO being interviewed cannot conceive of a world where their right to profit does not come first. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

holy shit lets fuckin go

This video really highlights the weird situation VR gaming is in right now. It's almost impossible for new games to get any time in the spotlight, despite some being REALLY good, and almost every VR-related headline is about Zuckerberg doing something stupid that makes VR seem tragically uncool.

fun reminder: the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

www.pcgamer.com/games/action... A heartfelt thank you to AAA Companies for creating a point of difference that indies can claim at no extra cost. Simply by continuing to make games with intent and reliable tools, we can show our audience respect, and be respected as professionals in return.

This is one reason why British Jews and Muslims must show solidarity between one another: fascists want to kill us both, while the state sees the concept of Jews as a convenient tool to suppress Muslims (while politicians hate us both). But we have far more in common with each other than with them

Dev people: Isn't the purpose of placeholders to be noticeable so that you don't ship or finalise without PLACING something into those HOLDERS? I don't get using GenAI slop that on quick glance from a distance looks like completed art.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

Just made a model of The Roaring Knight from @nakakabaliw.bsky.social's #deltanova AU

VO is a second job or a hobby-hopefully-turned-job-sometime for a lot more people than you'd think. if i had to give a metric for my experience i'd say my rate of indie work is 30% paid within my usual rate 50% paid lower than my usual rate But it's cool so im in 20% unpaid, same reason as above

outside of the easy route of just not having VO in your project or doing it yourself, you'd be surprised at how many public casting calls are free. hell, for pennies in the long run. a lot of people up in coming just want to act. as long you're honest and not making them read The Iliad, you're good

Foolish Earthlings! Is the second in a pair of games we've cooked up for a custom arcade machine, Coming Soon (tm) But the games are on steam now!

Genuinely give AuDHD people basic income and housing, give them a bit to settle into their routines and recover from the trauma of survival, and then be ready to see shit pop the fuck off

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

Wingnut welfare indeed

Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Beavers might be one of nature’s most unexpected allies in locking away carbon and fighting climate change.

This is why I unapologetically tell the economics students to change their major to something respectable.

Important for all my friends in the United States!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has just brilliantly answered his critics www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

This is one of those videos where the argument is so clearly and effectively laid out that I don't think anyone could reasonably argue against it. In a sane world, it would be the final word on the subject.

"The record-shattering heat would be “virtually impossible” without the effects of climate change, a group of international climate scientists at World Weather Attribution said..." This does not bode well for the Colorado River basin or many other areas already in drought: droughtmonitor.unl.edu

Had so much fun editing this trailer! Go check out FOOLISH EARTHLINGS on Steam now!

The saucer-men are here! And you're one of them! Fly solo, or with a friend, and blast your way through cities and countryside in your search for... FOOLISH EARTHLINGS! Now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3968340/... #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Roles for Trans Actors have already taken a nosedive since the pandemic and the subsequent conservative push against diversity initiatives in Hollywood, and now one of the largest productions has chosen to roll back the few advances we've made since 2014. Casting knows better. This is unacceptable.

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

5/ She would soon find that the choice of how she’d give birth wouldn’t be hers. The judge would decide.

Reminder when yall see a post from Gazans. Those arent scams. Its just how Bsky has forced them to act, for the need to survive. Because this website is run by fascists.

"we're gonna scale back co-pilot" oh they are SCARED scared.

Labour needs to legislate fast to keep this kind of money out of UK politics. If not, Farage will buy himself a fascist state.

NEW: Ministers have approved the use of UK bases for the US to launch strikes on Iranian sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz

i interviewed nick frost last year and asked if he thought there was conflict in doing a show like transaction and then signing up to do hagrid. his answer was what you expect. then immediately after, back in the press room, we were asked to avoid any more harry potter questions

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

Daniel Kebede told a press briefing that the Greens and its leader Zack Polanski “align very closely with the education policies” of the teachers’ union. schoolsweek.co.uk/neu-teachers...

Playing game with very little UI, no map, and pretty much zero direction markers is so extremely wonderful. Feel myself slowing down, taking in environment a bit more, and interacting with world in ways only this game can. It adds to atmosphere it conveys excellently. Go play Hell is Us, please.

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Google has been pulling this kind of shit for years, sometimes ignoring meta titles and descriptions to grab some text off the page it unilaterally decided was better. Now thanks to the Power of AI it can achieve record new lows in misrepresentation!