i am too old for the internet, ft @quiggy.itch.io @innes.bsky.social @brendanmcleod.com i have zero idea what any of this is about

merry christmas to everyone except for the poor fucker who is about to have a very unmerry xmas eve

I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult. This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻‍♂️

What's your excuse Toronto and Montreal?

Benn's title on this youtube video isn't clickbait. That should terrify you.

I love that amazon killed everything, which made them the only way to get xmas gifts to remote areas, and then recently, decided they simply wouldn't bother trying to ship things to remote areas in a reasonable time. While also squeezing canada post so that shipping gifts yourself is prohibitive.

And, once again, you are taking the actual fun, enjoyable, creative part of the work and giving it to the machine, then telling the human to check it over. Remember when spell check was the machine's job? I'm a designer, not an LLM's document editor.

god i fucking love making music

I was compelled to issue my thoughts on Jake Paul for those on blue sky who follow boxing (zero people) tinyurl.com/4m8k22yy

I actually wish more people were playing Q-Up. The game would be even more hilarious if it was 8 players at the same time, given some classes boost others, and Troll explicitly steals Q.

it is taking all my willpower not to change my avatar and profile to be entirely q-up content q-up is my whole personality now

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

reminder:

Q-Up GOTY

you cannot convince me reality isn't fundamentally broken. i firmly believe we live in a simulation, and the simulation is breaking down. there's no other explanation. none.

reading social media makes me feel insane i dont know how i ever did it, nor why i dont just delete all my accounts

New comics section up at @inthesetimes.com with work from Jen Sorensen, Emily Flake, Rob Rogers, and this from @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/kris...

I finally realized what the tell is in all this AI-generated slop. Everyone looks like they are a hyper-actualized instagram influencer. Which makes sense, that would have been the majority of images this shit was trained on. Posing, immaculate, artificial facial expressions. Just cranked to 11.

Hell yeah. More of this.

It's the STEAM WINTER SALE so that means you can get Moving Houses 60% off! Find out why critics rave "what the fuck is going on here?" and be ear-wormed by a song that's probably worth the price of admission all by itself... #indie #videogame #steamwintersale store.steampowered.com/app/2831060/...

btw when bsky asks for your contacts list? always say no. If you say yes, all you are doing is betraying all your friends and family by providing all their info to a database that will 100% end up being sold to data brokers and used for spam.

Parliament’s Elf On The Shelf turns out to be Pierre Poilievre in a little scarf

Studios will use the theme park lure to underpay you, overwork you, because at the end of the day, isn't this a better job? Isn't this fun, making games? We've got free cereal! Here's a Steam key. Come help out at PAX! Also, please stop crying during meetings. It's making management uncomfortable.

People need to understand that working in games is a "theme park job." Everyone on the outside sees the rides and the mascot suits and assumes it's a fun day out, five days a week. It can be fun, but it's still work. But it's that flawed perception that leads to studios taking advantage of workers.

HYPE

This policy change is not driven by negligence or pseudoscience. They understand what they're doing. It's one of the many attacks on your quality of life to increase leverage and power.

A large meta-analysis from 2022 with a sample size of 64k children strongly suggested that children vaccinated for Hepatitis B were 22% less likely to die from any cause. Aside from 90k+ prevented deaths, it has prevented untold numbers of chronic illness, liver disease, and lowered cancer risk.

*pssst* go play Moving Houses. store.steampowered.com/app/2831060/...

Pro is the most hilarious class in Q-Up.

We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology

if I had to choose between never having internet streamed video again, and those fucking video pop-over windows that are on every fucking site ever, I would nuke internet video and never look back

this is simply world-class journalism imo

Regardless of how it’s used, a company has to give someone like Sam Altman money to use their AI bullshit so at best you’re just bankrolling the world getting worse

pretty sure "slop" is going to be the word of the year for whichever dictionary it is that does words of the year

the day it happens, the media's only job is to announce it to the public with the same enthusiasm and joy as they did when George Springer hit the three run homer in the ALCS

the single most infuriating thing about Youtube Music is that there's no way to enlarge album art. it's just so clear that google shit this out to commoditize and compete with something another company was doing, and that no one working on it gives any shits about music at all.

Let's try this again, hopefully with 100% less blocking: I don't think the use of AI is the story here, as the far right has been using AI and any other tool they have to perpetuate disinfo in the wake of tragedies. It's because the people doing it are garbage humans. bsky.app/profile/epik...

I'm so tired of people spending all their time and energy on terrible people as if they're interesting. I'm so tired of "smell this" content. I'm so tired of people reveling in the spectacle of bullshit. I don't find these people interesting, I don't find their ideas worth thinking about.

petition to rename the holidays the season of death

I know that The Guardian has its own problem baggage, but they are doing journalism right far more often than most. Just look at this correct summary that gets the point across without parroting lines from the admin.

$5 a month and Benn has done more to fight the surveillance state in north america than anyone else. Cannot imagine a better thing you can do with $5 per month.

Y'all don't ever let yourself be guilted into doing *any* work for an employer that laid you off. It's a business relationship that ended when they notified you. They figure out a few weeks later that they didn't understand some function of your job? Not your problem.

Spotify Wrapped and its various clones/copies have shown something Deus Ex predicted 25 years ago, which is that people have absolutely zero issue being endlessly surveiled as long as you present it to them in a way that makes them feel special. youtu.be/1b-bijO3uEw?...

where's the social media where no one talks about the game awards

Pierre Poilievre right now:

deep farts

Every shitty politician should be afraid to go out in public and be seen. They should know that every time they are at a restaurant, at a shop, on a street, that they will be mocked, ridiculed, and made unwelcome. For the rest of their lives. We should be making that a reality.