I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

A brand-new 12th entry in the Mega Man series is on the way! Get ready to override your limits as Mega Man: Dual Override gears up for release in 2027! Stay tuned for more updates! #MegaManDO

Calling all office nerds 😎 the Office Mimics are now available (for free) in my Kofi! These are a set of .ico files to customize your folder/program icons with! ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb These were super fun to make, hope you have fun customizing your desktop using these! #pixelart #mimic

With receipts: here's older, the Oct 8th snapshot of the EPA page on Climate Change: web.archive.org/web/20251008... And here's the newer, Dec 9th version, where they've eliminated THE ENTIRE SECTION on human causes: web.archive.org/web/20251209...

To achieve this effect for your own game, place the face model in its own render layer, rigged to the characters skeleton in game. The model must be affected by scene lights. Point a camera at the face and set its culling mask to render that layer. to a texture the size of the screen. (Cont)

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

"Hello, I'm here to order a Robotic Partner." "Ah, welcome. Please fill in this form." "Sure, for body options and features, right? Let's see... One of those, definitely. Hm. What's this 'Do you expect to be obeyed?' For that money, of course I do!" "Then we cannot help you. We only do partners."

a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Some remarkable color similarities on my timeline

When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"

This Intellisense suggestion thinks this test case really, REALLY needs to save the game here. Feels like a subtle jab at the savegame system. "Hey your code sucks, you better save *a bunch* just to hope sure it works."

the obsession with shiny new games is crazy, a bunch of people are gonna play Metroid Prime 4 without having touched the most essential one before and that disgusts me

maybe we could use another splash screen.

Berserk B.I.T.S is out! ⭐️ Grab your Virtual Desktop Buddy and Save the Internet! The game launches at 6.99$ with 10% off at launch! (tell your friends! tell everyone!) oh and please Review it! I hope you enjoy! ✨

Transgender folks here is a three-post comic that I think will feel to you like wrapping a warm comfortable blanket around you (The post is a bit old, I just think you deserve it today.)

It’s now clear that information on U.S. government websites can no longer be trusted. It’s both heartbreaking and infuriating to see how quickly this administration has undermined science, public health, and the credibility of our scientific institutions.

Also cool is this "post-mortem post-mortem", answering the question, "How was such a detailed, accurate post-mortem put up less than 24 hours later from a giant company?" Red tape usually slows/kills these things, but kudos to the CEO here prizing transparency news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597...

Cloudflare's incident reports continue to be absolutely top-notch. Always interesting to see the detailed descriptions of the chain of events that caused major internet outages. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being". Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy. Pet the dog. Enjoy being

The type of person that checks chatbot outputs before using them in a critical function is also the type of person who's never going to be using a chatbot in the first place. We have no idea how catastrophic the chatbot-driven info collapse is going to be www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

my favorite Mario side hustle; he should revisit this

happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

a lot of effort and success has gone into getting people to think of laws like math or physics, something that simply happens because it does, and thus applies to everything the same way gravity does a lot of people are realizing too late, or not even really processing, that laws are all made up

"Attempting to play digital .WAV file." The portent to trans-dimensional cascade failures unlike anything else seen before: HALF-LIFE.

my playable mario party costume was a hit at game dev halloween

"And on... and on... and Ariston." The theme tune from the Game Boy version of Data East and Ocean's Robocop game (also featured in the home computer versions) that was famously used in a washing machine TV commercial.

one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly

Released 44 years ago "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", the fifth and most important single by the Dead Kennedys Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio) #punk #punks #punkrock #DeadKennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #history #punkrockhistory

Lil blue guy

Idle-RPG auto-battler management desktop-game 'Berserk B.I.T.S' launches on November 20. From the creators of Berserk Boy. Co-published by Among Us-developer InnerSloth. Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2348540 #indiegames #steam #indiegame

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

I think about this a lot.

addendum: based on the advice of the linked reddit thread I think I was able to simply remove the entire gaming bar by opening a Powershell and entering: Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/...

I like how you can ask, "Use CBC News sources" and it'll produce a bunch of quotes and stats sourced to CBC News. None of it is real, but it'll still give it to you! 🤦‍♂️

Oh my GOD.

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20 years ago, Shadow of the Colossus - ワンダと巨像 - was released. This game changed me forever I just wish to capture the feeling of wonder and dread that was playing this game

Great moments in redaction history.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

"Debate is a way to find truth" is the worst, most wrongest lesson I learned in 2000s era internet forums and some motherfuckers never caught on and just kept going with it. And I'm saying this as the person who would usually win. Being a better, funnier bully didn't make me right.

Reminder for people sticking with Windows 10 that you might be able to get a one year extension on security updates: www.engadget.com/computing/wi...