The gaslighting from people like Yglesias about what happened during the 2024 campaign has been absolutely enraging. Harris ran the campaign centrist wonks & the consultant class wanted, & it blew up in their faces.

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

democrats are very capable of fighting to defend their core principals, like 'insider trading'

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Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

We need to do things like we were doing in the 70s and give rock musicians too much money and too many musicians and too much cocaine so that they can make over long high concept prog rock operas that somehow sell truckloads of copies

Buried in this article are FIVE DIFFERENT WIP versions of Begin Again. Unbelievably cool.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

you know when i said that nostalgia was the horse that pulls the cart of fascism i wasn't expecting fascism to get so fucking literal about it

Where I'm from, this was called "extra effort".

This is partly true but the other context is Disneyland, which is why you frequently hear anti-urbanists describe people who want to live in the type of walkable areas that most human beings have lived in for 5,000 years as "wanting to live in a theme park"

Haven't the foggiest about the quality of this research, or whether the headline has skewed its findings, but I want to believe.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

It’s fascinating to me that people are still mad at this lady instead of worried about a culture where being caught doing something harmless in a viral video marks you for life

Final destination stage capitalism has the richest people in the world buying their own stuff.

If you’re not willing to engage in a Butlerian Jihad against the Plagiarism Machine, you’ve never actually made anything that mattered

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Remember those few weeks in 2024 where Dem politicians were simply calling these people weird and it was clear it was catching on and then Dem strategists said to stop doing that

it's midnight and i didn't draw all day ... so here is a really quick rei hino for anyone who happens to be awake at this ungodly hour _(:Ⅰ」∠)_

If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

Oh sure, when it's *your* food bowl it's "too small" and "gives you whisker fatigue" but when it's MY cereal bowl, WHICH IS THE SAME DIAMETER that all suddenly goes away, I see how that is...

Yeah this whole PR assault we're seeing right now is investors realizing how fed the fuck up everyone is with this inefficient basura bot scam and knowing the inevitable crash is nigh

Over this century, America has developed a culture of business that is only interested in running securities trading They have *no idea* how to run another kind of business, and the way those businesses operate kinda piss them off

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026

guy being handed large bags with dollar signs printed on them: well you see, using genAI is simply inevitable,

Contact your representatives to ensure they won't let this pass you can find your Senators here:

Two Friends at Sunset #paleoart #berensart2025

wow, it's Shonisaurus, the giant Triassic ichthyosaur!

i get sick thinking of the pennies my friends and colleagues make on the dollar of what these studios reap. most animators and artists in Hollywood can't afford homes, food... anything. disgusting. just absolutely disgusting.

this

“AI is just being used as a placeholder” is the new “I am a fucking dickhead.”

How can you address men's emotional needs at a time when the "feminization of everything" has become the consensus source of all society's problems, and emotional needs are coded as feminine?

Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before

You're never gonna guess what's behind the insane Japanese font license price hike automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

What a difference a year makes over at Larian.

Weird that writers and artists are consistently acceptable losses when it comes to which battles to pick. Are you so gullible as to think that "placeholder text" and "moodboards" are where execs expect this to stop, or are they waiting for this shit to be 'good enough' to replace their workers?