This is the point of theory, and sadly too forgotten or marginalized in favor of hype.

‘"For example, our teams created a tool we call 'Mockingbird' that quickly animates 3D facial models based on performance captures.’ isn’t this just motion matching. Why have we renamed this AI, a bs term that means nothing

These are not ‘AI’. They are just human-led automation which has been happening for as long as I have been here at least

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So in the NES Bard’s Tale (and other versions, I’m sure), using Bard songs — the first 7 songs in this vid — in combat replaces the BGM And I always loved the idea that Bards literally summoned phantasmal accompaniment which is why these songs aren’t just the melody line youtu.be/4iOwiqXPnss

For whatever reason I woke up at 10:30am hearing myself mutter “Spaceballs x Overwatch skin collab” OKAY HEAR ME OUT THOUGH: — Lone Starr Cassidy — Vespa Anran — Barf Hazard — Dot Matrix Echo — Yogurt Zenyatta — Dark Helmet Torbjorn (for the height)

"Don't Worry" is probably the last, great "airship theme" in a world where fast travel has made them a dying art. Just incredible shit.

Me: "Are you telling me Hitler didn't have cold rope?" @midimyers.com: "And hot rope!"

[quiet voice] I'd be fine if whatever ongoing Star Wars stuff ever gets made just quietly memory holes the Hutts and giving one two battleaxes isn't praxis

Adam Driver really is a quite attractive man.

yo what's up, I've got a new lil project out. it's a zine I made in a day, featuring two reviews: one of Marathon (2026) and one of Armored Core VI (2023). it's 2 bucks for 28 pages of extremely crunchy jpegs thresholded to within an inch of their life, and also my writing. enjoy

Anyhow if your progressive academic friends have seemed heated about Obama yesterday this might be why.

Okay this made me finally work out something, along with a friend‘s replies yesterday: Dems aren't using the language of the academy. They ARE sometimes talking past/over voters’ heads, which people read as “academic“ vs. “just being bad at communicating“

Dem politicians and most of the mainstream press are part of the same self-loathing liberal bubble so when someone like Obama says something insane like "we Democrats are too woke and academic" nobody asks the obvious follow-up question, "what the fuck are you talking about?"

This is maybe a product of my particular POV but I feel like I saw the new model for Fox McCloud and heard people hate it and I looked at it more closely and just thought 'do they hate it because he doesn't have a neck so he looks too fat?'

My Media Literacy students gave presentations today and this slide utterly disabled me for a solid 90 seconds of uninterrupted witch cackling

everyone who knows me seeing this post and knowing I’m fully sickos.jpg at even the chance Au Ra girl praying in EC trailer : Vanille praying in Lightning Returns opening, JUST SAYING

dear bluesky: your emoji set is fucking awful, dude the thinking emoji 🤔gets so much use from me and it looks awful in this set

OKAY IF IT WASN'T CLEAR: this is about that Obama quote making the rounds this morning, and I still want an answer!

Am I good at my job? I dunno. I DO know I just said "in-text citation, baby!" in comments on a student paper

In Metroid Dread, "the invisible hand goes from pointing over Samus’ shoulder to gently pushing her in the back," critic Ashley Schofield writes. @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social www.mothership.blog/disobedience...

Diving into first paper to grade, first citation is @aftermath.site, baby (congrats to @papapishu.bsky.social)

Grading papers is a very time consuming part of this job, and if I don't have background music for... anything, I will swiftly lose my mind. Before I grade anything I get people's papers together, find out who didn't listen to directions, who didn't turn it in, etc. Sets the mood.

Maybe I’m not political enough, and I am firmly behind a Mamdanian plain language approach, but what is the “college seminar gobbledygook“ that Dems are supposedly spouting that gets in the way? Like, everyone I know is mad at Dems for their inaction and capitulation, not their rhetorical approach.

Hearing the lead-in as I was pulling into the parking garage, I knew I had to leave the car on and listen. I knew I would hear the fabulous @wxmanms1.bsky.social speaking sensibly about NWS upheaval and its potential impacts on forecast accuracy. And I was not disappointed!

Stranger in Paradise tutorial pop up: "You can only carry so much equipment. Put some of it in storage." Me: [murder mode] "And WHOSE FAULT IS THIS, huh?!"

Every time in Stranger in Paradise that Ash says "There's some cubes over there" I HEAR "There's some pubes over there" and it's gonna drive me nuts

"Would a fifteen-year-old hellbent on a journalism career be best served by working himself to the bone both academically and extracurricularly to get into Harvard, or should he just start a Twitch stream and get to work?" Statement by someone who does not know the economics of being a FT streamer

As a sidebar that dumbfuck New Yorker post is peppered with an adult man talking intermittently about how annoyed/mad he is that he has to pay for college for his daughter and gosh, that doesn't seem telling about this "will AI replace college?" thesis at ALL, does it.

I am a college educator and my job, shorn of all the procedural minutiae of the system and the specifics of the domain in which I work Is to help make a young adult into a more rounded, more aware person capable of thinking about more than just survival

"Americans distrust academia" GOOSE MEME DISTRUST IT WHY MOTHERFUCKER

Great to know the vaguely fatphobic boss in the new FF14 dungeon has become the playerbase's new collective blorbo

I had this argument AT LENGTH as a member of our general education council. People would say "we need to teach AI literacy!" and my drumbeat was constantly "meaning what?" and the only people who had an answer were folks opposed to willy-nilly "AI" adoption!

The idea of a "genshin-like" art style is hilarious to me because the dark sorcery of hoyo stuff is that they make designs that feel compelling but are like basic bitch "anime-style" shit! of course it looks like genshin, a thousand things look like genshin, it's kinda generic!

Fucking Kink3D doing a May the Fourth SW-themed sales post on socials is absolutely sending me

Oh my god the inventory system in Stranger in Paradise is making me apoplectic. It's SO MUCH and NONE OF IT seems to matter.

Leverage Redemption having an ep where LeVar Burton plays a small town rural librarian who recommends books to kids but who is ACTUALLY a former superspy is incredible shit

I had a business prof once ask me to summarize what I thought the point of (qualitative) social science and the humanities was and my response was "to learn enough about how to be human to understand how messed(*) up the question you just asked me is" (* I did not say 'messed')

At a time like this we need leaders with the courage to name what we all can see happening. The social sciences give us a language to bear witness and light with which to see more clearly. We will not be extinguished so easily. >>

I have never seen a Steam Deck in action and it is WILD that the menu UI just straight up copies the Switch's. Not an unbelievable or unexpected decision, just impressed at how nakedly obvious it is.

As a Mel Brooks fan I should technically be saying “May the Schwartz be with you,” hmm.

Nice little review of my album 'Brace' by Ben Harper here. Thanks again to Bergamot, Andrew, Jennifer, Sam, Andrew, Murat, and Jacob. Listen at ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

I haven't watched A New Hope in a while, maybe I'll take the hint and do it today, if I can find a proper version. I hate to harp on the trope-y "Han shot first" thing but Han fucken shot first

I need my internet famous to know my colleague is sitting across the room quoting you and laughing because I reminded them that bluesky exists

HEY I NEED PROMPTS FOR THIS WEEK PLEASE HIT ME Also I am going to be annoying af about this song. I'm really proud of it and it's maybe 2m long. Listening to it is like practically none of your day but hearing "oh this is cool" from y'all afterwards would really make my week.

I do this every May 4, I think, but: the reason I love The Last Jedi so much is because it’s a vision of a direction SW *could* have taken, one with growth in it, but which the series ultimately didn’t. TFA was “here’s more SW with the names changed”; TLJ tried to do something diff w/that setup.

Phone autocorrect changing “soonish” almost had me call my mother a Zionist this morning.