Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI

We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI. TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

"Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many - they are few"

Caves Of Qud - a snapjaw scavenger finds a weird artifact #cavesofqud #art @cavesofqud.com

The studio announced it had formed a union, joining CWA Canada, mere weeks ago.

I‘m crying

Local Furby says “Whoa! Big sound, wah!” Join me, Reuters, an alleged news organization, as I inexplicably treat it as a source.

i made a flappy bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

my favorite meme for this time of the year

“I am an AI hater” amazingly written anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it's somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisms about TikTok…

Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???

one of the funniest things i've seen in caves of qud was when conner and i downloaded a mod that spawned you as a random denizen of qud and we became a skunk, extremely deep under ground, called "wet wet qurubesh"

fascism seeks to convince its victims they have been defeated in advance. stay aware of the state’s behavior, but remember it’s motivations.

Can't believe I'm doing this again but: I don't believe the "using AI as a placeholder" excuse studios make. Placeholders are supposed to be bright and ugly so you remember to change it later. "Placeholder AI" is being used so that if they don't remember to change it, it's "good enough" to ship.

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Hey #rustlang #gamedev folks, please consider helping the creator of the macroquad #opensource engine: after a severe paragliding accident, they need help covering life-saving surgeries and ongoing care. gofundme.com/f/urgent-app...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Even in the apocalypse, people still identify primarily as their profession.

I have only mouth and I must scream

Who up knitting the Icy Lattice?

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

pardon my french but PUTAIN ! VIE DE MERDE !

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

After I read the first ten labors of Heracles from D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths to her 5yo: What's a club? me: It's like a big stick 5yo: Wow, I can't believe clubs are real

There's a lot to say about the Roblox CEO interview, and the right place to start is definitely his answers on children's safety, because that's kind of the fire that is hottest and closest. However, I have to also say, the polymarket stuff is real 'summation of our neoliberal dumpster fire' shit.

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

in british english we call it Halve Life

Dems openly calling on soldiers and officers to refuse illegal orders is a pretty big shift in rhetoric and it's good that this is happening.

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

This is bullshit. "absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground. "how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.

I just lost the game

ask not for whom the duckduck goes

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