The moral is we should bully anyone pushing AI garbage relentlessly because they will fold immediately

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

Ivalice Miku:

time to boycott Fortnite on top of everything else! spend that Fortnite skins cash on your local trans charity instead, just to spite Joanne

This writer sounds way too giddy about playing Link's Awakening on a device made of the same material used to drone strike a children's hospital. How much did Retro Dodo get paid by Luckey to get excited over this disgusting shit?

Truly can’t express how much of an evil AI is and a threat to our species. The billionaires pushing it just want to be immortalized in an algorithm while the rest of us perish.

If anyone tries to build a data center in or near Portland they’re gonna have to do it over my dead body. It’s not gonna happen. I would like for humanity and all creation to access fresh water in 10 years.

ICE whistles work.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Tax the rich, scream it from the rooftops

Heh.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

Fuck every single one of these assholes. Once again, this is *literally* what the Nazis did.

Labor markets weakness is all about uncertainty, not AI. www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...

insurance companies literally kill people

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

New research finds that car touchscreens are so distracting that they induce "significant performance degradation" among drivers. Meanwhile, in-vehicle touchscreens remain completely unregulated in the US. doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

if you need AI to do your powerpoints or write your emails you shouldnt be in your job. those things ARE your job.

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

Time to jettison @firefox.com

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

Placeholders from game devs I have worked with: - Character scribbles on scraps of cardboard - MS Paint - Meme stock images - "something happens here idk but trust me dora" - Plain black screen with bullet point text - Draft lineart - Boss fight that was just "you win the boss fight and move on"

And if you’re using genAI for placeholder assets at scale (or not) there’s just no way some of that isn’t slipping out. Heck, human written placeholder assets slip out all the time.

Tesla’s Robotaxi is crashing roughly once every 40,000 miles so far in Austin, and that's with a human safety supervisor in vehicle. For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. electrek.co/2025/12/15/t...

A group of protesters from interfaith groups arrived Tuesday in the predawn hours outside the federal facility at 630 Sansome Street in San Francisco where immigrants arriving for immigration court have been summarily swept into detention facilities since May. buff.ly/v8y0Xoq

Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

Sending strength to every Larian employee who hates AI and has to sit through the discourse of another dipshit slop-pilled CEO's comments

This art is amazing because someone made it.

Accurate. Crude sketches and stick art are superior for presentations not just for time-savings, but also because: - they're simple to process and understand - they're not overly specific and leave room for imagination & riffing - they're really funny Generated graphics hurt creative collaboration.

the fun thing is that it's not just computer (laptop, desktop) memory, but also mobile device memory: phones and tablets are likely to see an increase in price too samsung semicon just rejected samsung electronics' request for a years' worth of chips for their phones—quarterly's the best they'll do

Cars are a lot slower than people think. This driver commutes at 4 MPH. That's barely faster than walking (avg walking pace is around 3.3 MPH) They could cut their commute to 15 minutes biking at 12 MPH, but they might not have a safe route to do so We are forcing people into terrible car commutes

“Everyone at the company wants to keep their job and are worried about the industry in the current climate” is a weird way to say “more or less okay with.” Welp, way less excited or interested in what Larian’s cooking. Would’ve been happy to wait for another polished hand-made product instead.

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

unironically gotten two novels and counting out of this exact worldview

Whoever at Blizz decided to put the Santa hat on Dimensius… you’re my hero. We ran the raid just to see it in person. :) Happy Winter Veil!

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

These massive blunt-nosed bastard trucks need to be taxed out of existence. They're a consistent threat to the safety of pedestrians and cyclists (especially children).

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Call me old fashioned, but I like to generate new ideas using my brain.

Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!

I literally have so many ideas I have to write them down to get them out of my head so I can focus on stuff like laundry. Ideas aren't the problem.

THEY DID THE MEME THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME