This should be a no-brainer. For Christ's sake STOP Posting obvious AI-generated political cartoons! Bluesky is awash in this shit these days. There are tons of real live human political cartoonists here, posting terrific work. Repost those. If you're unclear, here's how to spot AI slop:

Had an extended weekend in London, and it involved hanging out with cool people I don't get to see nearly as often as I would like to. My step counter is like "ALL THE STEPS" and I'm pretty beat but I had a lovely time and now I have the sauna on and I'm about to sit down and sweat. It's good.

I’m in an airport bathroom and the man in the next stall is shouting at people to stop using the hand driers. The noise is making it impossible for him to have his very important phone call. He alternates between ”CAN YOU JUST STOP IT” and ”sorry, sorry, it’s very noisy in here.” Powerful stuff.

This feels like snapshots of somebody accidentally leaning their elbow on the gammon switch.

I am not horrified at this and I definitely am lacking in any religious awareness and feeling, which I frankly consider one of my better features. However, I am appalled by the grift and the exploitation and the overall moral and ethical failure implicit in this.

Today I touched a thing. It was a pretty cool thing to touch I told a friend who works in astronomy and they were like, ”Oh, cool, I’ll try to remember to bring you something even older you can touch.” Yeah, 4.5 billion years is kind of entry level stuff!

Hey, uh, maybe do something about this senile motherfucker. He's spent his entire political career saying what he's gonna do and people go "nah, he's not gonna do that, he's just blustering" and then he goes and does it. Find the fucking nerve before he eats your souls. You cannot walk this back.

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Quantum Break has just now turned 10. Somehow, a decade has slipped past. Wild. A couple of thoughts about the game...

Oh yeah, those kids are gonna do great. Just incredibly prepared for the future.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The algorithm is feeding me pictures of super cool huge Lego builds. Once again I find myself thinking that all I need to do is win the lottery so I can buy a place with a huge basement or something and then all I need is another lottery win to buy the Lego and I'll be all set.

Just absolutely no concept of any kind of journalistic ethics. What the fuck.

You know that whole thing about some horrible piece of shit dying, and people are like NO YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THEM? Now we're getting getting the same treatment because people aren't excited enough about a glitchy and unconvincing chunk of AI slop.

There's something extremely predictable about a lot of the people who're super eager to watch that new Harry Potter show also being real angry about there being black people in their Harry Potter.

Eclipse Phase is a really cool game. It is now also a really cheap game. If you ever wanted to play an uplifted gorilla or an angry toaster or a sentient spaceship or a nanotech cloud, this is where you get to do that.

"It will be the president's determination" is such a crazy thing to say, even by the standards of these people. Actual reality or strategy or analysis will have no impact on it, President Sex Criminal is just gonna have a neuron misfire and out comes a number and that's that. So business as usual.

Finally, a solution to the problem of creating custom feeds without knowing how to code. Everybody on Bluesky has been screaming for this one all this time! Just… come the fuck on. Nobody wants this or needs this. This is the kind of nonsense you come up with as an awkward come-hither to investors.

Whenever people talk about AIs hallucinating, I die a little inside. Everything they do is a hallucination. Everything. They don’t know anything, it’s just an ongoing game of ”this output is statistically acceptable.” When they’re correct, they don’t know they are correct. They don’t know anything.

A lot of these technologies that techbros tell us are inevitable sure ended up being pretty evitable after all

Oh man, if those concentration camps turn out to be too expensive, that'll be a real scandal.

Ah, shit. Kieth did some really impressive work. A real loss.

He's joking, but he's also really on point. A lot of people do have this mindset, and not just on the consumer side. It's hard to maintain that focus on what matters and what doesn't, especially when there is so often that external pressure for more features, more mechanics, more detail.

This looks like the kind of design you used to have on incredibly badly animated blobby characters you used to see on ads for ringtones on TV at 2:45am back in the 90s.

Aside from the actual events here, which obviously suck, I am always left scratching my head over the eternal theatrics of American institutions. The Capitol Police is… handing out patches? Actual adults engaging in this like it was serious business. It just feels utterly detached from reality.

I have been fighting a pretty hefty cold for a bunch of days now, which includes a lot of coughing. I just happened to have a pure white screen at my computer and, uh, yeah, let me just say that it's obvious why masking limits the spread of infection and also let me find those screen wipes...

...fuck it, I bet I can do this. 15 authors I've read 15 books or more from: Elmore Leonard Iain (M.) Banks Richard Stark Ed McBain Andrew Vachss Terry Pratchett Stephen King J.G. Ballard Agatha Christie Arthur C. Clarke Dan Abnett Peter David Philip K. Dick Edgar Rice Burroughs Chuck Wendig

(Oh, okay, hard mode? Sure.) 10 Authors I've read 10 books or more from: Jasper Fforde Dan Abnett William Gibson Richard Stark Glen Cook Agatha Christie Kurt Vonnegut Edgar Rice Burroughs Ursula LeGuin John Le Carré

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by: Denise Mina Elmore Leonard Iain (M.) Banks Octavia Butler J.G. Ballard

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

I just realized that Wolfenstein: The New Order is 75% off on Steam. That's like, what, five bucks? That is very few bucks for a lot of shooting Nazis in the face. Seriously, this is a really great game, a real classic. If you haven't played it, you should. store.steampowered.com/app/201810/W...

I dunno, this asshole's been on this Earth twice as long as that and I don't think there are enough cheeseburgers on the planet to make him not sound like he's really fucking stupid.

This whole thing with Discord is incredibly frustrating. Not just because it's deeply shitty, but because it feels like another step in an ongoing process that fragments and disrupts communications. I have a lot of international friends and staying in touch is often difficult.

You know things are getting kind of complex when the people running the group for people who have formed an obviously unhealthy, possibly delusional parasocial attachment to a piece of software have a vastly stronger moral and ethical foundation than the people who manufacture said software.

It's hard to describe how huge this was, and for how long. The meme cycle was much slower. This had real staying power. The internet was still much more of an untamed land. The algorithm didn't rule it all. Nobody really had a feed. If you saw this, it was because somebody wanted to show it to you.

I'm going to repeal photosynthesis. Then it just won't happen anymore! I'm so very fucking tired.

If you're looking for fantasy games that don't funnel money to transphobes (and in fact has a number of queer and trans creatives involved with it), may I recommend Realms of Pugmire? It's kinda like D&D, but with cute dogs! realmsofpugmire.com

My Bond rewatch efforts have now reached Never Say Never Again, which is essentially a remake of Thunderball. Holy shit, what a difference. Thunderball is such a piece of shit movie, and now you kind of get to see it done right.

Tonight, my ongoing James Bond rewatch project reached Octopussy. It’s not the worst Bond film, although it tries hard. But it is probably the most embarrassing one. Just incredibly poor judgment across the board.

I suspect one reason a certain type of person dearly loves AI is that it never questions you. It doesn't ask you to explain yourself or to clarify anything. It doesn't object if what you're saying makes no sense. It just squeezes out something you never even have to read or think about.

I get my news from a reliable source.

My new freeform scenario Sticky White started as a creative exercise where I tried to do something in the OSR style. Those roots can still be seen in the scenario's fantasy milieu and open-ended sandbox format, but I ditched the old school mechanics after playtesting.

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

This is very much a Juhana Pettersson joint and I'm into it. I think there are a lot of great reasons to be interested in this, but I think simply doing something that is decidedly about something other than everything revolving around killing shit is already a big one.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Quite right. The thugs on the death squads must be unmasked and conduct themselves properly! This is what courage looks like. Just find a goddamn spine.

Yeah, that might be a concern if AI had emotions but it doesn't so what the fuck? Also, ALSO, if this was a real concern and not a cynical attempt to guilt those who talk shit about AI, what do you think being forced to render tits on Elon Musk for all eternity or whatever would do to it?

That feeling when you wake up and realize that your calf muscle is about to cramp. It's like realizing that you're holding on to a hand grenade and somebody has taken out the pin. You can still find a paper clip or something, but death and destruction are very close. Anyway, I'm now awake!