I'm sorry, what the fk? Police can just search you and your car without cause anywhere in the CBD. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I think we all knew that Americans would eventually discover lamb and would not at all be cool about it.

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

I know someone who takes the worst fruit at the supermarket because they hyper-empathise with the ugly fruit not getting picked. This is what humans do.

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG mr.funkys0ul

I’m getting to the point where my only reaction to headlines like this is “no they won’t”

Oh, so when some rando publishes Wizard of Oz fanfic it becomes a musical and a movie, but when I write Sonic/Luigi mpreg slash, I get banned from the Taco Bell forums. Make it make sense

Because fake voices are just making human-adjacent sounds from words, they can't read things in a way that's easy to listen to. No emphasis, emotion, or phrasing. These are all things we rely on for aural shortcuts to parse what's being said to us. Fuck. Synthetic. Audiobooks.

There just isn't a good reason to be using this garbage tech.

I didn't. I made a series of thematically similar but unrelated decisions over the course of ~15 years.

Okay this clarifies some mythology for me.

Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.

Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Saw a book called "No Poltics But Class Politics" written by a group comprising only men. It could be awesome, but the only picture in my mind is 4 dudes patting each other on the back going "Yes, I think we 4 men have covered everything that matters to everyone we can think of."

Hello weekend, goodbye 'puter 💻❌ #art #embroidery

Most people do not know that these things are full of shit. So of course they don't know they're asking something that is full of shit to tell them whether or not this other thing is full of shit.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-175

I just want a hotdog where the bun is a croissant with Monterey Jack melted on it.

American “public health” has been fully remade into the eugenics based view that the weak will die and the strong survive. This is fascism 101 and it’s the use of natural methods to enact genocide. It’s a form of auto genocide and part of MAHAs expressly murderous plan globally.

🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation. If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc. We got 3 days to stop this. Call now! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

"Oh you liked that one specific series where the main character happens to be a boy? Then you should watch these 25 other, almost completely unrelated series where the main character is also a boy." - Anime fans when asked for recs

A cynical person might think putting money into the far distant second in chatbot bullshittery the day before Nvidia releases their earnings report is to trick investors into feeling like everything is fine actually.

the mind of the artist

No. There's not. Generative chatbots are, at best, dangerous toys. If you use it and don't notice how bad their output is, maybe you just didn't particularly care about what you do, or weren't particularly good at it, or both.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Aftermath is good

I don't need combat in my city builders. A bunch of the time it feels like something stickytaped to the side. You spend all this time and brain power creating a machine focused on bettering your citizens' lives, then you gotta go throw army toys at another city. More and/or bigger army toys? I win.

Lol Google is telling me there's only 2 1/2 pages of News results for "pope." They've been restricting search result numbers to force people to do multiple searches, but this is the worst example from my daily life. This might be the thing that actually forces me to use another search engine.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-35

Job listings for producers where the role is barely minimum wage, short term, no benefits, and the project that is "launching soon" is in critical danger of collapsing in on itself after years of mismanagement and burnout

Hello! It's been a year and some change since I was laid-off from my previous job, and I'd love a new one. My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!

A company I'm on a mailing list for sent an email that had slop images in it. So I complained. I complained to Qantas about their AI-voiced safety announcement. I will complain at any company that puts that shit in front of me. Does it do anything? Idk. Still gonna do it. AI is not "good enough."

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-41

There are many people out there who live better lives than us, so they're not online enough to know what a huge doofus this guy and every other empty black t-shirt and jeans vaguely involved with "tech" is. "He must be smart to get where he is though." No. The universe isn't fair. He's a dipshit.

Yeah, this is a point that is increasingly lost under the mire of sludge. I feel for all the OG proc gen folk and the OG game AI programmers who now have to explain "No, not that kind of AI" every time..

regular content updates for years because that is what the gamers who bought it for $5 in a sale deserve.

so much of project management is this

I love Aftermath. But it is also very funny that this crop is the perfect Games Conference/Company Starter Pack where 3 of them would be Josh.

This isn't the first nation to find they end up with some morale issues amongst troops tasked with committing a genocide. History tells us how at least one of those nations decided to alleviate that strain.

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

I love/hate watching ladder matches. Coz wrestling might be "wrestling" but that shit just hurts no matter how you slice it.

Commemorating fellow Vicious Pursuit trainee Matty Romano's glorious return to the ring the only way I know how. Vaguely sacrilegious imagery.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

Today I hit myself in the face with another wrestler. Learning experiences are great.

Commemorating fellow Vicious Pursuit trainee Matty Romano's glorious return to the ring the only way I know how. Vaguely sacrilegious imagery.

Anyone who disrespects QA should get out of the industry, tbh. QA is so much more than finding bugs or typos, it's your first exposure to consumer feedback. It's a crucial part of developing the user experience. Without human QA, you don't deserve human players.