I used to be able to make my taskbar show up on the bottom of my top screen but now it will only go on my bottom screen period even though the top one is set to my primary... why do they have to change things...

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there's still plenty of pain wheel to be spun and it's down to $25 a spin, come torture a zombie?

A Bloomberg analysis found that most profits on Polymarket went to a tiny slice of accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate. The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins.

I genuinely think that in the future we’re going to look back at this current era of “the internet is obviously deeply broken for everyone, and in response, we’re going to dismantle internet privacy while pretending it’s for the good of children” with deep embarrassment. Rather like Prohibition.

I really do think a lot about how big tech systematically destroyed all the reasonably-safe places intended specifically for kids online…. and now powerful interests are turning around and claiming that we have to destroy Internet privacy because being online is obviously dangerous for kids.

also sometimes people just don't want to see NSFW content without warning being pro-NSFW is both advocating for it AND properly tagging it for folks who don't want to see it (for any reason) just because I don't want to eat what's on their menu doesn't mean i want their table empty, yknow?

25 years ago: "i'm sorry Mrs. Smith but your 14 year-old son Charlie downloaded a Metallica album off Napster and now he's being sued for $1 million & might go to jail" Today: "we fed every song in existence into our model what the fuck do you mean we have to pay for it? that's ridiculous!!!"

Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.

We created technology that killed people, then forced those people to change their behavior around the technology lest they be killed. And it worked so well that we're doing it again, but with agreement thief robots this time!

There is a thrill in this. There guys are PUSHING SO HARD. They’re relentlessly doing interviews, writing articles and pushing propaganda. They’re used to everyone buying their bullshit!! But this time everyone’s like “nah”. It must feel inexplicable for them and that is so satisfying.

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they don’t like being reminded that things like being toxic and violent are choices, which other men aren’t making, because that just draws attention to the fact that they ARE quite deliberately choosing it. they need it to feel biologically immutable and core to their nature to justify it

So as soon as Unreal 6 is shown as the engine, the entire game goes in the trash. It sure is getting easy to whittle down what I care about

I hope someone, somewhere cracks down on this shit. It’s basically akin to breaking into someone’s shop and stealing all their wares to sell elsewhere. Another example of why GenAI sucks and should be taken down.

This thread is wild. Someone witnessed a prime example of letting a corporation take over your brain.

It is how society sells us so much of everything: Degrade and create a feeling of inferiority, and then say ______ will help you (/ is what you need) to be ok and acceptable.

I actually had a conversation with the keynote speaker afterwards, and told him what a shame it was that he allowed an LLM to make him believe in his own worthlessness. I tried to reason with him: "That's exactly what these companies want you to believe, and it's ridiculous." He was unmoved..

I just want to do something that gets people excited for once

we also know from the saga of facebook that "real names make people behave better" is somewhere between Total Horseshit and A Fucking Lie depending on who's pushing that idea. but advertisers and data brokers fucking *love it*

while extroversion vs introversion is overall just another bogus binary, it's still important to know approximately where you fall on the scale this is not only so you can budget your own energy accordingly, but so you can remember that not everyone has the same social needs as you.

This is actually similar to what happened with the ozone layer. Growing up I was told the hole in the ozone was a foregone conclusion, and unlikely to ever heal Humanity, despite impressions, can work miracles But just like then, DONT LET LOSERS PRETEND WE DIDNT HAVE TO WORK OUR BUTTS OFF FOR IT

Keep your whimsy. Even if it makes you look "cringe". Just cause you're older doesn't mean you have to drop things you liked as a kid or still enjoy. We lose so much of ourselves cause of fear of judgment but you will realize that noone really gives a fuck in the long run. Allow yourself happiness.

I remember a coworker who left or was contemplating leaving the game studio I was at; their thinking was like "If I'm gonna be this stressed out, I might as well be making more money developing traditional (or non game) apps"

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

while extroversion vs introversion is overall just another bogus binary, it's still important to know approximately where you fall on the scale this is not only so you can budget your own energy accordingly, but so you can remember that not everyone has the same social needs as you.

For people who think that AI is inevitable or worry it is, I made starter packs of game devs refusing to use AI, and in less than 24 hours had more than 200 devs ask to be included. Creatives don't want this and won't use it. You just need to support those who won't use it.

I am once again reminded that talking about my books does actually work (at least here on Bluesky) since once again people have been responding to my recent posts like "just bought it!" so everyone who buys a book or adds it to a TBR from an author's Bluesky post, be sure to tell us!

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so i think my best bet for how to place my phone for cooking streams might actually be a heavy duty suction cup mount on the front of the microwave? anyone got any suggestions for one? i need one that either already has a full swivel cell phone mount or with a standard mount thread

Cheap art collecting tip: Buy a little photo album with plastic sleeves. Buy cheap art like stickers and postcards from artists and put them in the photo album so you can look at them like a book.

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Every so often, some washed up sitcom dude do this sort of thing where they pretend that they made some truly edgy and controversial comedy that couldn't be made today, and it's just like... you're saying this about THE OFFICE?

More people are devoted to "You couldn't make Blazing Saddles now" than have watched the movie.

Hey! You know what! CALLING ALL INDIE GAME DEVS! Do you HATE genAI? Do you swear your game does not use genAI INCLUDING using genAI like Claude? SHARE IT HERE! I will share them! I will check them all out! I will definitely play some of them! Many if I can afford! SHARE! YOUR! ART!

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

BUT IT'S NOT OVER YET!

If your game (or whatever other project or art you work on) gets caught using genAI the only response I want to see is an apology and commitment to not use in the future. There’s no justification at this point using technology that pollutes communities and steals labor.

he's $80 away from the final main goal, come help sentence him to more days of this nonsense

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

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I’d love to hear about your favorite TTRPs, including solo ttrpgs, especially if they: - Are narratively/structurally experimental - Explore topics like death, grief, identity, community, liberation - Are made by/for queer, disabled, indigenous, and/or BIPOC people Fuck off if AI was used tho.

my cousin takes their garden very seriously

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does anyone have a suggestion for a good phone mount to clamp onto a cabinet door? the particular gooseneck I was using got mad about being repositioned so frequently. (need something i can point down at the stove)

one of the hardest truths about cleaning up the mess is that it always takes so much longer to fix the things that are broken than it took to break them. just refilling all the government positions for the people who were fired/quit is going to take years

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

the Library of Alexandria has burned 10,000 times and will burn 10,000 more before it’s all said and done