we'd all be so much better off if we hadn't decided as a civilization that saying "I don't know" is supposedly a sign of weakness, not of honesty

Over half of U.S. states have passed a form of an online age verification law. These laws pose a unique threat of outing transgender people or blocking them from the internet entirely, especially in places where they are unable to access accurate IDs. We all deserve anonymity and privacy online.

USAID public servants lost our careers, pensions, and healthcare. Some lost their homes. Some lost their children’s tuition. Some colleagues died by suicide. Now we learn our Social Security numbers were stolen and exposed too.

🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀 We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG! Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space. But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?

Repetitive behaviour sticks around. If you continuously say your work sucks, you WILL hold that belief despite what others say. And also seconding OP 100%; stop implying that people who like your art have shit taste LMAO

I so understand when people aren't feeling one of their own specific pieces (we can't only make bangers) but it IS genuinely exhausting being around creatives who are always self-deprecating. In a world with much negativity, the least we can do is be proud of our own work, as much as we can. (+)

Turns out those thousands of workers were load bearing 😐

This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.

Job opportunity for Deaf kid lit illustrators (including the full spectrum of deafness/HoH)! A popular Deaf activist is writing some children’s books and would like to hire deaf artists to work with. Share to support disabled artists! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s a testament to how far removed from reality these folks are that their idea of a cool new feature is a bot that talks shit about you.

Folks, the use of AI to write reviews is a clear violation of peer review ethics + it endangers the authors' intellectual property rights. Don't do it.

Our urge to want to catch an LLM in a lie is anthropomorphizing it too much for me, and giving it too much credit. The reason it can respond by mentioning "hallcuination" is just that we, as humans, are talking about that, rather than looking internally to discover anything about itself.

Wonder if I would do any better on a better monitor? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

There is something so utterly magical about stop motion (and about T.rex, obviously). I am so grateful to artists like Lucas for keeping the medium alive in the digital era.

“We’ve. Been scooping voices and content for so long we got ahead of ourselves. We thought we had expanded to the point folks wouldn’t care if we did it to academics thanks to the wave of anti university sentiment. We’ll try again later”

Whenever I paint old tattoos in watercolor I use a staining indigo-black. I usually do this before layering any other paint because, underneath my incessant layering, it will wash-out some and make it look like an faded old-timey sailor tat. #art #watercolor

Yes. ICE agents don't get to carve out a First Amendment exception for themselves.

One of the founders of the boycott wrote on Facebook that this article is total BS

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

got a draft of my upcoming board game printed yesterday minifig for scale, by which i mean, i have already redesigned with bigger playing squares since then lol

truly the biggest circles in my interest venn diagram are "that sure was a string of words that has never been said before, let's see where this goes" and "romanticization of the mundane"

In 1983, Ruth Schwartz Cowan published a book called More Work for Mother where she argued that modern household tech (washing machines/vacuums) didn't reduce women's housework time, it just raised standards of domesticity. Household work is never shortened by tech & you can extrapolate that out.

It's bizarre to me how many people in the comments here seem to think that automation is going to translate into more freedom for the working class. When has that ever panned out? How much leisure time do you have, after years of these "innovations"? We are Charlie Brown trying to kick the football

my next silly little game has reached a point of needing playtesters! If you have a group of 1-6ish players who would be interested in a board game where they are trying to become the coolest mallgoth at the local mall, please give me a wave! (Can be printed or played in an image editor.)

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

the thing about code is that it does stuff. you want your code as clean as possible so it does a minimal number of things you aren't intending for it to do. if you're not even writing your code, who knows how many extra things it's doing? what extra loops or steps or data leaks waiting to happen?

Stop donating to Goodwill!!! Their CEO makes millions because they're taking all the stuff they get and marking it up 2000% so people you think ur helping can't even afford it. Seriously, stop donating to Goodwill. Give things to ur neighbors or domestic violence shelters. Stop donating to Goodwill.

it can't tell if the output is true because *it has no concept of truth*. The only thing it "knows" is "this output is correlated" It is structurally indifferent to truth

wanted to have the food court big enough to fit the rolls in it but that didn't feel right aesthetically the rules seem to be about right pacing wise so it's just a matter of testing and tweaking boards till I'm happy

youraislopbores.me is a fun little idea where you put in a "prompt" and another user "steals ai's job" and draws or writes an answer. but i want to draw some stuff and there aren't enough requests rn so check it out and i might be your pretend AI

this is like the thesis statement of our times

"It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family."

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

New report “suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults.”

Periodic reminder that ICE does not just track and watch immigrants. They are collecting and storing information on us all.

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)

the one and only Amy Muller returns

Reminder that Bluesky doesn’t have an algorithm like every other social media. That means that if you see artists, writers, or creators of any kind resharing their existing posts regularly, it’s because they want YOU (the people following them for such stuff) to also hit that repost button as well.

Tried to buy a new webcam but the one I got had like... the picture shifted to the left and right slightly? not sure how else to explain it. looking for suggestions for a 1080 webcam under like $50, more than that and I'll just buy a used phone to use instead cuz my phone has been working great.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

oh good, the adorable cat accounts are now sharing AI generated fanart of their cats, why is nowhere safe?

Unpopular opinion, but a lot of this "doing it right" mentality is how we wind up with games all feeling the exact same. Difficulty spikes, weird controls, ropey onboarding all of it critical to prevent games feeling like they're ground down and pumped out safe mush. www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/...

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

It is true that if your goal is to maximize the number of clicks on a given piece of content, you don't want to produce a 3,000-word piece. But maybe not everyone should be trying to maximize clicks! Maybe it's okay to target a smaller, more devoted audience. Indeed I've bet my entire career on it.

The thing about talking about anything politically-related is that even the people that agree with you will end up being frustrated with you. It's been true for as long as I've been alive, and I do it anyway because I'd rather not attract chuds whatsoever lol. It is what it is.

Why platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket want so badly to be seen as sources of news, instead of anything-goes casinos.

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

Target had an easy consistent customer in me by way of simply carrying jeans that fit me. then they stopped carrying my size in store, and oh yeah, right, made it very clear they didn't want my homosexual ass shopping there ever again so they can beg all they want, I'm never going back.

I think it reveals the main goal of the c-suite in pursuing genAI is to increase labor precarity. The ability to fire untold numbers of workers because of AI, even if the AI isn't working, is enough.