I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

the argument for vibecoded recomps are silly. it took us 3 weeks to have unleashed recomp playable without using any AI. I coded xenonrecomp in like 2 weeks. the repetitive part where the AI can "potentially" save you time is actually the easiest part. making the game an actual PC port is way harder

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

the two outfits for men

I see people blaming like... dumb readings of movies on "the literacy crisis." I dunno man!! I think most people are often bad at understanding art, but historically we heard the voices of professional critics and now we hear the voices of everyone on earth at once.

Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen.

I knew that AI Darth Vader shit was gonna come around again eventually, we do not collectively hate Tim Sweeney enough.

A24 is issuing takedowns for all sorts of backrooms content on social media, as well as merch elsewhere right now, that have nothing to do with the movie. I feel like a lot of people were afraid this would happen. They just... own the backrooms concept now I guess. Frustrating

I feel this way about merch as well. Just make it or license it to someone who will. Might as well, right? Some money made on your thing is better than no money made on your thing.

Watching The Pitt and it occurs to me that every time a US-based medical show hits "I don't have insurance" and it becomes its own crisis, for almost the entire rest of the world it suddenly becomes a sci-fi dystopia. We're numb to it, but the base concept of "No money = you die" is hideous.

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

thanks but i’ll let you know when i want opinions on technology from the man who retconned his own movies to make them worse

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

weird way to write: The gov't deciding produce companies could police themselves again was a bad idea, something we learned a long time ago that was why we invented things like the FDA in the first place.

This is such a wild headline. "Selfish consumers dont have enough money to feed themselves. How will the Food Companies survive?!"

Raffi you’re so right

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

It is impressive that AI might actually scale *worse* than Blockchain.

The worst part is that Serkis had an easy out to this gotcha where he could have just said 'it's a prequel using pre-existing characters and locations and we weren't considering more drastic recasting choices' but instead went off the deep end and started talking about Shire border control policy.

Warming my cucumbers to 160 degrees and googling “diarrhea near me” as I salute the flag of my great nation

every 5 months you hear "Joe Rogan is turning on Trump" from people in the media who don't actually watch rogan and take the bait like it's susan collins casting a line when in reality this is literally what he says almost every single day about democrats including fucking yesterday

dear democrats: anything short of a concerted policy of scorched earth retribution against every one of these criminals, from the president down to the interns betting on Kalshi, means the end of 'the American experiment'

I repeat. Roblox is the worst thing that's happened to the video game industry.

They don’t care about fertility any more than they cared about women’s sports. They want to own women and children as property. The only real fascist goal is domination. They have no other. The rest is just whatever lie they’re currently telling to disguise that fact.

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

not being able to move on from a fandom is stunted growth. fandom has gotten weirdly reactionary about this but it’s true. if you can’t let go of characters created by someone suing amnesty international for identifying her as a bigot and need to be told that’s just fine you are not a serious person

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

welcome to America, where you don’t know if a bullet or a piece of lettuce is going to kill you

Feels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary

the Suno hack "reveals"/reminds that these companies do not give a shit about artists, people, culture, their customers, or one God damned thing besides making money off other people's work they are as festering rot on a wet board, and of equivalent value

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

George Lucas being pro AI isn’t surprising at all when you remember that he was the poster child for sloppily filling his films with digital effects because of his dislike of the on set practical filmmaking experience and replacing the hard work of those who came before to suit his vision

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

Here are some otters in hats to complete your day.

literally this meme:

Jill Sandwich #residentevil #fanart

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

democrats need to get all-in on anti-data center. yesterday.

w....wait.... you mean to tell me.... gulps..... putting money into the arts.......is profitable and..........produces............g-good outcomes for everyone?

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Lot of bad things here but "teen CPD employee" is one of them.