ROBOTS IN FICTION ARE ALMOST ALWAYS METAPHORS FOR LABORERS, THE ALIENATED, AND OUTCASTS — AKA: NOT REALLY ROBOTS DO NOT APPLY HUMAN METAPHORS TO MACHINES

me going to bed: whew, another fucking day. I hope I get some quiet reading time tomorrow! me waking up: i just had the worst nightmares ever, and hate my job, but tonight i will read me after work: if i don’t stun myself into submission with noise, I’m going to combust anyway I hope I get some q

Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?

Your mom is never going to believe you up until you literally leave. If she blames you, don't come back. If she blames Uncle Ted, she will make sure he shuts the fuck up because the person who only visits on holidays just left because of him. It's your only power

I always see lots of "here how to deal with your bigoted family" posts around this time and, you can just leave. Just go. That's your only power if you're one of the childless peripheral family member people "But I can't-" you can, trust me. Make it clear why and then leave

Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.

I know it’s easy to look at one off examples as niche, or frivolous, or expected glitches in such big systems, but this is the inevitable outcome of a small number of private, for profit platforms controlling massive amounts of our culture. They can ruin you for any reason or none at all.

MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension. She got the joke. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

rewatched THE FIRST OMEN with someone who has never seen it, and we all agreed it is a gorgeous, tactile, harrowing triumph with delicious acting

o abismo te olha e sorri

Hello!! Sadly this is me? Anyone need a video editor/media artist/motion designer with management experience?

Hey, weird life hack for my fellow artists: Turns out sleep is really good at getting rid of that weird permanent headache you've got for the past couple days. It's weird, and it sounded fake at first, but going to bed BEFORE sunrise seems to have done the trick for me

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.

EverQuest (1999)

Don't forget: If you've played and enjoyed Demonschool, please do leave a review on steam! We want to hit that "overwhelmingly positive" threshold. And remember, if we do it by the end of the month (5 days!), Faye gets a pretzel~ store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

Octopus Facts (rerun)

Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.

sign at work that says: “you don’t have to be crazy to work here… but our absurd procedures and demands are going to increase the likelihood of a mental health crisis”

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

ChatGPT is NOT alive and yet it IS stupid? God’s mysteries confound us all!

One of my fav podcast episodes we’ve ever done. I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending. Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever. bsky.app/profile/robd...

it feels really weird when, after spending 20 minutes trying to find a loose dog’s home while she truly threatened to bite me but was also running into the street toward cars, that when the human appeared, she almost entirely ignored me and addressed the dog. finally I said, “good luck!”

Happy possum

something grant me literally any serenity

No contract, no coffee. We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

Looking for work. I did all the visuals on this game. Concept art, animations, UX design and UI art. I've 20 years of experience. I'm ex Minecraft. Use me!

underappreciated how many people *lost the ability to read* things of any length after the 2016 election. Including me! It took a couple years for me to stop feeling like my brain was tearing itself apart in anything approaching silence … and not because anything “got better”

Wow! I've never seen it explained this well

New episode! We talk with the amazing Roland Betancourt about art, the allure of Byzantium, and the pull of teaching stuff where you live — so DISNEY Listen here or on your favorite podcast app… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

"If you are earning $80,000 with $79,000 in fixed costs, you are not stable. You are super-cooled water. One shock—a transmission failure, a broken arm—and you freeze instantly." We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles

Ten years apart Always shocks myself

studies are showing that building and running llm data factories causes more pollution and harm than burning them down once

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

I don't think we should drain the planet's drinkable water and build data centers that poison poor communities so people who are too lazy to put work into their lives can make shitty images or pretend they're talking to a real person

Literally all of society hates this abominable scam homunculus and the weird little death cult bubble of vampiric losers who spewed it forth upon the world. Take a break from bragging about how gullible you are and give yourself a swirlie and stuff yourself in a locker and sort yourself out.

Okay I’m conscious, now what? Stay like this? For hours? Good grief

That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.

this is what it's like, yeah.

Can we cotton other foods? Why just candy

More musings from the Deity series I’ve been noodling on. A WIP from a collection of cultist designs, a group of servants that worship the serpent themed Deity. I’m currently exploring their motifs, outfits, equipment and eventually their locations of worship.

Now I heard there was a tiny box Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah But though it promised games for free And mobile ports on your TV It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

if you’d like for anything designed for you before the year ends, you should reach out right away!

I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.

the ai push (like with twitter's changes since 2022) is a genuine effort to make online space unusuable, and make it impossible to access reliable information or organize efficiently.