WE ARE LIVE FUCK ICE ABOLISH ICE PROSECUTE THE MASKED STATE TERRORISTS IN THE STREETS

CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER IT IS WORKING CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Announcing ICE Breaker: A charity speedrun event by myself & @rrlat.bsky.social on Jan 30 - Feb 1 to support Minnesotans in defending from ICE. Submit runs: oengus.io/marathon/ice... Volunteer: forms.gle/51HEcBmhUC8X... Run submissions close Sunday. Volunteer apps have a soft deadline of Saturday

Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

It rules so hard that this interview got big enough for the NYT to try to do firefighting and that Trans News Network said fuck off we don't owe you column space.

It's that time of year again: GDQ is here! I've gone on record before and said that it would take something terrible to keep me from going to GDQ, I've been attending every event since 2019! Unfortunately I believe that something terrible is indeed happening.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

This current Steam Winter sale is one of our best in the last 10 years. 12k units sold and climbing. A huge relief since we just went through an expensive move. On behalf of myself and all the WEG devs, thank you all. 🙏☺️

The IGAs Nomination Committee is officially retracting Debut Game and Game of the Year, awarding both categories to new recipients. Additionally, we are retracting one of the Indie Vanguard recipients. Full details can be found in our FAQ under Game Eligibility: www.indiegameawards.gg/faq

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Hey, there's that thing we all knew was coming. If you were playing Fortnite, it's time to stop. These companies gotta get the message that there are just some things we won't tolerate just for the sake of entertainment.

you are not strong enough to use linux. oh sure the OS is fine. but you are not prepared for being the throwaway punchline for every third windows user after they complain that copilot won't let them log in now until they write an essay extolling the virtues of doritos

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

Vinny Jebaits All of Chat

Game Awards last year took place during a videogame strike against AI The strike wasn’t mentioned or acknowledged despite many VO performers working on the games that are heralded every year and even appearing on stage This year a game that features AI voiceover gets a podium to accept an award.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

I forgot to celebrate the one year anniversary of CEO Brian Thompson in his sobriety from alcohol! 🎉 never forget Dec 4 and FREE LUIGI!

Have u ever considered the possibility the reason they hit u with "Gen Z Stare" is you keep saying asinine shit

Y'all think "as a running joke, we are referencing the name of a song we like!" is "brainrot"? Please. You are baby. Exposure to 60 seconds of Dada would kill you instantly. Y'all're the motherfuckers who started fistfights in the audience of Victory Over the Sun (1913) because you "didn't get it"

so insanely fucking real for this

For a while I’ve been like “why hasn’t Tom Waits come out with anything lately” and then realized he’s well past retirement age. I hope he’s enjoying his life.

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Our modern subscription hellhole is aggressively anti-ownership and the kids know it

so many cool, inventive and interesting animated projects none of you even knew were being made for the past few years just got shitcanned because of this netflix/wb merger When you're like "geez there's no animation jobs" "geez there's like no new shows anymore", this is why

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

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 beat King's Field III last night and was deeply unprepared for the narrator's voice performance in the final text crawl

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

Can't wait for GTA6 to sweep the indie awards next year

I normally avoid caring much about awards, but the TGA nominations actually suck ass. Clair Obscur hogs up fully half of the best performance nominations, and for some reason is listed in both of the indie categories as well. That overrepresentation might be "justified" by hype, but excludes others.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Ooh, "sloppers" is much better than "clankers". Focuses on the actor (the user/peddler), and the undesirable action, rather than a vague class of tools. Also seems to avoid the weird slur-esque vibes (as in Cylon/toaster) (and I'm guessing this is part of the motivation)

Bon-AT-hon is live! Join us for a day of soeedruns and grub collection all while raising money for ARF Hamptons! www.twitch.tv/thewoofs We’ve already locked in 12 hours, so stop by!

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Do you like fun? Would you welcome a distraction from a world that is increasingly exhausting to perceive? Then I've got good news for you:

Ei mitä vittua teen aws:n kanssa joka päivä töitä ja tämä on silkkaa hulluutta. yle.fi/a/74-20191502

Had to share this from twitter just because

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

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