#uspolitics Horrific stuff in here, be forewarned

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Nearly every cut is justified by "AI" magic beans, the Canadian government is a joke www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

can the deaths and lawsuits and general growing contempt outpace ai's total conquest of the economy before this shit literally destroys the world. lol

The best thing you can do to help your favorite author is to pre-order 150,000 copies of their next book.

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Like everything involving AI if any of it did any of the things they claimed it can do we would see this first hand and wouldn’t have to be awash in endless PR making these untrue claims

warframe has this special absurd magic that lets both "a captain hunts a ghost ship across the void of space while haunted by the voices of her dead crew" and "apocalypse via boy band" are both plot points that make perfect sense

#uspolitics 😌

So not only is Square Enix going to try to replace 70% of its QA with AI, it's also apparently laying off at least 100 people (possibly significantly more) as it continues to consolidate its operations further and further: www.ign.com/articles/squ...

Wait….. lol

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Games industry forces RTOs (often involving moving cities for a job that may not exist in a few months) because being in office together on zoom is just ~*so heckin valuable*~ but then replaces as many people as they can get away with with chatbots because the human connection doesn’t matter Hmm!

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-... I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Even if you think you don't have this set to hide, check again. Mine had changed itself since I last looked.

i love when i log into something and it tells me some shit like Notification Hub is now Alert Village

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”

I'm SO excited for the next season of TWIOAT 👀

At least once a year I think "I could be a decent actor" and then immediately "Oh I'd have to physically emote. With my face."

the word "snark" anywhere in the bio/profile on here is kinda like how some poisonous frogs are bright flashy colors

“I think you mean…” “You forgot…” “[any reply that starts with an asterisk]” Sssh. Sssshhh. I have thought about making broth from your bones.

NPC dog traversal algorithm worked! The calculated jump vector to get the correct jump arc was flawless! Only I had messed up another algorithm, so the dog went to the opposite side of the platform to initiate the jump Wishlists would be super appreciated: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Don't cross a picket line.

really hope this is the last time this photo and the word 'bloodbath' share a headline

Jenna, distressed about her hand: "I have disease :(" Me, supportive partner: "diSEASE NUTS :)"

PSA: There's an antimicrobial preservative in some hand creams that will release formaldehyde as it decays, so be careful using products even if they don't technically have an expiry date... Unrelated, guess how we learned Jenna is allergic to formaldehyde?

I'd been waiting for this option and somehow it happened without me even noticing!

They should really add the ability to whitelist accounts. The "following over 10k" auto modlist is indispensible for improving the experience in this app, but there's this one guy who actually interacts with my posts despite following 12k people who I feel a bit bad for not being able to unmute 😅

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

Captain Torture

Took me four days to realize I'd written Motorcycle instead of Bicycle... Of course nobody has heard of the version that doesn't exist.

BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR

This labeller never misses

Feel it

You pretty much have to tax extreme wealth and use that money to fund public works, because when you let that amount of money concentrate in private hands it only gets spent on child things, to everyone else's detriment. You let kids hold all your money and they're never gonna spend it on groceries.

There's a new Coca-Cola commercial and they made a big deal about it being AI again. If you happen to see it, notice how every shot is about one second long before jumping to a new shot that is only vaguely related. Notice how the roofs change between shots of the truck. This is Coca-Cola money.

This rules youtu.be/fdI1ZJtAJmI?...

The toll AI has taken on already-overworked educators is not talked about enough, IMO. How can you know if your students are actually learning?

A new, abstract tale about Dracula - starring Danish actors Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl - is coming in 2026. Directed by Simon Macko. Produced by Skjaldborn. More info coming soon! We are so excited to share more about this short film!

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today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.