Heartbreaking words from Dr. STONE mangaka Boichi, who decided to stop posting art on X because of the implementation of the GenAI Edit button and who has been so distressed by its hostile, destructive purpose to destroy other artists' works that he hasn't been able to eat properly since Christmas😢

Don't make me tap the sign.

Wishing every JP artist a very "join bsky so I can see your art again"

Users are noticing Twitter/X has added a Grok-powered AI image editor that lets anyone edit any image on the platform, including other people’s artwork using text prompts. Artists warn there’s no opt-out or consent, raising concerns over unauthorized edits and misuse.

University of Utah's School of Computing found and recovered a magnetic tape with the only known copy of Unix v4, the first version of the operating system, written in that shiny newfangled language known as C. In it's source is the famous code comment "you are not expected to understand this".

Part 2 of Megalag's Honey investigation dropped. TL;DR: "Honey captures any hidden coupon codes it sees & leaks them via its app, damaging a coupon's analytics." But isn't that the app's point? ML's part 1 vid about Honey stealing affiliate cred was legit, but part 2 is a Honey sales pitch to me.

Show me how your 2025 went.

Season 3 of The Orville pulls zero punches. In some ways it out Star Treks even Star Trek. Huge jump in production quality over previous seasons, too. Hope it gets a 4th season, though under the current climate (both in terms of the industry and politics) I sadly give that long odds.

Another few episodes into Magic Knight Rayearth and there's a new character, "Ferio", for Crunchyroll's closed captions to abuse. It gets it right a few times, but then there's also "fairy" and "vireo", and a bonus one of calling both Fuu and Feiro "Pharaoh". @marzgurl.com

'bugs bunnying' is the perfect term, because it invariably involves doing almost literally this to an LLM chatbot

"PETA decided to openly tarnish the legacy of a dead animal, and the backlash that they experienced was _biblical_." www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFaw...

Tried to watch Grenadier. Aborted after disc 1, couldn't find it in me to do disc 2. Was told it was Trigun with... boobs. Indeed there were boobs as promised, but Trigun it was not, for substance it had not. And since teen I am not, my middle-aged ass needs more than boobs to keep my attention.

Someone has just restored "Daicon 3" from a rare 8mm copy. It's the best version to date. >> archive.org/details/zgfp...

Currently watching The Orville. Nearly finished with season 2. My ~75yr old mother's commentary is as entertaining as the show itself. "This is such a pervy show! That guy got another guy pregnant? And he laid an egg? And the captain had an affair with his XO? And the doctor did it with a slime?!"

I remember watching this at a college anime club. Each episode is double length, which helps its part slice of life, part action plot. Also kinda apropos given the duality of the young protagonist(s?) themselves. A forgotten gem that deserves more attention. Hopefully a Blu-ray is in its future.

the 90s was crazy because they'll be like "yea this show was completely unremarkable bargain bin slop, forgotten dime-a-dozen mass produced garbage forgotten as soon as it came out" and the show looks like this

Welp... wccftech.com/sk-hynix-war...

The DS_Store Goldmine: How a Hidden macOS File Is Exposing Sensitive Data and Database Credentials Online + Video Introduction: A seemingly innocuous system file, .DS_Store, is becoming an unexpected treasure trove for threat actors and security researchers. Automatically created by macOS Finder…

This is possibly the first of what is going to be a regular occurrence and will ruin the internet.

SRT subtitles used to launch malware payload. www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/l... (Image credit: @jamieantisocial on Xwitter.)

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

These kids are alright. And as pretty much everything becomes enshittified, this trend is no surprise.

I love the convenience of streaming, but for any movie or show that I really love, I want to own a physical copy. The quality often better, and it is much less likely to disappear suddenly if a license expires or a company merges out of business. And disks often have cool extras.

www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewto... Oh my goodness a SEGAGAGA translation patch is imminent

I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

This is also from Fate/Zero's AI closed captions on Crunchyroll, and I didn't wanna post from the same series twice, but imagine comically fucking up the iconic 🎵A-NI-PLEX🎵 jingle.

Netflix buying WB terrifies me, but there's a chance they're not full of shit about continuing theatrical and other legacy businesses. Neo-Paramount is VERY untested and early indications see them veering towards dude-bro crap. They could crash. WB by itself was over, we need to accept that.

Please tag me if you see any anime that appears to plainly be using AI transcriptions for closed captions. That's CLOSED CAPTIONS (SDH) for ENGLISH DUBS, not subtitles for Japanese audio. I wanna publicly keep track of some of these and start holding platforms accountable.

Ruh roh...

Amazon, no. You cannot tell me that bleeding hemorrhoid of a "dub" you did to Banana Fish was at all vetted by a human. -"AI-aided processes like this one, which incorporate the right amount of human expertise, can enable localization for titles that would not otherwise be accessible to customers."

That high feel you feel when you've finished writing a ~75 page security SOP. That low feel you feel when you realize that few will probably bother to read it unless there's an oh-shit moment.

The studio I work at doesn't use AI in any of its ADR workflows nor wishes to. But the FOMO is real. Clients we lose to AI don't expect “good.” They expect “good enough” that you won't complain... much. How this all goes depends on fans being crystal clear that AI slop will never be "good enough."

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

This is actually as bad as an early 2000s hentai dub. These AI chodes have been circling anime trade shows for a few years now. Little wonder Amazon was first to bite. 🙄

The thing about fansubs is regardless of anything else that may be going on, ultimately fansubs are made by someone who *really cares about what they're making*. That actually was true at one time at Crunchyroll. It is not true now.

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

It is currently 4:20am on Thanksgiving, and there is a line at Porto’s in Burbank stretching half a block.

On MacOS 26: Me: "Oh I need to save this image" Safari: "I am sorry Dave I cannot let you do that" Finder: "You've got 138Mb left only!!" Me: "But, but I'm saving only a 700kb image??!!! gosh darn it." *dismiss Save Dialog* Finder: "You now have 3Gb space" Huh?

It's interesting how this all flows from a single regulatory requirement: Steam asks developers to disclose GenAI usage on their store page, while no other store does this

Currently watching 16bit Sensation. It is hitting me right in the nostalgia.

Just finished watching Wolfwalkers. The word "exquisite" does not even begin to do justice in describing it. Ultra-highly recommend. I'm more than a little saddened that no US Blu-Ray for it is available.

This is awful, and Diaz has QTP'd that they have insider info that @crunchyroll.com execs consider the current backlash against their enshittification of subtitles too small to matter. They've bent to backlash before tho with trying to lower video quality. This is an important one, anime fans.

My favorite piece of content today.

Slowly working on the world’s most pointless game of spot the difference. Have at least 3 more unique copies inbound. …on another note, if anybody is in the market for far too many copies of Ghost in the Shell on DVD once I’m done documenting these, I may know a guy

Google Gemini is so not ready for prime time. Great for short questions & tasks, but if writing... oh, I dunno, a 15 page policy document with deep context it melts like an ice sculpture in the Sahara, and with every new prompt it thinks you're asking something from like 50 prompts ago.

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

LP, LP, ➜, LK, HP. I went back redid my Homer Akuma. This time with synched mouth and tweaks.

Theater for Virgin Punk in absolute shocked silence as nobody knew they had bought tickets for a 35min movie