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With the rise of AI and... well, everything's that is happening, really—I urge you all to read. There's a dismantling of Humanities for a reason, so you should read: fiction, poetry, History, everything. Take with you the lessons of previous generations, make your life richer, learn new things.

do you ever stop to think how we had achieved utopic level search engine where you could legit ask anything and worked perfectly and we gave it up to a robot thats wrong 40% of the time

The American Astronaut - 2001

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

"the machine we're forcing into everything that is killing the planet will always be fundamentally untrustworthy" what a time to be alive

Ha! What? I've never played an Assassin's Creed game. I sampled the revolutionary war one and hated that the controls didn't feel like Batman Arkham (a topic for another day.) I would definitely be more interested in playing a Black Flag remake if it didn't have the sci-fi parts.

The Machine Stops podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

OpenAI won't say whose content its video tool was trained on. So @nitasha.bsky.social & @kevinschaul.bsky.social did a deep dive and turned up some telling clues... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

“Tech leaders at WSJ’s Technology Council Summit said it’s nearly impossible to measure the impact of AI on business productivity.” Except that MIT already has. m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...

it turns out making art is spiritually and emotionally fulfilling. has anyone looked into this

Those That Inherit the Earth Vol. 1 is live on Kickstarter! If an episodic tale of an opossum and an astronaut living in a sword and sci-fi world sounds like your thing, this book is for you

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” These stories show what happens when it’s the other way around."

Say what you will about Trump, he did an amazing job of appointing people to cabinet positions who are extremely good at utterly destroying the organizations they oversee.

MAKING the art is the POINT

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind." >>

horizontally flipped video should be illegal

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Hey Des Moines, I heard you like jokes!

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Why haven't they made another Mark of the Ninja? Or why hasn't someone else made a similar side-scrolling stealth game?

feeeees duuude. 5% already feels huge, then stripe/paypal is another fuckin slappp if you're an artist taking comms online, PLEASE be exporting your paypal/vgen/stripe summary at the end of the year and claiming those fees as a deductible. i have somethin like $900usd of fees to report every year

Hey Des Moines, I heard you like jokes!

We had been calling this shit out ages ago with ghost jobs As soon as you make it a machine handling all the decisions it's no longer about people but "efficiency" even if it's only in data and has no actual benefit

New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

I wish Cave Story had as many vocal fans as Hollow Knight.

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

This is great for many reasons. But I also love how it describes the social class disconnect I always feel at tennis tournaments, even the smaller ones.

Gen A.I. is the new radium.

Wow! So while I still wish this case would’ve gone to trial, and believe the amount given per work should have been EVEN higher, $1.5 billion in settlement AND the destruction of infringing datasets is still a fantastic start! Congratulations to all those involved as these things are not easy!

new yorker

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

I guess I'm an expert on War of the Worlds (2025) without ever watching it - having listened to or watched all of these: 1-900-HOTDOG www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIR4... Drew Gooden www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3D... HDTGM www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4yj... Plus another podcast I can't remember.

A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

YESSS. Galaxycon made an announcement about it today!! Hope the other cons follow suit

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

I haven't done Swordtember in years so I decided to give a shot at a short prompt list from @milkyblood.bsky.social . 14 themes, first one up is Snake! (Saber and whip-sword mix) #swordtember #dndart

If you actually have a reasonable budget to hire an artist for your project, TELL THEM IN YOUR INITIAL EMAIL TO THEM. Right off the bat. Here is the project, this is what I can pay, this is the deadline. We get so many time wasters it’s remarkably refreshing when a potential client is upfront

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets. 🔗 www.404media.co/hackers-thre...

I just backed @ianface.bsky.social's Tomb of the Pale Horse & you should too! Ian's secret sauce is telling a story thick w dread but rooted in deep themes - It's not so heavy-handed the thrills get lost but also not just a cheap jump scare thrill ride www.kickstarter.com/projects/ian...

AI grifter scammed their way into Dragon Con. The staff had them escorted out, lmao you love to see it

I’m making tacos

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

shout out to @edzitron.com who is the whole reason my story this week exists -- he turned me on to the trend! go read Ed: www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Pronouncing falafel like Paula Pell.

Posting mirrored video is so unhinged

If you wrote a speculative fiction series in the 90s that looked like IRL 2025, how would it be received?