Once I learn how to Sakuga it’s over for these mfs 🥺🤜🏾💥

Please stop spreading the odious rumor that Elon Musk hangs out normally or has friends.

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

lol I went from and iPhone 7 to an iPhone 16 and I intend to make this one last just as long My Cintiq is at least 15 years old, Wacom doesn't even have its drivers easily accessible anymore My PCs last about 10 years on average I AM IMMUNE TO YOUR PLEAS, CNBC

#AB412 received overwhelming support. Bcuz countless orgs & individuals spoke up, we secured a special legislative hearing to keep moving the ball forward for this bill. Hearing is being held in the heart of Silicon Valley, SHOW UP! RSVP here: bit.ly/44lRMsX #CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

let it rain on us forever

tech companies continually learning people don't want these things

Pleasantly surprised to learn that this video is actually about cool game UI (among a dozen other topics, it's a chaotic watch) The most important point here is that the primary reason we're getting less varied and experimental interfaces in games is... the economy youtu.be/Zc3D-5ZyQpI

So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng

Democrats need to campaign on destroying meta as a lesson and example

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

Skull-y

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Mileships folk

it's wild to think that about one CEO ago ago, people were looking at Google and Apple as brands they wore in their personal lives as badges of honour and in the space of less time than it takes a cicada to mature the consensus is now that they are the enemy of public safety

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

Whoa it's almost like this entire cultural movement is based on fake bullshit at every level and our leaders should stop letting fucking social media dictate policy

evergreen

hey it's my birthday look at this cool bug i found

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

Hey I just met you And this is crazy But here's my prayer So consecrate me

The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.

i call the big one bitey

Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome: - Right-click - Unpin Gone!

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do -- MAMDANI: Active perception check. DM: ...that's a natural 20 MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

i'm gonna try a real one in a bit but first,

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

I have never felt so seen I will scream an ear off about the tyranny of bloodless, joyless, rote hyperrealism for HOURS

"A real person can also tell you, gently, when you’re getting kind of weird because you’re mostly talking to a chatbot and you need to stop." from @adrienneso.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/google...

If It Doesn't Exist, MAKE IT. Aka. The motivational bnuy. #originalart

Turning off the AI in Gmail causes your account to no longer slit your emails up through Primary, Promotions, and Social. That's because Google is a petulant little bitch who doesn't like that you told them to fuck off with their bullshit slop scam.

Google [pointing a gun at your gmail account]: now listen to me very carefully, if you want to keep using this you’re going to keep Gemini on. You love Gemini, everyone loves it, everyone needs it.

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

Late, but I wanted to jump in on this trend. While I love Fieren, I am deeply inspired by how brave this person was! They went for the hard thing, were curious, made us all rejoice and draw together! It makes me so happy to see folks gain that artistic curiosity! So go forth! Rooting for you! 💖

whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

I was on a pro vs anti ai panel the other day and this is what I was trying to say but I’m not as smart The point of playing a game of chess is not to achieve the quickest possible route to victory for one side in a chess game, it is to have and perform those thoughts and actions yourself and grow.

said this as a joke but honestly,,

💙🧡Art tip vs the Outcome🧡💙

Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane Support Blender today!!!

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

Another render of a character with the new pack of brushes that I have made.

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.