Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

breaking non-AI tools to "encourage" adoption of AI tools is very "de-fund this public resource in order to privatize it" kind of thing isn't it

Why be the CEO of a software company when you hate code so much?

Vote emotionally. What could possibly go wrong.

Replace CEOs with AI.

Why is the bunch of things wrapped around an AI model called a harness? Why is the AI model not called a dog?

there's an edtech SaaS company called Turnitin that has been claiming it can reliably detect plagiarism in student papers for over 20 years despite uh, not really any evidence that it can do that

AHH AI FATIGUE

wth is spec-driven development

#addBirder #ukbirds

No job. UK expensive. Welp. Time to make something maybe. I applied to 10000 jobs but got not a single response so I'm coding up a ...

I've just started studying for a degree in something that I wanted for myself but I guess it's all gonna end with just one module. Out of job, can't pay. Nice. Citrus clown and PDFs. Billionaires. Yikes. To think that these pests have supporters. Wow. And I was just minding my own business! Wow.

Thanks to citrus man and his PDFs' war, our clients have all gone into budget mode and we have run dry. And so I just got LO too. I'm not even American and I have never stepped foot there yet his and his goons' antiques have majorly affected my livelihood. I build with code, anybody's hiring?

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

I wanna make small silly games for no profit and be completely self sustainable somehow. How do I achieve this

You can do everything right, pass all the stages and even the final interviews, yet still get no offers. Meanwhile a $100B billionaire could fund 49,750 working-class people to never work again, each with $40K/year for 50 years.

friendly reminder that all institutions are not real. laws, governments, nations, borders, corporations. they only exist in our collective imaginations. a bunch of little stories we tell ourselves. fairy tales

"...the gravest sin you can commit, at least when it comes to games, is to look at games strictly as these commercial objects." Oh this video is the *good* shit Everything about games, and life, is better when we stop seeing art as functional products meant to deliver return on investment

Not already having money. You need money to attract more money. If you don’t have the money they will ask you why you don’t ask someone for money. It’s “already have money” all the way down.

I develop software in primarily imperative programming languages from JavaScript to Python to C/C++ and I have a preference for gamedev. I dream of working at a well-paid remote-only worker-owned cooperative. If such a place does not exist, or out of my reach, I think I want to start one. Maybe.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The future is, I pray, employee owned.

i sometimes joke that social media is gamification of relationships for surveillance capitalism. i wonder how it would be if it was “ungamified”. does the numbers game make it addicting & keep us coming back? can *just* making connections with people, without that urgency for competition, be enough?

Someone just tried to argue with me that Israel is not "committing 9/11" and I just want to point out that Israel has committed is the equivalent of six 9/11's if the Twin Towers had been filled with kids and babies only. Israel committed a tenth of 9/11 but all victims are kids last weekend alone.

Getting slapped in the face at 9 y.o. ended up in having that pain in the back that is scoliosis in the 30s.

random Andromeda galaxy photo

I'm slowly getting into astrophotography for fun. Here is M44 / NGC 2632 Praesepe a.k.a. Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation. Taken on a Canon EOS 550D with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens (already broke my bank with these, can't afford better equipment, so no star tracker too! 😂).

I'm so doing this for now on.