Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

Eh, not quite accurate, but I'm liking the neighborhood.

Gonna tell the kids this was the 2026 Super Bowl alternate halftime.

It's proper that a team of birds won the Superb Owl.

Seahawks and Bad Bunny defeating evil on this day. Haters and losers in shambles. I believe that we can win 🔥

Did the Patriots know they were supposed to play today?

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Mother-in-law texting: So, why is he a bad bunny? What did he do?

Elden Ring boss

One of many fave black & white movie? Earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast, Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913). Made by same studio as Birth of a Nation. Never released for some reason. #FilmSky Mentioned in Legacy Russells's "Black Meme". Excerpt here: youtu.be/U-IdQ9APUHI?...

Somewhere in writer’s heaven, Harper Lee laughs.

Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmer’s world. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...

babe wake up new goatse just dropped

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Imagine being so much of shit you can't mingle at the Olympics, hit up a street vendor for some local fare, or have an impromptu romantic dinner with your spouse at a Milan restaurant. Instead, you require your own white power bento boxes from home because a local would likely spit in your food.

Sir Ian McKellen

She arrived to reclaim what's hers.

Wow, a real-life Mysterious Stranger perk in action.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

If you haven't, check out the prescient 2008 sci-fi film "Sleep Dealers," which intersects immigrants, border madness, and surveillance tech. Worth your time.

The fact that AI boosters always go to “but art is EXPENSIVE” is telling. Most people started with crayons, lined school paper, cheap pencils, ballpoint pen, the back of junk mail and misprinted pages. Art supplies can be outrageous but you can make art with literal trash

Current Discourse (TM) makes me think that it may be a good time to inform you that I designed this shirt with ink on paper and you can buy and wear it www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2356...

Doing art badly is good and sacred

After 9+ years at ustwo games I have unfortunately been made redundant. If you are looking for a stylised 3D generalist with 10+ years experience to have on your team please give me a shout or let others know that I am available for work! I'd love to chat ✨ fensartden.com [email protected]

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Everyone has their breaking point, I guess! (A rather spectacular goof from The Spectator...)

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr. Who”, or “Transformers.”

There have be, to date, 31 Assassin's Creed games.

Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

At least they are doing the smart Fallout TV series thing by putting it in the world and doing their own thing rather than the self indulgent Last of Us thing of replaying the games for you and calling that a season. Still, this is going to fuck with so many people's headcanons.

Aerodongynamics

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Just launched a redesign of my website. Updated portfolio section coming soon! As a reminder: I'm urgently looking for work in the Narrative Design, Writing, and Game Design fields, though I have plenty of other talents as well. ryanmcdiarmid.com

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Remote roles for: Narrative Designer UI/UX Artist Technical Artist spotted over at robotentertainment.com/careers - must be within a two-hour range of US Central time, so that does limit the range a bit

Whats up I am Austin Taylor I do a lot, I am writer/designer in games and narrative designer, and podcaster over on the @maximumfun.org network! Find my work in games, writing & podcasts on my website! www.austintaylor.games or go right to our show page on max fun! maximumfun.org/podcasts/sec...

jeffrey epstein's apparent association with the likes of bobby kotick, steve bannon, and peter thiel – and his fascination with game design as a means of controlling others – paint an unsettling picture

I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it: (thread)

One step closer to a real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Unbelievable

lol. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8HXPY8S/

Jeff Bezos is behaving badly again, so I'm obligated to share my game where you spend all his fucking money direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...