I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages." Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder. I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!

I find this inherently useful for writing, too! Sometimes you know what a line has to do but you can't get it right yet. Writing the "bad" or "placeholder" version will tell you a lot - and you can do it in a fraction of the time it would take to explain to an AI "tool" what the line is for.

I guess tl;dr, it's not the number of POVs, it's what you do with them 🙃

So this?

If I wasn't a religious fanatic about data centres I'd spend 100% of my time working on waste incineration and how it links up with plastics and CCS greenwashing stuff. It is expanding in Aus just like so many other regions By @richarddenniss.bsky.social -->> thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Except they're not terror arrests, are they. They're bullshit and everyone knows it. Protesting genocide is, strangely enough, not terrorism.

Extend the license on Kipo and She-Ra, @netflix.com, you cowards! Also or alternatively: blu-ray release. www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...

Can't believe I'm doing this again but: I don't believe the "using AI as a placeholder" excuse studios make. Placeholders are supposed to be bright and ugly so you remember to change it later. "Placeholder AI" is being used so that if they don't remember to change it, it's "good enough" to ship.

Not only was the "look how fast Australia reacts to gun violence" stuff presumptious, the specific guy who enacted those 1990s gun laws has gone full on racist maniac, decrying gun control and turning the Bondi attacks into a xenophobic hate-fest (journalists euphemise this as a "culture war")

Just thinking about the time I did a TV brainstorming session with two other women and two men, and the men were paid within 30 days and me and the other women had to spend six months re-sending invoices and chase-up emails.

One of the most exciting developments in dress history in recent years is the ability to access high quality images. This mid 1860s moiré silk is captured across time, recording different mannequins & transition from black & white to glorious technicolour @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

100,000 tonnes of bombs in a tiny city with a trapped population that can’t leave, all the hospitals destroyed, food and water cut off, and there are fools running around God’s green earth believing only 70,000 were killed amid 801 days of relentless massacre and starvation. Fucking hell.

The gall of making movie Gimli a non-stop short joke when he was the FIFTH shortest guy in a group of nine.

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

I genuinely thought the LLM / AI thing would blow over as soon as anyone pointed out it was based on piracy and had no viable business plan. That we’re still talking about it, betting on it, is gobsmacking. It should be the Tamagotchi craze of our decade. It should be Pogs by now.

okay these actually turned out so sick i'm so sad i can only ship to canada aplante.com/shop

An AI generated the “Edward Crabtree” lie. An AI absorbed it. An AI spread it. The Bondi attack reveals the risk of AI chatbots eating their own tails, @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

Choosing to focus, on hearing the news of Rob Reiner's passing, to remember this moment where he was so overcome with joy and laughter that he - the director of the movie - was one of many people banished from the set in order to finish filming.

I also don't think that Americans fully grasp that Australia's media environment is more concentrated, racist and right-wing than America's media environment

I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com “Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”

the last 24 hours have been nightmarish in their violence, and I just am so angry this is the world we are in and god damn it

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

Horrific stuff in Bondi. I can't quite wrap my head around it.

Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"

It's not even a competition. The Birdcage wins by a swaggering mile.

A mari and stars or snowflakes

They put my sister in the snow globe on a Thursday. Not secretly, nor illegally. It arrived already approved, polished, and explained to us as a necessary compromise. We put it in the living room, clear and shining, centre-stage so she wouldn’t feel ignored. (1/16)

The @cameronwilson.bsky.social / @crikey.com.au coverage of the wildly vested interests behind Australia's teen social media ban has been amazing www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p... www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...

Made a new emoji for all the uncritical, fawning writing produced about AI

“let them be kids”

Welp, time to finally get all my missing Muppet movies on DVD or Bluray.

Ah, it's the time of year when my phone warns me of EXTREME HEAT for four months straight.

The very soothing/stressful thing about knitting is that it really requires you to a) trust the process and b) not panic in the face of that gigantic seeming fuckup you just made on this piece you've already sunk, like, 30 hours into oh man oh geez oh glorb

I was already so happy to hear that Fallout season 2 was going to be a weekly drop, but now I'm triply excited because trying to pin down my very busy partner to rewatch season one has yielded me three episodes in nearly two weeks.

Written by someone who probably calls the cops if they see anyone under the age of 20 unaccompanied by a parental figure in public.

at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.

The only interaction I have with ChatGPT/Claude/Insert Chatbot Here is when grifters send me bloated, nonsense emails obviously written by them, and I just cannot cope with the fact that so many people have bought into this absolute fucking gobshite.

Under a secretive billion dollar new deal, refugees in the Australian community are being ripped out of their homes and sent to Nauru. "It's a wild escalation... Scenes similar to ICE'", says Ogy Simic of the @ASRC1 www.instagram.com/reel/DSCEmf_...

HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

Christmas baking has kicked off with something named “gingerbread cookie bars” but is functionally gingerbread brownies. A joy and a delight.

You will be visited by three spirits

May this exquisite new desk ornament inspire me to write the next great space opera 🌟

I would like to see Hamnet in the cinema, but do I really want to shlep it into the city just to do some couch level weeping? TBD.

The Paul Dano thing is just one hiccup alright. It's not like Tarantino owns a home in Israel, forces his personal fetish onto his casts, knew about the Weinstein stuff, and uses the n word a bunch. He can have one bad opinion.

Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, U.S.-based pro-Israel advocacy outfit founded by Israeli-American actor Noa Tishby secretly coordinated with Israel’s government to shape U.S. media coverage, likely violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Connor Echols (X: @connor_echols) reports...

Fondly muttering "David Lynch would have loved you" to any book with great prose, weird shit and a plot I have to squint at.