Two days ago, a man in Hull was sentenced to 26 months in jail (suspended for 18 months) and 250 hours of unpaid work for selling CDs containing "unauthorised remixes of well-known tracks"

Microsoft bought Ninja Theory after Senua's Sacrifice was a surprise hit in 2018. They then followed the playbook of every major acquisition of an indie studio - strip it for parts, burn it, and then discard the ashes. This should be a warning. www.rockpapershotgun.com/microsoft-re...

“We don’t want more hockey, we want more gay. MAKE A LESBIAN HEATED RIVALRY. DO SOMETHING.” www.wired.com/story/story/...

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

The Defiler is HOW many points? That's knight-level investment!

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I think scientists underestimate how many roommates are directly sharing mouth content, or with only one degree of separation gizmodo.com/living-toget...

I've never been entirely sure if this counts as art, but it's definitely something I made. I sometimes miss messing around with mathematically generated images. #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt

Reverse this and you get tech sector approaches to talking about and reporting on AI use

What the fuck

Gift link ;) www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

"If there’s one part of this that can feel like it’s never going to change, it’s that no matter how badly executives fuck up, it’s the workers and their art that pay the price... no amount of just doing your job well means you might get to keep doing it." aftermath.site/compulsion-m...

A reminder that we should actually be glad that Firefly ended after one season and we can enjoy that short chain of golden episodes. Because Whedon and co's plans for later seasons were horrifying and disgusting. T/w: Rape

LGTM is "let's get this merged" and people who say it's "looks good to me" are wrong

Indeed. It’s notable that, locally, I see lots of perennially online adults spouting whatever bullshit they’ve been fed while simultaneously arguing that phones shouldn’t be allowed to rot children’s brains. Current UK government tech policy is incoherent.

Forums were my escape as a teen. I don't know where I'd be without them. The British government wants to see them all destroyed - whilst ignoring the online radicalisation of old men by the far right.

Reading some crowdfund TTRPG descriptions highlights how my relationship to games has changed over time. One recently advertised "thousands of feats and skills" to customise your character with. I do remember when that would have been my thing. Now I'm wondering what real choice that "thousands"...

"He introduced a plan to limit the number of employees per manager, which on some teams, such as Applied AI, had deliberately ballooned to a ratio of 50 to one... By the end of the year, employees in many locations would have assigned desks again" Hahahah what?! www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Sure looks like Phil Spencer killed xbox

She absolutely did not need to jump into that at all, absolutely made it worse for them. Was the follow-up question a bit clumsy? Sure. But "we've said all we want to say on generative AI" is quite possibly the worst response you could give.

We asked the Crystal Dynamics team about its use of generative AI in developing Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. Here’s what Jeff Adams, experience director on the game, had to say.

Working in tech - I think it's a pretty good idea for everyone in the industry to hunker down and prepare for the crash

More chat about beginning the roll-out of a platform to replace NaNoWriMo youtube.com/shorts/kk8G0...

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Watching gmail accounts get shut down one by one for years of inactivity is like watching past lives finally put themselves to rest

The benefit of the SpaceX IPO is that when SpaceX starts to have to report its earnings more directly, with more people having a stake on the table... ... that makes it significantly more likely that Musk ends up losing control of it. A company he bought X and Grok with.

The three games of my childhood I most wanted to see remakes of: Zelda - Ocarina of Time Star Wars - Podracer Final Fantasy X I think we're now up to 1.5 of that confirmed!

Stop fucking glorifying depression and mental illness as necessities for creativity. You know what I can't do when I'm in a bad mental place? Get out of bed, let alone make art or write. Art doesn't come from suffering, but despite it. Imagine how much more we could do.

You fucking clowns.

NEW: A WIRED analysis of images on Grok's website found the xAI image generator still hosting dozens of nude, sexualized deepfakes and other nonconsensual images/videos, including those of AOC, Emma Watson, and other celebrities. @mattburgess1.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

Good to see. I liked Senua's Saga but it was clear it was a bit rushed and left a lot on the table. This might go a way delivering that missed potential. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pp...

Oh now this I need www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4L...

Meta furious that people reported on the stalker features built in to their creep glasses gizmodo.com/meta-removes...

Unity across class, region, gender, politics... more popular among young people than anyone else. "Delete GenAI" yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Been laughing at this for 45 minutes straight

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

Obviously not complaining but a bit surprised by a sweep of new followers - anyone up for explaining?

Gotta admit after more than two years of being called a crank and a doomer for saying that businesses will flinch when they’re made to pay the real costs of AI it’s nice to see this in the newspaper

That's a thread of fifty queer SFF books I enjoyed, most of them a lot, most of them very easily available, with no repetition by author. I see the original post has over 100 likes now, so I may need to give up until next weekend and come back fortified for a deeper dive.

ESFF writers with events TODAY #cymera2026: edinburghsff.com/esff-at-cyme...

Time to go slay a princess

My eReader app is now available on Play Store! Built because I hate Amazon, don't like sharing of data and AI being shoved into everything, and didn't like the exact look of the existing other options. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

The AI backlash is going to be the main story of next year. You’re going to get tired of hearing about it, and billions is going to be spent on the PR campaign to revive the image of this technology. And it didn’t have to be this way! They CHOSE to go ‘this stuff is ready, and you must use it NOW’

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Anthropic: "Oh no, our models are getting extremely expensive for us and their improvements are beginning to flatline, and people are noticing." "How can we spin this as actually the models simply being too good and we're too amazing at AI to risk progressing? gizmodo.com/anthropic-so...

So yeah: happy pride, live however you want, love whomever you want, be whomever you want, however you want, and fuck anyone who tells you that it's cringe to be well-adjusted enough not to be an asshole. And, as always, have a happy fest this summer. Game. S - summergamesfest.com

Today, you'll notice that the silly URL redirects to a serious one: donations for the Transgender Law Center. Trans rights have been important to me my entire adult life. My first job after leaving the Army (which no one who knows me will admit happened) was for my mother at the Hippo in Baltimore.

The AI backlash is growing strong and I think the "all your pension savings are now wrapped in IPOs which have been rug-pulls for tech bros" is going to tip things over the edge gizmodo.com/americans-ar...