genuinely one of my biggest recommendations for emulating older games is getting your hands on a scan of the manual somewhere. having that at least accessible is an intended part of the design and experience and a lot of shit that's "obtuse" by modern standards is just expecting you to read it

It’s going to sweep across the country and kill and maim kids bc Trump put a lunatic grifter in charge of the nation’s public health system

This is a recurring theme — first in New York and Atlanta, now Dallas.

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

There are plenty of other terrible things about generative AI but overall my objection to it is spiritual and I just can’t really get into arguments about that. That objection doesn’t extend to every use case for it, but as far as generating anything “imaginative”, those are all graven images to me

Langston Hughes (1943)

Ok folks. The Minnesota Timberwolves are part owned by a firm in the concentration camp business.

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

Florence Nightingale’s visualisation of how soliders were dying more from insanitary conditions than from battles is the intro to every data visualisation class in the same way that Euler’s Königsberg bridge insight is the intro to every graph theory class.

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kotaku is a good website staffed by good people and it is really maddening and perplexing to me the way right wingers think a perpetually understaffed video game blog is responsible for everything they hate

almost like it's my job... huh. not some fucker dabbling it it b/c he thinks he'll get all the glory with none of the work. I don't do it for the glory, I do it because the stories will eat me alive otherwise.

Pathetic. Pay me $30k a year, and I could write, draw and complete a graphic novel a year. That on top of my patreon would be more than we need to live comfortably. And this fucker doesn't even have an IDEA? LOL When the idea guys can't even idea, when they have a tool that does it for them. WEAK.

This stuff is the equivalent scandal to landlords exploiting grants for buy to let mortgages. Massive data brokers will lease the hardware back to the public at a profit having bought it all out with government subsidies and destroy everyday amenities in the process.

Like most problems with AI this too is not a problem with AI it's a problem with the mad gold rush around AI. I have my issues with LLM and generative AI, but the really big problems are very much human behaviour, exploitation and public funding and regulatory capture by big capital.

I'm impressed at how the AI industry seems to be trying to bring the rest of computing down with them. It's a bold strategy that I don't think is going to pay off

AI: fucking up black people on both sides of the Atlantic

The death of cheap TVs is gonna be the thing that mainstreams the RAM crisis.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

At some point all that obscure infrastructure built for Y2K that nobody bothered to update in the last 25 years is going tits up and we will be in a world of hurt.

If your legislation to stop "voter fraud" prevents 21 million legitimate voters from voting, your legislation itself is voter fraud.

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

Reduced crash rates were supposed to be the main "benefit" of automated driving assists. Without that, there's no upside. You might be tempted to say "the tech will improve," but that doesn't work if the current version causes real harm. Safety isn't "nice to have," it's a core value.

The enemy of my enemy is still a fucking nitwit.

Valve itself allows many AI generated games onto their storefront, as well.

AH, yeah great... FUCK YOU AI BROS

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture. Hey, it works!

I'm old enough to remember when John Sununu was forced to resign as Bush Sr.'s chief of staff after he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie's auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine.

$1 billion is an annual $100,000 salary for ten thousand years. $780 billion is an annual $100 MILLION salary for almost eight thousand years. No one is worth this. Tax breaks, wage theft, and not paying for what you steal from the planet is where is money came from.

every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"

when people implore me to embrace AI i don’t even practically understand what they mean!! it’s like saying why don’t you like my aunt carol and i’ve never met her

I hate this. Podcasts are for listening to while doing something else. Anything that requires me to watch (or the podcaster to describe things) for me to understand what's going on just falls off my list.

This is how you live a life

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

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You fuck with the food supply and people die. Even good intentioned changes can result in starvation if they shock the system too much. It's Ag. You can't just ramp up overnight and restore lost goods. They take time to grow. Equipment, irrigation, etc. It's a slow ship to turn.

There is no corner of hell hot enough for Vought or Musk (or Miller). Murderous psychopaths who snuck unelected into power to wipe out anyone their microwaved brains deemed "inferior," millions of them innocent, starving, sick children.

We are now watching the results of callously destroying USAID play out: those results are the miserable deaths of millions of innocent people in poor countries.

When people say “I hate writing but I love having written,” they are not saying “I love that some completed text exists.” They are saying “I love getting to the end of the process and realizing that all the work was worth it, that this sentence really pops, that I nailed it.”

That doesn’t mean there aren’t journalists who don’t want to be writers. There are probably people where this is their dream job, just talking to people and taking notes and then on to the next. But treating writing as pointless drudgery nobody enjoys is such a tell of soullessness.

“These jobs are 100 percent reporting,” said as if the writing of the report is not a part of reporting. What an absolute embarrassment.

The other thing that is so awful about this is that if you happen to take any pride in the quality of your writing and making it engaging and pleasurable to read, you will not have time to do that, because writing is not part of your “workload,” meaning you will not be given time to do it.

I don’t know how many times people have to say this, but if you really are and feel like a writer, you *need* to write. It’s the best part of your job, it’s the part that you find satisfying, it’s why you chose to do what you do. Writers are not trying to escape the writing part!

It's been less than a calendar year since USAID was shuttered and the death count is already equal to the mid-range estimate for total overall casualties due to the Iraq War. Mostly kids.

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

Ugh. Made fudge and after it was set I found out I forgot to add Marshmallow fluff so the ore to fudge ratio is WAY off. Anyone have any tips? I'd rather not make it again