Congratulations to Microsoft for trying out this bold new strategy which is "firing somebody who actually should've been axed ages ago instead of 9000 people that do real work and bring in profits". 🙃 Get fucked, you freak. Palestine will be free.

There's a reason why the people who've adopted AI the quickest are mostly old, pale males

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

I work for a university and not only are young adults terrified of AI costing them their entry-level jobs, the ones who get those jobs are mad as hell that they’re not allowed to learn anything in the workplace (because they’re told to use AI for everything they need to learn).

There are always things to be thankful for in life. For example, imagine if ChatGPT had come out a few years earlier and existed during covid lockdowns.

"According to the survey, 99% of artists “disliked” AI; for 92%, the dislike was “strong.” And that distaste translates into action, too. Per the survey, 85% of artists completely abstain from using AI at all. And 88% percent refusal use AI to generate images." Empowering

Porn bans would be inexcusably evil even if they weren't "LGBTQ bans with extra steps"

This is the billionth time I've been evicted from some corner of the internet for being a filthy degenerate. My world is shrinking rapidly. It's hard not to feel caged. But I keep going because I refuse to concede.

Oh yeah, and the cherry on top is that AI *is* allowed.

GOD. Spicy is a baby-talk ass designation deployed specifically to express discomfort about sex

The real kicker is that Bluesky staff is probably pretty okay with just burning this entire place down. Like, it'd hurt so many furries & sex workers & trans people AND soothe their battered egos by giving them the "win" they want, and then they just take their ~Protocol~ elsewhere.

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

Once again pointing out that the only reason why Jack Dorsey is now remembered as The Good One™ of social media CEOs... ...is because HE DIDN'T POST. Twitter moderation wasn't even any better and we also did loudly dislike Jack for all the same reasons - but he wasn't nearly this fucking tedious.

Calling it harassment to discuss senior decision makers making bad decisions as if they're private citizens is just a bizarre flight from any sort of accountability at all.

The moderators at bluesky need to understand that public criticism and protest against moderation policies that happen to mention them as public facing representatives of the moderation policy itself are in fact just normal behaviour and one of the things people reasonably use social media for.

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

i am once again begging some major porn studio to take up the mantle of larry flynt and start bribing senators again

Adult content helped build Kickstarter. It helps build most of the big sites on the web, only to get evicted once the business settles into the positions smut built for them. It has every right to exist and its creators deserve to participate in the social spaces their work developed.

everyone's an adult what even is happening lol. we turned into such a child civilization, having imbibed only the media and philosophy for children and anyone who remembered the adult world has long since died. eternal adolsecence.

Serious question re: Kickstarter, what exactly is the difference between “spicy literature” and “pornography or explicitly sexual content”? Are we banning adult art for failing to be twee enough now?

Ich hab mich die letzten Tage sehr über diese unauthentische Welt geärgert, und ich glaube, das ist auch ein extrem wichtiger Grund, warum es z.B. Transfeindlichkeit, Ableismus, Saneismus gibt. Weil die einen sich entscheiden authentisch sie selbst zu sein, und die anderen können gar nicht anders.

Eddie and Elsie having a cuddle 🥹

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They also ignored this blatant genAI in the Kokoro Rider scene, choosing only to mention two other sequences people noticed.

Game studios keep trying to sneak "AI" past their customers, get caught, then flap around like "Oh wow we love humans we never meant any harm we're just a wittle baby." Bullshit. They know this shit is unpopular but they think they can "just the tip" their way into getting us to accept it.

folks keep giving an inch to shit like Arc Raiders and Crimson Desert, so folks are takin a fucking mile and then some congratulations, gamers!

Also there is something people dont seems to grasp yet. There is a difference between Miyamoto being okay with Krystal 20 years ago and the fact that in the past 20 years the most relevant content from his beloved franchise is Krystal porn. I dont think he likes that, lol.

The Mixtape discourse makes me feel like we have arrived at a place where criticism is almost untenable because it will be flanderized and stripped down to whatever parts become useful for social media cohorts driven by algorithms towards reactionary or extreme ends rather than engagement w/ media.

Gamers call something "industry plant" the way liberals call anyone they don't like "tankie" now. As in, not only do y'all have less than zero fucking idea what these terms even mean, but until five hours ago you had never even heard of them and only use them because you think it sounds smart.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

1. nothing wrong with me 2. nothing wrong with me 3. nothing wrong with me 4. nothing wrong with me 1. something's got to give 2. something's got to give 3. something's got to give nooooow Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the

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warte mal wie spektakulär ist noch nie jemand auf die Idee gekommen die verschollene NS-Raubkunst bei den Nazi-Erben zu suchen???

13.) Shadowhand Doesn't have that ~☆~je ne sais quoi~☆~ Forbidden Solitaire brought to the table. It's still decent, but so much more tedious, not to mention lacking the style and meta-story that make Forbidden Solitaire special. Shame.

Never concede an inch to generative images and text. It is a fascistic project by billionaires to undermine and destroy human culture, its goal is to destroy our empathy and human connections. We are already feeling the effect. It is far from being “just a tool”.

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

i regret to inform you all but it is actually "Badgers" by Mr Weebl

Listen, if my meal's not volatile enough to put me in the fucking hospital, what's even the point?

The state of modern gaming discourse is so poor it's genuinely heartbreaking to watch. The way people bicker using only extremes - it's like a whole generation forgot how to communicate. I've been engaged in internet gaming discussions since, like, 1997 - things have never been worse. Nuance is dead

Das einzige, was mir von diesem Buch in Erinnerung geblieben war nach der Lektüre vor etwa 35 Jahren ist der krasse Rassismus, konkret der offenbar selbstverständliche Hass gegenüber Türken und Arabern. Ich bin @tillraether.bsky.social dankbar, dass er das hier so breit würdigt.

Again, it's interesting to point out that since LLM's stole literally every scifi book and convo ever written, they contain lots and lots and lots of training data about the statistical correlation of words like "AI" and "superhuman genetics" and "spaceship" and "immortality" and "I must scream."

if you think ai automation will result in ubi you have to say why industrial and then computer automation didnt

footage of my ps2 running old ass deltarune

Take it from a low impulse control addict: genAI is absolutely designed to be addictive, first and foremost.

Dusk (Zelda: Twilight Princess decomp port) out for PC/Steam Deck/Android/iOS www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fQ... twilitrealm.dev -Enhanced res -Uncap framerate -Gyro Aim -QoL -Achievements & More

GTA VI should be priced $500 Trillion, now you only need to sell a single copy for it to become the most profitable piece of media in human history. It's so simple.

gta 6 costs zero dollars if you don’t want to play it