From 2019... "As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world."

imagine an archaelogist finding this in 1000 years

It's all kinda meaningless anyway but then in our political debate meaningless nonsense is kinda the core reality.

It is time that the game buying public accepted that all game development studios are headed up by a lazy man who can’t be arsed to go get his morning coffee. It is the new normal. The question is not “am I comfortable buying games by a sleepy man?”, the question is “am I, the consumer, wrong?”

big gothic castle in quake from last year. didn't make it for any other reason than I was using it to make new textures and enjoying myself.

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...

absolute perfuct timing

i'm gonna lose my mind

the stupid idea of tech as “oh wow the world will be saved with shiny consumer objects” turned into “the premise of technology means the weirdest most hateful people will order your world without social sanction or permission, via scams, govt murder contracts” in like a decade and a half tops huh?

The amount of hateful, dangerous, inhuman, weird, stupid, embarrassing and hard to look at and listen to billionaires who have say over the running of society keeps increasing and they don’t have the decency to keep quiet at home about it, want to be celebrities and loved

They’re not even promising to reverse climate change or cure cancer, teach children etc etc anymore it’s just threat of punishment, destroying any just society, destroying art and labor by owning it by law and ideology. When tasked to talk like a futurist they describe dystopia as progress

I have had this in my head for a solid day now and can finally go to sleep

E425.1.1 Revenant as lady in white.

Hey all! I'm that weird gremlin dude that's making The Last Exterminator, a retro FPS written on a custom engine. Up on Steam for wishlistin'! www.thelastexterminator.com

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

Tech industry: "We replaced all your toilets with this new technology -- it's a bucket and a firehose!" "But this is so much worse and incredibly more wasteful." Tech industry: "You can't stop progress. Also, check out our stock price!"

Tabled in Parliament today, a report by Victorian Ombudsman into alleged misconduct in a private prison and how it was handled: “Private prisons “mark their own homework” when allegations of mistreatment and assault are left to self-scrutiny” www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/our-impact/n...

“premier, our opposition can’t stop stepping on rakes and suing each other, how should we best make the most of this disintegration?” “let’s pass things they like”

labor strategically lurching to the right when they feel like the liberals are breathing down their neck is one thing, but doing it while the vic libs are decimated, drooling in a corner unable to tie their own shoes, just means you agree with them

"Worst comes to worst, we can protect them from social media by locking them up." chaser.com.au/national/gov...

These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.

A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

Rough doodlin'

Stop quoting stuff CEOs say about game development. They don't know shit. Even game devs only know about their own tiny slice of gamedev, so the suits definitely have no idea. You don't have to listen to them or debunk them, sometimes you can just be like "that's idiotic" and live on.

Updating the "everyone is 12" theorem to add "everyone is 12 and can't read"

AI coding makes you think it's way better than it is, because it can stand up kinda working hobby examples or demos really fast, but the step from 90% working to production software you can actually ship and support is a vast abyss. Completely insurmountable for the current gen ai.

AI increases code velocity by 1.02 and tech debt velocity by 1.8 this is good because

Mood

the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things? seems important

if heathcliff got ahold of this nobody would be safe

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives. Hmmmmm

IT GOT BETTER 📍Central MN

the drift is such a cool setting

Well damn.

I love that we’re all sky posting. Easily the most vivid red I’ve ever seen 📍Central MN

Seconded: it's really hard to fetishise maths after having studied Linear Algebra in any real depth. Like, don't get me wrong, but the mindset you need to cultivate to get good at it is not one that's suited to success in the modern world.

In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat. They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues. This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service. www.crikey.com.au/20...

yeah. yeah, yeah man, they got this famous italian comics display at the library, it's great. Signor Uomo, Cowboyyyyyyy, Signor Uomo Futuro, Calvin Corker, Sex! and Donald Duck, they're all here.

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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

And the very beginning tests.

stitched the prologue from FERN GULLY. loved this movie but there was such ominous dread from the start. hexxus was scary!

For the first four months of its existence ASIO was named Australia's Security Service. It was quickly changed and we were robbed of a great acronym.

Dems even more likely to cave. Thing is, when you teach a bully that they can get what they want by bullying, they don't just stop. They go back to that well over and over again.