Ooo new CFCF https://cfcf.bandcamp.com/album/l-u-v

"it's a bad time to be in the field I'm in" -everyone

In addition to all the other harms LLMs and diffusion models have perpetrated I think I am also galled by software developers who just embrace the slop machine without even stopping to think of the second and third order effects of these things. Just grinding down everyone else into grist.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

Elon Musk (and a whole swarm of tech bros) melting down over Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy is a more serious issue than you think. Consider me part of the volunteer PR team hyping this film. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/musk-attac...

In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.

Some ways in which vibe coding rhymes with React: - Pushed by management - A product of big tech - Vociferous, evangelizing fanbase - Produces bloated code - Emphasizes "DX" (at the expense of UX) - Encourages lock-in

This is literally the first example on Apple’s website about “Siri AI”, apparently it can summarize messages into something that’s longer than the original message. What purpose does this serve?

"don't worry we didn't use AI to do it, we just used AI to decide what to do" is what I hear from brainstorming, concept phase, internal-use hand waving. I even saw somebody refer to that as ethical (?) use, but, same data center pollution, same stolen training data, same deskilling, same lazy trash

A reminder that the only answer to "did you use AI to develop this game" that will gain you goodwill instead of get you paraded as money-hungry ghouls is "absolutely the fuck not, we take pride in our craft" www.rockpapershotgun.com/tomb-raider-...

boosting to my fellow haters

Governor Josh Shapiro sat down with state workers union because he had to. But who's representing the patients in Pennsylvania? Josh Shapiro's door is always open for AWS CEOs but when I called the office the staffer wouldn't even take my name! chloehumbert.substack.com/p/big-tech-h...

So according to the cover image listed and your desire to "fight back" against what it entails, you would like: 1) A rent hike 2) A reduction in Black power and agency 3) An increase in data centers and AI replacement of human workers 4) A subjugation of Palestinians Please explain.

every country is going to lead on ai. every country is going to have the biggest data centres. every country is going to build small modular reactors to power them. every country is gearing up to compete on quantum computing. i’m so tired of all this bullshit.

Who's going to protect the vulnerable tech CEOs from manipulative addictive chatbots and AI psychosis?

Shut up you absolute clowns be ashamed you absolute dingbats with your "always smoke with a filter" > Removing “please”, “thank you” and other unnecessary words from AI prompts could save 87 to 98 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, the report from the UN Unhinged and shameful

too late guys, everyone younger than you is a communist now. you should have restrained capital like 1% more while you had the chance and then maybe this wouldn’t have happened

Pivot to AI youtu.be/V0EAo9jo-U4

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

Tim's failure was not 'failing to check the outputs', it was using a machine that fakes plausible outputs instead of referring to reality It is mid 2026. You cannot plead ignorance about what that software does, anymore It is as bad as sitting down and writing a fake quote with your own hand

Tinuiti reported that Reddit is being much less cited by Perplexity. Side note: tinuiti was founded by a guy who's now a top official appointed by Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania government and was found in RTK emails acting like a concierge for AWS data centers. www.linkedin.com/posts/tinuit...

Is Bernie Sanders Falling For Silicon Valley’s Biggest AI Distraction? @alexhanna.bsky.social on Majority Report with Sam Seder www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhQK...

Can't believe I'm rooting for a billionaire to win the CA primary and I will in fact be pretty upset if he doesn't win

I'm so enamored with Zig even though I have never used it and I don't have any current projects that would benefit from using it. Time to build a game engine? Godot is fine but there's evidence that they've gone slop. More options are needed in this space anyway.

https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/--2 I've listened to this album dozens of times but I'm just now giving it a go on my new Letshuoer S12 IEMs paired with a Questyle M15C DAC and WOW it sounds amazing. It's like listening to a completely different album

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk. People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already. A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government

"They teach AI music at Music School now" Student: "It completely makes going to school pointless" youtu.be/EfeGc02nzC4?...

https://untoldhemlock.bandcamp.com/track/its-not-my-fault-but-it-is-my-problem-1 Untold's back and in good form, I see

https://blawan.bandcamp.com/track/bouq colossal banger. Blawan has perfected the art of "deconstructed club" if we're agreeing that's really a thing

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ ok I think I like this Zig guy

Which artists and visions are these, Matt? The whole problem is that you people do not have artistic and creative visions. You are mean, talentless, tedious, philistine dullards, pretty much by definition. Hence, you have no artistic success. It's not that you just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Third time is the charm - we're not going to destroy the headphone cable this time, right Smolgai?

https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/you-retreat-in-time-and-space gorgeous track. I think it's the album standout

New IEMs arrive on the same day that the new BoC drops, blessed

WHAT THE FUCK

I wrote a book. With my kid. Now we're turning it into a videogame. The Stinky Adventures of DungDung! It's EARLY in development, but swing by and learn more: URL: www.rexrothstudios.com STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/4742940/... Support #IndieDev #IndieGaming #GameDevelopment!

Wrote a bit about the data center backlash, and why it is Good, Actually. The Data Center Bankshot davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

I voted! Not for you though. You are an AI booster.

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Spotify, 'protecting artists' since 2006 Protect artists and bin Spotify

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I run you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its bluster, the AI industry’s grift is failing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@celesteh/116623596349546606 Ok I am joining the Fuck Off AI Music Movement

Uhh how did I not know about this?

I've heard great arguments for rejecting AI for environmental reasons (water, climate, energy) and for ethical reasons (like the theft of all digitizable intellectual property). But I also want to suggest another angle that can be used in conjunction with these: rejecting genAI for selfish reasons.