This is going to significantly change the site and it’s all downwind of AI image editing stuff. Incredible own goal from X.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

not only that but it also removes watermarks and it credits the user that generated it

For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art

I booted up FarCry Primal in a fit of holiday boredom having never played it before and like Are we really making cartoon caricature bad guys out of a sentient race of people we helped drive to extinction 40,000 years later

i haven't been able to stop thinking about the story told in this video for over a week.

I found out about this mod exactly one day too late

I thought I already posted this here but I'm watching Return of the King again and had the same stupid thought again so I'm inflicting it upon the world

At a city council meeting about an AI data center going up in my community. It's packed and people are furious. Calling the mayor and council members corrupt. Loud applause for open socialists and anarchists. Naked anti-capitalist rhetoric. Most folks here didn't even know about it until weeks ago.

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

I have no boughs and I must deck

This piece is really videogames focused, which I can't blame This Week in Videogames for being, but it makes a compelling argument that a consumer-grade RAM shortage that lasts months if not years seems very likely and will be bad for anyone who does *anything* on a computer.

new low-poly oc, what should I name her?🩷

As a software engineer, let me just say that it's *extremely* telling that AI has brought lines-of-code back as a metric worth pretending is remotely worth giving a shit about. It's a terrible metric of basically no utility, but AI bros don't want to measure utility: they want to measure volume.

okay but seriously, from Ben Shapiro to Hitler why are so many fascists people who want to be in the arts but are utterly incompetent at it and make that everyone else's problem

Disco Elysium (2019)

is anyone else's youtube ads just that t-mobile ad where a kid calls Jeff Bridges Santa over and over and over again

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

This is the games writer equivalent of that guy who does reload animations with vacuums

Marvel is treating the Steve Rogers reveal as a major hype moment, but it lands so limply? It's as if their marketing team was frozen in time in 2016, unfrozen yesterday, and just carried on. Like, who is asking for this

Greta Thunberg has been arrested on terrorism charges for speaking out in support of the Palestine Action hunger strikers. FUCK this British government. https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842

grimch

iycmi i wrote about the weird, upcoming fishing game from @thewatermuseum.bsky.social

Oh man, Adam the Woo passed

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

how do you get minkus but not topanga

you ever get jumpscared by a butt

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

The apparent gimmick of the Cultic Christmas map put a big dumb smile on my face

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Said with the cadence of "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

That CBS 60 minutes episode that got pulled is available for streaming via a VPN provider using a Canadian IP address - the international broadcaster didn't pull it. watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

Society is failing these children.

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty' franchise, killed in crash www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles. The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way. LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...

the 50th and final review for the Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List: Norco. one of the best adventures ever made. nebula.tv/videos/innue...

1895: Wind up watches last ~35 hours 1985: Battery powered watches last 1-5 years 2025: Watches that last a full 24 hours is something to brag about

Over on tumblr someone posted this in response to the same observation.