If you take the MAGA troll farms and fake accounts all you are left with is a handful of really disturbed washed up losers. The 2024 election was stolen and there were plenty of chances to challenge it. Hopefully the last year has served as a lesson in who to actually trust.

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

Chuck Dixon created Bane. I don't bring this up to argue that creating that character somehow negates his current behavior, but to talk about a problem very prevalent in comics. And that is bigoted people making bank off the very marginalized groups they later demonize and discredit.

This shit needs to die.

I am so tired of AI-generated slop ruining lives, media and our world.

This is why Republicans shutdown the government. Because they refuse to extend the ACA subsidies that expire at the end of the year. With open enrollment starting at Nov 1, marketplace insurers can no longer wait to publish rates. With alt text.

Microsoft is currently under a boycott for providing material support for the Israeli government's genocide of Palestinians AND they have no ability to market anything because the studios they acquire become a part of The Blob, losing their identity in the process.

AWS be like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ywn...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?” “Yes absolutely.”

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

“But what can Democrats even do now?” More stuff like this! At minimum. Bravo @wyden.senate.gov.

its so funny that so much of our government is just held up by gentlemens promises and you can just do insane stuff because nobody thought about it before. Like "the president can demolish large sections of the white house because he just didn't staff the approval committee" should not be true.

The PS2 truly is the best console ever because it is constantly becoming more powerful. Each time we say something "looks like a PS2 game" we're talking about a game of a higher fidelity than the last. What the PS2 is capable of in 2025 is so far beyond what it was capable of in 2003. That's amazing

the man on the right has made it his life's mission to capture Lupin the Third

I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam

A kind reminder to be careful what you submit to and avoid this “talent agency” called Right Voice Casting.

If you live in Wisconsin, bully your fucking state representatives and tell them that banning VPNs is a terrible idea.

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered 🌊 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction. bit.ly/4nfnrTw

I always wondered why France had so many heists but if you can still just put a ladder up to a window on the Louvre in the year 2025 and get away with a big bag full of priceless jewels I guess that solves the mystery

It's the start of a new week, so you know what that means? Go make your calls. For those of you in Wisconsin, you must now also call up your State Reps and Senators about the VPN Ban Bill SB-130 /AB-105 and tell them to stop it. The fight ever continues.

Generative AI is the aesthetics and instrument of fascism, proved once again.

The AWS services outage shows that it's a fucking terrible idea to let monopolies control everything.

This shows you that mergers are a bad idea.

It’s obvious. When mergers happen, there’s layoffs. It really fucking sucks.

We know now this is utter nonsense but this is indicative of the massive problem that exists in regards to Pokémon, and Nintendo in general. People post without context and/or knowledge and it spreads, and spreads and people just assume. This has 127k likes... This is wrong.

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

"I think it's fine to use AI for concepting as long as it doesn't make it into the final game" is a statement that will never fail to set me off

"We're only using AI as placeholder dialogue, to get a sense for how it'd sound with voices" Why?? Literally why??? You could grab the shittiest laptop microphone and DO that

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

If your company cannot hire any voice actors, don't put voice acting in your game. This AI voice acting crap is bad.

Addendum to previous indie conversation: if Glitch Productions may be part of the future of media in general, I would much rather that than the trend of AI, big-budget slop that might as well be AI, and this:

And if you're a voice actor who consents to AI voice over in a project like Arc Raiders, please know that your colleagues will always remember you decided that actually being an actor was not why you became an actor.

Is it just me, or is anyone having problems trying to log on to Bluesky?

Man, many sites going down this morning Thanks Amazon

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

Goku voice actor Masako Nozawa was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit by Japan 🇯🇵 • She's the first voice actor ever to receive this honor • The government will pay her $23K annually for life

I'll never forgive generative a.i Having to ask "is this real?" so often has really done a number on me I miss being able to trust art.

I’ve heard from friends that use recreational drugs that sometimes their brain ruins their own trips now, because what used to be “abstract hallucinations” is now often interpreted by then in the moment as AI Art and it sours their mood/trip. I hadn’t even CONSIDERED that outcome & it’s depressing.

Don't fall for it. They know the tide is turning and are doing what they can to save their own asses. Cops are not your friends. Cops literally have no professional obligation to protect you from harm.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

Y’all have GOT to stop uncritically sharing Stealth’s posts without checking your sources! I can’t find a source for when and where Miyamoto supposedly said this or who translated it ANYWHERE and yet my timeline is flooded with takes on it.

Generative AI may be the worst thing to happen to content creation... But gamifying negativity is RIGHT behind it. Hell, some days, it feels even worse. Y'know: the "this thing/person fucking sucks, and YOU fucking suck for liking it/them too". I cannot believe that actually gets rewarded.

bake wake up biggest economic bubble pop in history just played the suspense cellos