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was at a thing where there was a tree where children put up their wishes and one was "I wish to play rollercoaster Tycoon forever" like I'm so glad it's still a game children love 🥺

Looked at Next Fest and got demoralised immediately because almost everything was clearly using AI generated art, even a bunch of the featured demos (and not even bothering to tweak the prompts much). a lot of them are very obvious copies of existing games too. after a brief scroll I just gave up

At least 1,500 Palestinians forced out of their homes in Hebron since yesterday. This is ethnic cleansing by the apartheid state, once again, live-streamed.

feeling the ennui of a general mourning the loss of his greatest opponent watching that leaked mass effect trailer. you were meant to release and be really successful then i would critique the post-9/11 only a black ops strongman unburdened by bureaucracy can make the hard, violent choices ideology

I need to try not to get wound up by people's political opinions but it's very difficult, honestly

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

ten years ago as a critic i would respond by analysing it as a piece of propaganda, considering how it produces and reflects culture but that feels so pointless now. who cares. you just look once and see what it is. they aren't hiding it. it is funded by and funding in turn an actual genocide

i should be numb to it but that new call of duty is so on its face evil which combined with Who Published It just makes me feel deeply sad

this change is extremely stupid and user-hostile

Something about me is that I never ever want to see a post from a 'Liberal Currents' writer but I end up seeing at least a couple every week. no matter how many accounts I mute there's always another three contributing editors ready to post bad memes and defend genocide

"Redrick Roost" is a very bad name for a protagonist

It's a shame that there was such a delay in reporting on this case until October, when the charges were made in May, because interested people have had ample time to distance themselves. E.g when you search for images of Toby Young and Lola Salem this comes up.

Delivery.

Important thread about some behind-the-scenes discussion in the IGF regarding AI, and the broader moment of what it means to want or not want to use AI right now.

Proof that this is indeed me. Gendry and Cheeni demand you help me find my friends

extremely unsurprising Neal Stephenson news

Something about me is that I never ever want to see a post from a 'Liberal Currents' writer but I end up seeing at least a couple every week. no matter how many accounts I mute there's always another three contributing editors ready to post bad memes and defend genocide

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

After six and a half years at The Whisky Bond, the Alasdair Gray Archive is moving to a new home. We’ll announce our new location and access arrangements soon. Thank you to our friends at TWB—we’ll miss you!

the UK government's 'AI minister' is asking LLMs what to think about LLMs and thinks this is a 'focus group'

"I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU."

would thi prisoner in thi bar please stand fur thi aforesaid crime uv writn anuthir poem awarded the certificate of safety by thi scottish education department … —Tom Leonard from GHOSTIE MEN, in INTIMATE VOICES: Selected Work 1965–1983 (Etruscan Books, 2003) #poem #poetry #NationalPoetryDay

Having a great time with the Lords of the End Times update for Total War Warhammer. This stupid rodent megalomaniac is my favourite. Yeah Thanquol, that's right! Blow up the moon!

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

object lesson in the dangers of lolcow posting this cannot possibly be the order of importance of these events

Seeing a five quid powercard in a Silent Hill game is mangling my mind more than any of the faceless shambling horrors.

*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up

Edinburgh University adds another entry to the imaginative lexicon universities use to say, “We’re cutting” "We are refreshing our programme to consolidate our offering for future students and make their degree pathways easier to navigate" www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656140...

Ah, to look back on a bygone age... to get an insight into the ways of long-dead people... to learn that they were exactly the same as today