Fernando Castillo

Fernando Castillo

@fernandoc.bsky.social

Woke Gamer. Making games in SE Asia. Pro-MSG, anti-AI. #ImmigrantsRock https://www.mobygames.com/person/27867/fernando-castillo/

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JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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I try not to whinge about AI too much here bc I feel like bsky has that covered, but when I see people sharing AI-generated music... that is so fucking depressing Making art is the best thing humans do and music maybe the purest form of that--if we're outsourcing that we should just pack it in

So far, AI has been successful as a coding tool. There are a lot of nuances there but let’s set that aside for a bit. Programmers make up less than 1% of the US workforce. Latest data I can find says 0.96% and the trend seems to be going down, but we can use that number.

With the US GDP at 32 trillion, this means that IF YOU COULD REPLACE EVERY CODER IN THE US, the value would be 300 billion. Of course you can’t replace them. These companies want multi trillion valuation . This is a failed experiment. Let’s please pull the plug already.

Even if I didn’t know that DHH was a white supremacist, just hearing him talk for 30 seconds is enough to nope out. I spent enough time around tweakers during my misspent youth in the 90s. Definitely don’t have time for this.

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So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

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If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

I got something in my eye.

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Our daughter asked to play Teeto “one last time” because she thought that by other people being able to get it soon meant she wouldn’t have it anymore 😭 (she knows now) Teeto launches worldwide on Steam in about 13 hours! It’s also available on PlayStation 5 and Switch 1/2! #indiegame #gamedev

Happy birthday Joe Shuster! Without Shuster & Siegel our popular culture would be a very different beast, and we are better off for it. To celebrate I recommend reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon) and What We Can Know About Thunderman (Alan Moore).

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I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

aljazeera.comDR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World CupMichel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.

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Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

Reposting for all the folks out there interested in good journalism.

Riley MacLeod@rcmacleod.bsky.social

We've been at this a while, but it's never not shocking to me how many people are interested in our little site! As Luke notes, 5400 or so of those 30k are paying subscribers. A fraction of those free folks joining up would really change things for us, and we'd love your support!

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I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

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Literally this is what is happening. And so companies are trying to devalue people by offering them back at lower rates. They know they can't fix the genAI messes without humans who know how to do the work.

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There is NO SUCH THING as a a Dem who takes big tech money, who is NOT going to sell us out to big tech. If they take that money they ARE GOING to betray US. They will.

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Feminism is a project that holds that men and women are similar in most ways and should therefore be treated equally in most cases. TERFism is a project that holds that men and women are fundamentally and irrevocably different any must always be treated differently.

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I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/