This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people.
Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there.
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
It's almost like as if years of micro transactions > live service > Always online > exesive crunch > Mass layoffs > AI addoption > 'you don't own anything' attitude > shitty CEO personalities, is really bad for a companies sales.
Who knew?
Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Lmao these freaks just burned 75 mil (not including marketing) on live action moana and they're really gonna look us in the eye and say "it's pixars fault" huh
Pixar has been hit the hardest on Disney’s round of layoffs.
TheWrap reports that ‘Hoppers’ is partially being blamed for the layoffs as the film was shy of breaking even at the box office after making $389.5M against a $150M budget.
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security.
An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
what I love about plots like this is it should remind everyone that in several decades there "will" (ie could) be enough solar power to just do a lot of photolysis of CO2 in air. now it is also true we need to just fucking stop putting more CO2 into the atmosphere like right now right now right now.
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car.
Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
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No, these are pretty straightforwardly critiques of a state! If you don't want people to accuse you of genocide and apartheid, don't do genocide and apartheid.
It's almost like the idea that "oh its okay if we have draconian laws about minors being exposed to queer texts or receiving support for their identity as trans and/or gay" was never about waiting till adulthood and folks will always seek to control or deny queer identities no matter your age
it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"
oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this???
In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now
DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING
I hope these sellout creators are blacklisted and never work in the industry again. Hope this one paycheck was worth the amount of shunning they will inevitably face from peers and animation fans.
Do NOT watch these. Do not cross the picket line.
Three AI animated series are heading to Prime Video streaming via Amazon MGM/AWS-backed GenAI Creators' Fund: 'Cupcake & Friends;' 'Love, Diana Music Hunters;' and 'Punky Duck' from Jorge Gutierrez.
Billionaires spending massive amounts of money over a small portion of the population because they need the public mad at something and it's us, trans people. Disgusting morals of the ultra rich to keep people distracted and angry.
And there you have it.
The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.
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...
The reason I started buying physical media again was when WB deleted a bunch of shows for a tax break. Im making SURE I keep the media I love in a way some rich fuck cant destroy on a whim.
People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
People are upset that in 2024 work was done on a hantavirus mRNA vaccine and alleging a conspiracy theory.
Hantaviruses were recognized as having pandemic potential in 2017 and have been documented infecting humans since 1951.
rdcu.be/fhj5wacademic.oup.com/cid/article-...
I want the average webcomic reader to recognize webtoon is merely one oversanitized commercial platform and not the totality of webcomics, and be willing to dig through links pages to find gold.
It's staggering to imagine an alternate reality where the most popular and influential webcomics were beholden to WT or WT style rules. Like it or hate it, Homestuck was a massive influential success and it would have been *gutted* on that platform. WT is not for creatives like webcomics should be
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.