Jake Albano

For my inaugural Bluesky post (marking my tentative return to social media after almost three years): my thoughts about slop, value, and the internet future I hope to see. jacobalbano.com/2026/02/03/i...

i've recently heard that some ai bros want to make an smw central alternative because we don't allow gen ai content on the site. here's my direct response to those people. "who owns rom hacking?" and other questions ai poisons us with shoujo.gay/who-owns-rom...

not this decomp but wrote up a few notes on another one i saw earlier today, to hopefully inform people on just how bad AI decomp code really is. sure, maybe you get the outline of the code (but ghidra can do that too, without costing $56k) and even though this matches its completely unusable

nice map ya fuckin jerk defector.com/making-a-gre...

Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man.

Same energy;

Got a kickstarter update for the Sharin no Kuni localization... started ten years ago and has still not come out. You guys I literally learned Japanese in half the time it took you to not release this.

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

love to witness the mass loss of privacy rights across the world and directly perceive a big part of it turning out to be for reducing legal hurdles to gambling advertising

AI hallucinated a report that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear material to Iran and the US military scrambled and nearly boarded it. We were apparently minutes away from a major war because of an AI hallucination. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

Machine speed is a con and we don't have to buy it.

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

en esta economía??????

Your bad art is better than AI slop.

jacobalbano.com/2026/08/04/t...

It's hard work.

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

The absolute state of gaming in the big 2026

I want to speak directly to the people working in the tech industry. Know that I hear your pain and I am not your enemy. Your industry has abandoned you. You have been lied to by companies that exist to drain you and fantasize about replacing you. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/

“Concerning”; World’s Most Humanlike AI Program Kills Itself Attempting to Generate a 10 Quadrillion Pixel Image of A Hamburger For Seemingly No Reason

I have the pleasure to announce that I was the English to Japanese translator for Clover's Quadrants, an adorable, challenging puzzle game by @idolon.bsky.social. You can read a debrief of my translation process on my website rubyrawlins.com/projects/202...

Vermont has banned AI chatbot therapy, passing a law that requires a mental health professional to conduct therapeutic services.

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Kids are on their phones too much. I don't know why they don't use the many youth clubs, public swimming pools, community clubs or sports facilities successive governments and skint local authorities have underfunded, closed or sold to property developers.

For people using AI in commercial game development: I'd be interested in hearing the best arguments as to why you think people should pay for the resulting game instead of pirating it. Concisely, if you pirated the inputs, why shouldn't they pirate the output?

I feel really normal that Art Discourse largely still hasn't caught up to the year 1934

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

An $18bn data center project in sulphuric springs Texas that broke ground in June 2025 is being sued by the construction firm that has been left unpaid. Project is halted due to the developers not getting funding. Our first horseman has arrived msbglobalservices.com/matrix-data-...

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

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...

great stuff google thank you so much!!!!

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

This is cool, normal, and really shows the high value of AI. restofworld.org/2026/virtual...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

BREAKING: A bill has been introduced in the House and the Senate to ban private equity from youth sports. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @deluzio.house.gov have introduced the Let Kids Play Act to bring down the cost of youth sports for American families.

Mesmerizing first trailer for "Wildwood", the new stop motion feature film by LAIKA Studios. Full 4K video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=POne...