Molly

The DCCC appears to have decided the best closing message for the midterms is "vote for us and we'll work together with the GOP to stomp the shit out of that tranny filth" and meanwhile liberals are scolding trans people on this site for being skeptical about voting D

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

The nuanced discussion on LLM can’t happen for a long time because the education around it has been deliberately muddied in order to permit massive methods of harm. There is no accessible source of truth for the general public regarding how LLM works, && how it different from ML and AI.

I’m showing my boyband stalker sim are we good? 🙈’ in the Leftfield collection at MCM London Comic Con all weekend!! Come say hi if you’re around :)

guys, if you work for the puppy crushing factory, the technology you build is going to be used to crush puppies

I mean, they had to use AI to make this because the original image from the movie is the hands of a black guy and that would turn off too many of their boosters

On the topic of "AI is great actually if you use it wisely, like me, the wise LLM power user." We interviewed a JavaScript developer with 7 years of experience this week for a mid-level role and had to hold his hand through optimizing a very simple nested for loop.

This is correct. See, for instance, all the gamers who sent me angry DMs for my glowing review of Gone Home because that game had a "political agenda" (it focused on a high school romance between two teen girls) and games should be apolitical, like the Call of Duty games they liked so much.

This is what gets me sometimes. The cost to the devs in losing a job is only half the impact. There’s a big communal dream with thousands of hours thrown into it and then it’s just nothing. And none of us can talk about it for legal reasons.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. When we have our next dem president/congress, I will at some point criticize them for not reversing all of trump's anti-trans bullshit and be met with smug libs pointing out that they rescinded the military ban so we can go die to further American...

the only way to change things for the better is to get rid of the status quo, which you will never accomplish via the ballot box

we don't deserve OutRun 2006. it's too good. its creation could only have been an act of the purest, most divine grace.

I'll be honest, there is nothing more demoralizing to me than devs saying "I know AI is built on theft, and anti-labour, and harms the environment, but I'm going to use it anyway bc I don't believe individual choices matter". This is how a movement fails. www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-...

my cousins gave me shit for wanting a Miata in like 1997 because it was a car for girls and: 1. They were right 2. I still want one

Hey remember that time you banned me over “wishing ill” to JK Rowling?

The full team was like 1000 people. People outside of the “core team” did some major heavy lifting. This is outsourcing. What you are doing is outsourcing and then downgrading their contributions. There is nothing innovative about this.

Hell Yeah Alucard

bc the united states doesn't do government art grants on a scale that allows anyone to make video games and so the entire US games industry is dependent on the preexisting large-scale financial apparataus of hollywood and tech. Also they don't do big enough tax incentives to get big money to uproot.

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!

you have no idea what I'm incapable of

i will keep saying that cis people will simply ignore any law they feel like until everyone is forced to stop pretending "sanctuary" states have been doing anything other than corporate marketing. they'll ignore the rest of the law too, just give them time 🏳️‍⚧️

Can yall please stop playing fortnite now

Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Everyone in this story saying “I’m pro-union, but we don’t need one here”: There are 10^x of you at every American company. Literally nowhere is the exception. The fact that you think you’re better than your coworkers IS the leverage that the company is using against you and everyone else.

I've seen a lot of programmers really disrespect themselves thinking that genAI is "fine" when it comes to coding or w/e because it's not "art" Programming is an art. It requires creativity. And you're literally programming graphics, it's visual art. It's just art. It counts. AI coding is AI "art"

just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

it's almost like spewing hate constantly affects people negatively huh, who would have thought?

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

miles edward o'brien wouldn't want you to give up

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the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality