BurtonJ

BurtonJ

@tonjohn.bsky.social

Hoarder of Snickers, King of the Giggles

240 followers475 following475 posts

🙏

Andy Bell@bell.bz

People in tech leadership especially, you really need to start measuring the output and determining whether the massive increase in volume is returning anything of actual value. Mix that with your increasingly burnt out workers and there's a real opportunity to get ahead on multiple fronts.

BurtonJ reposted

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

BurtonJ reposted

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

😬

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

BurtonJ reposted

Replying to @meglish.com

Embrace the fucking friction in your life jesus christ. Thats the point! Thats life! Thats art! Thats being human! Make a thing and be bad at it!!!!

BurtonJ reposted

The popular monsters of the era reflect the cultural zeitgeist. In the 2000s, it was zombies. In the 2010s, it was vampires. And now, it's women!

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

BurtonJ reposted

We saw a 51% jump in early voting in areas with a No Kings event. We the People have the power, and all these fascists are bound to lose! #VoteEarly

Looks & sounds just like my mom before we checked her into a memory care facility…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

As a former Texan, please follow this Texan’s lead and let’s reclaim the state 💪🏼

Dave Rupert@davatron5000.bsky.social

👋🤠 Howdy, fellow Texans! Early voting starts TODAY and goes to Oct 30th. All y'all know there's fixin to be some bullshit this election cycle, so don't wait and schedule time to vote early. Make sure your vote gets counted. Find your polling place: www.votetexas.gov

BurtonJ reposted

Replying to @pftompkins.bsky.social

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

BurtonJ reposted

Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

BurtonJ reposted

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

BurtonJ reposted

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

BurtonJ reposted

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

BurtonJ reposted

Leah Greenberg: No Kings is a deceptively simple statement. It is a statement that in America, power lies at the hands of the people, and we express our power at the ballot box.

BurtonJ reposted

Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

Thank you for standing up for what you believe in. Through collective action we can make a difference, we can reshape the world. 💕 Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 🍉

House House@househouse.com

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

We need more of this energy from peers and leaders

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

you literally never need to tell me why you're canceling a meeting or asking for a meeting to be canceled. Yes, we can do that, and I am sorry and/or happy for you about whatever happened

Who needs AAA gaming when the indie scene is better than ever - Ball x Pit, Balatro, Big Walk, Baby Steps, everything @play.date …

Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social

personally think if the line is going to be “no gen ai in anything” then the you might have to consider divesting from AAA games entirely because this is just what the industry is now, whether they admit it so publicly or not

💕

Seattle Torrent@seattletorrent.bsky.social

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the Coast Salish peoples and Indigenous communities across the Pacific Northwest, celebrating their enduring connections to these lands and waters, vibrant cultures, and continued contributions. 🩵

Nick Suttner@nsuttner.bsky.social

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

This reminds me - what happened to Msft’s pursuit of the 4 day work week they touted during the pandemic? Their own research showed it had a tremendous impact on productivity and yet their employees are working more hours than ever…

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

The more I write Swift the more I get the feeling that Apple’s API devs live in a bubble away from the rest of the software engineering world…

Attempting to collect dog urine feels like a task out of Taskmaster. Hopefully my neighbors got a laugh out of watching me chasing my dog around with a to-go container 😆

BurtonJ reposted

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

BurtonJ reposted

Seriously, if you're not using Polypane for development, you're missing out. Highly recommended.

Polypane 31 is here and ...it has a boatload of cool new features! 🖼️ Canvas layout with free-form placement ↔️ Flex item inspector 🎯 Navigate to custom properties ...and back! 🔍 Per-pane zoom settings 🏎️ Page performance monitoring 📱new iPhone 18 and duo presets polypane.app/blog/polypan...

Our whole political system and economy has devolved into a pyramid of grifters 😮‍💨

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

I used to wonder, "How could someone as seemingly reasonable as Cheryl Hines be married to that obnoxious, stupid kook, RFK, Jr.?" Well, now I have my answer:

BurtonJ reposted

CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.