Leigh Dyer

Devs shouldn't have to be protecting their games, Valve should be protecting its shopfront: aftermath.site/steam-indie-ga...

I'm telling you dude it's the age of loser dipshits. This whole tech sector, from the chatbots to the art generation to the voices, is built on this idea that being good at stuff is stupid and lame and somehow by not getting to enjoy the same praise skilled people do you are being denied or slighted

When a toddler shoots someone - which happens more often than you'd think in the US! - we don't blame the toddler, but instead ask who let them access the gun

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Very much enjoying the story of AI bros going to religious leaders and asking them to say that machines have souls, only to be told: a) no they obviously don’t and b) if they did then what the AI guys are doing is literally slavery and that would be BAD.

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

Google's AI overview is so bad; Star Wars: Galactic Racer has no planned Switch 2 release, but it sure thinks it does! It's source is a YouTube clip with 250 views that has a mocked-up thumbnail and footage of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Headline is reminiscent of something I saw in News Corp. Accusation is reminiscent of something I saw on X.

The inflation problem. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

"(It's important) that they know that they matter, that they have a voice and that they have something important to give to the world." But...they don't matter to you. You're telling them they don't matter when you fob them off onto the Automated Friend Substitute. You think kids don't know that?

Artists deserve to have their intellectual property protected. Labor has been pandering to big tech giants, and now they’re trying to blackmail the Government into selling out creatives. We need a moratorium on new data centres and clear protections for artists, communities and nature.

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

Pro tip: if a politician uses the phrase “we’ve been very clear…” it means they’ve been completely incoherent on that policy

i need people to start responding to questions about trans women in sports with "what the hell is wrong with you?? why do you care about this all of a sudden? why do you want to impose insane, invasive rules just to stop some 8th grader from hanging out with her friends after school" at the minimum

now we're getting somewhere

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

"The output of our models when reproducing the work of an author is not infringing but the output of our models when reproducing the work of a major tech company is infringing" fuck off you get one or the other choose now

Writers

The Sam Neill tributes will continue until morale improves.

my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.

New York Times uses Ubisoft co-founder's obituary to launder 'DEI' complaints about an Assassin's Creed game: aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

On one hand, AI has completely ruined the Build-Your-Own-PC market. RAM and GPU prices are a total mess. On the other hand, kayaks have never been cheaper. You can get a pretty good kid's kayak from Tractor Supply for less than $100.

Epic releases Fortnite video that's trying to launder the company's use of AI in the art pipeline, but artists I spoke to simply aren't having it: aftermath.site/epic-fortnite-...

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

there's a non-zero chance that DOGE was afraid of the Transgender Screwworm

Remember families of politicians are off limits unless they're useful case studies

They can’t point to a single instance of antisemitism by an arts organisation, while there are dozens of cases where official pressure has silenced pro-Palestinian voices. This is pure political intimidation by the govt and its official pro-Israel lobbyist.

Absolutely ridiculous. Social cohesion in Australia means attacking people who oppose genocide, accusing them of antisemitism, then silencing them.

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Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...