Dead Bones

Quarter of all kids in the UK being in poverty should be a statistic that gets your government the guillotine

19 years ago, an ambitious dream to bring an iconic book series into the world of video games came to life with the release of The Witcher. It was the start of an unforgettable path, which wouldn't have been possible without our friends at BioWare.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

Ya know, not enough films these days feature cybernetically enhanced US navy dolphins that are addicted to heroin, and it shows.

Decided to look up "The Cheesecake Factory" and thier top menu item is neither a cheesecake, nor are they "pigs in blankets". They're like Ronseals evil twin.

Everywhere I look reminds me of her. Honestly I’d take this over ours for today

It's stormy, it's Sunday, and I have a purring pussy cat on my lap. It's a good morning.

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.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

In honor of Friday, Whirling-in-Rags cafeteria from Disco Elysium.

I'm enjoying in a span of a year our works training response on AI has gone from "AI is new magical tool that will make teaching and students work amazing" to "this will kill someone" (electrical tutor for that one).

Never mind that stockpiling requires storage space people don't have – it is also maddening that this burden falls on individuals when the risks are largely the result of government policy

Ofcom published a report today that pretty much declares the Online Safety Act a complete failure

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Cats by Shou Xin

Still throwing me that Philomena Cunk is in VisionQuest.

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...

Oh my DAYS

It's been nine years, aren't we due a new Beyond Good & Evil 2 announcement soon?

Fusion Device xkcd.com/3313/

to me the existential threat posed by AI slop games is less "AI slop games will steal our sales" and more "the onslaught of AI slop and the exhaustion over having to second guess every new game will make people mentally check out from supporting new games at all and retreat to their backlogs"

the fact that this can be about two different things today

Windows: *sobbing uncontrollably* You can't just make everything a file Linux: *points at inkjet printer*: file

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.