Evan Minto

Evan Minto

@evanminto.com

Anime burger boy • Co-founder of manga app/publisher @omoi.com, formerly at Crunchyroll • Writer and podcaster for ANN, Otaku USA, @anigamers.com • I make websites/art/music/games • He/him Follow my Fedi acct @VamptVo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

1.5K followers 441 following2.5K posts

Pinned

Welcome to new BlueSky users! Reminder that you should follow @ap.brid.gy! Once you follow them, your posts will automatically get "bridged" to Mastodon and the Fediverse, allowing you to interact with millions more people without leaving BlueSky.

Lula baby. Viva Brazil!

David "QX20XX" Estrella rolling up to the Halloween party with the most David shirt imaginable

Evan Minto reposted

Replying to @evanminto.com

“I don’t want to get left behind,” he said as he enthusiastically funneled company funds into AI, vaguely wondering why he hasn’t gotten a raise in 3 years

Evan Minto reposted

Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron

@karlrolson.com

Replying to @evanminto.com

The productivity is also entirely illusory. "We commit more lines of code, so we ship more!" Yeah & it's all worse such that every company that goes all in has a temporary run of wins, as it's an excuse to normalize repos & clear out tech debt, only to introduce a new class of problems it can't fix.

Talked to an AI-pilled software engineer friend last night. One of those "I haven't opened my code editor in months" guys. Something I landed on during the conversation: engineers and companies are really underestimating the amount of leverage they're giving to AI providers by going all-in on it

Used to be that engineers had the leverage of being the person who could turn a client's requests into software. The more they offload to the AI, the more they're becoming clients, not engineers. OpenAI/Anthropic are banking on a world where they have a monopoly on the ability to create software.

It's the software equivalent of being a business based entirely around selling products on Amazon. You might be able to make that work, but you're basically a serf on Amazon's land. They can change their rates, fuck with recommendations, whatever, because you're locked in

The power of positive thinking. "I have to get a piano dropped on me, turning my teeth into piano keys?" No, "I GET TO have a piano dropped on me" 😇

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER@nancycomics.bsky.social

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 23,1954

Evan Minto reposted

@ddayen.bsky.social

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

We've been saying this was the case for years but these guys don't usually say it out loud! For guys like Carville, defending the party against left insurgents is much more important than defeating the right. The right doesn't threaten his position within the party, but the left does.

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville

Better to lose on their own terms than win on the left's terms. The former means you get to be on top of the #2 party. The latter means someone else is in charge of the party and you're out in the cold

New patch notes are out for balls v2

Kotaku@kotaku.com

MrBeast Joins Shark Tank, Invests Quarter Million In AI-Powered 'Ball 2' https://kotaku.com/mrbeast-joins-shark-tank-invests-quarter-million-in-ai-powered-ball-2-2000747308

kotaku.comMrBeast Invests Quarter Mill On AI-Powered 'Ball 2' On Shark TankMr. Wonderful inversely appeared uninterested in the foam orb, not seeing how it could distinguish itself among other, more popular balls

Evan Minto reposted

@neilaglet.bsky.social

A very Merry (and Pippin) #TOLKTOBER to all who celebrate

The swag on this man, my god

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

When's the last time you saw a Democrat respond like this to a conservative? Without hemming and hawing and trying to flatter them?

Overheard a woman at the Whitney talking about how if she lived in Michigan she wouldn't be able to vote for El-Sayed. "Even that Talarico guy in Texas is so anti-Israel, but at least he's not pro-PALESTINIAN." Of course she said she hates Netanyahu, but can't support pulling ANY funding for Israel

Guess she didn't get the memo that you're supposed to feign concern for Palestinians. You can't just say "pro-Palestinian" like it's an insult, you have to hide the racism a little!

Evan Minto reposted

Ani-Gamers: Podcasts & More

We're 200 episodes old! To celebrate Ani-Gamers Podcast #200, @evanminto.com and David answered listener questions and looked back at 18 years of podcasting 🎧 LISTEN: buff.ly/EBj2q5X

Evan Minto reposted

@ednewtonrex.bsky.social

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

You're still fucking your wife? Pfft, stay poor. I have sixteen different agents running in parallel doing it for me and summarizing it in a podcast.

This post is unavailable.

Evan Minto reposted

@househouse.com

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

We're hiring a Japanese-English interpreter in Tokyo November 16-20! Know someone who's available? Please DM me or tell them to email careers@omoi.com and cc evan@omoi.com with subject "Japanese Interpreter"

My exposure to agentic coding has been limited but in the time I used it at a freelance client I did not see the kind of leaps in productivity others describe. The code was sometimes useful, sometimes useless, and always required enough supervision to offset the time savings.

ceej@ceej.online

I think it’s important for anyone who (completely understandably) checked out on AI the second the crypto/nft/metaverse/snake oil chuds started pushing it to realize that, in at least the domain of software development, we are very much living in a scenario where the snake oil actually works

View full thread

BUT, in my own work I've refused to pay for any of these tools. The tech can be genuinely useful, but it seems completely insane to me to outsource coding itself to a cloud service with a subscription. It's bad enough we did this with CI/CD but now we're even renting the ability to write code?!

To say nothing of the fact that they're trained on stolen code. I do wish we could get to a point of having open-weight models trained on ethically sourced data and running on local hardware, but I think a) we're a ways off from that being feasible and b) the big AI players don't want that

My exposure to agentic coding has been limited but in the time I used it at a freelance client I did not see the kind of leaps in productivity others describe. The code was sometimes useful, sometimes useless, and always required enough supervision to offset the time savings.

ceej@ceej.online

I think it’s important for anyone who (completely understandably) checked out on AI the second the crypto/nft/metaverse/snake oil chuds started pushing it to realize that, in at least the domain of software development, we are very much living in a scenario where the snake oil actually works

That said, for small bits of assistance or getting a task started, I found AI was a useful little tool. Developers do a lot of copy-pasting code from online, and a language model is well suited to doing a more flexible version of that, mapping human language inputs to code outputs.

Evan Minto reposted

@annekmck.bsky.social

Hosei University Press publishes "long lost" Tezuka manga from 1970 featuring a Zainichi Korean main character, with critical introduction. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

mainichi.jp'Rediscovered' Osamu Tezuka manga tackles discrimination against Korean residents in Japan - The MainichiTOKYO -- A reissued edition of

Evan Minto reposted

Omoi: Manga App & Publisher

Attention New York Comic Con 2026 attendees! Looking for a new manga series to dive into? Our friends at @GraphixBooks have you covered! Pick up the full color print editions of Hikaru in the Light and Crescent Moon Marching at the Scholastic booth #3307! #NYCC

Evan Minto reposted

@terebifunhouse.bsky.social

(Law & Order sound effect)

D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social

well, Anime North just got a mention on Law & Order Toronto Criminal Intent, so there's that

Evan Minto reposted

@nikukurin.bsky.social

Kevin Avery: Ace Attorney #coyotevsacme #aceattorney #nikuart

Cairn is a Strand-Type Game, change my mind

Fool me once (with an Atsushi Nishigori anime with repeated letters in the title) shame on you, fool me twice shame on me

Watching Coyote vs. Acme!

View full thread

The 3D toon-shaded animation is bad though. It's well written, funny, and mostly has great timing, but most of the cartoon characters look awkward and slightly off model. A shame considering how great the underlying material is.

If it's still playing in your area please go see Coyote vs. Acme! It's genuinely a great time at the movies, not just something you have to watch to support it!!

Watching Coyote vs. Acme!

View full thread

Saw the movie at Alamo and there was only one other group there. When Coyote and Road Runner had their big heart to heart we all whispered "kiss!"

I had a blast. Wall to wall laughs and it still managed to get me invested in Coyote as a character. There's some actual meat on the bone thematically, which feels insane to say but it's true. A scrawny little gremlin who keeps trying even though he's cosmically destined to lose.

Watching Coyote vs. Acme!

Wile E is extremely moe

Evan Minto reposted

@notalawyer.bsky.social

remembering Joe Biden’s 2022 60 Minutes interview

A mix of things that got me into manga when I was young, all-time favorites, and one major career milestone