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My husband took some delightful Maus pictures.

It's another day, so let's talk about this. First of all, Lula didn't win the election alone. He won because more than half of the country FREAKED THE FUCK OUT and built a popular movement that organized several actions both irl and online.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

Why should we pay a TV licence to fund an organisation that doesnt respect us? You can't just sweep us under the rug and pretend we don't exist.

local AI guy who could "finally focus on the higher level ideas" now asking AI to come up with some ideas

Partner just sent this to me and I just had to share.

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

I can’t give up something I don’t use.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I spat out my peppermint tea 🤭

This “core team” rhetoric is getting really weird. Games that take hundreds of people to make take hundreds of people to make. Just say it! We’re reinventing “QA is in another building and aren’t real devs” from first principles

I see Scale75 are continuing to shit the bed on Instagram, claiming that they paid an 'artist' to create some AI slop for them. At least it's not nazi chibi dolls this time, I guess 🤷‍♀️

Criiiimssooon Fiiiiisstttttss! Crimson Fists Spae Marines from Rogue Trader.

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

#ProtectTheDolls

The whole fucking point of taking notes during a lecture is to retain information. The act of writing it down, processing it, etc. turns what you hear into knowledge. It is infinitely depressing how quickly people have sacrificed their cognition to a piece of technology. Wake up. FFS.

You can now sign up for our Karl Kopinski fundraiser on MMF! Many creators have decided to join us to help Karl with his medical expenses. Get your hands on a brand new Trench Crusade miniature and help out an artist who has done so much for the hobby! www.myminifactory.com/frontier/kar...

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii sucks shit.

The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

"Why, I've made roleplaying games for Seaquest, Andromeda, and TekWar - and by gum, it put them on the map!"

I did wonder why the hail of Spam and Scam emails my junk folder had been getting annoyingly flooded with abruptly ceased the other day. It sure as shit wasn't anything Outlook did, so Glory To Ukraine!

SLAVA UKRAINE! 🇺🇦

There is no such thing as perfect Gloomspite Gitz fan art. *looks at r/gloomspitegitz* I stand corrected. Credit to u/CME_T. #AoS #Warhammer #gloomspite #fanart

Felt a similar way when Helen Joyce’s ‘Trans’ was sent to Rob post the war over at The Bad Place. Was a bit warm for a fire so we settled for the skip.

I do still hobby! C h a o s! 😈

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

I do not want it in my words I do not want it faking birds I do not like it in my mail It really is beyond the pale I do not want it stealing art I not want it whole, or part I do not want your AI spam I hate it, hate it, Sam Altman

the conversation over Iced Coffee isn't about iced coffee it's about the social contract breaking down younger ppl have seen that employers are not upholding their end of the bargain (stable career) so they're not bothering to uphold theirs (playing the stupid corporate social games)

UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE

This is a thing I've long thought about. So much of what GW does with Warhammer is to make for a balanced and happy tournament scene at the expense of casual play. But the vast majority of players will rarely, if ever, take part in that.

This is just Elden Ring armour, surely 🤔😉

Anyone using AI for their YouTube thumbnails is an instant disregard, but none more so than people who use it for No Man’s Sky videos, which is designed to generate perfect screenshots for thumbnails within the game itself. You couldn’t even go into photo mode? I’ve seen slime mould with more verve.

Look, I am not saying all my problems are caused by greedy mediocre white men in suits because I am typing it.

your da shouts at hotels and your mum lives in Piddington

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.