Dossier | La Presse au Royaume-Uni | Du Brexit au « Bregret » (4 articles) En 2016, les Britanniques votaient pour sortir de l’Union européenne. Dix ans après avoir dit oui au Brexit, ils regrettent leur choix. Les fausses promesses du référendum ont fait place à la désillus...

Un bon dossier à lire de La Presse pour ceux qui pensent que l'indépendance du Québec c'EsT dOnT uNe BoNnE iDéE 🤪

Du Brexit au « Bregret » : lp.ca/6EZTmH?shari...

Wait hang on I was told by MULTIPLE talentless hacks this was the inexorable future of art

I realized this morning that I have grown exceptionally tired of waking up each day, skimming the news and going “what a bunch of assholes.”

Every god damn day some new affront to human decency and general intelligence, if not several.

We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry

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In the killer world of online gaming, there are no hits any more – just survivors The fates of two ostensibly similar online games released this year, Marathon and Highguard, prove that success is becoming close to unattainable

I’m back in the Guardian, with a piece on how there’s no such thing as a hit anymore when it comes to live service games

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Not content to slow roll Xbox's demise, Microsoft has pledged to speedrun it instead.

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

These are criminal acts, and there is no way to find the other side of this without meaningful accountability for this—like “in the dock at The Hague” accountability.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

Trying to imagine being so boring that I would care whether or not the helmets are made right in a story where a man is gifted a bag of favorable winds.

My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.

Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

Sarah Lazarus @sarahclazarus no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve 8:53 PM • Dec 15, 2021

That time of year again!

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere

The most correct take.

Execs will tell players and devs that using genAI is about empowering us to make our jobs easier or do them better, and then they use it to churn out slop while they collect fat bonuses.

Make them regret using this shit or they will destroy this medium game-by-game.

This was a succinct, clarifying read about the current AI bubble and its inevitable pop. We're living in a "storytelling economy."

Emma Thompson is all of us.

This is masculinity too

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

A Small But Vital Thing, Taken When I’m writing, one of the most crucial components of that process is my downtime. And I’m talking down downtime, not just like, oh I’m gonna fuck off and do something else for …

In which I talk about maintaining creative diligence in the face of hypervigilance -- and overcoming (or failing to overcome) the difficulty of protecting your mental downtime from *gestures broadly in every direction*.