Forget Jon Stewart, why is there an evangelion in the sky behind him

Oh shit yeah, can't believe I both forgot about your earring AND missed it in the photo

Time for coffee!

Earring and neck tattoo when? 👀

Israel destroying entire villages in Lebanon.

Please read that again until it sinks in.

Taybeh, Naqourah, Aita al-Shaab.

Think I read somewhere that a house can't be more than 9x9 tiles or something?

a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

Me and Asher for a double dose of crowdfunding and games in the @dringo.bsky.social podcast/newsletter.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Ha sorry, I thought it was just my name, but it's goodreads.com/mvavz

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This is why I keep it out of my classrooms.
This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI.
This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students.
We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

"Existing brain drains like social media and email reduced our ability to think before generative A.I. arrived, making us more willing to use this new tool to avoid mentally demanding tasks [...]. At the same time, the more we use A.I. [...], the more our cognitive fitness will continue to degrade."

DEATH OF THE MIDDLE.

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

My brother has made the ultimate Sudoku app for the playdate, so if you happen to own one and like sudokus you know what to do!

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang comments on what he believes is a giant leap forward: "Twenty-five years after NVIDIA invented the programmable shader, we are reinventing computer graphics once again. DLSS 5 is the GPT moment for graphics — blending handcrafted rendering with generative AI to deliver a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression.

Look I just woke up, and saw the flood of memes, but let's be serious here: that DLSS5 tech is dangerous and overrides art direction to impose a hegemonic white western cis-het male gaze, based on years of systemic societal biases in all media forms.

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

I ask you to take 3 minutes out of your day to read this, as a reminder of what true evil looks like.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂

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Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

The new Lancet study on the genocide in Gaza finds that total deaths were 1.71 times higher than reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health as of January 2025.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:

"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"

It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.

loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

Ask and you shall receive

This goes for any type of business, really, and it's certainly how I'm building my own.

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think it's only fair that they let me host @thegameawards.com at least ONCE, then

Currently reading Piranesi, found multiple people recommending it in a blue sky thread. Really enjoying it so far!

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."

Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread

#KirbyFraming