Oh man I am tempted to get a second subscription JUST for the tote

Road to Infamy Games, they produce both "Fromage" and "Formaggio" both about making cheese in different countries (France and Italy). It's a worker-placement farming game.

I'm still not convinced anything else exists

Fines need to be larger than the amount stolen or they're just a tax on profits. Even 10x that wouldn't be a fraction of the damage they did. We can do better than this.

It looks like it may have more than one game in the box too? search.catalog.loc.gov/instances/95...

I have seen one good example of this plate

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Happy rex manning day

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

Triangle Agency is one of the most fun to read I've encountered in a while

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

$85 is an insanely cheap price for a full weekend of lodging, a prepared meal, and two full days of interactive and personalized entertainment

ALERT: Mattel has been pushing game designers to submit pitches using their My Mattel Ideas portal, even if designers are in discussions with Mattel people directly.

The portal forces you to commit to a royalty cap of 1.5% plus a 10% deduction to net sales - effectively 1.35%.

This is a correct take.

AI compliance is over hyped. It’s just a flavor of privacy compliance. Processes and people help mature compliance here.

I was literally just talking to my therapist on Monday about how I’ve accidentally become nocturnal because night is the only time nobody is ever asking me for anything

Gotta switch over to Sliders next

Blader @LocalBtnMasher X.com I dont understand why Breath of the Wild has a score of 97, while Crimson Desert, a game with a bigger world and more mechanics, has 78?

Been laughing at this for 10 minutes straight

MST3K - KTMA - K03 - Star Force YouTube video by Arthur Putie

This is really cool — it looks like the lost episode of MST3K’s KTMA era, which not even Joel Hodgkin had a copy of, was found at a Minneapolis garage sale and digitized:

I have some advice here, but first, let me establish my credentials: I do cybersecurity at a law firm, and am the primary person doing third party risk assessments on AI tools that lawyers use.

Okay, ready? My advice: DO NOT DO THIS.

A thread on why:

Godfuckingdammit. So much for it not being sold out from under us to another fascist billionaire. Once it goes public it’s as good as fucked.

5) Oh right, one more point: AI sucks. Don't use AI. It's a plagiarism machine. It's a monster destroying the environment. It's destroying minds, including yours. Just stop.

It's easier to edit the output than to write it yourself, and you have to have the expertise to understand it when you're editing. This is why vibe coding only works if you're a coder, for example.

4) And finally, for those who looked at my credentials earlier and are wondering, yes, lawyers do use AI themselves to draft stuff. Because it's easier! There's no doubt about that! But there's another aspect to that: these lawyers have to look over the AI output to see that it did it correctly.

"I didn't check with a lawyer" is NOT a defense, nor is ignorance of contract law (and you have no idea how much judges hate AI right now). Talk to a real lawyer.

3) There's no defense against a badly written contract. Contract disputes are an entire FIELD of law, and this sentence should scare you. If you don't write your contract perfectly, define all the terms, handle every edge case, you're gonna get screwed.

2) One contract does not fit all - even if you get a pure boilerplate contract (which, honestly, you can get for free from other places than AI), it isn't necessarily what you want. There's a reason people inserted those clauses in the contracts that AI trains on. Talk to a real lawyer.

1) AI does not know the difference between "standard contract (boilerplate)" and "clauses in a contract it trained on." You're gonna get weird stuff that's not normal and not standard and you won't know enough to look for it or find it.

I have some advice here, but first, let me establish my credentials: I do cybersecurity at a law firm, and am the primary person doing third party risk assessments on AI tools that lawyers use.

Okay, ready? My advice: DO NOT DO THIS.

A thread on why:

Perfect

Tumblr post from orteil42 am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses