Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
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Actual good and hopeful news today. Take that, all the bad and stupid news!
A thing I think they just don’t understand is that spectacle is just an aesthetic you can layer on top of any game, so you should start with a working game and then check that spectacle doesn’t break it instead of starting with spectacle and hoping it makes a good game.
For those of you who aren't tuned in, this a call for genocide against disabled people.
quake 2 showed us colored lighting, it was a big deal, we'd never seen such a thing, now the only time I can tell graphics apart from last year's is when they make it worse with AI or need a $1,500 card to watch characters move in reflections we've been able to fake using a flipped mesh for 25 years
Do not give them money. Just don't! If you fund genocide, you shouldn't get money. This is a very tangible way to *not* fund genocide.
I am once again saying that letting fascists back into society when they pretend to be repentant like this will lead to the rise of fascism again. They are upset because Trump has made them look like the fascists they are. This does not mean they are on the side of morality and human rights suddenly
that is a TIGHT UV layout, wow, really well done
name and shame, name and shame. people need to know who it is so they can avoid him and his work!
A big 3d modeler tutorial guy soldout and started flogging AI slop, and posted an infographic saying a model of a traffic cone costs $3600 a pop. So in response we've all been making traffic cones to show how obscene and out of touch that is.
politely informing myself, and thousands of you, that through allowing ourselves to be frustrated with a lack of meaningful progress in achieving our goals yet forcing ourselves to keep at it we are exhibiting a display of perseverance where millions of others would choose to abandon their pursuits.
I'm in awe of the Rockstar workers who've continuously fought back against their unjust firings by Rockstar.
@nershly.bsky.social did an incredibly good job capturing what the past couple of months have been like for her and what we should all learn from it. scottishleftreview.scot/the-rockstar...
Fuck it - virtually all complaints about the culture of this userbase, "tribalism", "echo chambers", "bubbles", and so on boil down to not wanting to ever see certain groups of people and having just enough self awareness to mask that with language that sounds vaguely critically astute
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
it's insane shit, on the rare occasion I visit SF now it is a hellscape of marketing for fictional companies trying to sell you fictional things that solve fictional problems, totally divorced from reality.
have you ever actually talked to a silicon valley guy? i have a bunch almost always against my wishes. they are aliens
All those "show us what you looked like ten years ago" or "show your green art/animal art/art of women" memes are being used to train AI
This is responsible and I respect it. Curious to see who she'll endorse, if anyone.
The Pitt is closer to the spirit of Star Trek than anything "Star Trek" from the last 15 years
“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”
This is why we should fund science. 🧪
it's got the juice, I think.
I am not saying the guys running OpenAI are serial killers. I'm just saying the worldview they present, and the way they talk about their own actions, reminds me a lot of one of the most iconic serial killers in the history of film.
Poster describing the 'Downfall of the Dictators is Assured'. From Imperial War Musuem collection.
I know I've posted this before but I fucking love this poster.
Need to get a print framed and put up on the wall.
advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it
advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately
Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.
Call your reps NOW.
A few years ago, the Iowa football coaches did the same thing to a bunch of players during summer practices and put them in the hospital.
I have ADHD so I have grappled with memory issues my whole life... But nothing like what covid did to me.
I've been bouncing back physically in so many ways over the past few years, but it only makes my mental situation more stark.
Starting stimulants got me 25-50% back but my brain got cooked.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
it is imperative that democrats win the senate and keep the senate until one of these fuckers keels over like scalia did
and then they hold the seat open until a dem can nominate someone