HNY 🥳

(digital hoarder edition)

newspaper headline saying "State investigators: AI tool wasn't biased when it flagged student's chips as gun"

our chips are safe

legaltech tends to mean "yesterday's innovations at tomorrow's prices"

but email is indisputably the best social network around

so back to the future it is

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein YouTube video by The Onion

comedy is still legal

thank goodness

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhS...

Today we’re finally unveiling Inception - a creative AI tool that lets you experiment with design ideas backed by production-grade code.

Where should we take this tool next? Let’s discuss it on Product Hunt:

producthunt.com/products/web...

ahhh i see that new default setting re: blocking AI bots

whoaaa

news source 9 is being gleefully jettisoned

also gotta love legal

1000xRESIST is the winner of a Peabody Award. The 1000xRESIST Key Art with the Peabody logo.

✨ 1000xRESIST is the WINNER of a PEABODY AWARD ✨

This is an honour of a lifetime. We took a lot of risks in the storytelling and we are so proud to be recognized. We are still digesting this. We cannot believe it...

HEKKI GRACE EVERYONE 🥹

i suppose i spoke too soon

A1 in the classrooms. everything is confusing

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

i really feel for all the Alberts, Alphonses, Alexanders, etc. in the world who can no longer go by "Al"

it's just too confusing nowadays

Good folks doing good work and looking for more good people.

#lawsky

and there's the copyright intersection, of course

an ai labyrinth created by ai

to thwart LLMs that ignore "do not crawl" webpage requests.

i like this. robots.txt is sacred. but what a weird world we live in

just another day at the ol' office

video games can teach you quite a bit

i may need to start a book club

feeling some sort of way about email AKA my favorite social network

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

thats what i get for complaining

happy holidays to those who celebrate

quite the takeout order i got here

semi-related, here's some fresh litigation related to these bot-ish accounts padding meta's wallets

but this one involves murder and saying the quiet parts a little too loud so gotta do something there i suppose

words cannot express how much i loathe working in the Meta platforms

13+ phishing attempts since 4am today. great job here 👍👍

Last year, I reported that Bungie had fired former exec Chris Barrett for misconduct. Barrett then sued for wrongful termination, which surprised me given that I'd seen his texts to subordinates and figured Bungie could publish them in response.

Which they now have. www.scribd.com/document/830...

Sony pushes back hard against Bungie veteran's wrongful termination lawsuit The PlayStation-maker's first substantive response to the headline-making claim includes text messages from fired designer Christopher Barrett. His camp calls them misleading.

NEW: Sony has finally responded--aggressively--to the December lawsuit filed by a Bungie veteran who said he was fired so they could get out of paying him $45 million

They deny claims of a "sham" investigation and share texts between him and female employees

www.gamefile.news/p/sony-bungi...

Advancing game ideation with Muse: the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM) Today Nature published Microsoft’s research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We are releasing the model weights, sample data, & WHAM Demonstrator...

i do love Ninja Theory's work so there is that

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

ready player one. here we go

but i suspect far less generous easter eggs and far more stacks. probably equal measures of Spielberg though

‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Nears $3.5 Billion Deal to Sell Games Unit Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-controlled Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions...

Scoop: Pokémon Go maker Niantic is nearing a $3.5 billion deal to sell its games unit to Scopely, owned by Saudi-controlled Savvy Games Group, per sources. With Michelle Davis www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

what the heck

~1860 vintage ad 🤝 2025 AI slop