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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 7h

I hate when people say shit like “whatever you feel about AI it’s here to say” like that’s not the levelheaded nuanced take you think it is. it just tells me that you have no pattern recognition and also don’t give a fuck about the environment

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 16h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 9h

we all need to be more sympathetic and considerate about how hard it must be committing felonies daily yet totally immune to legal consequences, and plus no one even able to see their faces, they probably feel gosh dang near invisible smh 😔 folks they're just little guys and it's their birthdayyyys

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 9h

here me out: Gwarmen Sandiego

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 17h

if your industry can’t survive ethically then it shouldn’t fucking exist

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. This is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first."

- Six former U.S. surgeons general, who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

i like to pet cats
they are soft and smooshable and warm and cute and good

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Working theory: Flappy Bird was a load-bearing app, and when it was removed from sale in February 2014, the entire world started to crumble

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Florence Wilder ✒️ @florencewilder.com · 2d

The bigots are few; we are many. Never forget that. Keep fighting.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

4. Of more than 160,000 students enrolled, only 43 families chose to opt out of LGBTQ+ education.

In a report released October 2nd, MCPS approved just 58 opt out requests from 43 families... 0.03% of students.

Meaning 99.97% of families chose to let their kids learn about LGBTQ+ people.

43 MCPS families opted out of books largely centered around LGBTQ+, cultural diversity, social justice

MCPS approved 58 requests to opt out of specific books and readings from 43 families, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling.

bethesdamagazine.com

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

New #Primrows weekly challenge today! This one is Knightblooms, challenge that asks, “what if Primrows was based on chess instead of sudoku?”

Give it a try! linktr.ee/tursiops
#indieDev @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

Primrows screenshot

Game Complete
knightblooms
2 of 3 stars
205 points

4x4 garden with the following flowers:
violet, blue, blue, blue
orange, pink, pink, violet
violet, orange, violet, pink
blue, violet, orange, blue

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The way the right builds their "violent left" narrative is being hyperreactive to any action by anyone they perceive to be on the left and blasting it all over conservative media while systematically ignoring any violence by the far right. Mainstream media covers the former but barely the latter.

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

my response: what dev wants to waste valuable dev time updating to the latest versions of everything?

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

the allonormativity is strong with my feed today 🙄

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

please don't make me lurk on Mastodon again

It's like running Arch Linux and everyone yells at you if you haven't downloaded the right version of gcc

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 3d

If you have a dog and your dog does agility stuff and you’re not calling it “barkour” then you’re missing a golden opportunity

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

This is how it's done. Community resistance.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 3d

whoever owns the rights to Groundhog Day could release Groundhog Day 2 at any time and have it be just the same exact movie again

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, so shocked that so many "comedians" who made their name shitting on vulnerable people and populations and giggling out slurs on podcasts would take House of Saud money that forbids them from joking about the House of Saud all while braying about the sacredness of Free Speech

shocked

shocked

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 4d

back on linkedin

a screncap of a linked in dm. the first post reads: "thanks for connecting, saleem! how are you currently modelling your game's monetization pre/post launch?" and my response: "Oh you know, mostly vibes and a prayer"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 4d

If someone has the right tone, you seem to be incapable of looking past that to the actual content of what they're saying or to the broader context and project of what they're doing. They're just asking questions. They're just expressing an opinion.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 4d

There may be a rise in fascism but they are still a cowardly minority and we can and will defeat them.

So, yes, friends there is always light in the world. If only from each of us, it is enough.

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 4d

3 and 6 for me. Lotta mid-tier cookies on this list. Who the fuck buys non-chewy Chips Ahoy?

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