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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

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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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 5h

a man with a beard is sitting in front of a screen that says ben11 303

ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in front of a screen that says ben11 303

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 5d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 3d

I'm finally doing my due dilligence and finishing my Lynch backlog. Watched Mulholland Drive a few nights ago, had me absolutely enthralled.

But I'm afraid the introduction for Lost Highway (and its associated track from Bowie) is going to have a strangehold on my psyche for quite a while

a dark road with a few lights on the side

ALT: a dark road with a few lights on the side

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 12d

My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.

Donate to Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story, organized by Heidi McDonald

I was a game writer at the height of my career - author, freq… Heidi McDonald needs your support for Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story

gofund.me

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t know how long the process will take at this stage, and I’m frustrated I didn’t think of committing to this angle before. But I’m tired of hoping that putting my work into other peoples hands will result in anything other than watching it wither away and be forgotten. Time to make it happen.

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 14d

Rescoping projects isn’t fun, I don’t enjoy it. But given how much content exists for it, it makes more sense to do it than throw it away.

So, my personal project is now becoming a novel! In-between reconsolidating and rewriting all existing content, I’m also working on its cover art. Very much WIP

White text on redacted black lines at the top of the image reads ‘CASSIDY VALE’.

Dozens of cables coil and snake their way across a dirty, sandy road.

Static pages sit in the middle of the road in-between two cables, flanked diagonally by bush, debris, rock and scrub.

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 21d

close-ups of the kit-bash for those curious 🙂

Inspired by @rythaze.bsky.social's depiction of the MJOLNIR cyborgs in the new artstyle, as well as the color scheme of the original sprites / Craig Mullins artwork for the Marathon Trilogy's CS release. Uses Locus, Blackbird, Void and Lukas' parts

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 22d

That Old, Familiar Feeling

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt

Fanart of Bungie’s Marathon reboot - the figure standing in the foreground is a revised appearance for the classic trilogy’s playable protagonist ‘Recon 54’, a Mark IV MJOLNIR Cyborg. This is also normally where I would write up lots of descriptive imagery, such as the shade of white on his helmet, or the cool blue fabric bands around his biceps - but there are many secrets in this image that must be found 🤫

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 23d

let me cook

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Rythaze 🌦️ @rythaze.bsky.social · 25d

The merry men

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 28d

honestly the reveal trailer is so unnerving to watch to this day, it & the prologue stand out as genuine surreal horror and it's a shame the only other time we get something like it is the Devil's House mission in Africa

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

The Phantom Pain Debut Trailer

YouTube video by GameSpot

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · 28d

I think GZ was always meant to be a playable experience, but it would transition from the past to the present immediately in the wake of the helicopter crash. I'm not sure if anyone's ever tried to cut it into a video to illustrate that, but I know modders have made GZ somewhat playable in TPP so 🤷

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Kousen @kousenzephyr.bsky.social · 28d

Oh, hey.

Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".

Let that sink in.

Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 29d

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sph't Happens

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt

Fanart of Marathon (2026?) - runner character 'Glitch' pilfers through the contents of another runners 'corpse-bag', finding an item of interest. In the background, a Sph't Compiler rises from the depths, no longer curious but hostile.

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Sep 6

green

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Sep 4

yes this it just a nicer version of the post I just made, don't be mad I just thought it would help to have the colors better displayed

Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Sep 4

help me decide what my next artwork will be!

I'm not capable of picking it myself as I am cursed with pickiness and can never decide one option when multiple are in play)

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bob's Big Comeback

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Sep 1

out of all the content I engaged with as a teenager, this was NOT on my list of things I was expecting to see get a revival. excited to see where they take it!!

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Aug 28

rat

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Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social · Aug 27

the human body is truly a fucking mystery and we will never EVER figure out what ails us. even if the bills were covered under Medicare, I legitimately want to know what the hell happened to me today but I probably never will

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