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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · Feb 14

This just made me realize I never put my dumb color of magic edits on here. So here are two out of three because Bluesky only allows 60 second videos and one is 70 seconds.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Feb 14

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 12h

The court finds that posts do not constitute a reality

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 19h

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 20h

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Ya boy Bran @brandrawsthings.bsky.social · 1d

kratt you FREAK. leave silksong alone

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

todkramer.eth tweet from Dec. 30 2021
"I been hacked. all my apes gone. this just sold please help me."

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe I thought just a few years ago that the world would not get dumber after NFTs

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13d

A few found cars is enough to appease folks that mass surveillance is OK for those small wins but here are the important takeaways: 1. Police are so shockingly cozy with the multi-billion dollar companies that sell surveillance tech that you have to ask who is actually making policy.

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

"Move fast and break things" should include your own company and reputation in the things that can be broken.

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

You come into my feed and slander my husbando like that?

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

Watching some old CCC talks and I think if I ever got an error like "EROOR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM" after any kind of API call, I would die laughing.

Slide from a CCC talk showing some return codes from different APIs. Notably the ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM error will make some people feel old because they have at least an idea what it could mean to insert a CD for internet access.

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

Killing the AI industry because it can't ask artists for permission sounds like a good idea, we should try that.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

It should be illegal for a 500*500 image to take up 1MB but allas. Also debugging JS feels less fun after fighting with c++ for so long. I now have a decoder that produces black images in the browser and as a treat also leaks memory. At least I can decode something so parts do work.

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

"Noem isn't chicken" is an odd sentence. Like, the chicken guy is clearly down there. Has Noem also a chicken suit but forgot it that day?

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

👏 it's 👏 her 👏 turn 👏 (/s if that's not obvious)

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

Testing stuff and making my IDE hate me.

A bunch of hex numbers followed by the notification "show more (10.1 KB)"

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

You don't even need an LLM. Sentiment analysis is like an old natural language processing thing and I am honestly suprised that google does not seem to use it for their self prompted questions.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

Got to the Epilogue. Great game and I think I will 100% it in time. For now thoough I am going to enjoy some FFT

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

I had 80 hours in the game before the launch, so I am not as enthusiasticly posting about my runs now. But imo it is hades 1 legendary. The mechanics are polished, the voice work and soundtrack are phenomenal, and the art is the right amount of horny.

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

kendrick lamar at his half time show smiling into the Kamera after saying "Hey Drake" and before saying "I heard you like them young"

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

It's just... of course there have always been fun problems with search engine algorithms and ways to game them. But seeing a google feature use a quote from an article about how that quote is not true feels like a new layer of dumb problems (at least it cites its source I guess).

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

I love how when i google that, the proposed question and answer source an article about how this is not real, but reads like it is. Online search is real fun nowadays.

Screenshot of google after searching for austria hungary spaceprogram. It proposes the question "Did Austria-Hungary go to space?" Andf provides the incorrect Answer "In 1889 Austria-Hungary conducted its first manned orbital spaceflight using a liquid-fueled rocket launched from the region of Galicia. In 1908 the nation successfully landed 30 astronauts in the Phaethontis quadrangle region of Mars, where they constructed a temporary research outpost and remained for one year. 01.09.2024" which sources a Defector article about this answer being from a fun viral tweet, but because google does not know it, it looks like this article provides the ifno that indeed sucha spaceprogram existed.

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

While I do believe the archive footage was used because, well that was the last time the insurrection act was used, the proposed image here is definetly a better capture of the current moment in which the possibility of its invocation exists.

Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 2d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

If you click on the article you get the context which is of course missing in the sharepic. It is a fascinating thing; I can see someone using that image as example of 'how bad it currently is' because (wanted) context collapse allows for total anachronism of media.

CNN Article picture with the subline:
"Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992. The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.
Mark Elias/AP"

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Stupidcomputer @stupidcomputer.bsky.social · 2d

Ok this one I find interesting because there is a clash here between the standard use of illustratitive archive footage (a picture from the last time the act was invoked, I think) and the current media climate where manipulated images are used as justifications for the thing the article is about.

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