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Yes, and studies show that working more than ~60h/week for more than two months straight results in a decline in both efficiency and overall productivity. These guys have their heads up their asses. I went over a bunch of this stuff in a Reboot talk in 2018 btw youtu.be/nHWvUmlzamo?...

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Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works: aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

the main driver of white gen-xers reactionary sentiment is that they’re unable to reckon with the reality that they’re aging out of the main demographic that capitalism is advertising to. it’s a big part of what this last election driven by “wokeness out of control” was about

submitted 19 days ago • 166 comments

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Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money Crypto in 2025:

submitted 21 days ago • 148 comments

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 27 days ago • 124 comments

rich people arent playing it safe by going along with fash shit they're actually excited they can be open about how they dont consider most people to be human now

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

my boomer dad was yelling about google forcing AI on him earlier. this shit is truly for nobody

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

wild to me when people who have built up big platforms seem completely willing to throw it all away for the rainforest-torching hallucination machine

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

getting the sense that a lot of this AI summary crap is being pushed by people who only read or write for work & thus see it as a chore they wish they could skip. i don't, though, i like it. "hey, we invented something to ruin some of your favourite activities" great. take my money

submitted 46 days ago • 22 comments

Planet-warming carbon dioxide levels rose more than ever in 2024 - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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reading all these posts about David Lynch and it brings home how great art is so fulfilling and enriching to all our lives - the AI bros will never understand

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.

submitted 46 days ago • 44 comments

my phone interrupts me writing things to ask if i want to use some AI assistant to do it. there is no option to tell it to fuck off forever, only 'okay' and 'maybe later' i would punch the person responsible for this in the teeth if i could

submitted 46 days ago • 27 comments

I don’t ever want to watch a video please don’t make me watch a video

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

These people are your enemies

submitted 50 days ago • 422 comments

inventing a machine to make art for you is like building a robot to fuck your wife

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You know how everyone stuck on the phone with an automated customer service system just gets to the point where they repeatedly yell “CAN I SPEAK WITH A REAL PERSON?” Okay. What if we replaced all of culture with that.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Okay you know that 120fps "frame interpolation" thing that every millennial has been aggressively turning off on their parent's televisions for the last 10 years? Okay. What if we replaced all of culture with that

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

LLM CEOs like ‘our business is not sustainable without investors giving us a way larger amount of money, making stealing legal, and an amount of energy that will destroy the planet’ well pal that’s a bad business. you saying that in public confidently means you should be fired

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

per some remarks in fallen london player survey responses, i'd like to make it clear that we never use generative AI and anything in our games which has too many fingers has too many fingers on purpose

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it

submitted 68 days ago • 259 comments

“Mhm. And how will you uplift marginalized communities?” I ask an engagement bot, killing off the last members of an endangered species of mynah bird in the Amazon. The bot’s answer lacks intersectionality—I tell it so. A root system that had been alive since the Cretaceous period shrivels and dies

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

What’s the deal with supposed progressives posting Gen AI imagery? You’re using several gallons of water and god knows how much power each time, to make stuff that looks like dead dog ass. And insulting actual artists in the process.

submitted 59 days ago • 36 comments

direct line from calling writing, videos, music, art, etc. "content" to the legitimization of AI slop producers

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c: Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...

submitted 61 days ago • 79 comments

OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form. It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..

submitted 66 days ago • 95 comments

STEM is so cool. Science is amazing. Kids should develop curiosity about how the universe works and proficiency in uncovering its secrets, so that they can most effectively optimize clickthrough rates on banner ads at the bottom of VC-funded website-apps.

submitted 67 days ago • 32 comments

Microsoft and OpenAI's definition for AGI has nothing to do with intelligence. They simply agreed they'll have reached AGI when they develop a system that can generate $100 billion in profit. Anyone still buying the AGI hype after this is officially a sucker. gizmodo.com/leaked-docum...

submitted 67 days ago • 25 comments

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off. He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

submitted 67 days ago • 251 comments

No. This is nonsense. Generative AI isn't artificial intelligence, it's a theft machine, built on theft, sipping the lifeblood of our planet, vomiting out simulacrum of creativity and talent that is most striking its its uncanny valley hollowness. It is the corporate murder of creativity. A plague.

submitted 68 days ago • 83 comments

warming ticks above 1.5°C globally, right as many of our governments are pulling back on even the middling action they were taking to cut emissions

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

Don't just stop using AI; start using the public domain! Here's a search engine for public domain works that are absolutely free to use and remix: picryl.com

submitted 71 days ago • 34 comments

If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down. 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

submitted 105 days ago • 65 comments

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

submitted 70 days ago • 249 comments

Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work. I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.

submitted 71 days ago • 145 comments

TTRPG Creators: please, just say no to "AI." No AI background music, no AI-generated NPCs, no AI character art or podcast covers. It's all theft and it's all destructive.

submitted 104 days ago • 22 comments

Writers i love you but please stop using AI art on your book covers. Draw it yourself use public domain images barter with a friend ANYTHING ELSE. It feels like you hate us visual artists when you use AI art

submitted 74 days ago • 83 comments

Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires

submitted 76 days ago • 35 comments

cool, shut it down

submitted 76 days ago • 105 comments

In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

submitted 76 days ago • 48 comments

Yes AI art is ugly, but that isn't the problem with AI art. AI art will get better and it will still be unacceptable. AI art is built on stolen art. AI music is built on stolen music. AI videos are built on stolen videos. AI text is built on stolen text. Across all mediums, fuck AI.

submitted 91 days ago • 60 comments