Notices by a ghostwriter (dandelion@stormwaltz.net)

@RikerGoogling

That would be the Dads of Tama, I believe.

@hellomiakoda

It's generative AI. Type a prompt and use whatever plagiarism comes out:

"...for example, tools that generate 2D textures that maintain exact color and light accuracy across any environment."

They handwave it as "empowering" artists. Which, translated from executive weasel-talk, means retaining a handful of senior devs who are expected to produce more because they've laid off the next generation of juniors.

Fuck off into the sun, you ghouls.

https://www.ea.com/news/ea-partners-with-stability-ai

Two images of Christianity in America.

Going downstairs is like playing an MMORPG because I've got two kids who like to pace back and forth in repetitive patterns on opposite sides of the floor.

They react with impatience (or hostility) when you interrupt their patrol patterns by, say, feeding the cat or making yourself coffee.

Trump admin has declared they're going after the "threat" of antidepressants.

Thank you, Secretary Brainworms.

I am once again reminding folks that Daniel Vávra, the studio head behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an unapologetic "gamergater."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_V%C3%A1vra#Political_views

If you wonder to yourself how we ended up in a post-fact, right-wing dystopia, the answer is "gamergate." They wrote the playbook for the bad-faith "culture war" behavior now we see everywhere online.

A pod-style coffee maker would be ideal for us, but I can't in good conscience contribute to the mountains of unrecycable plastic waste they generate.

I need something like the drip coffeemakers we had in the 90s, but able to brew one cup at a time rather than a full pot all at once. Fill it with grounds, add a paper filter, and dispense until it needs to be cleaned and refilled.

I've worked in offices with something similar, but those machines cost thousands.

Really getting impatient with Duck Duck Go filling half a page with ads and AI slop when I run a search.

If I wanted google bullshit, I'd still be using google.

In the (increasingly rare) times I have money, what I like best is giving it away.

"Your microwave blew out? Your asshole landlord is trying to evict you while you're laid off? Emergency dentistry? Your poor students are coming to class hungry? Well *I* don't have anything I'm dealing with right now, here you go."

Not having to stop and do my budget to see whether or not I can give someone money is great.

If I was a billionaire, I'd do a GoFundMe day once a week. Find a hundred people who need aid, and anonymously pay it in full.

That actual billionaires don't do this kind of thing says to me that there's something deeply wrong with them as humans.

Some time ago, I read a post on Tumblr from someone who grew up in Eastern Europe, about how to recognize that you're living in a "failed state." They described how everything slowly got worse, and you didn't really notice, you just adapted to it, worked around.

I think about that every time I receive a letter that took two weeks to arrive from a town 30 minutes away.

Brought one of the kids in for flu & COVID vaccinations, and I couldn't help noting the irony of this sign.

We were the only masked people in the office.

I was told, "if you boycott every game that is made using any AI stuff, this will probably be your last year playing most games."

Two years back a bunch of photographers and musicians I followed decided NFTs were the future. I stopped buying their stuff.

NFTs died. Blockchain and crypto are dying.

It's within our power as consumers and creators to say "no."

When someone puts a knife to your throat (and that's what "AI" is to many creatives), you're not obliged to point out your carotid.

Discord is trying to sneak in unannounced privacy changes again.

A new beta feature called "Clips" allows voice chat to be recorded. You have to dig up the new setting and manually opt-out.

@TheSpaceshipper

I don't think I ever mentioned that Ikarie is one of the titles I sought out on bluray after you posted about it on the dead bird site. I'd never heard of it before.

Striking and moody.