Yeah the idea that Disney wasn’t already building their own AI shit to just pump out trash content, especially to improve costs on voice acting and render farms is pretty wild. What’s happened at this point is

1. They’re worried about the bubble collapse, when a ceiling is reached that there’s no way this is more profitable
2. They don’t have the time/money to fund bigger and and bigger server farms in an increasingly competitive space and it’s cheaper to just align with OpenAI for now.
3. They’re hoping when number 1 happens they just scoop up number 2. People will stop using AI for their daily life stuff. People won’t stop taking their kids to see the lion king 9 or whatever

The virtue of QT based toolkits, which thankfully they haven’t tried to shaft KDE on, as long as the project is open source

There’s not really a great word for it either. Vaporwave became a “cope” for like technology out of time. Apparently this is a nickname for the trope but I don’t like it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchizoTech. Schizo tech to me is just literally doomscrolling TikTok while ignoring everything around you

What in the social chickpea

Or even just a new DM in general. The whole thing is a group activity for mutual enjoyment. I ran a cyberpunk red campaign as the GM with 6 players for like a year, and it was my first time DM/GMing in general, and it was also a brand new system at the time. Everyone was very forgiving, lax and then serious in the story when it mattered. I certainly would have quit if people were assholes because my math wasn’t there or I had to flip pages to figure out like fire damage calculations without having them bookmarked or whatever

Or Kate, which funny enough now runs on windows

“On next week’s episode of whycombinator”

Most of them get mad when someone says cis, because “normal people don’t need labels” or whatever the fuck my drunk uncle will say this year while the kids open christmas presents

Lol yes, another post of his from 2 years ago

Yeah the Human Interface Guidelines were the precursor to design systems, and for a little while, design/ux really was front and center and that influence and patterns that worked spread through software projects and products. Nowadays sadly UX always takes a back seat to capitalizing on attention, and capitalism in general.

Edit: It’s important to remember that Apple was writing 350 page interface books in 1992. They pioneered “look and feel.”

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/573097

Nowadays those questions are like

“Did the user make a purchase? How many ads did they see in 15 seconds? Are they still scrolling? How much data have you collected?”

Well, you haven’t seen what’s under the skirt

Stoicism has become commoditized as a way to convince people that their lot in life is just their attitude, and the more they put their shoulder to the wheel to produce for the top of the pyramid, the more it works out for them, rather than questioning the wheel. The hustle and grind culture is just as much the goal of something like the heritage foundation as “deport the brown people.”

Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer

my daughter

couples

Sir this is no longer a Wendy’s. We’re closed

lol

because my daughter started an onlyfans I saw the cut they were getting and I was upset. So I got my VC buddies together and we handled payment processing, legal obligations, user auth, security, cdn, storage. I’m so proud of her for being my first customer. And she’s only 19 so I only take 19%

that’s the issue. the grim reaper is just edging himself. it’s up to him when he’s finished

Because the party of small government is in power, duh

well then someone should fix it since we clearly know the cause and it’s reproducible. we filed this issue like 300,000 years ago and it’s still open, and I’ve seen it on other MAMMALX platforms like cat and dog