It sure is a jarring image by any measure. I struggle to hate on it since it feels like a defensive reaction. Homogenic was recorded immediately following the stalking and murder attempt incident of 1996. She moved from the UK to Spain to try and recover from the whole ordeal. That cover feels like she’s consciously adopting a repulsive image to avoid being the target of subsequent obsessive violence.

So I’m guessing this was before actual ears were invented, and all you got was a couple dumb tiny holes to pick up the noise?

Je passerais bien la journée d’aujourd’hui sous l’arbre, au bord de l’étang.

I meant the part about questioning the validity of their perspective. It just ticked me off on the moment, I don’t think that’s right. I hope you understand. I’m not mad at you or anything, you’re so sweet and such a vibrant part of the community 🥹

Smorty wut? I get you like AI and you aren’t mean… but I assure you some AI bros live up to their reputation. Please don’t go around gaslighting artists. How they see it is how it is.

I’m making a generous assumption by suggesting that “ready” is even possible

To be honest it feels more and more like this is simply not possible, especially regarding the chatbots. Under those are LLMs, which are built by training neural networks, and for the pudding to stick there absolutely needs to have this emergent magic going on where sense spontaneously generates. Because any entity lining up words into sentences will charm unsuspecting folks horribly efficiently, it’s easy to be fooled into believing it’s happened. But whenever in a moment of despair I try and get Copilot to do any sort of task, it becomes abundantly clear it’s unable to reliably respect any form of requirement or directive. It just regurgitates some word soup loosely connected to whatever I’m rambling about. LLMs have been shoehorned into an ill-fitted use case. Its sole proven usefulness so far is fraud.

I’m at level “should give Utopia another listen” of freaky embracing my true nature.

I understand how you’d extend reproach to the employees of a bad business. I don’t feel it personally though. Solidarity for all workforce trumps it in my heart. Maybe it’s my family ties with active union members.

In gamedev particularly, a lot of creators get in there mainly because of their passion for the medium. Then they get chewed up by shit work conditions. Ultimately dream job type positions are especially vulnerable to abusive management.

Oh no! Venture capital has moved to AI! (Anyways.) The article goes on to talk about humongous corporations making dubious decisions and toppling over themselves. Are we supposed to lament Ubisoft’s demise now?

Expedition 33 just came out of nowhere to great acclaim. Valve is hosting a thriving market & slowly but surely freeing PC gaming from Microsoft’s grip. SILK SONG IS DUE THIS YEAR MY FRIENDS. Everyone’s wishlist is as long as their backlog. The bar to entry for development has never been lower. Video gaming is an established medium at this point. A handful of corporative giants infected with a rotten management culture matters little. What essentially matters to me is for the creators out of a job to find new footing.

ANIMORPH

It’s sharkitty, by Yogin!

What a cute blåhaj! Oh wait these are nostrils, the eyes are on the side. Still cute though. Wait a minute, nostrils? Shouldn’t this thing have gills or something? Still cute though… I guess.

Remember this thread is about a bot commodifying the production of cumshot videos from any person’s photo. I fail to see any nuance here. There is only one use: generating porn featuring people that don’t want to. Decency rules continues to apply to general use tools as it always did.

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I ditched Windows for Linux some weeks ago precisely so that my OS stops fucking me over.

Generating nonconsensual sexual videos is not something you think, it’s something you do.

It’s not a cis male thing so far. I’m all for pushing the cis male envelope though. Right now searching for “man boob” practically only return results about getting rid of them. I say Normalize man boobs! Celebrate all boobies!

*mostly empty cup straw noises*

Hello! I’m Québécois and as such happily defy all Canadian obligations. The USA gave the elections to the liberals by threatening Canada’s sovereignty. This is because the Conservatives favour the prairies, where there is a strong pro USA sentiment. Alberta’s PM Danielle Smith reminded everybody of that by conniving at Mar-a-Lago while the other provinces were trying hard to show a united front. In the meanwhile Conservative Leader Poilievre took forever to address the issue since he knew part of his base actually wants to be ’murican.

So by now Carney is PM for sure, but it’s not been called yet if it’ll be a minority or majority. I’m not excited about having a paragon of neoliberalism as federal leader (still better than Poilievre *sigh*) so I’m hoping for a minority.