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Still thinking about this quote.
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Still thinking about this quote.
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I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
February 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
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Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
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In retrospect, what do you guys think is the least plausible name of the bro country era. I think my answer is “Cole Swindell” but I am willing to hear arguments for “Brantley Gilbert” and “Jerrod Niemann”
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
In retrospect, what do you guys think is the least plausible name of the bro country era. I think my answer is “Cole Swindell” but I am willing to hear arguments for “Brantley Gilbert” and “Jerrod Niemann”
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Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
February 16, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
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Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.
February 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.
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I wish people understood how much unseen labor goes into every visible ounce of activism
and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known
and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known
February 15, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I wish people understood how much unseen labor goes into every visible ounce of activism
and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known
and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known
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What a waste of time and talent it is to skip these steps. How can you learn from mistakes if you're not working through them?
And that's even before you get to the fact that so-called gen AI products were trained on our plagiarized works.
Every time I see an em dash now, I'm reminded of that.
And that's even before you get to the fact that so-called gen AI products were trained on our plagiarized works.
Every time I see an em dash now, I'm reminded of that.
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
What a waste of time and talent it is to skip these steps. How can you learn from mistakes if you're not working through them?
And that's even before you get to the fact that so-called gen AI products were trained on our plagiarized works.
Every time I see an em dash now, I'm reminded of that.
And that's even before you get to the fact that so-called gen AI products were trained on our plagiarized works.
Every time I see an em dash now, I'm reminded of that.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
RIP Emily Brontë you would’ve been a god-tier shitposter
“I have created these people in my head and I despise every last one of the miserable gremlins” is always a very funny thing when an author pulls it off well
I deeply respect it bc truly, the author loathed every single person in the story
February 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RIP Emily Brontë you would’ve been a god-tier shitposter
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also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës
February 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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Never mind the fact that this cartoon can be read in two very different ways (worried mom/thirsty mom) - I really like the fact that the cartoonist has depicted every version of Hipster from 1950 to 2010 in one guy.
February 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Never mind the fact that this cartoon can be read in two very different ways (worried mom/thirsty mom) - I really like the fact that the cartoonist has depicted every version of Hipster from 1950 to 2010 in one guy.
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It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
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Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
You need to know about the SAVE Act, which recently passed in the House.
So here's a crash course from reporter Ari Berman on how the sweeping voter restriction bill could disenfranchise millions of Americans
So here's a crash course from reporter Ari Berman on how the sweeping voter restriction bill could disenfranchise millions of Americans
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
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We can say no to things.
“Companies operating food delivery robots will not be allowed to expand across parts of Wicker Park and Logan Square following overwhelmingly negative feedback from neighbors, the local alderman said Monday.”
Logan Square, Wicker Park Neighbors Say No To More Delivery Robots
Ald. Daniel La Spata said Coco and Serve Robotics won't expand service in the 1st ward after more than 80 percent of residents who responded to a survey said they didn't want them.
blockclubchicago.org
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
We can say no to things.
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We've stalled out at, frankly, The Funniest Number and I can appreciate that.
This will cover roughly 1/3 of the projected cost of my kid's surgery.
Can anyone help bump the amount to $425? To $450?
Small amounts REALLY add up.
Can you help?
Can you share this?
This will cover roughly 1/3 of the projected cost of my kid's surgery.
Can anyone help bump the amount to $425? To $450?
Small amounts REALLY add up.
Can you help?
Can you share this?
Kids are expensive.
My kid is a luxury good, apparently, extra expensive (and worth it).
We need to pay for some pretty expensive dental work, and I also need expensive glasses, as does my husband.
My kid is a luxury good, apparently, extra expensive (and worth it).
We need to pay for some pretty expensive dental work, and I also need expensive glasses, as does my husband.
Donate to Support Our Family's Medical and Vision Needs, organized by Brigid Keely
When it rains it pours, and in our case the rain is medical expenses.
S… Brigid Keely needs your support for Support Our Family's Medical and Vision Needs
gofund.me
February 15, 2026 at 6:53 PM
We've stalled out at, frankly, The Funniest Number and I can appreciate that.
This will cover roughly 1/3 of the projected cost of my kid's surgery.
Can anyone help bump the amount to $425? To $450?
Small amounts REALLY add up.
Can you help?
Can you share this?
This will cover roughly 1/3 of the projected cost of my kid's surgery.
Can anyone help bump the amount to $425? To $450?
Small amounts REALLY add up.
Can you help?
Can you share this?
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"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
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We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.
February 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.
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That's not a question.
February 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
That's not a question.
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it's aromantic awareness week
🫵 BE AWARE 🫵
🫵 BE AWARE 🫵
February 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
it's aromantic awareness week
🫵 BE AWARE 🫵
🫵 BE AWARE 🫵
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The New York Times, so far, finding it Not Fit To Print, read up on a general strike involving three hundred million people.
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India : Peoples Dispatch
The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with th...
peoplesdispatch.org
February 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The New York Times, so far, finding it Not Fit To Print, read up on a general strike involving three hundred million people.
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
It’s not that @schumer.senate.gov is awful at the job of opposition leader.
It’s that he’s excellent at the job of stooge paid by the same people as MAGA to keep an actual opposition away from power.
It’s that he’s excellent at the job of stooge paid by the same people as MAGA to keep an actual opposition away from power.
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM
It’s not that @schumer.senate.gov is awful at the job of opposition leader.
It’s that he’s excellent at the job of stooge paid by the same people as MAGA to keep an actual opposition away from power.
It’s that he’s excellent at the job of stooge paid by the same people as MAGA to keep an actual opposition away from power.