Neon Pixels
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It took them WEEKS.
WEEKS to write a few words in a box.
This should never stop being mocked. They genuinely thought we’d be impressed that a glorified brainstorming session for a few hackneyed ideas took an entire team WEEKS of sleepless nights.
WEEKS to write a few words in a box.
This should never stop being mocked. They genuinely thought we’d be impressed that a glorified brainstorming session for a few hackneyed ideas took an entire team WEEKS of sleepless nights.
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It took them WEEKS.
WEEKS to write a few words in a box.
This should never stop being mocked. They genuinely thought we’d be impressed that a glorified brainstorming session for a few hackneyed ideas took an entire team WEEKS of sleepless nights.
WEEKS to write a few words in a box.
This should never stop being mocked. They genuinely thought we’d be impressed that a glorified brainstorming session for a few hackneyed ideas took an entire team WEEKS of sleepless nights.
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AI made their stupid fucking commercial.
You are no artist if ”writing prompts” is your idea of hard creative work. What you are is a fucking imbecile and a hack. What you are is someone so unable to create you’re straining yourself at the inspiration stage aka the 1% of effort that goes into it.
You are no artist if ”writing prompts” is your idea of hard creative work. What you are is a fucking imbecile and a hack. What you are is someone so unable to create you’re straining yourself at the inspiration stage aka the 1% of effort that goes into it.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
AI made their stupid fucking commercial.
You are no artist if ”writing prompts” is your idea of hard creative work. What you are is a fucking imbecile and a hack. What you are is someone so unable to create you’re straining yourself at the inspiration stage aka the 1% of effort that goes into it.
You are no artist if ”writing prompts” is your idea of hard creative work. What you are is a fucking imbecile and a hack. What you are is someone so unable to create you’re straining yourself at the inspiration stage aka the 1% of effort that goes into it.
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It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
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Unironically agree, I mean we’ve been calling those mfers “anti-choice” for years now anyway
The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Unironically agree, I mean we’ve been calling those mfers “anti-choice” for years now anyway
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Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
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Holy fucking shit this is a *real* image from a *real* (presumably peer-reviewed) paper in [Nature] Scientific Reports.
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Holy fucking shit this is a *real* image from a *real* (presumably peer-reviewed) paper in [Nature] Scientific Reports.
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
How many people had to sign off on this figure?
The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?
What had to happen for THIS to get published?
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Women scientists often do not get recognition and visibility for their achievements as their male peers. Thanks to @indianexpress.com for highlighting stories like ours which go unnoticed, that hopefully will help to change the gender bias that still exists in society.
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Women scientists often do not get recognition and visibility for their achievements as their male peers. Thanks to @indianexpress.com for highlighting stories like ours which go unnoticed, that hopefully will help to change the gender bias that still exists in society.
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Reminder that removing planned obsolescence and creating modular, open, standards-based tech that is repairable and made to last is one of the goals of "degrowth".
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
there has been no meaningful improvement in the devices or their functionality in 10 years in any way that affects what any normal person uses them to do, people only switch when forced updates cause a device which worked fine yesterday to lag so bad you can't type at full speed until you replace it
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reminder that removing planned obsolescence and creating modular, open, standards-based tech that is repairable and made to last is one of the goals of "degrowth".
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
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Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.
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“They say their project’s art direction has been largely fuelled by AI prompts and generated imagery, all driven by their head Art Director, who is himself an experienced video game artist, but who now “can’t even write a fucking email without using Chat GPT”
lollllll
aftermath.site/ai-video-gam...
lollllll
aftermath.site/ai-video-gam...
‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath
'I have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'
aftermath.site
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
“They say their project’s art direction has been largely fuelled by AI prompts and generated imagery, all driven by their head Art Director, who is himself an experienced video game artist, but who now “can’t even write a fucking email without using Chat GPT”
lollllll
aftermath.site/ai-video-gam...
lollllll
aftermath.site/ai-video-gam...
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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(3/3) cue the switch over to 3D, as companies laid off 2D senior/lead artists (who were frequently women) because "unfortunately 3D is the future and you lack the skills we need." This also stopped them from being hired elsewhere. Many major female Japanese game artists exited the fieldas a result.
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
(3/3) cue the switch over to 3D, as companies laid off 2D senior/lead artists (who were frequently women) because "unfortunately 3D is the future and you lack the skills we need." This also stopped them from being hired elsewhere. Many major female Japanese game artists exited the fieldas a result.
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(2/3) their studios. Many female artists requested (as seniors/leads) to do this training but were told that, being women, their companies did not want to risk that starting a family or having children might cost them their inhouse trainers. More junior male artists were sent, especially in Japan,
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
(2/3) their studios. Many female artists requested (as seniors/leads) to do this training but were told that, being women, their companies did not want to risk that starting a family or having children might cost them their inhouse trainers. More junior male artists were sent, especially in Japan,
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(1/3) TL;DR: Prior to 3D, especially in Japan, many of the senior and lead artists on games were women. Early 3D required extensive training and expensive computers to make. Companies had to send members to expensive conferences and workshops train in the tech and become inhouse trainers for
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
(1/3) TL;DR: Prior to 3D, especially in Japan, many of the senior and lead artists on games were women. Early 3D required extensive training and expensive computers to make. Companies had to send members to expensive conferences and workshops train in the tech and become inhouse trainers for
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If I speak about the early adoption of 3D into video games and how it has a similar sordid past... If. I. Speak.
the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If I speak about the early adoption of 3D into video games and how it has a similar sordid past... If. I. Speak.
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This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being".
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being".
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The executive costs won’t go away with AI. It is in fact only getting worse as they rely on technology that’s losing money and will need to rehire humans to fix a lot of shit, all after assuming less labor = more in their pockets.
I wish the shills in the trenches could see this. It’s blatant.
I wish the shills in the trenches could see this. It’s blatant.
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The executive costs won’t go away with AI. It is in fact only getting worse as they rely on technology that’s losing money and will need to rehire humans to fix a lot of shit, all after assuming less labor = more in their pockets.
I wish the shills in the trenches could see this. It’s blatant.
I wish the shills in the trenches could see this. It’s blatant.
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As far as the execs, they not only pocket millions for themselves, their meddling is explicitly implicated in multiple high profile failures, and commonly cited as one of the most harmful problems in game dev.
Their trend-chasing capriciousness wastes resources, scraps work, costs millions.
Their trend-chasing capriciousness wastes resources, scraps work, costs millions.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As far as the execs, they not only pocket millions for themselves, their meddling is explicitly implicated in multiple high profile failures, and commonly cited as one of the most harmful problems in game dev.
Their trend-chasing capriciousness wastes resources, scraps work, costs millions.
Their trend-chasing capriciousness wastes resources, scraps work, costs millions.