Learning Laser

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Neutrino unimpressed by a blissful Baize

They want you to believe AI is the Borg (TNG): absolutely unstoppable, getting stronger with all they absorb. When it's actually the Borg (Voyager): absolutely incapable, ruining stolen fragments of better things, can be defeated by the most elementary verbal tricks.

AI is Roko's New Basilisk

Here's my summary of the current Ai bubble from next week's newsletter

DANDY SMOKE and BLAZING PINEAPPLE: obviously Pacific Rim Jaegers, also the first non-alcoholic spirits I've found which understand that non-alc spirits are by definition missing something and actively try to do something about it. They crank up their flavour depth and are real nice!

People complained that Chengdu zoo was letting their clouded leopard get fat, their expert explained "This cat is like thirty years old, that's twice as old clouded leopards GET, and he's just had major surgery. Making him lose weight would do WAY more harm, just let him have this."

People who are too into online communities start using their weird slang in everyday speech, not realising it's a weird red flag to everyone outside their community. Rich people get to indulge whatever they want without pushback. JKR is going to be speaking pure TERFese within the decade.

Lifestyle coach pretending to be a doomsday weapons designer. I'm hired by henchmen when they sense their boss is about to go big enough to get them all killed, I convince them to pivot to luxury tenor volcano island holiday spa management and long-term investment.

The Forever Winter with interesting looking game, and rich new meme image potential

Btw if you're like me and you fucking love video games where you're not the protagonist, Forever Winter is a game to really keep an eye on. You're a scavenger caught between two titanic warring factions that have mechas and superheavy tanks running around and you gotta stay unthreatening to survive.

The Forever Winter on Steamstore.steampowered.com The Forever Winter is a co-op tactical survival horror shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive under the shadow of terrifying and gargantuan war machines locked in a never-endin...

I know it's a warning but it makes me picture slow yellow and black striped horses for use in careful situations

Even the news feed doesn't believe it's own bullshit advertorials

God damn I love people making ultra niche projects powered by such pure love

It's Friday, friends. Can I be tiny happy at you for a minute? This #SciArt zine I (finally) made will be in my store soon. Test print is shiny & full of nerdiness, & I love it. Journal of Video Game Botany no.1 is on fungi that appear in AC Valhalla, & 2 will be the flora of Horizon Zero Dawn 🌿🎮💖

Hitting your phone with a hammer doesn't show you how it "really works", and putting people under awful stress doesn't show you what they're "really like".

Some people get popular on a new service and quickly reveal why it's never happened anywhere else.

Bandcamp knows how to make me press play IMMEDIATELY

The first weapon in ForestShock, gimme this aesthetic ramped up to glorious insanity

I want to explain what this is, how it works and why it's hilarious to me, but it's going to take a few posts to explain. It appears to be the work of Rüdiger Trojok, a biologist and biohacker in Munich.

Improvised peril sensitive glasses applied!

Five seconds into rewatching Babylon 5 GODDAMNIT DR FRANKLIN! This time GDDF, you don't take the extraordinarily vulnerable patient who just passed out back to your quarters! Not even if they're closer than Medlab! Even if it happens IN your quarters you GO to Medlab!

A lovely little graph gag, even if they got the axes the wrong way around.

If your game introduces a second crafting currency before a first reason to care, it's Uninstall O'Clock

If you meet an accelerationist, steal their phone to make them a better accelerationist.

Out with my kid this morning I felt a sudden stab of fear, realised it's because in every movie I've ever seen dudes only get to be this happy for five minutes before the action starts.

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It bears repeating that part of the reason the major parties love to do transphobia because they are bigots, yes, but also because it allows them to pretend they are doing something for women and thereby get out of doing anything real or meaningful.

Fuck all about women's rights is the answer. Nothing about equal pay, opportunities, training, childcare, reproductive rights, *actual* sexual predation (rather than theorical), domestic abuse, menopausal support or mental health. But a whole heap of bullshit about toilets.

Voldephobe's achieved the rare reverse Groucho Marx

“We welcome everyone who wants to join our party” “… not u”

U.K. Communist Party Backs Away Slowly After J.K. Rowling Expresses Supportwww.thedailybeast.com The author and virulent transphobe told her social media followers to vote Communist after accusing Labour Party leaders of abandoning women for transgender rights.

May we all be as happy as Striker in sunlight!

One Million Checkboxes is a PhD in game design for anyone who wants to write it www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-game-calle...

A game called One Million Checkboxes has sparked a terrible online warwww.rockpapershotgun.com I’m getting into the bad habit of posting just after the end of work. In this case, I’m doing it because the whole affa…

To the tune of Megas XLR "Ban! All! Short-term-rentals!"

Sickos yes

Barcelona Plans to Ban All Short-Term Rentals for Tourists From 2029www.bloomberg.com Barcelona plans to enact a citywide ban on all short-term rentals to address complaints that tourism is to blame for a local housing crisis and soaring rents.

Neutrino containment

No I'm pretty sure this is a Vorlon

Here’s some Monday motivocean from this opulent opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda opalescens: “Seas the day, frond! You got this!”

Even the hardest fromsoft game explicitly tells players "just do whatever to win", but we still spawn cults self-flagellating with "You're not allowed to use summons/good weapons/buttons"

Imagine how much you'd have to suck in every other aspect of your life to decide that sitting through a long flight without movies is what makes you impressive