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After reading just the definition section: This is a catastrophically bad bill - and I'm saying that coming from a very different position than Prof. Lemley when it comes to AI training and copyright. Also: It's critical to keep in mind that there's big money on ALL sides of AI discourse.

Very unfortunate bill pending in the Senate right now would make it illegal to train AI systems, bypassing fair use and all the pending lawsuits under existing law chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2024/07/12/s...

Senators propose COPIED Act – does it supplant the Copyright Act?chatgptiseatingtheworld.com Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich just introduced a bill cleverly titled the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT). As they summarize: Cr…

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Virgil Finlay

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The Plugz - Achin' youtu.be/76qGYFjgyiE?...

THE PLUGZ achinyoutu.be EP 1979/1981

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1960s/70s posters for French train operator TEE. Via the excellent retours.eu

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X-Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo youtu.be/nfv9VbJqV_s?...

The Day the World Turned Daygloyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by TuneCoreThe Day the World Turned Dayglo · X-Ray SpexGerm Free Adolescents℗ 1978 X-Ray SpexReleased on: 1978-11-10Auto-generated by You...

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Too much symbolism here with the vandalism of this statue in Houston. I love the sentiments of the artist to leave the damage and not repair it. Statue Honoring Women and Justice Vandalized at University of Houston www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/a...

Statue Honoring Women and Justice Vandalized at University of Houstonwww.nytimes.com An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.

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I recently discovered an odd first-person maze game called “Lair of Squid” built into my HP 200LX palmtop PC, released in 1994 Then I found the author. Here’s the story of how this quirky Doom-inspired title came to be: arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...

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Well. It turns out that my roguelike book is in a Humble Bundle. My publisher didn't tell me about it ahead of time, but no matter I guess. www.humblebundle.com/books/game-p...

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Game Programming by Taylor & Franciswww.humblebundle.com Get your hands on a vast library covering all aspects of game development— programming, art, game design & more! Your purchase helps the Hidden Genius Project.

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News-in-brief: Summer Games Done Quick 2024 raises $2.5m All proceeds from the speed-running event will go to the Doctors Without Borders organisation www.gamesindustry.biz/summer-games...

Summer Games Done Quick 2024 raises $2.5m | News-in-briefwww.gamesindustry.biz The resource for people who make and sell games.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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Four Freedoms - Norman Rockwell

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From Franz Kafka's diaries.

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I wrote a post about building a better localization system for GameMaker! (and released the said system) yal.cc/cmn-loc/ [pictured: original code, code with localization system integrated, post in question]

BuGS is a brilliant recreation of Atari's Centipede for the Apple IIGS. Jeremy Rand has now chronicled his journey with a new development blog that covers his progress, including source code snapshots, week by week. The Story of the Development of BuGS www.rand-emonium.com/2024/06/29/t...

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The Ship of Ishtar - Virgil Finlay, 1949

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ok but this kicks ass. imagine being suicidally depressed here. it would rule

Owned by the guy that founded Oakley and the interior looks like the inside of an Amtrak train bathroom. Motherfucker loves rivets I guess. Super Mario Bros: The Movie ass house.

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this rules and many younger people will not realize that we used to have any number of themed restaurants that looked like this in america

Have you seen the Oakley headquarters? Built on a big hill in Foothill Ranch, CA. Huge metal entryway, lots of rivets

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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A letter to the local paper from 16-year-old Bettie Page

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Remembering one of my great art inspirations and comics&illustration legend ALEX TOTH on what would have been his 96th birthday. Thank you for still inspiring us all, Maestro ❤️❤️❤️

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Bernie Wrightson

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I’m back on this nonsense again. Although I have less gaming time with the Euros on telly, I can get more sketching done.

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I'm a recent Affinity convert, I'd used Adobe shit for decades etc, no longer. It's finally the replacement I needed for everything. Not as a painter (there's other good options for too), but as a tech artist (so lots of fiddly precise tool needs).

The #Affinity suite is discounted again! Only 30% off this time, but that's a one-time purchase that's cheaper than a single year of Photoshop. I'm not an affiliate, just a fan.

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Just digitized: Famous Computer Cafe episode from Feb 1985, with a long interview with James Copland, vice president and director of marketing at Atari. "If the company had not been purchased by Jack Tramiel in July... it would not be around today." archive.org/details/the-...

The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-02-08 James Copland : The Famous Computer Cafe : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-02-08, an interview with James Copland, vice president and director of marketing at Atari. Aired on KFOX.Digitized from...

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Be among the first to hear this lost 1984 interview with Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky talking about the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game! archive.org/details/the-...

The Famous Computer Cafe 1984-12-21 Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky : The Famous Computer Cafe : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org The Famous Computer Cafe 1984-12-21: interview with Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky about Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy computer game. The...

When Total Replay was initially released on July 20, 2019, it featured 203 classic Apple II games in one disk image. It was a monumental achievement and there were questions if much more could be added. After almost five years of continuous updates, Total Replay has just added its 500th game.

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Alan Moore on the history of the superhero