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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

this is why I think slop is so damaging, especially so as it gets harder to spot, because you're feeding yourself with vacuous garbage that superficially resembles information. if you accept it as valid, every related skill that you've worked hard to sharpen up to that point is fundamentally at risk because as they gets re-encoded they will be adapted to accommodate the miscategorized noise.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

It is also a really important set of skills for learning, because you can go to an art museum and look at works that inspire you and figure out (or make an educated guess at) the technical processes that their author used to make them, and then you can apply your learnings to making something new. You don't go to the museum to find things to copy without understanding.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

This process is really important for developing and maintaining the technical skills of working in traditional media, because if you are not able to establish cultural and observational reference points you lose the ability to "see" as you work. Like, after you have been working on something for several hours everything sorta looks correct and wrong at the same time, and if you don't have something to ground it you'll drift in ways you don't want to.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

What a year this week has been and it's still only Tuesday

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the problem of course is letting it cool before slicing into the pie

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

During the first few weeks of Operation Desert Storm we'd routinely see footage of entire battalions of Iraqi soldiers walking up to the first American GI they could find waving white flags, believing that the worst thing that could happen to them at the hands of the American military was a shower, an MRE and a pack of cigarettes. The mythos of the American a just actor was largely intact then, and that mythos saved a lot of American lives. And then Abu Grahib happened, and that all ended.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It really does take the sort of stable genius that can bankrupt a casino (look it up) while not even paying workers (ditto) to impose a tax on their country's gas prices and lose freedom of navigation as a settled principle all at once.

Generational talent.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

there are two basic principles in the Multiverse: Yum and Yuck. cherry pie us Yum.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Two weeks feels like plenty of time for impeachment and removal proceedings. Just saying.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Bone Temple, the immediate follow up to 28 Years Later, somehow managed to surprise me again. Such an original take on the genre. Took so many swings and managed to land most of them. What a weird and wonderful franchise, 30 years in the making.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

A good man is hard to find.

#economics #sharedeconomy

Boosted by jwz:
ieure@retro.social ("PunnO)))") wrote:

What a depressingly voluminous list.

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

jwz wrote:

President Nyarlathotep Is Simply Engaging in Classic "Mad Outer God" Negotiating Tactics.

Andrew Paul: But -- and just hear me out here -- the American voters did resummon Nyarlathotep because enough of us remain enthralled by his unfettered madness,...
https://jwz.org/b/yk53

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

no time for this shit tbh

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Somebody told him no, and he folded.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/he-always-chickens-out-good/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm okay with this TACO Tuesday

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
bridget@gts.sharitt.com ("Bridget") wrote:

I’m unconvinced that nuking Iran will solve the ethics in gaming journalism issue

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I’ll say what we’re all thinking: the FIFA Peace Prize will never be taken seriously now.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"

It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
occult@ominous.net wrote:

This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.

No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
toastedlynx@meow.social ("Toasted Lynx") wrote:

Have a cheeky paw photo

Photo with help from @KalTheDingo

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
BasiliskXVIII@kind.social ("Legally Distinct Basilisk") wrote:

The thing about social media is that it allows bad wordplay to be seen by everyone. It's constantly being observed. A "pun-opticon" if you will.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

@soatok I WONDER WHY

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I feel SEEN

https://kind.social/@BasiliskXVIII/116364543600845350

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
paragon@phpc.social ("Paragon Initiative Enterprises") wrote:

We're excited to finally make #postquantum #cryptography possible in the #PHP ecosystem

https://paragonie.com/blog/2026/04/post-quantum-cryptography-for-php-community

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i do not even and i'm not telling you why for your own sanity but i did feel a need to say so.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@jon aah that explains it. I keep trying vertical tabs. My sceeen is often so much wider than it is long that it seems like it would be a great use of screen space. But it felt so *wrong*. And now that you mention it, I think it’s because that list of tabs keeps pulling my attention to it, even though it has nothing to do with the page I’m on.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
schratze@todon.nl wrote:

waking up in your thirties

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

It's been a while, so I thought I might make a #PeerTube video for you all.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d8fZ2CeJebpr1N5yAAETC6

#gaming #vlog

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

1/ Today, we filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over @ProPublica management’s unilateral implementation of an AI policy without first bargaining with our union. Of note, the policy provides no job protections to our members.