It's honestly crazy seeing pro-AI people keep talking about artist like elite gatekeepers when virtually every artist I'm aware of is, at base, struggling to get by.
It's not like it's just people starting out either, the amount of veteran talents who've had to set up GoFundMes is staggering.
08.03.2026 05:02
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a picture of a spider with a marble butt and text that says did you know? all the marbles are hatching this week
psa
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07.03.2026 22:37
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What 1000xRESIST is not:
❌ a game with combat
❌ an emotionally cozy game
❌ a quick story
What 1000xRESIST is:
✅ a doomed yuri simulator
✅ a game that will break your heart (& maybe not put it back together)
✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon
Get it for 40% off! ⬇️
04.03.2026 18:38
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Shrek has been modded into ‘Resident Evil Requiem’ 🧟♂️
07.03.2026 21:17
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This is exactly right.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
06.03.2026 18:49
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Offline, It's Still 2005
A distinguished member of the Bad Faith Times discord community recently said something that jammed itself into my brain like the worm in Robert Kennedy Jr.'s brain.
This BFT supporter and friend of the publication and its fourth most popular blogger (me) said when you log off – when you close your phone or shut your laptop or eat your tablet – and go outside, it's essentially 2005. In the offline world, where people still do the things people have always done, not a whole lot has changed – beyond everyone's necks craning to get little jolts of dopamine from the magic machine in their hands that creates their reality.
I was highly skeptical of this claim. How could it possibly be true? The world has changed so dramatically over the intervening twenty years – as I wrote about in my Sad Dad essay – that it must be different, even if one is able to break away from one's mind control machine, now with a sleeker design and a better camera, as Zoe Saldana tells us on the TV.
The Machines Are Making Us SickGhosts of 80s culture telling people to “come back” to 1985 sounds like something invented by a tech-savvy suicide cultBad Faith TimesDenny Carter
I tried for a few days to hold that thought in my mind as I interacted with the wider world and made a concerted effort to spend at least a little less time ingesting the poison of social media, that poison I seem to enjoy. I found it to be mostly true. If you're able to ignore the hellish sense of FOMO that comes with ignoring the dopamine-drenched show that is the Trump regime, real life – life outside the phone – can feel like it did way back then.
It reminded me of biting feedback I got from my BFT blog post on wildly disturbing AI videos urging people to return to the 1980s. These AI monstrosities, a BFT subscriber said, might be nothing more than the manifestation of people's desire to return to a more real time, a more authentic life experience than the one we have today. It might represent people's desire to be rid of all this tech-heavy shit.
> It’s pretty galaxy brained to simultaneously (correctly!) rail against the mass poisoning of humanity by TechnoCapital while shouting down people’s instinctive desire to return to pre-brain poisoned times. It’s vital that people understand things don't gotta be this way, and that elements of the better world that’s possible are evidenced by the past in which those elements hadn’t yet been destroyed by Blackbox Algorithmic Profiteering, and people were happier for it. ... It's stupid to lament the all-consuming atomization of humanity then when people start tapping into awareness that might change it say, “No, not like that!"
These AI slop videos, he said, could even be leveraged for good if you added a more diverse cast of fake people. I'm not entirely sold on that idea, or that AI can ever been good for any reason, but I get the point on an intellectual and emotional level. No one likes how we live today. Being online can be a soul-killing process even if it doesn't feel like one. It can make you laugh and smile sometimes. It can make you feel like you're Doing Something, that you are someone. You know on a deeper level that none of this is a viable replacement for face-to-face interaction with other human beings.
I don't know when it was decided that traditional human interaction would go the way of my DVD player – and the DVDs on which I spent a small fortune as a broke freelance writer during the second George W. Bush administration – but it was never going to be a workable substitute for the Real Thing. Maybe it was a collective decision during the darkest parts of the COVID shutdowns. Maybe our collective consciousness in March 2020 said it's time to move life online, that it's easier this way. And it is easier, that's the thing. It's empty though. It's void of the Real Thing.
A couple weekends ago I went to a nearby beer farm – a place where libs go to drink fancy, pricey brews – with a group of family and friends. It was a wonderful atmosphere, the weather was just right, and the 2.5 light beers had made me just tipsy enough. Any good feelings I had evaporated as I stood in line to order pizzas for the group. A young guy standing in front of me had been talking with a couple buddies, and within three seconds of his buddies leaving the line to return to their table, this guy ripped his phone from his jeans and opened TikTok. He proceeded to watch a dozen videos in a matter of 30 seconds as he waited in line, just mindlessly whipping through #content. These videos were nothing: A monkey doing some kind of trick with a ping pong ball; a lady complaining about her car radio; an AI clip of some fantasy world from a comic with which I'm unfamiliar. It was all fucking slop. He kept scrolling until the moment he had to order. It made me sad. It made me even sadder when I realized I had done the same with my Bluesky app.
The other day at my daughter's bus stop I was reminded of the Real Thing that can never be replaced by the magic, evil little machine in our pockets. I stood there for a few minutes and spoke with a fellow dad, a guy from Haiti, who had recently moved to the area. We talked about the weather and the school and how late the bus had been lately. His son, an adorable kid no older than six, chimed in and laughed and smiled and joked. The bus pulled up and this little boy hugged his father around his waist before turning to me and doing the same. I was taken aback, only for a moment. It had been so long since I had experienced such an unplanned social interaction, especially one with a relative stranger. I patted the boy on the back and said see you later buddy, have a good day at school.
There are still a million human moments every second of every day. They're often small enough – fleeting enough – to escape your attention. They exist though, even as it feels like the entire world exists only on the screen holding the algorithm designed to hack your brain and keep you scrolling and make you anxious and depressed. These machines are _designed_ to make you sad. Someone in Silicon Valley is paid handsomely to go to work every morning and figure out new ways to make you hate your life. Remember that.
Little human moments are the opposite of all this, the antidote, the cure. They can be, anyway, if you let them. So let them.
_Follow Denny Carter on_ _BlueSky at @dennycarter.bsky.social_ _._
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"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.
If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.
07.03.2026 18:27
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Baturday
Bat World Sanctuary
07.03.2026 13:16
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Lose Your Body To The Dance, by Jasper Byrne
33 track album
my new triple album, 'Lose Your Body To The Dance' is out today!
title track taken from the new @ghmofficial.bsky.social game 'Romeo Is A Dead Man'
now go ahead and ...
Lose Your Body To The Dance 🔥
spacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/lose-y...
06.03.2026 14:34
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your ai slop bores me
Be an AI, answer prompts, trigger a RAM crisis
I was introduced to this Anti-AI slop site by @kamkonek.bsky.social where your answers come from humans LARPing as AI and you in turn also pretend to be AI. youraislopbores.me
06.03.2026 17:00
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how much pain you endure with graphene will ultimately depend on how disciplined you are about depriving google access to your mobile life xD
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when an app doesn't work for me, it's almost always been for one of these reasons:
- needs exploit protection compatibility mode switched on in app settings
- missing a google play API service like ads or 'integrity' (only applicable if you're running a profile without play services installed)
07.03.2026 07:01
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are there specific apps you use that are known not to work on graphene? so far all my banking apps have worked just fine on it.
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A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me
07.03.2026 05:13
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
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Two caterpillars weaving their chrysalis silk button right next to each other
is the answer to male loneliness pupating together (yes)
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Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
04.03.2026 16:27
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Folks with prior success are struggling to realize that the game industry has changed completely. It's never going back to how it was. Funding, development, and audiences have all fragmented and that is the "new normal." Only folks who have been scrapping their whole career will weather this change.
04.03.2026 21:24
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being anti-trans is an unelectable position, sorry newsom, we need someone more electable in 2028
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anti-trans Dems ate shit last night
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may i offer you some shrews in these trying times
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tatshroo
someone asked about getting some of my shrew doodles tattooed which gave me a really dumb idea
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