Wonder if they’re gonna defictionalize that “only exists for the poor” image.

Bill Hicks was right.

Put it in the fffucking title.

Most anti-AI sentiments seem like misplaced hatred of awful companies forcing nonsense on everybody, or a refusal to place judgement on capitalism itself.

Guru meditation.

Calm down, Roko.

It was fine, if it ran.

Meta got shit on for pirating books.

Anthropic got shit on for not pirating books.

Right, a 12 GB model trained on 100,000,000 images isn’t big enough to contain an MD5 checksum of each.

The same people expect it to identify the authorship of sentence fragments, but never quote one whole paragraph from any book ever. Now: gigabytes of text could be a significant fraction of all books. But finding a single recognizable page is news. Storing text is not what these companies spent a bajillion dollars on.

Turning books into a language model is transformative. No LLM is a substitute for the original works.

In undue fairness, The Idiot’s idea of “end” was quite simple.

It just happened to be surrender.

Apparently the most important skill you can have as a professional animator is generating merch.

ZA/UM is no longer any of the people who made Disco Elysium.

It’s a dead skin mask that stole the game and its world out from under the creators.

Windows XP wasn’t even secure and reliable, at the time. At this point it’s indistinguishable from keeping Windows 95 on a full tower from Gateway because nothing else supports your vintage scanner. You’re one step from the tech-priests waving incense as a ritual against crashing.

Yeah, adoption’s not a feature you can design.

The general idea may show up in any extensible format. Like a PNG encoder that only does Sub filter can encounter each pixel once.

… wait, PNG filtering is byte-level? It doesn’t change with bit depth? Christ.

Minecraft but better
Minecraft but not Java

Cautionary tales demonstrated by Minecraft itself.

I’ll say it again: if you can’t make it work with Pedro Pascal, just give up on adapting Fantastic Four.

Possibly the final version. Quite Okay Imaging (QOI) achieved similar compression with none of the complexity. Lossy + difference = lossless formats are surely the better option where performance is not crucial. Even the fact they fffucking finally made APNG official is decades late to replace GIF, since several image formats are now literally video formats.

The future is webp. And telling software patents to burn in hell.

Lady Marshmallow travels like a Wooloo.

I’ll allow it.

But if Patrick Rothfuss wants to show his face, he can sit the fuck down.