Rycochet

The next time anyone says 'you can't tax the rich, they will leave!' just point at JK Rowling's ongoing attacks on vulnerable communities and weaponisation of the courts against charities and then ask them if they think any one person having that level of influence in a nation is really a good thing.

If someone attended a birthday party and started eating everything, unwrapping and stealing gifts, bullying other people and making threats to anyone who said no, you'd ask them to leave, buying an electric car company or writing child cop wizard books doesn't exempt them from playing nice with others.

Seems people are 'porting' games to the Atari Jaguar, using AI now. By porting, of course, they mean taking reverse engineered source code projects they didn't contribute to creating, feeding it to Claude until they get something they can screenshot or take a video of to get kudos online, then abandoning the projects because they ran out of tokens and have no goddamned clue how it works, nevermind how to optimise it into anything more than a slideshow without any enemies or features.

Just goddamned sigh.

PC gaming and gaming in general discovering that the allergy to optimization and obsession with slightly prettier graphics at all costs weren't sustainable is an interesting side effect of AI. Nothing was learned from the graphic processor shortages of the Crypto era.

I wonder how long it'll be for AI slopbros to go full Crypto cultist and have the logo of their favorite prompt generator branded on them for life.

When someone on the right parrots a blatant, provable falsehood that is doing the rounds in their media ecosystem, never assume they genuinely believe it. The vast majority are not that stupid, what they are doing is hoping that it will become accepted as true by people dumber than they are if it's signal booster enough, and that the world will be so polluted by small lies, the big ones will be harder to spot, as will the real agenda.

Look at how the right embraced the litter boxes in schools lie, everyone just knew someone who worked on a school who saw it, when nobody did, and that 'real fact' became a part of the groundwork for attack on trans healthcare for kids. 'Schools enable furries, therefore furries are widespread, therefore gender non conforming kids are everywhere and have easy access to pills and surgery, encouraged by teachers, doctors and social media, so that must be stopped, and trans care for older people too to stop the social contagion!' The attacks on all trans people was the point, the litter box was only ever groundwork for that.

If you want the seeds of inhumanity to grow, you need to fertilize the ground with a lot of bullpoop.

The sooner Meta's Ai spy glasses are universally referred to as perv goggles, the better.

People who like AI talk about the noise pollution from datacenters in the abstract without actually experiencing what that noise is. It's just a noise, how bad could it really be to live with 24/7? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AAQsnrAHy5Y

If people think electricity and water bill hikes due to AI data centers are bad, wait until the chips to build desktop computers become unobtainable and everything, from work to gaming, has to be done through the cloud, with additional subscription required. 'Sorry guys, raytracing and DLSS 6 can't run locally on your Dell Cloudbox, better subscribe to nVidia to run games, but watch out for surge pricing if you plan to play with your friends after work!'

Most of northern Europe is in a state that could best be described as arid, but climate change isn't real, folks.

While the AI bubble is terrible for everyone in creative fields, I like to think there are at least a few thousand folks called Alex, Alice, Alfred and such who have really cashed in due to clerical errors. The age of Sans Serif fonts is potentially a boom time to be an Al.