Reposted by TheZecromancerBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 12h82% of electronics are tested in China. I'm the first person to tell you that safety testing in an adversarial nation is a problem, but banning it with no alternative certification path will just immediately result in a massive increase of untested gray-market imports and "DIY kits". 1013717
Reposted by TheZecromancerButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 13hHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 7648701925
Reposted by TheZecromanceremily "sunny" whaley @whalewithay.bsky.social · 07/02/2024yellow pikmin are my favorite 41962778
Reposted by TheZecromancerKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/10/2026difficult decisions who could have foreseen what could have possibly been done alasvariety.comSkydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full MemoParamount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged into Skydance Corp. And the top leaders have notified the new company's staffers that layoffs are in the offing. 3133379
Reposted by TheZecromancerEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary. 321226399
Reposted by TheZecromancerDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5838250886
Reposted by TheZecromancerThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411326348
Reposted by TheZecromancerevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this 8896301
Reposted by TheZecromancerJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115902877
Reposted by TheZecromancerNintendo Life @nintendolife.com · 30/09/2026Opinion: One Of My Favourite Games Is Being Remade, So Why Do I Feel So Down About It? nintendolife.comOpinion: One Of My Favourite Games Is Being Remade, So Why Do I Feel So Down About It?When you Triton your best but you don't succeed 1262
Reposted by TheZecromancerGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art 101915401
Reposted by TheZecromancerHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134923782
Reposted by TheZecromancerCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle. 92029712
Reposted by TheZecromancerHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”theguardian.com‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cutenessThe tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop 296682171
Reposted by TheZecromancerLeigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire 7372135
Reposted by TheZecromancerGame Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT 436131282
Reposted by TheZecromancerCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2679304651
Reposted by TheZecromancerGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204190415433
Reposted by TheZecromancerGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026what in the fuck is going on 753023485
Reposted by TheZecromancerThis Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 24/09/2026Discord has relaunched global age verification after the original rollout in March was delayed due to user privacy concerns. The rollout also coincides with the appearance of sports betting ads in the US.thisweekinvideogames.comDiscord Launches Delayed Age Verification MeasuresNew options for verification have been added, along with automatic age group using "account signals," and better vendor transparency. 14297132
Reposted by TheZecromancernda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Stop hate watching propaganda made by Nazis, I beg of you all. I feel like a lot of right wing outlets and pundits would’ve gone under by now if not for the attention their opposition gives them for free, giving them more content to feed off of. They rely on you, stop feeding them ffs 382072449
Reposted by TheZecromancerSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/09/2026The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984 6571261
Reposted by TheZecromancerMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58755101512
Reposted by TheZecromancerWario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New Ace Attorney title announced - Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR - Announcement Trailer (Coming 2027 for Meta VR Glasses, Meta Quest 3/3S, Quest Pro, and Quest2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-674... 107555137
Reposted by TheZecromancerIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters 31074252
Reposted by TheZecromancerToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ includes a legal notice in its credits prohibiting the film from being used to train AI models: “This work may not be used to train AI.” 453947908
Reposted by TheZecromancerLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.” 71413354
Reposted by TheZecromancerIGN @ign.com · 21/09/2026Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. bit.ly/4hhOjBo 552890327
Reposted by TheZecromancerg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 137149583449
Reposted by TheZecromancerPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it 15746261323
Reposted by TheZecromancerGamesRadar+ @gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert www.gamesradar.com/games/japane...gamesradar.comJapanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert"They didn't get swept up in the live-service trend, or into these mega-blockbusters with 500-person teams" 16376107
Reposted by TheZecromancerJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401523709
Reposted by TheZecromancertobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago 515336948119
Reposted by TheZecromancer404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 13770753267
Reposted by TheZecromancerJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...404media.coCops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. 352191732
Reposted by TheZecromancerJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Your ChatGPT chats are not private, and humans are reading them. Anthropic's Claude too. More here: www.404media.co/inside-proje... 617377
Reposted by TheZecromancerPop Base @popbase.tv · 14/09/2026Legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie has died at the age of 87. 741891
Reposted by TheZecromancerRowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Something to cling to and promote the hell out of: leveraging POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientistsGlobal shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans 3823362
Reposted by TheZecromancerWario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Professor Layton and the Curious Village Remake Teaser (2027 for PS5/Switch/Switch 2/Steam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi2q... 912718
Reposted by TheZecromancerTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land. 8476702173
Reposted by TheZecromancerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data. 702285364
Reposted by TheZecromancerTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 391331459
Reposted by TheZecromancerAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 14540391756
Reposted by TheZecromancerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored." 3922931091
Reposted by TheZecromancerEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 81148297739
Reposted by TheZecromancercee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky 35482151909
Reposted by TheZecromancerDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120723350