It was real fun to get obsessed with something and build a small thing I can look at and be okay with it exisitng as more than another started but never finished project.

Now I can focus all my energy back at what really matters: hating Adobe and AI

I am really happy that the whole thing is hand crafted with the exception of the icons used for various buttons. Those are game-icons from @kenney.nl and work way better than anything I could have done. I think the tutorial gif shows my current artistic skill to back that up.

Sadly Bluesky converts the GIF to a video so if you download it here you won't have the working tutorial file, for that you will have to visit the website.

Spoilers. But also that the darker hands are grabbing the lighter hand is part of it, whereas on the sculpture the hands are more peaceful in their display

Tired of bullshit in all its forms.

Also the "PICE" on the ICE Agent's front.

Oh this is a fun exercise in media literacy. There are some symbolic differences between the "The Camp of the Saints" cover and the "Thoughts and Desires" statue, also some similarities but imo the differences are stronger.

At least it is short and not as much of a brain numbing exercise as reading the techno optimist manifesto was.

I am currently re-reading Industry Unbound and so the sentence "The people who build these products aren't bad or evil." rings a bit hollow because a) they do not have to be and b) some of them in decision positions are.

You can make the argument that any form of hyper-personalization has to be targeted heavily by regulations, because the resulting atomization of peoples experience would lend itself too easy to manipulation and destruction of shared realities.

Sure a manifesto often does not give a deep argument for the claims made, but I do not think that hyper-personalization is necessarily going to be the future of computing. And I do not see a good argument for why it should be; "but AI" is not enough after years of personalized ads not going anywhere

Everyone always laughs nervously when I show this slide, but - seriously - don't make things that are creepy and weird. Don't purchase tools that are creepy and weird. Don't get free licenses to see how they work, just in case. Don't take meetings with the people who make them.

No idea of godotscript but I guess typical OOP would be to have an interface for a static reset method which in implementation sets the static values to their default. The fact that you probably need specific defaults dependent on the class would make it hard to outsoruce that functionality imo.

Well it was fun while it lasted. Seeing "IMPLEMENTED" or "APPROVED" instead of actual text felt somehwat in line with what I had expected.

I wonder how often "Do you know why I pulled you over?" works to get a quick and easy ticket for the cop.

A bit like tourists getting got in germany for "jokingly" doing the nazi salute. We kinda have a law specifically for that stuff because of reasons.
But you can shut up around the police and have the right to a lawyer, who will not like you because you did a nazi salut.

Ohhh yeah that's some right wing whistling (more like a fog horn really) in there.

The part on Russia feels odd. When a nuclear weapon owning country starts a war, then that country is going to be seen as an existential threat. I wonder what hard power balances out nukes.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.