Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, “How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back?” according to the Harvard’s Arts and Sciences site, FAS Current:

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Steam Beta for Sept 9th has huge changes - Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Proton option changes, Desktop Mode toggle for SteamOS
Valve have been cooking on this one! A new Steam Beta update for September 9th brings some big additions for Desktop gamers and SteamOS systems.

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GOG expand their Preservation Program with more games and now 3D scans of box art too
Making it easier than ever to backup your DRM-free downloads and make them look cool - the GOG Preservation Program has expanded with some fun stuff.

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Three Cities, 16 Years And $1 Billion Later, ‘Defiant’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens To Mixed Reviews
It looks like a spaceship hovering over South Los Angeles, writes CNN, with futuristic tube-like elevators and an exhibition of Banksy murals. There’s a room featuring Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder, but in its gardens there’s a 19th-century cast of a scu … ⌘ Read more

Epic looking pixel-art hack-and-slash ‘Divinum’ adds Linux / Steam Deck support
Divinum is a wonderful looking pixel-art hack-and-slash action-adventure with some fun exploration, and now officially supported on Linux / Steam Deck.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Humidity was through the sky. We had two thunderstorms pass by. One at 06:00 and and another one this arvo.

Somebody hooked this presumably plastic moon on the tree bark. Not sure why or what the reason is. Let’s just call it art. It looked weird and so I thought that it might poke other people’s interests as well. Worked out great. Got another question about it, too. ;-)

STAR WARS Zero Company is out now
STAR WARS Zero Company has been released today from Bit Reactor / Electronic Arts, and it’s very much Star Wars XCOM with a little extra sauce.

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@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I have the Atari800 emulator installed on my laptop along with a copy of the game.

But the easiest way to try it now is probably via the Internet Archive, which allows you to play it in the browser: https://archive.org/details/a8b_M.U.L.E._1983_Electronic_Arts_US

The manual is there, too: https://archive.org/download/agm_mule/mule_text.pdf

HOPE 01 brings spooky single-player pixel-art extraction gameplay on September 15
HOPE 01 is a recent discovering that instantly jumped right into my wishlist for the interesting blending of genres with the horror-survival extraction theme.

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@david@daiwei.me since I became linuxpilled and embraced SSH, I do my Wordles through https://late.sh/

Can strongly recommend it, even has all the other daily puzzles: minesweeper, sudoku, solitaire, nonogram (kinda hate those),…

Maybe not the best family activity, the chat can be somewhat spicy and so can the collaborative ASCII art drawing game.

Marek Olšák’s 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO
Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve’s Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler… ⌘ Read more

Most of this insane power consumption happens during the models training, so the additional cost of prompting, is minimal. Facebook invented cool ways to exted the environmental damage far beyond the training stage, by dumping the dirty data center water into nearby water sources, but that’s more so a Facebook problem, than a fault of AI.

I would still never waste my own money, paying for any AI subscriptions that my employer doesn’t already pay for, no matter if we use them, or not.

I am also against aggressive scraping and taking everything as training data, disregarding the authors wishes and license. I allow it on my website, mostly as proof that no matter how much they scrape my stuff, the real me remains both a superior webdev and artist.

I am well aware this makes me come across really egotistical, especially after developers far better than me, embraced vibe coding, arguably way too much. To give an example, all attempts to get Microsoft Copilot, that’s embedded into SharePoint, to generate an extension/uBlock filter to make SharePoint revert to the old superior UI failed, but I was able to do that in three lines of code ( https://thecanine.smol.pub/ublock-filters ), in half an hour, despite me never seeing the code of that page before. After a few of these comparisons, it is increasingly hard to see most of these tools, as my replacement.

I am not even going to talk about the people trying to imitate my art style with AI, until they can show me a result where all the squares are the same size, in a grid and actually square.

I am a bit split on this, don’t think there’s any real use for AI in things like art, at absolute most getting a reference to compare with multiple non-AI ones, or possibly some animation in between frames, if it ever gets better at making those. Would not rely on it for any of my personal projects, more than maybe a quick search that would have previously been done on Stack Overflow, but if I work somewhere and they demand it be used similarly to how it is described on this site, considering the current IT job market, I’d probably take the slop bullet, over being unemployed.

Obviously even in that case, I’d only do this to generate code I can understand, improve and review. I’m definitely not advacating people just put their feet up on the table and let some random combination of “AI agents”, vibecode their entire codebase.

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Thanks!

I can’t claim the art (that came from https://www.charlesgeart.com/projects/3qKQqg), but I think it makes for a slick design overall.

Blood Dungeon from the Wheel World and Nidhogg dev releases August 25
Blood Dungeon is an upcoming action roguelike featuring frenetic, fun, movement-focused gameplay with a rather silly squiggly art style.

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Electronic Arts (EA) officially sold off to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner and others
Electronic Arts (EA) announced the big deal has been completed, and the company has now been sold off privately to a group of investors including Saudi Arabia.

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Wordless prehistoric sci-fi adventure Theropods launches August 20
Theropods is a gorgeous looking pixel-art wordless prehistoric sci-fi adventure, and you’ll be able to go explore when it arrives on August 20th.

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Mount & Blade meets Total War in the upcoming pixel-art Sword & Banner
Sword & Banner captured my eye recently as a pixel-art game that’s Mount & Blade meets Total War and the gameplay looks like a lot of fun.

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I will very likely add a way to delete your feed(s) from the search engine, because I do thing that’s important. But as Art 17 points out, we can’t really guaranteed deletion in everyone’s caches around the planet haha 😆

The only place where this would be an issue is the Twtxt Search Engine – But as the GDPR also points out:

Art. 17

The one place the “it propagated and I can’t recall it” problem is legally acknowledged is Art. 17(2), and it explicitly scales to what’s technically feasible:

“…the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure…”

Best-effort, given the technology. A decentralised, append-only, content-addressed feed is the available technology, and its limits are baked into the standard the law applies. Nobody — not the user, not you — is obliged to guarantee every cached copy vanishes.

So just because I enjoy this kind of thing (looking into laws and trying to understand them…):

GDPR is about roles, not ownership

There’s no property right in personal data under GDPR. The whole regime hangs on three roles:

• Data subject — the person the data is about.
  
• Controller (Art. 4(7)) — “the natural or legal person … which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.”
  
• The rights in Arts. 16 and 17 are exercised by a data subject against a controller. They compel a third party to rectify or erase. They are not self-executing duties that a piece of software must expose.
  

That’s the key. In your architecture, for a user’s own posts about themselves sitting in their own feed on their own device:

• the user is the data subject, and
  
• the user is also the only person “determining the purposes and means” of that data.
  

There is no third party controller to compel. The “right to erasure” is a right to make someone else delete — and there is no someone else. It is satisfied the instant the user can change the file. A UI button is a convenience, not a legal requirement. Omitting it removes zero rights, because the data is a plain-text file the user can edit or delete by any means — editor, sed, git, their file manager. Full practical control is retained; nobody is being denied anything by anyone.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks, mate!

On the back of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet Verein berg hohenstaufen Göppingen 2013”. I read that as the Mt. Hohenstaufen club donated the bench itself:

On the front of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet von Hildegard Schuster, Gesellschafterin der Schwarz-Gruppe, Firma Wackler”. The bronze lady was donated by a shareholder of the Schwarz group, specifically the local Wackler trucking and logistics company. Clip of 27 in original resolution:

The book itself reads: “Zur Erinnerung an Ralph Kobza” It’s in memory of the sales manager of the art foundry next town that created also this statue. My mate took this photo:

Unrenovated semi in popular heritage suburb sells for $1.86 million
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David Hockney said he would keep painting until the very end. He was true to his word
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To Barbie and beyond: How a plastic doll became a design icon
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The notorious Australian site where cruelty was an art form
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The Academy Is Finally Honoring Ridley Scott, Glenn Close & More With Oscars
The Academy will finally award Glenn Close, Ridley Scott, and other notable people honorary Oscars later this year. Notably, Scott and Close have received nominations for their work in the past. Who is receiving honorary Oscars from the Academy this year? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts recently announced that honorary Oscars will be presented […]

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‘Snozzle’ at the ready: State-of-the-art fire station set for Sydney’s new airport
Firefighters are readying the new station and gigantic trucks for the first cargo flights late next month, followed by passenger aircraft three months later. ⌘ Read more

“Unsung hero of architecture”: Michael Dysart
Tim Ross on his podcast @modernister nominated Sydney architect Michael Dysart as one of his all time heroes. Here he talks to Dysart about Urambi Village. ⌘ Read more

Beautiful but shallow: The NGV’s new blockbuster is big on celebrity but light on insight
Mostly, the pieces are designed to showcase the wealth of the wearer, and a jewel is nothing if not draped across a powerful figure. ⌘ Read more

Martin Scorsese’s AI Support Draws Pushback From Art Directors Guild
Just days after declaring his support for the use of AI in filmmaking by collaborating with Black Forest Labs, Martin Scorsese has garnered criticism for his stance, with the Art Directors Guild issuing a lengthy statement against him. The IATSE union released a strongly worded message against the legendary director, describing his backing of artificial […]

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Irankrieg: Drohnenboot rettet Crew eines Apache-Kampfhubschraubers
Laut der US Navy ist es die erste Rettungsmission dieser Art auf See, die mit einer Drohne durchgeführt wurde. ( Drohne, Politik)

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The $16m Osborne Park hospital, the gym upstairs, and the battle over dropped weights
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Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television
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Hugh Laurie Apologizes After House Dispute, Says He Was a ‘Thin-Skinned T—’
Hugh Laurie apologized to writer Janet Murray on social media. This came after the writer received backlash over his criticism of her “trenchant” analysis of House. Earlier, Laurie had slammed Murray for pointing out recurring structure in the series, backing his comment with examples of known figures from the music and art fields. Why Hugh […]

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Kylie Kwong among consultants dumped as Powerhouse cuts controversial program
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‘I Kick Myself Every Single Day’: Obsession Art Director Criticizes Pay After Box Office Success
Obsession is expected to make $250 million, but its art director is not happy with the pay. The indie horror breakout hit, made on a budget of just $750,000, has rewritten box office rules with strong word-of-mouth. However, some crew members involved with the film are not celebrating its success. What did Obsession’s art director [ … ⌘ Read more

Several SNK Games Headed to Movies & TV, 1 Project Includes Man of Steel Writer
Several classic SNK fighting games are getting the full Hollywood treatment with major talent attached. Erik Feig’s production banner The Arena revealed ambitious plans to adapt beloved arcade titles across multiple mediums. Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, and more SNK games are getting adaptations The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reports that several classic SNK video game […]

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Zack Snyder Won’t Let Fans Forget Henry Cavill’s Superman, Shares Photo
Zack Snyder has shared new artwork of Henry Cavill’s Superman. The post came while James Gunn is filming his own Superman movie in Atlanta. Zack Snyder shares Henry Cavill’s Superman art with Man of Steel quote The director posted a photo on Instagram showing Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel standing in red light and smoke. […]

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Netflix’s Ghostbusters Series Reveals Title & Stunning Logo Art
Netflix has revealed the title of its upcoming animated Ghostbusters series. The announcement was made on Ghostbusters Day, celebrating the anniversary of the 1984 original. Netflix unveils title and logo art for new Ghostbusters animated show The streaming giant collaborated with Sony Pictures Animation to confirm the project will be called Ghostbusters: Night Shift. A first look at the […]

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Balloon Dog: ‘Warm, funny and quietly devastating theatre’
Indian Ink’s Balloon Dog, written by Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan and directed by Lewis, opened at Q Theatre on June 3 and runs until June 20.

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Kevin Hart on What Hurt Him at His Roast & if Oprah Should Be Roasted Next
After his Netflix roast, Kevin Hart appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and discussed which joke caught him off guard. The pair also discussed the art of roasting and who could be the next person to take part in such a large-scale event. Kimmel jokingly suggested Oprah Winfrey, which prompted laughter from the audience and surprised […]

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Le podcast culturel de «Mediapart» discute de l’invitation faite par le musée de la Chasse et de la Nature à la plasticienne Annette Messager, de la rétrospective du peintre Henry Taylor au musée Picasso et de la proposition «Normes Corps» au Palais de Tokyo. ⌘ Read more

RBG: Of Many, One – ‘Sharp, intelligent and emotionally bruising’
Auckland Theatre Company’s 2026 season continues, in collaboration with Sydney Theatre Company, with RBG: Of Many, One, written by Suzie Miller and directed by Priscilla Jackman.

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@bender@twtxt.net Now that’s an interesting philosophical viewpoint right there. But this assumes that the “AI” we seemingly have available to us today is actually telligent, understands and has cognitive reasoning. It does not. All of these LLM models from big-tech companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Alibaba are all just very powerful, very large multidimensional neural networks with attention that are very good at statistical probabilities of ‘what comes next”. I think we get really upset over the wrong things sometimes. We need to continue to be upset that these 🤬 companies have basically destroyed any meaningful value of the concept of Copyright and Intellectual Property and Works of art. The so-called “AI” we have today is just a tool. Can you say for certain that the typewriter and the computer ruined our ability to write? Perhaps yes, but we still learn how to do so, likewise, I still think that learning to write code, research, read and write are all valuable skills to learn. Later on once you have the basics, you can defer some of the “tedious” work to these models, because frankly, they’re far better at inferencing and pattern matching than you or i will ever be, not because they’re better at pattern-matching per se, but because they have been trained on a very large corpus and they are much much faster at doing the same basic things we are far superior at.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! There are a few points in there that I’ll add to my list.

Your very first point is obviously crucial. “Writing code” is just the means to an end for many people and they don’t really care about it or like it, so they love AI. I had this in another draft (it refers to the other list I posted):

https://movq.de/v/614f14c3ef/ramble.txt

And this right here is so important:

simplicity is the real art and much harder to achieve.

Finding an elegant, simple solution is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder than anything else. And here’s the thing: I don’t get why nerds/techies don’t get “nerd-sniped” by this. A lot of people love building big stuff and then brag about being clever/competent because they were able to build that big thing – but once you realize that this approach is the lazy one, shouldn’t you make finding the elegant solution your goal? Doesn’t that give you more bragging rights?

(Am I being clear? Do you understand what I mean? 😅)