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Sony has announced that from January 2028 it will entirely stop the production of physical discs for new PlayStation games. From that point onwards, new releases will only be available in digital versions from the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games released before January 2028 will still be available on disc.

They cite "consumer preference" as the reason, but we all know what's going on. If there's no physical media, you don't really own your game. You're only renting it.

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there's somethign that riley quinn from the trashfuture podcast keeps saying -- "if your job can be replaced by AI, it was already being done by AI". which is to say, that jobs most at risk from AI replacement are ones that were borderline automated anyway. like, i say this as someone who used to write, not for the website buzzfeed itself, but buzzfeed-adjacent Slop Content for money -- i was already just the middlewoman between the SEO optimization algorithm and the google search algorithm. those jobs vanishing primarily means that middlewoman role has been cut, computers can tell other computers to write for computers.

& similarly this is why i keep saying that, e.g. stock photographers are at risk from this, because the ideal use case for generative AI content is stuff where the actual content or quality of the image/text doesn't matter, all that matters is its presence. and yknow, living in a world where many people's livelihoods were dependent on writing and art that is fully replacable by inane computer drivel is itself indicative of something about culture under capitalism, right?

& to some degree, like i'm always saying, the immiseration of workers by advancement in technology is a universal feature of capitalism -- i recommend you read wage labour & capital to see how this phenomenon has persisted for well over a century. it's simply nothing new -- like, the stock photographers who are most at risk from this already are already employed in an industry that itself decimated in-house illustration; think about how any dime-a-dozen reomance novel you can pick up at a store nowadays has a hastily photoshopped stock photo cover when fifty years ago it would have had a bespoke cover illustration that an artist got paid for.

Buddy, it's an environmentally destructive brute force algorithm that feed upon plagiarized data and can't produce a coherent documentation pathway of its processes or parameters. That by itself, makes it completely useless in collaborative projects or ones rhat need a lot of fine tuning and different development iterations.

This is why as an engineer I'm ALWAYS against the use of AI crap because the reality that most of y'all would never need to use it, and yet you cram that shit everywhere unnecessarily. Are you optimizing robotics controllers? Are you doing path finding algorithms? No? Then no, it's useless. You are chasing after the latest shiniest thing just like those capitalists with more money than sense.

Machine learning is best used to add finishing touches to an already developed main mechanism. But you idiots want it to be the substance itself. The best way to describe it is that nearly ALL of you are trying to making a shoe out of shoe polish.

it's less environmentally destructive for someone to talk to chatgpt 24/7 for a year than to eat 1 burger. yes to local communities too, not just in ghg. training a *frontier* model in the first place is about as ecologically costly as regular light car usage for a year. these costs are both going down per unit of work btw, not up

who cares about copyright. are you serious? are you for real? "plagiarized" oh no someone right click downloaded my art! you are not selling nfts. if you are, lol

coherent documentation pathways are likely possible but why, in a competitive market determined largely by model performance, would any company training their models reveal their training data? you are criticizing company secrets, at which point, you should be criticizing IP and the market. what you are criticizing has basically no relation to AI at all

I don't know about you but I like it when I can communicate intent to the computer and have it spit out diffs that make my intent happen irl. and when I'm employed, 90% of my time pre-AI was communicating and establishing intent shared across multiple teams. now that I have AI, 99% of my time is spent communicating and establishing intent shared across multiple teams. wow!

I build programs out of text and you'll never guess what the second l in llms stands for

Spoken like a true parasite and an idiot that does not understand the concept of version control and interative prototyping.

"Needy, unable to cope" (<- you try coping with chronic pain)

"Comfort seeking" (<- you mean.. having a preference for not being in pain.. how criminal)

"Using or trying to obtain drugs on a long-term, chronic base" (<- do you understand what 'chronic pain' means.)

"Asking for pain med then returning to sleep."

"States he’s level 10 pain, but does not appear to be in pain (or ‘5= on appearance)." (<- it is well-known that chronic pain patients tend not to display pain in the same way as acute pain patients)

"Dramatic response to pain" (<- notice how this directly contradicts the comment above. you cannot win)

"Gets IV med, then leaves unit to smoke or walk around" (<- wow requiring medication and then going off to do something you needed pain meds to be able to do is so suspicious)

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.