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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • Honestly not that big a deal.

    Dude was sentenced in September of 2011 to 17.5 years. He’d have been released in February of 2028, so about 4 and quarter years from now. He’s already served about 75% of his sentence. He’s spent the last 4 years on house arrest.

    Everyone involved in this scheme went to jail and had to pay restitution, and this guy’s off the bench, retired, and thus incapable of re-offending in the same way.

    This seems like a textbook case of the President’s commutation powers, and now the state won’t have to spend extra money on him.

    Biden commuted just shy of 1500 sentences and the media latched onto this case because it’s sensational. If this is the worst of the bunch then it was a good move.

    Our incarceration goals should be to reintegrate people into society not just to put unsavory people in time out.





  • It depends on your jurisdiction, distribution platform, and the AI you use.

    In the US and distributing on Steam you can use AI assets, but you do need to indicate your use of AI.

    Keep a couple of things in mind though:

    • Your future customers may not appreciate that you used AI and you will get downvoted reviews solely because you opted for AI
    • You’ll likely have a better result making as much as you can yourself and using AI to fill in the gaps (i.e. if you have an interior scene, make the models and lay stuff out and maybe only use AI for a picture hanging on the wall or a coach fabric material–things that are inconsequential to the actual game play).

    Overall, I’d say if the supplemental use of AI during development is the difference between you finishing and publishing a game and you not, then sure–go ahead and use it, but make clear to prospective buyers how it was used and be prepared for blowback.






  • Class war is war.

    The US has literally bombed its citizens on 2 occasions because of class resistance. The military has literally taken up arms against the citizens it swore to protect over class differences. We describe violent clashes between workers and the bourgeoisie as “battles.”

    Just because we’ve experienced a period of unprecedented peace doesn’t mean class conflict is over–it will not be over until class is abolished.

    Also, revolutions, civil war, and war in general are most often illegal.


  • The state has convicted and executed innocent people. The average criminal subject to capital punishment has killed an order (or several) of magnitudes fewer people than the health insurance industry.

    As a country we seem to weigh more heavily acts of individual violence than those of systemic violence or violence borne of policy even when the latter 2 have far more impactful and wide spread negative results. It’s completely logical to draw a distinction between the 2 circumstances.

    I’m not saying all vigilante justice is good, and I wouldn’t necessarily be against the state holding to account executives who have produced systems and policies that result in the harm or death of the state’s citizens, but in the current system justice is rare and in this act millions of people received justice.