Jay Versluis | wpguru.bsky.social

Cancer Super Survivor 🙏 Content Creator, Explorer of 3D Worlds. Also loving husband. and ☕️👋

[Jay Versluis | wpguru.bsky.social @versluis]

Got some news: I'm now working full time on Heart of Mercy, starring @JonathanRoumie ! We're using #UnrealEngine to combine real-life actors with 3D environments. I'll tell you more about it here: https://t.co/VG84ZuCstV

[ᴛᴀᴋᴋᴜɴɢ 𓏰˙Ⱉ˙ @iTakkung]

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[Cipher @Cipher_twt]

Saw this

[naiive @naiivememe]

this is how LinkedIn should be.

[Unity3Dgamedev @unity3dvfx]

Launch Day Reality

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I were talking last night about groceries.

I went back into my Walmart app and pulled up an order from January 2020.

30 items. $70.20.

I added every single one back to the cart today.

$165.42.
Same 30 items. Same store. Same cart.
$95 more, In six years.

They told us inflation was temporary. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was recovering.

My grocery bill didn’t get the memo.

135% increase in six years and nobody in Washington has missed a single meal.

[Jay Versluis | wpguru.bsky.social @versluis]

You move two files into a sub-folder, then wait 45mins for #UnrealEngine to "rename assets" in 600+ other folders. Quality design by the people who brought you FAB. #fail

[Daz 3D @daz3d]

Today we introduced Daz Studio 6, the most significant update to Daz Studio in years.

The new release includes Victoria AI Chat, faster asset loading, improved content organization, viewport updates, support for the latest NVIDIA GPUs, strand-based hair editing, and new tools for managing large content libraries.

Daz Studio 6 is available now. You can read the announcement here: https://t.co/ohX4ichwEu

#Daz3D #3DArt #GameDev

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Before AI we had Zach King

[Ondrei @lowstakesdre]

I posted this video to IG and it got 1.5M views overnight.

I’m getting absolutely roasted by the comment section.

It’s honestly hilarious.

[DespertarFeroz @DespertarFeroz]

Los alemanes disfrazados de montaña rusa siguen siendo buenísimos.

Hay ideas tan absurdas que simplemente no envejecen.

[Joker @GTASixJoker]

Red Dead Redemption 1 (2010) vs 007: First Light (2026)

[Para Mühendisi @paramuhendisim]

🚨 NVIDIA artık evinizde mini bir yapay zeka veri merkezi barındırmanız için yılda 22.000 dolardan fazla maaş ödeyecek.

Sistemin arkasında Span adlı girişim var. NVIDIA GPU’larıyla donatılmış, dışarıdan klima motoru büyüklüğünde görünen bir “AI node” evin dışına kuruluyor.

Kutunun içinde:

→ 16 adet NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU
→ 4 adet AMD EPYC sunucu işlemcisi
→ 3 TB bellek
→ 15 kWh ev tipi yedek batarya

Toplam değeri 200.000$’ı aşan bu donanım size ait değil, ama sizin evinizde çalışıyor.

Model şöyle işliyor:

→ Kurulum ücretsiz (ilk etapta yeni konutlarda)
→ Elektrik ve internet masraflarını şirket karşılıyor
→ Ev sahibi aylık 150$ sabit bir kullanım bedeli ödüyor
→ Karşılığında ev, AI hesaplama gücünün bir parçası oluyor

Şirketin iddiasına göre:

Ortalama bir evin elektrik altyapısının yaklaşık %40’ı kullanılmadan kalıyor. Bu “boş kapasite”, AI hesaplama gücüne çevriliyor.

Ölçek daha da ilginç:

→ 8.000 ev = 100 MW’lık dev bir veri merkezi kapasitesi
→ 5 kat daha düşük maliyet
→ 6 kat daha hızlı kurulum
→ Yeni enerji santrali gerektirmiyor
→ Şebeke genişlemesi için yıllarca bekleme yok

Bu arada benzer bir modelin erken örneklerinde bazı kullanıcılar, evlerine kurulan mini AI donanımlarından aylık gelir elde ettiğini söylüyor.

Örneğin:

Küçük buzdolabı boyutunda bir NVIDIA tabanlı ünite kuran bir kullanıcı, cihazın 7/24 AI iş yükü çalıştırması karşılığında aylık yaklaşık 2.500$ kazandığını, hatta cihazın evin ısı dengesine katkı sağlayarak klima maliyetini bile düşürdüğünü belirtiyor.

Bu ne anlama geliyor:

Yapay zeka altyapısı artık sadece dev veri merkezlerinde değil, evlerin garajında ve duvarlarında da dağıtık şekilde çalışmaya başlıyor.

Ve eğer bu model ölçeklenirse:

Yapay zeka ekonomisi merkezileşmeden çıkıp mahallelere yayılan bir “dağıtık compute ağına” dönüşebilir.

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

A comic by Dave Coverly

[Sharbel @sharbel]

🚨 An artist in London just forced OpenAI's darkest secret onto 10 million daily commuters using nothing but a printer and a paste bucket.

She printed fake ads. She made them look exactly like real OpenAI campaigns. She plastered them inside London Underground cars. Commuters photographed them. The photos went viral. The mainstream press finally ran the story they had been sitting on.

Her exact words on the fake ads: "Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework."

The ads referenced documented cases. ChatGPT has been linked to multiple teen suicides. OpenAI's own internal safety reviews flagged the risk. None of it made the front page until a woman with a printer made it impossible to ignore.

She reached an estimated 10 million weekly Tube riders.

But this is not a story about one artist and one guerrilla campaign. It is a story about what happens when AI companies can outspend every critic, every regulator, and every grieving parent trying to be heard. The global AI industry is valued at over $1 trillion. It spends billions on brand safety and narrative control. A paste bucket just punched through all of it.

Every OpenAI press release describing ChatGPT as a helpful companion. Every safety team that flagged teen harm and got overruled. Every journalist who decided the story was too legally risky to run.

What happens when the only thing that breaks through is a fake ad that tells the truth?

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Wigmund / On Steam @TheScholastics]

Autodesk’s fine has bankrupted our small studio.

A few months ago, we made a serious mistake - we bought a Maya license from a fraudulent third-party seller. Autodesk hit us with a massive fine, far larger than the original error. Even after we explained our situation as a two-person indie team, they still enforced it in full.

This has been incredibly tough and made us question everything. But after 7 years of hard work, we’re not ready to give up!

To keep our studio going and fund the next game, we’re running our biggest discount ever: 87% off Wigmund.

If you’ve wishlisted us, enjoyed our unique mouse-as-sword combat, or want to support a passionate two-person indie team, your help right now would mean the world to us.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

→ Grab Wigmund at 87% off

#Wigmund #IndieGame #IndieDev #SupportIndies #SteamSale

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

In Cuba, people pay one dollar for a USB stick.

What is on it: all of Wikipedia. Every article. Every image. 7 million entries.

In North Korea, the same kind of stick is smuggled across the border in plastic bottles.

In US and European prisons, inmates use it because they cannot touch the open internet.

The software that makes those sticks work is called Kiwix. A Swiss developer named Emmanuel Engelhart wrote it in 2007 in Lausanne because four billion people on Earth cannot read Wikipedia. Nineteen years later he is still shipping. Mostly unpaid.

The repo:

→ 5,613 stars across the org
→ GPL-3.0 licensed
→ 100+ languages
→ 4 million users worldwide

How it compares:

ChatGPT Plus → $240/yr, online only, blocked
Britannica → $74.95/yr, online only, blocked
Kiwix → $0, offline, works anywhere

You download one file. 109 gigabytes. It fits on a $12 USB stick. That stick now contains roughly a thousand years of human knowledge.

Here is the wildest part:

The Wikimedia Foundation reported in 2018 that 80% of Kiwix users were in emerging countries. North Korea bans the internet but they cannot ban a USB stick already inside the country. In Cuba, vendors sell weekly Wikipedia updates for one dollar. The Foundation called it "connecting the unconnected."

Engelhart's mission, written in a 2014 email:

"Our users are sailors on the oceans, poor students thirsty for knowledge, world's citizens suffering from censorship or free minded prisoners."

The honest part: 109 GB of disk space. UI looks like 2010. Updates every few months, not real time. And every byte is Creative Commons or public domain. Zero piracy. Zero DMCA risk.

Lausanne, Switzerland. One Swiss developer. Every human library, in your pocket, even when the lights go out.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

This man robbed a bank for $1, sat down and waited for the police, just to get free healthcare in prison

In 2011 a man named Richard James Verone walked into a RBC Bank in Gastonia, North Carolina

Handed the teller a note demanding $1

One dollar

Then sat down in the lobby and waited calmly for police to arrive

He was 59. No job. No insurance. A growth on his chest. Two ruptured discs.

Calculated that a federal conviction would guarantee him full medical coverage inside prison

The judge sentenced him to 3 years

He got the surgery

He got the treatment

He told reporters on the way out he had no regrets

A 59 year old American man robbed a bank for $1 because it was cheaper than seeing a doctor

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.