By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

YEAAH GENUARY 2026⋆˚꩜.ᐟ.ᐟ genuary.art GENUARY is the most GENERATIVE (creative code based) ART month of the entire universe // There are 31 creative coding prompts for you to play with for daily challenge // beepboop // please enjoy // time travelers welcome #genartclub #generative #creativecoding

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

Last December, a student came into my AI-Based Experience Design class excited about his prototype. It didn't use AI in any way but he was inspired by critical AI literacy. He wanted to explore mechanics where meaning and form are divorced. Fast forward a year, and his demo released on Steam today!

Love this video walkthrough of GIS crochet! #DHmakes

I was asked to supply a title for my December talk at Stanford. I've settled on: "Nobody Wants This: Please Stop Ruining Everything."

very excited to share this story about an emerging video game genre: games that live on bottom of your desktop screen. my first story in the NYT, featuring @mistermorrisgames.bsky.social, @toadzillart.itch.io, and more! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

The OTHER project at CDPR's Boston studio is hiring a Lead Writer. (FT, onsite preferred) Come work with a very chill and creative team on Project Sirius ✨️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

We're hiring!! WPI IMGD seeks a new Assistant Teaching Professor to support and grow our multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum in technical and design areas of our undergrad (BS, BA) and graduate (MS, MFA, PhD) degrees. More details here: wpi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WPI_External...

Friendly Reminder: If you're planning to apply to the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant, you have until 23:59 PST TODAY to get your application in ⏰‼️ grants.draknek.org

The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

Check out this game I worked on! Breath Checkers is designed to provoke both playfulness and relaxation. Developed at Dagstuhl Seminar 25292 with @curseofremy.bsky.social. Meeting and working with Rémy was such a wonderful experience. I learned a whole lot more about design in that short time.

you're asking chatGPT, im conducting a seance with inky, blinky, pinky and clyde. we are not the same

people love to say "platforms are not your friends", and someone on cohost got especially real big mad at me for "going to bat" for itch before but you bet your ass i have sympathy for an indie project. that's the whole fucking thing we're doing here

This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies. So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Really disheartening to see people going after Itch when they clearly didn't have a better choice, and are taking steps to restore as much of the content as possible. The whole situation sucks, obviously, but how could you think Itch doesn't care after all it did for creators in the last 12 years?

I know I’m preaching to the choir here but building a world in which sex and sexuality is seen as inherently harmful but violence is normal and often good actually seems… bad. It seems like we could do better.

If because of itch.io, you're looking to understand how obscenity law in the US came to be functionally obsolete in favor of payment card standards, may I recommend the piece I wrote about this a couple of years ago? yjolt.org/imagine-comm...

The postcard I made for @emilyhalina.bsky.social as part of @annetropy.bsky.social 's postcard keepsake game. The elden ring pope turtle visits Dagstuhl seminar 25292

The Bird Oracle is up for an Best Writing Ennie, and you can vote for us now! Yazeba's is in our category and a truly magnificent book, and you can vote for it too! Like the NYC mayoral primary, the Ennies also have ranked choice voting. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/in...

hey who wants to see the worlds most sinister hotel sink

Trump funding cuts 'devastate' video game research and development

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

good comedy here is the MS engineer saying "not a .net issue, please contact our more annoying issue tracker" versus OP having "if you need to reach me, I'll be on the osu! Discord server" in their report hahaha

there is a fundamental incuriosity about and even disdain for what liberal arts fields can offer a life, both for the people who study them and the people who later interact with their work. it’s such an infuriating loss.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

We are in Western Colorado at a museum that (weirdly!) has an 1809 copy of the Boston Chronicle. It details how the town next to where we live in MA celebrated Independence Day. “Massachusetts — First to assert her rights, may she be the last to forget them.” Feels appropriate to see in 2025.

Two of three generations of WPI alumni. So proud of my family and grateful to @wpiedu.bsky.social.

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

Been trying to think of something to say in this moment of games writing that isn’t just doom, as warranted as that is. One thing I keep coming back to is that I have the data. I have real and quantifiable evidence that people crave human, nuanced writing about games.

We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities. You can help! You can apply for help! Spread the word. ignite-us.team #igniteus

It’s @wpiedu.bsky.social Project Presentation Day! In IMGD we have a full day of both graduate and undergraduate projects, all from our graduating students. I’ll be doing my best to share them all here.

See you out in the streets tomorrow. Lots of ways to participate: in person, online, everywhere. #defendhighered @actioninhighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Coming up this Thursday! Local folks: Join me and several of my wonderful colleagues as we share what makes our research important and what we risk losing. Non-local US folks: this is a national day of action for the AAUP; look to see if your nearby school(s) are participating!

No they didn't. www.possibilityspace.org/blog-before-...

Always the folks with more to lose taking a stand, but it is never too late to follow their lead, or better yet, takeover the lead and provide a firewall

Y’all really gotta fucking quit it with the “academia vs games industry” Discourse™. Here’s the deal: both worlds are being absolutely decimated by toxic management, and precarious workers in both domains are getting seriously exploited. The primary thing I’d like to see between both is solidarity.

Hey bsky! We're Boston Game Dev, a community nonprofit supporting the local game development scene. We help groups big and small run meetups, jams, demo nights, lectures and more. Watch this space for more news about what we have coming up! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

We're in a situation where we run the risk of losing talent who no longer feel valued, or safe. I really feel Game AI faces an existential crisis. So it's important we work to curate safe spaces to share knowledge on how we _actually_ use AI for gameplay and try to wrestle back that narrative.

That's a wrap on GDC for 2025! Before I begin my quest to fly back to the airport in flames, I just wanna say I'm proud that the Game AI community is holding strong at a time when the hype merchants seek to control our narrative, and many in our industry increasingly worry we're the enemy.

In addition to my story-first worldbuilding chat at GDC, I'm having a meetup for my books! I'll be in the area next to the GDC Bookstore, near the escalators down to the expo hall. Come ask all your game-writing & mentoring questions. And get your book signed! www.annamegill.com/books

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...