Excuse to post a classic?

We have got to do something about “this is more a comment than a question” at author talks. You sound stupid and everyone hates you. Grow up

My “Trump does not want to execute members of Congress” statement has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the statement.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Dreaming of Spring (risograph)

Cover art for issue 176 of @unwinnable.com Monthly, step by step.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

A fun part of watching tons of spaghetti westerns in random order is trying to sort out the trick gun trope chronology….. I love when a dude has a gun that folds in half for no fucking reason, I live for that shit

Good to see that American journalists aren't letting this go unremarked upon. See another appropriate framing from NYT here:

This postscript is so telling of what trying to negotiate with MRM is like. Massive respect for Scott in sticking to his principles and not allowing them to bully or gaslight him into signing. I'm disgusted that this is still happening to authors. No market is worth this.

Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure

"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable. Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence. Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.

sir this is a McDonald's

A closer look at my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. 🌙

resharing this for no reason whatsoever

Shipyard

Autumn Statue: acrylic on linen

sorry it just occurred to me that this is functionally equivalent of a car-free city dweller complaining that it takes far too long by bus to get to suburban shopping or cultural destinations, which is a 100% legit complaint that would be laughed out of any op-ed page in the country

Drew some house sparrows, one of my favourite birds

By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically

I just think they are neat #fanart

re: tutorials and early game friction, here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 on why I like the social practice of game wiki'ing, and the "ludic mystery" that motivates it mixedinitiatives.net/blog/apologi...

New article: one thing from every inkle game that we failed to explain clearly enough, and how often we've been made to regret it.

fo- five. five shrews tall.

An interesting example of how it's easy to get trapped in "doing things for the sake of doing them" in gamedev how this thread showcases complex game desgin being done to allow this sort of thing but little examination of how that possibility space affects the world and the player's psychology

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

Black Mandrakes new ones on patreon too for just a pound!

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

From a separate article about how kids are taught to read, but even from the beginning, kids are being failed and taught that being able to understand words and comprehend sentences is too much hard work www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Jesus Christ.

We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other. www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #gamestudies #gamingthepast

New park chan wook is unreal see it in as crowded of a theater as possible

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

Birthday (hell)boy

This was fun. 46 tris, 128x128 texture.

i think i'm just gonna do my first and only subtweet right now and it's for everyone posting about anything. shut da fuck up

I love getting happy birthday emails from the airlines that lost my luggage in the Caucasus. I think every day of my life about how much I hate you :)

honestly i really don't like that there really is a cabal of elite wealthy pedophiles. i would very much prefer if that wasn't true.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Frankenstein studies

My last word on the matter

Doodle

a thing that i think that may be uncharitable: hating small talk is simply being the "uncomfortable when we are not about me" bird. only when the conversation turns to you or your interests will you deem the talk unsmall

Grumbling.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.