Dunlin reflected. #BirdOfTheDay #reflections

my social media tl has been very hard to look at latelt given all these things in the game industry being talked about (re: epstein files)… it’s important tho. either way, the only thing i really feel like posting is this. sharing it makes me feel better. believe victims. stop vilifying victims.

"Industry agendas – whether the industry is tobacco, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, or tech – rarely align with human welfare or disinterested research, especially when left unchecked and unregulated." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 14/n

finished the first playtest today and even fixed all the bugs i caught. it was beautiful! i’m so proud of it. i can’t wait to share it with everyone. it definitely comes across as digital poetry.

LLM writing grates on me, I hate it. but for a lot of people, it's better at outputting a particular academic/workplace-appropriate style than they are. we don't just need to push back on AI, we need to push back on the ideas about what's desirable in text

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I made a deep dive video into the TESCREAL ideology shaping Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and the AI arms race, and how a shocking number of tech billionaires are pro-human extinction

aaaaah i did it! the ending is done! it's so perfect. 🥳🎉🥲 you get to fly around in this procedurally generated brutalist world, completely free movement in the end. so it ends up being like three different ways you experience this world. omg... now i just have to do audio + music. #GameDev

only the chosen ones have the strength to make games with this aesthetic today (cc @unormal.bsky.social ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjYS...

Everyday

Pleasure probably feels so good if you're a hedonist. Or anyone really

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

my novella Vampirocene is back on itch. a podcast producer tries to unravel the truth behind a pop star who claims to be an immortal creature after her cult of personality throws his life into chaos merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

thinking about how rough and slapdash the Emerson Arcadia 2001 game box art is

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002, PC, Xbox)

Miami Vice (2004, PS2, PC, Xbox)

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

Neotropic (Jet X2O, PS2, Killer Game, 2002)

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

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is there anything more magical than the feeling you get the first time you step into a lil virtual world instance with others 🥰

screenshots...

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

Game: Spider-Man 2 (2004, GC) TAS Author: Natetheman223 Source: tasvideos.org/4522M

here's what i've been working on

you really couldn't make many movies from 40-50 years ago today. this is due to the unavailability of certain discontinued film stocks and the deaths of many principal actors, directors, and other various crew members

what you want to do is put an impossible amount of pressure on yourself to “succeed” and tell yourself constantly that you are wasting your “potential.” do this until you die

Så er der podcast om shitstormen i et glas vand der ramte Cybernauterne i starten af juni. Lyt med når jeg taler med min kollega og memeadmin Anne Katrine Raahede om medieskabte shitstorms, hadtale, cancelkultur, ytringsfrihed, satire og angreb på civilsamfundet cybernauterne.dk/podcast/cybe...

reading dorian gray the way oscar wilde intended

i think george lucas might have been reading lord of the rings when he made the first star wars films. because obviously “frodo” rhymes with “yodo.” and like frodo, yodo was a short little hero who carried a mystical glowing sword. kind of a cool tip of the cap from lucas there

A thoughtful silver chonk from my collection. No documented date/info.

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”. No! Stop right there. Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about. 1/2

i cast spiderman's web shooter, then equip it to aragorn. i tap him to put two stun counters on cloud strife then attack with handsome squidward. his triggered ability activates and lets me return the hamburgler from my graveyard to the battlefield. second main phase i play chicken jockey and pass

I think Roko's Basilisk would understand that I don't know enough about technology stuff to do much one way or another so I'm off the hook

Made some Magic: The Gathering cards

fuck me, the quality of this game has been dire so far

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

I will solve this murder by throwing rocks at glass bottles. I work at the FBI

The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.