"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.

I bring a sort of historical materialism to my analysis of the games industry that journalists looking for a simple "AI taking jobs" narrative don't really like.

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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few. -Percy Shelly, The Mask of Anarchy Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

We are thrilled to announce that AIIDE-26 will be held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil from November 9-13, 2026! Paper abstracts due June 19 with full submissions due June 26, 2026. sites.google.com/view/aiide20...

So thrilled to be taking AIIDE outside of North America for the first time! Joined by @lucasnfe.bsky.social as Program Chair we're going with the very appropriate theme of "New Grounds". Please submit all your best work and join us this November!

(post credits scene) CAPTAIN AMERICA: But... how's a dead man going to help? NICK FURY: Of all the guys to ask that... ok. Come on in. HENRY KISSINGER: Never thought I'd be glad to know the world has so many super powers ha ha. But no more jokes. Support for Dr. Doom is on the rise in Southeast Asia

So anyway, xAI's response to rampant use of Grok to generate CSAM and sexual abuse is to... monetize it

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The President of the United States of America took over another country without so much as talking to a member of congress.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

🎵 Here we are as in olden days 🎵 Happy Honda Days of yore 🎵 Those in winter in need of cars 🎵 Get low APR 🎵 Accords

I must not cheer. Cheer is the mind-killer. Cheer is the little-death that brings festive obliteration. I will face cheer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Where the cheer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

The oceans are nothing but snowman blood.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

At a time when Hollywood will do literally anything for easy money, how has nobody convinced Brian Henson to make more Muppet movies? They would be like the Disney live action remakes, except Millennials would watch them voluntarily.

I used to have a handful of fun little examples of easy ways to break language models. A common one was "How many times does the letter R appear in the word 'strawberry'?" That no longer works, but with a little pushing, you can still make it work: chatgpt.com/share/693f1f...

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

"YOU CANNOT COOK A DISH SO GOOD IT FORCES DINERS TO HAVE GOOD TABLE MANNERS" is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way. This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.

I have a sort of similar idea….

Added a bidet to the bathroom remodel and now I'm over butt jet

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I got to college, and figured knowing how to program would probably be helpful for any career, and then I stayed for a PhD.

Hi new followers! I do research on (oldschool symbolic) AI for interactive stories that need to rewrite themselves as you play. We use them for games and training simulations.

In a way Trump and Mamdani are similar. They are both populists fighting against the elite, it's just who they see as "the elite" differs. Mamdani sees the elite as the billionaires who control the economic, political, and social systems of society. Trump sees the elite as people who read books.

I finally got around to porting my CV from a mess of a Word document I started as a grad student into a nice LaTeX document. Feel free to steal the template if you like it. github.com/sgware/cv

Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard

There needs to be a button for "automatically pre-order anything @zachweinersmith.bsky.social releases."

Is detecting and pruning duplicate states in a narrative planning context worth it? Stephen Ware says yes! An interesting problem given the cyclical concept of "belief" that characters within the planning domain have. I liked the evaluation using the existing Sabre benchmarks here!

Phenomenal showing by the Narrative Intelligence Lab at #AIIDE25! @sgware.bsky.social, Molly Siler, Gage Birchmeier, and Lasantha Senanayake presented a bevy of interesting research talks on interactive narrative. It's particularly exciting to see where the DC scholars are headed!

Excited for #AIIDE25! @aiide.bsky.social

why do we allow private equity in our society? it's obviously bad for everyone in the world except the people doing it. it should be illegal like fraud

I'm looking forward to checking out MicroTales from Molly Siler, @sgware.bsky.social, Gage Birchmeier, Mira Fisher and Lasantha Senanayake from this years #INT workshop. It looks like a neat event-level narrative planner with a simulation environment complete with support for custom extensions!

Next we have Stephen Ware's @sgware.bsky.social talk on MicroTales, a benchmark for narrative "chess puzzles" with a number of desirable traits! This seems like a really useful planning domain.

started from the bottom, now we here (a new bottom)

@microsoft.com, these are rookie numbers. I could lose way more than this. Call me.

every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"

maize maze was right there

it's so crazy we don't have a coke freestyle type of machine but for chip flavors. in some ways we're still basically living in the stone age

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Really enjoyed my first time at @roguelike.club! If anyone is interest in my talk, "Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History" it's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrP...

Before you embark on a quest for revenge, dig two graves, because that asshole probably has at least one henchmen you're gonna have to kill along the way to getting your revenge.