We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

The Scottish Greens stand with the dozens of workers sacked by @rockstargames.com for exercising their right to organise with @gameworkers.co.uk @iwgbunion.bsky.social Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

da mayor :)

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

This person took this when they called the race

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Across the world, game dev unions are standing with us. @rockstargames.com - reinstate our members, now!

Ah, the ultimate decadence... The sole domain of the unrepentant pervert... The night shower

My feed is filled with people helping each other. Donating to food banks and GoFundMes, organizing food drives, helping folks find resources. There are so many kind, generous people in the world. So how the hell did we end up with these evil fucks in charge?

It is not misconduct to unionize, and I hope that Rockstar and Take-Two face serious legal challenges for what seems to be a very clear-cut case of union-busting.

Living out my deepest suburban witch fantasies (all the lights off & sunglasses on due to migraine, listening to Bauhaus, cleaning up from dinner, scaring the children who come for my haribo)

💚 Greens are in second place for (I think) the first time ever in a poll. 🥀 First we replace Labour. Then we overtake Reform. 📩 Help us get there: join.greenparty.org.uk

When vampires kill six people in a remote community, the remaining residents pool all their meagre copper to hire a journeyman with silver and fire. When every vital and human endeavour in our global community is drained and discarded, what then? How will we defend ourselves from this?

very much at the point where i feel that anyone still actively supporting or participating in the bloodthirsty far right racist and transphobic campaign truly are the lowest levels of human trash who deserve nothing but the worst and certainly no forgiveness when this is over

I've had enough rosters of charming datable characters in games, please let's get back to "fifteen weirdos from Josh Kirby's marginalia think you're doing a bad job"

The 2yo and I are having a ~boys night in* *listening to Rumours at top volume and eating an entire can of soup each

The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%. And the gap is growing. Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

Part of the reason that it's hard to "adult" right now is that most of what you're expected to do in "adulting" is activity to set up a stable future. But most of us have felt for a long time that stability is a lie being told to us with enough "one in a lifetime" disasters every 6 months...

To the Americans accidentally discovering a worse version of test cricket right now: we just pretend it's cool when players don't score for multiple hours

I don’t want to tell you how far I got into this post before I realized it was satire

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

A reminder: Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyone. Disability will happen to everyo—

I'd argue cozy landlord, cozy police games etc. don't do anything new. Most job sim games present a fantasy of labor with no exploitation, little social context, and unquestioned power dynamics. The wholesome presentation + marketing simply makes these issue more visible and jarring.

“Detaining humans isn’t an action with any substance in+of itself, it’s just an action that can happen. In that case the only thing keeping it from being sweet and inoffensive would be a coat of paint […] because everything is just shells that contain whatever content you inject for today’s product”

For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI. I wish them all the luck they deserve.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid. It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine. And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

Idk gang, maybe continuing to allow the same 3 companies to control 174% of the world is a stupid idea.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

It's OK to be scared. What's going on is scary. But the people doing the scary stuff are counting on your fear to control you. One of the most important things about marching in numbers is reminding yourself that we are strong together. We can be scared inside, while acting fearless for each other.

The lesson of genAI has very little to do with genAI. The real lesson here is that as soon as your bosses found something that could approximate the worst possible worker in your team, they obliterated entry-level jobs. It's not coming alive. That's nonsensical. But your bosses are already alive.

i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

if you look at social media and dont immediately feel better what you should do is keep going back to it every five minutes or so. eventually you will find the Post that makes your life better

zack polanski is so good and i genuinely think if the left rallies around this guy and the green party in the UK, they can easily beat back the hysteria of the reform party