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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

At 17, Gary Tyler was sentenced to death by an all white jury for a crime he didn’t commit. He was released from prison at age 57, after spending 42 years behind bars. Wrongful convictions are a feature, not a bug, of the death penalty. We must end it once and for all. 

Reminder to freelancers that you really need to read your contracts before you sign them. Reading contract language, especially if in a different language, isn't easy, but doing so may save you the potential future harm of overly broad clauses in the contract. You need to be careful.

this is basically the most effective thing you as an individual can do to fuck with ICE and good on this dude for dedicating his retirement to fucking with them

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later. Remembering us is not enough.

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

Just to repeat a warning that others have already broadcast: Paypal are trying to trip people up and inadvertently snitch on both themselves and others by asking for "feedback". As a rule, never provide unnecessary information to ANY platform. Leave fields blank or be vauge.

Please don't fall for the lie that AI is 'going to lead to a three day work week.' Sadly, MOST 'innovation' applied to labor results in WORSE CONDITIONS. Cellphones made us available when we were not in the office. Emails destroyed the boundary of business hours. It always asks us for more.

freelancing in 2025 feels so different than even a few years ago. healthcare premiums are so expensive, being disabled is so expensive. money worries grind down the ability to think creatively or engage deeply with the world outside day to day survival

Your increasingly frequent reminder that making absolutely everything digital is a f**king terrible idea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

Gamers™ simply have no idea of what they actually want because 9 times out of 10 when they get it they are more mad than before

whats up my fellow gamers

Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.

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”.

Hate the argument of "Well you can boycott for now, but soon every game studio is going to use genAI and you won't be able to tell or avoid it anymore!!" dude there are already more videogames in existence than I'm ever going to be able to play in my lifetime. this boycott shit is easy.

re prime 4 discourse, todasy is as good a time as any to say: video games talk AT you way too much in the 2020s! i'm not talking abt too much narrative (not a real issue). i'm talking abt a constant, patronizing use of narration to /predigest/ everything from challenge to mood to emotional impact!

I think this is a pretty pervasive problem beyond just games, which a) is definitely an issue; b) is another element of it feeling increasingly asked to solve things that are tangential to or even sometimes orthogonal to “make a good game”.

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

A note about the TGAs worth remembering as this Future Class story unfolds: it’s a marketing beat, consumer-facing, and voted on by media/influencers. Developers are, by design, not included or considered in the structure. Which feels bad! www.polygon.com/explained/49...

never trust the people who called those against supporting or buying hogwarts legacy "terminally online losers" yes, that includes your favourite artists the only time you should use "terminally online losers" are when referring to right-wing chuds calling everything "woke"

My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...

Everything is about transgender issues with these people. Even boat strikes. WTF. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/far-...

Just by sheer chance we are always exactly one vote short of doing good stuff, and one vote over the line to do bad stuff.

i dunno if women still get asked what games they play in job interviews but i hate how even as veteran devs we gotta prove our "gamer cred" to chuds on the internet who can't read credit rolls

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

...this is Michiko, a stoic, mostly silent Elezen that cares passionately about the world around her, despite the wounds in her soul... However dark the days ahead seems, she still keeps a sprinkle of joy close to her heart.

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

I mean, we all knew The Game Awards is basically two E3 presentations wearing a trenchcoat, and Geoff Keighley an empty, light, flaky Kojima Productions-branded phyllo dough shell of a man. But god damn. I am once again begging y'all to elevate the DICE and BAFTA game awards above this shit.

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

Gay Net … [lowers sunglasses] In Big 16

I'm pulling tricks with my Sega Genesis that would make Hiroshi Yamauchi rise from the fucking grave just to shit himself

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

Feels very weird how some devs seem to now look at direct implementation of mechanics that simulate real gambling as being fine so long as they aren't the mechanism that directly siphons takes real money from you. I'm not sure I really agree with that principle personally.

Establishment Democrats aren’t afraid of the GOP. They simply agree with the GOP in almost all the ways that count. And it is in those ways they do the most harm to the poor, to the sick, and to immigrants.

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

It wasn’t 8 democrats. It was all of them. Never forget this. They decided to sell you out because they want to go on vacation and don’t want their flights delayed. They don’t care if you die. They will never fight for you.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

this is what 'vote blue no matter who' gets you. stop falling for it. it's a trap. sen. john fetterman ( of course ) sen. dick durbin sen. jacky rosen sen. catherine cortez masto sen. maggie hassan sen. tim kaine sen. jeanne shaheen throw eggs, if you can afford them, at chuck schumer

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.