It did kinda hit hard to zone into The Tower last night in #Destiny2 and see players doing the "light a candle" emote in a circle. The story we were promised "wasn't done by a long shot" got GOT. The game isn't less fun, but there's something about a lack of future story or narrative that's sad.

Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future

I am going to make an absolutist statement that I believe is about as close to infallibly true as you can get in our complicated world: As a worker, no one who is urging you not to unionize has your individual best interests at heart.

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As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Yeah, y'all: we told you it would. LLM based "AI" concatenates strings of next-most-likely tokens. It bullshits. It makes shit up. An inventory situation where the systems need to "count" & "report" doesn't *change* that fundamental architecture; so why are these people continually surprised by it??

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Surely Cayde-6 has some quip, something lighthearted to say at this moment to make us all laugh and forget the… GODDAMNIT, CAYDE. 😭😭😭 #Destiny2

Someone at a convention once said to a friend who was working the booth with me that he liked my work but he wasn't going to buy anything because "Chris is successful enough and doesn't need my money". Anyway I'm no longer a full time game designer because I didn't make enough money to live.

You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.

Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us. This is a post about trans kids.

If you’re submitting panels & workshops for #PAXWest they are due today by 2pm Pacific conventions.leapevent.tech/f/e21266b3-b...

There’s been a lot of talk of getting off Google in recent years, but now it’s time for people to get serious. This company believes it has people locked in. People need to show Google there are consequences for its actions. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

NEW: Bungie is planning a significant layoff following the end of Destiny 2's development. Destiny 3 is NOT in active production. Some Bungie staff are pitching and prototyping new ideas including Destiny games, but none are yet greenlit. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Any game would be lucky to have even one of the highs like Forsaken, Witch Queen, Final Shape, or have such a rich cast of characters and a world that brought folks back season after season Destiny 2 had it in spades My most played game of all time It's been a hell of a time ❤️

I’ve seen the news. I am totally torn apart. If anyone knows a universe worth telling stories in… I know a guy who can tell’em.

Trying to be an educated and ethical person is so exhausting. Im not even that good at it. I have to work so hard to be just barely not an idiot. I feel punished for giving a shit about people around me. Im trying and failing to be a good person. I wonder what its like to just let jt rip?

On June 9, 2026, we will be releasing our final live service content update for Destiny 2, Monument of Triumph, available to all players. 📰 For full details: bung.ie/d2_may_21_2026

I do truly wish every single headline about Bari Weiss began with, "Bari Weiss, who became a conservative media darling by doxxing children's medical records"

“What’s that?” “It’s a racist murder machine. It murders people for racist reasons. It’s powered by children’s crushed dreams.” “My God. And you approve of that?” “Well, no, I don’t feel they got the implementation right.”

I mean look at Bezos. Yes ordering books online was an innovative idea. God bless. And how did Jeff get those books to people to make his billions? The post office that taxpayers built and subsidized for over 250 years.

Me, watching an arsonist burn down my house: Godammit, this is awful An A.I. enthusiast standing next to me: Oh, so you think fire isn’t interesting as a tool????

Nice hypothesis. But until we run the experiment, how can we know for sure?

Great read and right where I am with AI. Providing solid examples of why AI sucks resonates with people who are just accepting all of this at face value.

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

Using Gen AI in the concept phase robs the job of fun. If this is the direction everything is going why do this job? It certainly doesn’t pay well enough and the hours are shit. The worse case scenario is fixing slop for pennies. Id rather scub toilets.

Once upon a time Google was literally the most amazing information retrieval system I have seen in my life. It was quick and returned primary sources to read on almost any subject. It was better than magic. It makes me sick to see what they've done to that resource.

I can’t follow US political news anymore. Every story is rooted in corruption, cruelty, and incompetence. It’s absolutely maddening to witness.

In that regular people get a sense of pride or accomplishment even doing shit work (and I have done physical, shit work) by overcoming that challenge. Without that friction I don’t even know if you can stay human.

This is the key, I think (re grad’s booing AI boosters). The very rich are leading a completely insular life cut off from not just non-rich opinions, but a distorted sense of what “work” is.

I feel like it’s time to abandon Google entirely and that is going to be really fucking difficult after more than two decades. Doesn’t mean I won’t do it. It’s in the schedule. It’s gonna take a while.

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

This kind of foolishness is why every single option for re-use is turned off on my YT channel. JFC… this is the epitome of doing too much; and nobody asked for this.

Meeting adjourned, and goddammit this is not the life I wanted to live, but apparently it’s the job I have to do. Why can’t we just have people we trust to take care of us? (I am a history and poli-sci major, do not at me)

AI will never eat half a case of mini chocolate chip muffins and that's why it will never write good

dude it can do your job right now how hard is it to fuck up everything about Google www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

So not Google anymore. Wow. It was already losing itself but this is the final nail in the coffin

This sucks, and it does, but Google search sucks now, too. In just the last year or so, searching up stuff has become considerably harder -- it invents entire false headlines and descriptive bits that, when you click through, you see are wrong and contain none of the relevant info it claimed it had.

This was my first time writing a Lower Decks story since we got cancelled, so my part of the issue is a pitch for the opening of an LD season 6. Plus I got to work with Mike and Laura Allred, two of my all time favorite artists! Check it out in Sept.🖖

Wisest words Mulder ever spake tbh V relevant these days

I mostly shop at local indie bookstores, but when I need something quick it isn't unheard of that I'll go to B&N. Sadly, this is the nail in the coffin. Unfortunate, as I have many great memories of hanging out at the local B&N since childhood.

I want to say I have never seen anything as overhyped as LLMs, but I’m old enough to remember NFTs.

Exciting news!