Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Another shot from my Mirror’s Edge-inspired scene. I’ve updated the lighting and post-process to bring back a cooler blue tone while still maintaining the impression of bright sunlight.

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

And I guess some people don't even get there after 40 years, EH SAMUEL??

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

The Killing Stone is OUT NOW in Early Access 🃏 Occult Card Battler 👺 17th Century Occult Horror Mystery 📖 Modern and 17th Century English 🎙️ Starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social Can you beat the Devil at his own game? store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/

dudes rock

"The ketamine addict told employees the factory would be powered by 'grinding up the bones of the shrivelled goatmen that live in tunnels below moon's polar mountains.' The Times has yet to verify this claim."

It is absolutely wild that Firewatch came out a decade ago today. I don't think any of us then could even get close to fathoming the ways it which it would resonate with people. I'm still unspeakably grateful to anyone who spent time in this (lightly fictional) corner of the place I grew up.

It's important to assume the CEO of Nexon is staggeringly full of shit, actually

Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall

Hundreds of protesters in the pouring rain at Hootsuite headquarters in Vancouver over ICE contract youtu.be/ZeobfcYg18M?...

If you're in Vancouver and think it's morally repugnant for a Canadian company to be signing contracts to support ICE "public relations," come join at 111 East 5th Ave at 3pm *today* to let @hootsuite.com know this is indefensibly vile.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Sometimes you write an update about your video game and saying that a pernicious crash has been fixed or the frame rate is a bit more stable now. And sometimes you write, "... much to the chagrin of perverts everywhere" in the Steam news post instead. store.steampowered.com/news/app/296...

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[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

I've genuinely listened to this at least five times a day for the last 3 days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

Bears repeating

That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.

What a great headline

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

Generation Exile Sustainability Edition (i.e. the everything bundle) is 48% off right now as part of the Games from Vancouver Steam event! store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...

Truly breathtaking, absolutely incredible. Set a hectare of rainforest on fire and the world's stupid robot can enthusiastically and emphatically insist that Zelda is spelled with a "J."

werner herzog: the korok says “i need to reach my friend,” but i see not friendship here. instead i see the cruel jungle, i see abandonment, one left behind, struggling to move, like a turtle on its back, baking in the hyrule sun. “oooh” it cries out in anguish. “aaha.”

Sometimes you just stop and have a think about the fact you can say the words, "I just got an email from Mayonnaise" and you're describing factual reality

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

We launched GenExile, our solarpunk city-builder, in Early Access last week. We had ~35k wishlists before launch (not a barnburner but not nothin'). And they said, "Well, there's no way you'll convert literally 0% of your wishlists to sales." I looked them dead in the eyes and said, "Watch me."

It was such a pleasure to get to help @softrains.bsky.social with Technical Audio for the unique, mystical, *fungal* experience that is Ambrosia Sky! We really love the game and think you will too 🍄

We... put out a video game? That you can play? On your computer?!? store.steampowered.com/app/2963240?...

Posted this in work Slack at 6am

I almost can't believe this but the game we've been working on for a, uh, frightening long time now is launching into Steam Early Access NEXT WEEK! November 4th, 9am PT Wishlistin' plz and thank: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

Four ways to avoid taking damage in FF6

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"