This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life. And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

Keep pressuring Microsoft to end all complicity! As a consumer, boycott Microsoft products whenever possible and join the Xbox boycott.

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Kyle McCarley, the original dub actor for Mob in Mob Psycho 100, was recast for season 3 because Crunchyroll wasn't willing to have a single conversation with SAG-AFTRA.

Yo! This Saturday, I'll be dropping my first album in 10 years!! It'll be available everywhere (except Spotify). Here's the first taste, I'll "unveil" more throughout the week 😎 Listening party Aug 23 10am PST: maximumcrash.bandcamp.com/live/s-i-g-n... 🎨 Cover Art by @casualrad.bsky.social

Hi, my game just released. It's about the life of a single mother, as seen through the eyes of her child. If you like small passion projects, it would mean a lot to me for you to check it out, share it and review it. #indiegames #solodev #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/3129110/...

Check out Camille and Laura on Steam, a handmade and hand-drawn slice of life game about parenting! From an awesome person @bonjourborzoi.bsky.social who put so much love into this experience!

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

it's time to COMPLAIN about the delisting of NSFW games on steam and itch! tell these payment processors that they need to STOP listening to these boring anti-porn thought-policing friendless tossers and START LISTENING to us instead. there is no art without queers, sluts, perverts and weirdoes 💦

Some people on my feed aren't sure what to say. Here's a summary: • talk about specific platforms that have been threatened • talk about how their brand is not associated with porn, but capitulation to theocratic extremist orgs • tell them you'll dump your stock or find a new card holder like Amex

Here’s a short script: “Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."

Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Consume Me just got delisted in a wave of delistings on itchio. It's a semi-autographical game about disordered eating. It won the grand prize at the most recent IGF awards. When storefronts start mass bannings, everything is threatened.

To clarify: Boston doesn’t need a mayor who only recently registered as a (Blue Dog) Democrat before launching his campaign, but voted Republican in the 2016 Presidential election cycle, & has supported MAGA anti-choice, anti-marriage equality, election denier federal candidates around the country…

So, if we really want to tackle the loneliness problem, we need to prevent paid work from demanding so much of our time and energy that we can't (or simply don't want to) contribute to a shared project of care. Because that pressure is at the core of both loneliness and inequalities in care. 4/

ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.

#PortfolioDay yay! We do: gameplay & AI programming, concept art, 3D sculpting & modelling, environment design, rigging & animation, and more. We offer Unreal Engine game development support, as well as 3D characters, from concept to playable in engine. www.artstation.com/amelore_coop

We should probably be clear eyed about the fact that Microsoft purchased a huge roster of some of the world's best game development studios only to turn around and use them all as kindling for its ill-begotten AI boondoggle

We've done it; we've reached 100 followers for the preview page! So, here's why Allison feels this is the most important game that she has ever designed (and maybe ever will). If you've followed, thank you! If you haven't, maybe this will encourage you to! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

ok but seriously cancel your game pass. with the BDS boycott and the microsoft higher ups constantly bleeding their developers for the most miniscule of gains you'd be doing yourself a favor in the long run not giving those assholes your money. with every passing month they get all the more ghoulish

Y2K, A/S/L, LOL! Soft Chaos is crowdfunding our hit interactive theatre Discord larp about identity and fandom, Strangers on the 'Net for #RPGparty — Roleplay like it's 1999! Follow our preview page to be notified on launch and get an extra gift if you back it ✨ gamefound.com/en/projects/...

We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤 Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬 📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all 💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible 🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!) dnacreative.notion.site/codex

i remember watching the ferguson protest live and seeing cops deliberately escalate when the crowd was entirely peaceful. told a friend; they couldn't believe it. hope people see and believe their own eyes now.

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

you feel like a big man, shooting an unarmed woman from behind? you fucking dickless cur. i hope you drown in your own piss.

This is the one games-related story that we really can't let get buried by the worst guys you know fighting or summer geoff fest.

When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in Feb. 2020, an officer knelt on his neck while another shocked him with a Taser. Another unhoused man said officers threw away his things, telling him, “You guys are trash and this is trash.”

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

Signed!

Our little union is getting a bit bigger! Today, we proposed the addition of our product, engineering, and Humble Bundle folks into our unit. Join us in welcoming our peers and asking IGN Entertainment Inc. management to voluntarily recognize their addition into our union!

Played Spirit Swap on Steam and enjoyed it? Please leave us a quick review on Steam! It’s the best way to feed the algorithm god and keep a self-published team like ours making games. It can be short too, like “hey cool game bozos 😎” or something. Do yer worst! store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/...

Really proud of how this game turned out and how much work we all put in, back it now 🧹✨

🇨🇦 Canadian game devs: Our Peer Accelerator program applications close May 16th! Build a sustainable studio with community support. Apply at babyghosts.fund → Peer Accelerator. Check our materials and apply to join Cohort 5. ⏰ One week left!

my thoughts, sympathies, and anger are on the side of the Polygon employees finding the ground pulled out from under them today. They did great work that has huge value, and that the system doesn't recognize that is the system's failing, not theirs

Get a $25k stipend and tailored supports to convert or start your game dev co-op! Applications are open now!! ✨

Super excited for people to see the art on these incredible cards and play the game I’m leading design on 😃

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’ll soon be available for game design, creative direction, and consultancy opportunities while I develop my own projects. I’m also open to paid speaking engagements if you know of any! If you’d be willing to share/repost this, or just send a kind word, I’d truly appreciate it. Thank you! ♥

As a game dev, Nintendo switch 2 game pricing is absurd to me, and as not a huge Nintendo fan, will not be buying. I’m good with my steam deck

VETERAN NARRATIVE DESIGNER/GAME WRITER IN DESPERATE NEED OF A JOB - Almost 20 years experience - Original writer/ND for mobile hit Lily’s Garden - Worked with big IPs like World of Warcraft, Marvel, DC - Experience with mobile, console, and PC Please, please, please help me. I am out of time.

STOP DELETING MY FRIENDS BLUESKY!! Donate to Hamza. He needs us!!

Fucking hell, Israel has opened across-the-territory airstrikes on their Gaza concentration camp. They're just exterminating at this point. Israel rejected the peace offerings over and over, they broke the cease-fires over and over, and now they're bombing schools, refugee camps, children, humans.