Pure evil stacked upon pure genocidal evil... www.bbc.com/news/article...

An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Don't threaten me with a good time, ad that keeps popping up. 🤣 Seriously though, having lived in two (2) countries where the government calculated and filed my taxes perfectly well, I don't understand the outrage. Stupid lobbyists astroturfing non-issues.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Aside from being furious about everything, *gestures wildly around* I love the framing here. You're white, you're Canadian, surely you don't belong in immigration detention. Everyone else obviously does, but you definitely shouldn't be. Cue sympathy and outrage.

when you tried so hard and got sofa but in the end, it doesn't even matter

When you hate smart people...

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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

This story is truly horrifying. Serious abuse of outsourced game creators from Indonesia. youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?... TW/CW: Descriptions and depictions of abuse of various kinds (physical, mental, financial)

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

ِA Daring article on polygon Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev. www.polygon.com/gaming/50073...

Scientists at RAND warn that H5N1 bird flu poses increasing risks in the U.S., with human cases of unknown origin and widespread animal transmission. They stress the urgent need for nationwide measures to prevent a potential mutation enabling human-to-human transmission.

Hilarious!

Well, this (worldview) is stupid... www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

With great power comes great responsibility... to ditch any values you hold and maximise shareholder value. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...

Here's my annual reminder to please share arxiv abstract links instead of pdf links in posts/threads. Easiest way to be platform friendly. Thanks again for sharing all your fantastic research. 😍

The state of Georgia doesn’t want citizens to know about the lethal effects of its abortion ban. www.ajc.com/partner/geor... thanks to @propublica.org for following this story and good for the AJC for local publication!

apnews.com/article/un-g... #gaza #cease-fire

Hello! 😀 I'm excited that this place can replace the other one. I'm an applied ML researcher/engineer with The Coalition studio. Currently creating ML-powered tools for our games. Previously shipped RL/IL bots in Racket Club at Resolution Games. Before that, MSR postdoc + Georgia Tech PhD.