There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

For a few more days in the summer sale, you can get The Whisperer in Darkness for $1! store.steampowered.com/app/435000/T... Help me get this thing to 50 Steam reviews??

happy 4th of july

anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer

I AM FUCKING LOSING MY MIND AT THIS VIDEO HAPPY JULY 4TH

And so it begins... everyone who is about to be offered a job should ask for DOUBLE, then join a union. 🙂

What's funny is how the AI bros keep insisting that everyone who is skeptical of AI are just some kind of purist, Luddite, or simply backwards when for the most part it's that we've tried it, critically examined it, and concluded that it's mostly lies and garbage that will damage our work.

if you have the ability to set up a small weekly donation, you can make a real difference in the lives of people in Gaza - this is a long running trustworthy project 💜🙏🏽

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

I think every media person who has spent the last 3-4 years warning everyone that AI is a scam should, when the bubble bursts, get one billion dollars each to run our normal businesses for the next 1000 years. seems fair.

Calling all queers: we're in our last 12 hours!! We've gone above and beyond our goals. Thank you for supporting queer, weird, niche art! This is your last chance to buy the bundle. You know the drill. 30+ games, zines, and more, all for $20: itch.io/b/3666 #bundle #indiedev #indiegames

Across the country, resistance to tech harms are now the cultural zeitgeist. As organized in this work, we see it as critical to expand our demands beyond "privacy" towards lives lived with dignity. https://truthout.org/articles/resistance-to-flock-cameras-and-police-surveillance-is-exploding/

I've never done this before — a seasonal community event for my game! Check it out store.steampowered.com/news/app/426... #gamedev

there's a way in which a lot of the media coverage on AI use in games is beginning to converge on "well they're all using it, regardless of disclosure", in a way that so quickly turns into "so why bother caring", and I can't stress enough that it is still actually really easy to avoid AI games.

Today is the last day of Dreams on a Pillow's main campaign. Despite Israel massacring people in several countries including Palestine - here's a courageous Palestinian-made game about where it all started -about the 1948 Nakba- and on how things were before it. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Only six hours left in our campaign for CIGS 2026! This is the cheapest CIGS passes will be this year, so consider nabbing one now. More than anything though, just grateful for the Chicago indie community that continually rallies to make this happen. #indiedev www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...

"'Obsession' was made for $750K and is projected to make $250M. How much I made: $300/day as Art Director"

I think the crew of Obsession should be offered bonuses. They were all paid indie film rates (if that) and should be receiving extra now

Keith David has finally received his well deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Today is his 70th birthday!

Demon Hotline Miami I remember seeing this game in the early days and it's so sick to see how far it's come. Now it's out! Check it out, plays great on da deck

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

The Power of Pride Bundle 2026 is now live on Itchio! All in support of 284 queer creators and their 396 creations. $60 Bundle: itch.io/b/3682/the-p... $10 Pay-What-You-Can: itch.io/b/3684/the-p...

And it got more than an order of magnitude worse… Over 1,000,000 Americans dead. It’s amazing that we’ve just memory holed this.

Ready to make some weird new zines this summer!! Just threw up a Patreon for 'em — every bit of support makes me a more unstoppable force patreon.com/NQNZines

anthropic is in a way more dangerous than openai because they've duped people into believing they're actually the Good Guys and the others provide perfect foils for that assertion b/c they're so comedically villainous. But anthropic is not and will never be anything remotely like good

Can you help Dreams on a Pillow hit an important milestone? if it raises $1,600 in the next 21 hours, it unlocks an extra $2,000 in support from LaunchGood. Help push the boundaries of what stories games are allowed to tell by backing the project: www.launchgood.com/1948

Thank you so much to Game Workers Conference for having us! If you missed it and want to check out our talk "Press F to Organise: Game Workers Against Imperialism", as well as the rest of the brilliant programme of talks, they're still freely available to watch on YouTube ❤️

Me, a week ago www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

If this is happening to you at The Gamer or another V site please get in touch, can share my signal

Power Word Unity works to create intentional spaces for BIPOC folks in TTRPGS to meet form connections and collaborate. We are hosting an Itch bundle to support our efforts. If you believe in BIPOC folks have a space in TTRPGs, you should add a game and help us out! itch.io/jam/power-wo...

Remember when Christian fundamentalists wanted to ban Harry Potter in schools? Now that the floodgates are open, It would be really funny if we brought that movement back. #FuckJKRowling #BanHarryPotter www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

A "piece that was killed" is something we hear over and over again working with press promoting Dreams on a Pillow, not just now but across the years. In some cases the content had been fully written & was pulled right before or even after publishing. In others, it never was allowed past concept.

Today is our final hearing before our federal trial, which is in 8 days. This case is going to impact your ability to protest ICE and express dissent. Please, help us win it: tinyurl.com/katandre

I love Coraroc so much, I don't know why I find this little guy so appealing but I do

I content that Habit Puzzles is the only habit tracking game/"productivity" app to commemorate May Day with a content pack highlighting awesome historical labor rights iconography! #gamedev #unionStrong #fuckcrunch store.steampowered.com/app/4263990/...

Just piss off, whydontcha

My university administrators censored a student who put “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” on an Earth Day flyer. I really have no words to express my anger and disappointment anymore

This is excellent, and especially thrilling because it's the first thing I've read on this topic that gets past its supposed inevitability to assess what AI ed tech is actually like, and what it actually does. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

AI lobbying is skyrocketing. Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined. By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

My friends are raising money to make a movie! And I want to see it!!! So if anyone wants to take a look it would make you a cool person seedandspark.com/fund/bennys-...

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

People really dislike folks questioning AI and it's usage. I watched a lot of the back and forth about it yesterday and something stuck with me. Ppl say theirs no point in being against AI because "it's in everything and everywhere" but so is racism, and I'll forever complain about both

The Habit Puzzles April update adds ghouls!!! These very important helpers run around helping you solve your puzzle. I also added a mini pack of 3 ghoul-themed puzzles, because everyone loves ghouls!! store.steampowered.com/news/app/426... #gamedev

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...