Going back to repost this because I am seeing a surprising amount of mass confusion about what happened here. I think Anil has it right.

My favorite piece of content today.

Welcome, Mr. Shuldiner! No pressure ;)

How it's done done done...

Wow. Wild stuff. Joi Ito apologizing to Epstein for MIT bouncing his donation just months before the New Yorker expose. And negotiating more $ 3mo before Epstein died. Somehow the media lab involvement still stings.

Just the quirkiest recent example, but Claude is killing it lately. I'm a PTA volunteer and handle assorted digital stuff. Organizations are constantly distributing flyers for families with QR codes on them -- digitally. Weird example of how designing everything for phones falls down. (1/2)

I adore Fei-Fei Li and was intrigued that she's been talking lately about "words to worlds". But I feel the disappointment deep in my gut that apparently what's meant by 'world' is 360 image gen. I know it's AI culture to release something and presume extrapolation, but that doesn't work anymore.

To an extent this is already true, but as elsewhere, AI will accelerate it: the "machine internet" will expand & complexify. There is an enormous amount of work to be done to make it legible, tooled for human collaboration. The legibility is bidirectional; new info structures for machines as well.

JACL honors everyone who has served, from the Issei who fought despite being barred from citizenship during WWI, to the Nisei who served in WWII even though their families were incarcerated, and to many others who have served then and now. We thank all of them for their service.

Have Netflix and want to check out the game I'm working on? Download the app at playspiritcrossing.com and sign into your Netflix account, it's free with your subscription and there's an all new starting tutorial as of TODAY which is what I've been working on for the last month+! #gamedev #cozyGames

Just under two days left to back Dancing with Ghosts!

There is a lot of Twitter lore that i missed because i sort of always thought the platform was a shitshow, but I do appreciate it being kept alive here

one of the most talented people I know made a parser game Obra Dinn-like? yes yes yes yes yes

My friend Prof is selling these adorable bats, in case you're looking for a tiny handmade friend. They give each one a unique name and it feels like each one has a unique personality. Worth a look! 🦇

Dancing with Ghosts #game has made it! Still 7 days if you want in on the kickstarter version. :) The demo is already lovely. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum... #gamedev #indie #gaming #DancingWithGhosts #thailand #art

“I don’t have a problem with trans people at all until it makes me uncomfortable,” Seal added www.them.us/story/oregon...

Hi, everybody. +>50 followers in a day? I assume I got added to a list? I've been trying to find the right lists! The combination of my name change ( www.3sxp.com/blog/whats-i... ) and platform transfer seems to be working against me in terms of being found here.

Does bsky do #FlowerFriday? Just some farm field flowers that made me happy. (Food forest, even!)

Sometimes I think about hitting the button on posts like this just to see what would happen.

My friend Greg's lovely #indiegame -- you might know him from Starflight, Star Control, or ToeJam & Earl, but this is the most personal game he's ever made. Gorgeous Thai #art and #AAPI culture. I just backed Dancing With Ghosts on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

Great conv w/ Jon Stewart and Geoffrey Hinton on how AI works & what we should be concerned about. I'm glad to see that Hinton's statements have become significantly refined and he seems to be homing in on real issues. Grounded public discourse on AI is so important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

Hi Bluesky! Polaris Game Design Retreat is an annual event where game designers tackle tough problems together, then write reports on their discoveries. If you're looking for our reports, start here: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

It should be an actual law that if you send internet hate on the basis of a thing you did not read, you absolutely do get fined the amount required by the paywall & it gets sent to the author. You should get banned for death threats, but when you TLDR'd it first? Jail. Jail for one thousand years.

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.

I’m so tickled by this story. We confirmed this game has been hanging in the store at $12 since MAY, and that it came from a random Famicom lot from Japan, meaning we paid no more than $3-4 for it. Happy this is going to a good home! Proof that sometimes you can still get one over on the pros!

I do really like Bluesky so far as a platform and a company, but the discovery problem just keeps winding tighter it seems.

I didn't even know Leslie Fish was on Facebook but twelve year old Firebird catalog consuming me is still bummed to find another fantasy idol has brain worms.

Little by little and then all at once. If we get the scientists in the divorce it's all worth it tbh. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Book news! I have a novella, The Sheltering Flame, coming out this fall with @wtpress.bsky.social, sharing covers with @aknighton.bsky.social. I've been waiting eagerly to share this weird little urban fantasy about radical hospitality, consent, and home repair. wizardstowerpress.com/media/wizard...

“When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth" -- There's so much revelation in this framing. It is an example of the solipsism that is the real root cause. Smart people got overexcited, yes. But they also wouldn't listen to anyone skeptical of their excitement.

Delightful. GRRM has been writing Winds of Winter for over a decade. Sagrada Familia still isn't done. The work takes as long as it takes. But you love to hear the process being good to/for the creators.

Because video games. Paging @annaleen.bsky.social , who enjoys sentient trains

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

OG Silicon Valley would find kinship in Mamdani's innovator heart. He wants to move fast and break things. These guys wetting themselves shows how far the culture has fallen, at least the noisy rich figureheads considered SV by the media.

My periodic post (responding to Sasha's post) that I still get approached by journalists about crunch. Memorable time was Hasan Minhaj show. I begged them. Begged. To feature gamedev studios & leaders who quietly make great games without abuse. I gave them a list. They never do.

maybe I'm naive, but I really do think we could get a Disco Elysium from a healthy workplace. I genuinely don't believe that we are doing anything for our artistry & industry when we don't hold auteurs & their hangers-ons accountable for what their work culture does to people who work there.

I'm going to argue that this is the essence of why AI, although economically existentialism disturbing (separate very important issue), is completely orthogonal to the purpose of creativity

@stephanebura.com relevant to what you just said, absolutely there is this mechanism "omg so freaking cool" that translates into mechanical repost click 😂 As usual the problem is the unknown unknown- what should be afforded and isn't

I still haven't really figured out bluesky. It is not a critical mass problem. As in, the hellsite shows us scale is not the answer. LLMs show us scale is not the answer. What's the right question?

Many many congrats to @tanyaxshort.bsky.social , @kitfoxgames.com , Freehold Games for their Hugo Award. Love to see love recognized.

🔥 Considering the rhetoric often seen on this site, suspending Jessie Gender over this was absolute horseshit.

Continuing with legacy posts, 2/3. This one with some endnotes. I remember this piece being a lot of fun to write, especially since it involved a chat with the lovely Paul Reiche. 3sxp.ghost.io/1988-the-gol...

3sxp.ghost.io/three-greate... "I have roughly 3k words written in response to this rather remarkable video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNie...) from Yahtzee & the Second Wind folk & it isn't done...now you understand my deep fear that I'm fundamentally unsuited to the current information age."

Dream Ghost More wavy wiggly lines to sooth the my mind. Inspired by the SF bay fog that washes over the landscape like waves in the night. I want to grow wings and surf the wind. I want to be a dream ghost. #art

I posted about this on mastodon years ago, but it bears repeating: if you care about artists, CREDIT their work when you use it. I saw this amazing infographic shared on facebook and its situation with credit tells a story that is critical context on AI art outrage today. (The artist is Ray Troll.)

IT'S JUNETEENTH! There is still so much fucking work to do in this country to clean up the blood it was built on and so many reparations owed. One of the small ways we can help is actively seeking out, hiring, supporting and buying from Black artists. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts. Depressing but compelling... Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together. scienceimpacts.org