Holy shit. This is awful. My xp is a little out of date, but every interaction I had with Id showed they were an absolutely superb team. Amazingly talented. What a phenomenal waste. Sometimes you hear about a shutdown and the internal murmur is, well, yeah. Not this one.

Two ICE agents showed up at a polling place to threaten a poll worker into taking down a social media post about the agent who shot Renée Good. If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post

One of the odd things about having gone into education and tech (games that sort of slid into tech) is how often I've had students seek me out specifically because of this. Smart enough to want wide options. Game dev skill is way more transferable than we often think.

I know it's trite to say Spirit Crossing is "inspired by studio ghibli" at this point but @danctheduck.bsky.social has been a strong advocate for "cozy contrast"; in order to feel warmth and safety, the cold, damp and scary must exist to ground it. #spiritcrossing #indiegames

Been waiting to see this hit daylight for so many years. <3 Feels like an escape to a better time.

Still have reservations about genAI images, but interesting stuff is happening with avatar applications. Awhile ago I wanted to study use of this for self image as self actualization for, for example, at-risk youth. Much to be done. www.facebook.com/derekmio/pos...

Bums me out a little that I think there's not much tech discourse on bsky -- but what there is seems quite high quality at a glance. Anyway, I think most folks seem to be missing the point of what Yegge is saying. AI adoption rate isn't really the interesting part. The suffocation of the valley is.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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Google hasn't been "measuring what matters" for awhile.

A little color therapy from Skagit Valley on Monday. #flowers #tulips #nature

Had a dream last night about making a game about what it's like to live with POTS. Protagonist is a fainting goat of course.

Wow, Bremerton!

Wife snapped a hell of a photo. #nokings from the Genesee overpass on i70 just west of #Denver.

The regime had no idea what it was going up against when Trump decided to invade Minnesota. #NoKings

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Stay woke! 🖖🏼

Well done bsky #NoKings

If you're going to the #NoKings protests tomorrow, show us your signs! 🪧 I'd like to see what everyone came up with, and I'm sure others would love it too! 💖 You can find a rally near you here: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Just wow. I guess this is all over now? Kickstarter advertised on FB, 99% AI. YouTube videos of "Karen", "Director of Music" at Columbia (an AI-generated dude), half-done website with AI-generated "team" (4 CEOs). $8k funded. Reported, but wow, @kickstarter.com . www.kickstarter.com/projects/xun...

It's a terrible idea but I respect it.

@shiftshapr.blacksky.app ought to be on Ghost :) but this is exciting work: open.substack.com/pub/gometa/p... When I say a golden age of the internet is still possible, this kind of thinking is what I mean. This is the work.

"This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters. You do not have to use a language model to let it organise your attention or distort your thinking."

I saw a fb post about some battle remains showing "50% of samurai were female" and thought it must be BS. It is, but it's not as far from the truth as one would think. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Horrendous.

Philip K. Dick would have used the shit out of Claude. Fight me. 3sxp.ghost.io/it-is-past-t...

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Quite impressive that Claude can do this so smoothly. Many kinds of thinking in one task. (Final result first, first request next followed by iterations.)

Timothee Chalamet thing keeps going; I think part of the reason is it touches on something fundamentally broken in our discourse -- 'who counts', confusing blockbuster status with success and engagement. The US ballet community pencils to 10 million people conservatively, yet this is "no one". 1/

Been waiting for someone to write a book like this. Glad to see it seems to have been done with love! Looking forward to reading.

"We are not in the post-truth era anymore. This is the “I want to believe” era, and anything that satisfies humans’ existing beliefs and desires will automatically get our brains’ stamp of approval, even after learning it is not real." www.fastcompany.com/91507096/jes...

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

Longtime Claude loyalists watching status.claude.com like (...congrats and godspeed to @anthropic.com team)

I have an essay in this! A ton of other great game writers do too!

Oh no. :( Best wishes to him.

Key for sure. I still think the design solutions are out there, but in effect require building a game around the LLM to contain it, which the player then interacts through. @flantz.bsky.social 's point about sim fallacy is the question - how you can build these constraints without descending into.

"You know what's fun? A stick. A stick is fun." @flantz.bsky.social More thoughts later but I can't not quote that. 1) fun and 2) financial sustainability have always been the core challenges in making games work. open.substack.com/pub/franklan...

One day the fever dream will be over, but not soon.

This is the way.

"There are many things to dislike about how it’s currently being developed, and valid reasons to dislike its very existence. But disliking something and ignoring it are different activities, and only one positions you to do anything about it." 🎯 www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

I feel like Spirit City is working in a genre that, at long last, is fulfilling the promise of MS Bob. 100% serious. Always felt there was something there. Adored my fishbowl & lava lamp. H/T @gamediscoverco.bsky.social for the callout in latest newsletter. store.steampowered.com/app/2113850/...

Hardly a prediction since it's so iron clad from history, but: all this "AI is eliminating entry positions": the epitome of foolishness. It is gen x's equivalent of "computers will never go anywhere". It's not AI eliminating those positions. It's 45yo bosses. & the kids will invent the future.

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

Does anyone know if she's (they're???) going to record this version of "Die with a Smile"? Can the internet please will that into being? #LadyGaga #BadBunny

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Apropos of nothing, did you know that the Fire Horse (火马) year in the Shengxiao is so feared that in 1966 it caused the birthrate in Japan to drop by 25%? This is because women born under the Fire Horse are thought to be "temperamental ... lethal threats to their fathers and husbands." 1/