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A group document came out, and I included this originally to defend myself. However, some authors did not get consent for their screenshots. Still, I have been the target of damaging, exaggerated rumors, so I am reposting my portion as a standalone document. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

They removed it from this tab. Meaning it shouldn't have been there to begin with. Time to dig.

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

"we need to change ourselves to allow big money tech that doesn't work at all to rehabilitate its image" why tho

"Banishing the slur from public discourse was important...We need to rebuild a society where people who say terrible things experience negative consequences." @lollardfish.bsky.social, father of a son with Down syndrome, calls to our better angels. We can do this. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

So… these "questions of accuracy" were always going to happen once the Washington Post chose to make "Personalized AI Podcast" bullshit, bc statistically generative sycophantic bullshit engines are not, & frankly cannot be about "accuracy." You know that, right NPR? Please say you know that by now…

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

Dear god. That’s utterly fuckin horrific. This shit is why we have a Disability Day of Mourning, because a lot of abled people think it’s “undignified” to be sick.

A NEW BC Supreme Court judgment just dropped granting the petition of Health Authority to prevent a husband who is a strong pro MAiD advocate from killing his wife - a plan he called 'dignicide.' www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2...

Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.

JK Rowling is destroying children's lives. Stop buying her shit, watching her shows, playing her games. You're funding her hate campaign. Move on.

Vibing at night.

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

"Don't worry we're only using the statistical-average plagiarism machine for the basis of everything, the core set of ideas that inform everything that comes after. Yeah we're only going to strip the soul and humanity out of that one part."

"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip

Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design. When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI.

i understand that these corporations are beloved by many, but as soon as you start defending their use of AI, even if it's "a little bit", i need you to understand that you are being used as a corporate tool to normalize AI. reject it with all your might. corporations arent your friend.

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

Making a declaration that you think AI is normal, cutting edge or integral to the future of all creative endeavors has exactly the same energy as when a Looney Tune gets so cranked up they jump in their own trap to prove that they work. The rest of us are Bugs Bunny watching you do this to yourself.

Y'all gonna start acknowledging the parallels yet? Y'all gonna start defending art, intimacy, and sex as basic human expressions? Y'all gonna start realizing that these deranged puritans don't have an ounce of goodwill in their bodies and literally just want to control every aspect of our lives?

As with trans people, DEI, gay marriage, immigrants and Islam, the right is obsessed with cataloging imagined societal harms from porn. Which I suspect means them obsessing about it. Anyway, nice to see them shout out the free speech demons fighting censorship at @fsc.bsky.social.

Heritage Foundation, backers of Project 2025, have issued a call to criminalize porn by detailing specific types of imagery that should be illegal, including "deviate sexual intercourse," "female genitals," and "nudity." Only "civilizing" images that point to "marital sex" should be allowed.

This is why ID verification laws are bad. No website can truly have the security it needs to keep ANY information safe. Not a single one.

Btw, did you know the internet is full of very good research tools? For example, here's a really good online museum collection to use as reference:

We are still recruiting game makers who had games posted to Steam or itch.io in July 2025 for a survey on the impacts of NSFW policy changes. More info on the project website. You can also always email me (via the website or through the email on the USask website) for info or with questions.

"Mild" autism does not exist: "No one I know lives the life I live outside of work in order to cope with the demands of the job, and yet it seems that, surrounded by health professionals, not one of them knows what autism looks like outside of Rain Man." autistwriter.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/b...

Parents who refuse to listen to autistic people are like the American tourists who don’t bother to learn words in local languages, but think they can be better understood if they just talk louder—and then get upset when the situation doesn’t improve. #autism #neurodiversity #parenting

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

Anyway sorry if you’re a Larian dev and have to deal with your CEO publicly saying you’re cool with AI use, I’d be losing my damn mind

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

Regarding last repost: I no longer have interest in seeing what Larian has on store for the new Divinity game.

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

Let me help here. If most AI projects lose money, someone has to pay for them. Hence: cost cutting. So, actually, you can blame AI. But not for the usual reason claimed. AI is not replacing humans, it is replacing profits. And without profits, you can’t employ humans. medium.com/@mattlar.jar...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor. A belief in biodestiny, in short.

It's bizarre to me the number of TERF folks who don't know that the most photographed book burning by Nazis? Was an attack on the Institute of Sexology, the world's first clinic on transgender research and treatments. That's your precursor. Your likeminded peers. Your coalition. Your people. 🤷🏾‍♂️

The #Bondi shooting does *not* prove gun control doesn't work. It was the first mass shooting in Australia in 30 yrs! The guns used were legally obtained & the Aus Gvt are responding, immediately, by tabling plans to tighten controls further. Not thoughts and prayers & bulletproof backpacks. Action.

every trans person around me who's had something to say about this is saying "please stop playing this. this hurts us. this feeds the machine that's killing us." and if i don't listen to that, what the hell does that make me

You playing the game but bullying HP players is still *you playing the game*. If you're buying cosmetics, you're putting money into a game that just decided to buddy up with the world's biggest transphobe who has said she views support for Harry Potter as approval for her actions. Just stop.

Hey everyone going WELL TIME TO PLAY MORE FORTNITE TO HUNT DOWN PEOPLE WEARING HARRY POTTER STUFF No. Stop playing Fortnite. They're partnering with Rowling and Harry Potter in 2025, with full knowledge of what that decision means. Stop supporting them. Stop playing the game.

We should do the same here. It’s not worth bending reality to suit these cunts. It won’t make the world nicer.