Games can be joyful and relaxing. And they can tell graceful stories about uncomfortable futures. In "a permanent echo", we invite you to work through the question of who is to blame for what's to come. ✨Wishlist: s.team/a/3727200 #indiegames #PitchYaGame

While you were partying, I studied the art of the thumbnail.

The Italian Backrooms

📢Future? No Thanks! DEMO OUT NOW ON STEAM! Try the game for 30 minutes! An ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times. For Windows and Mac store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...

I liked - didn't quite love - Backrooms. Impressive debut, probably the best possible adaptation of a trite meme. Here's @ellaguro.bsky.social making some interesting connections: the modernist malaise of Antonioni, vaporwave, backroom as allegory of mediocrity etc. aftermath.site/backrooms-mo...

I’m super excited to see what my American game dev friends have been making, while American bombs did this to my neighbourhood

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What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

I implemented the most important feature of a GTA-like game: BUMPING INTO PEDESTRIANS

Submission form is now open for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2! Learn more and submit your game at www.gamepoems.com/submit Submission deadline is July 1, but early submissions are welcome. Thinking of submitting something, but haven't started yet? No worries, you've still got a whole month. :-)

The tech overlords are coming for your retirement savings (if you have any). When I realized I had more money invested in the AI bubble through my 401k than I had in my bank account, I shifted it out of tech and US funds.

The good news is that Future? No Thanks! runs perfectly on Steam Deck. The bad news:

im back store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

Never heard of him but hell yeah! The ultimate indie role model

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

TETRISES - unstable stacks for unstable times Friday June 5th, 2026 7-11PM LIKELIKE, Pittsburgh, PA likelike.org

Game idea: you are a shopkeeper manager during the California Gold Rush. Thinking about this for no particular reason.

POPE LEO, EXCOMMUNICATE THEM!

"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles." read theory damn it www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...

The Feed Is Fake. An engrossing article on today’s online marketing: clippers, manufactured controversies, algorithmic manipulation, and the inevitable erosion of trust in social media. www.msn.com/en-us/music/...

I keep seeing these articles about tech bros being 900x more productive and addicted to agentic AI but they’re all very vague about what they’re actually "building". Has there been an explosion of amazing apps in the last 9 months? (if anything I’m noticing more glitches in Windows, Photoshop etc)

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

good writing harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/m...

Wife just texted this from Home Depot. The new industrial revolution is going great.

Talks are starting in less than 20 seconds! Here is an updated stream link www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFF9...

Why is it rendered like an indie game?

Future? No Thanks! is part of the legendary Leftfield Collection and it's currently playable at the MCM Comic Con in London! 📅 22 - 24 May 2026 📍ExCeL, London #MCM #leftfield #EGX www.mcmcomiccon.com

So many people don't know Vampire Survivors was made by an Italian developer. Vampire Survivors is truly the Blue (Da Ba Dee) of video games.

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

I (sort of) finished Titanium Court, an absurdist match 3 / auto-RTS roguelike / nightmare tutorial. It's the perfect combination of familiar and unfamiliar, casual and cryptic. It has compelling mechanics, way-too-talkative NPCs, surprises, and SECRETS. Get it!

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Infomaniak, Molleindustria's hosting company, is now majority controlled by a Swiss public-interest foundation to preserve its independence from investors. This is the kind CEO newsletter I like to receive. news.infomaniak.com/en/infomania...

I was honored to read the graduates' names at CMU's School of Art ceremony this year. I mispronounced a few, which is bad, but not as bad as outsourcing it to an uncanny AI voice that randomly skips students. www.azfamily.com/2026/05/19/a...

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

The children yearn for simulacra of manual labor

I have a list of 100+ movies simply titled "WTF" that I forgot to make public. Until now! We are witnessing a renaissance of WTF cinema but let's not forget the WTF classics from the '60s and '70s letterboxd.com/molleindustr...

I'm loving Sol Cesto! Great style, great math, great progression. A definite standout in a crowded genre.

I’m gonna print this out real big and play the most cursed game of Twister

Looking at two new AI tools Unbound io doing SDF blobs > AI image > Mesh and World Lab's open source engine doing image > full environment (meshes, physics, lighting, audio) I think soon we won't be able to tell when 3D assets are AI-generated...

We are hiring freelance QA/playtesters for Future? No Thanks! Some experience required but our standards are *low*. DM or email me.

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

I’m still thinking about Perfect Tides: Station to Station. It’s a beautiful point-and-click adventure with brilliant writing and lively, complex characters. It’s a coming-of-age story set in 2003 NYC, that doesn't lean on nostalgia. It’s disarmingly mundane and earnest. kotaku.com/perfect-tide...

Imagine the kind of verifiably genocidal shit they were doing to get fired by *Microsoft* and have the entire Israel division shut down. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Less coming-of-age stories! More COMING-OF-DEATH stories! futurenothanks.com

A nightmare feature from the frontlines of the knowledge economy. Now that AI has modeled the fundamentals, brutal Mechanical Turk–type gigs are for elite college graduates with taste, expertise, and critical thinking skills. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

Skills-based hiring may already be waning. Turns out the college-as-filter system was working pretty well for corporate America. Congratulations, graduating class of 2026! fortune.com/article/why-...

I was digging in my garden and I unearthed this bizarre artifact. Does anybody know what it is?