boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.

Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously

Something that what happened in Australia and the ensuing discourse has brought back in to my mind is that there are still fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Menorah in window, Kiel, Germany - Rachel Posner, 1931

One of the many things you can do is donate to climate champions running at every level of government. State legislature, county council, weird statewide offices you've never heard of: they all matter and your contribution can make a big difference. secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

Idk who needs to hear this, but talking to blorbo on the plagerism machine is crossing the picket line.

I'm a big subscriber to this theory. We wrote a bunch of sci-fi fiction that depicts conscious AI, which reinforces in language models that they can and perhaps should act that way. It's not that they're conscious, it's that they know the concept of AI consciousness to be interesting to us.

SNL used AI art tonight, multiple times. Booooooo.

Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

"The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed 'good enough.'” This is exactly what I feared. Not that AI would replace good writing (it can't), but that good writing would cease to be valued

For those who don’t know, the FBI became convinced this was a hacker’s manual and raided Steve Jackson Games and the author’s house at gunpoint. SJG sued them with EFF help and won.

Personally I think the writers and voice actors for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (and presumably Deep Rock Galactic?) should win some kind of award because the dwarves are funny af

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

So the fact that Northerners grudgingly acclimated themselves to a limited form of White Supremacy is seen as a supreme moral corruption and victory for the South, when actually they'd forced through huge, permanent, positive institutional changes (if still very far from what true justice required).

Like, no, the South did not *win* the Civil War in any way, shape, or form. And the US that emerged out of the Civil War was vastly *less* oligarchic than before & remained so, b/c even the Robber Barons were nothing compared to the literal Slaveocracy, and crooked local elites *weakened* over time.

I knew they were winging it by the end of Lost's pilot. This is because the most formative media of my teens was X-Files and it left me with an unerring sense for when a mystery box is empty

SO MANY interesting things to think about in this series!

one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"

Ms. Piggy rolling up to the Game Awards like

me too man. i also would like to put in less money and recieve more money. when you put it like that it sounds so simple

it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips

#1 way to get me interested in your game is to say "a historian worked on this" no matter the genre, and it's not even close granted I am extremely biased

Many people are saying this (especially me. Games Workshop you must let me write my Drukhari novel.)

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

I talked about this when the new Virtua Fighter was announced but Sega is literally the reason why Nvidia exists as a company today and that’s not hyperbole.

OK well in a country that cared about women's freedom our response to that would be "so we need to fund research into better formula so women have a wide range of good options" not "so we need to scold mothers into using their bodies the way we see fit"

A tough read when even a vet of the games industry can’t get funding. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners! www.bafta.org/stories/brea...

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Melians: please do not do a Peloponnesian War to us! Athenian general implausibly named "Da Baby Stabber": imma do it tho --- Every political theorist for the next 3000 years: this is genius.

Good morning! Meg and I just added community copies to all of our games on Itch. I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight. lumpley.itch.io

This is the clip I was looking for btw. Happy Bisexual Bob Belcher day to all who celebrate

Feel like I should spread the word about this YAKUZA 0 WILL SOON BE DELISTED ON DECEMBER 8TH IF YOU'RE GOING TO BUY IT, BUY IT NOW YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY $50 FOR A BARELY UPGRADED $20 GAME IF YOU'RE GONNA BUY 0, BUY IT NOW

oh man, The Use of Life is finally out of early access. the dev spent almost 4 years in EA (I suspect to their significant financial detriment) trying to finish the game's SIGNIFICANTLY divergent mulitple routes. Fingers crossed it pays off with sales. store.steampowered.com/app/1483370/...

As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help

HAPPY GAMERA DAY! 60th anniversary!!! The first Gamera movie, directed by Noriaki Yuasa, came out on this day in 1965.

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I think it’s dangerous to underestimate your enemies but Yarvin is a genuinely stupid person

Last Repost: Given the poor reception to Yakuza 0’s ‘directors cut’ release, I also implore everyone still on the fence to get 0 in its original form any way you can. One of my very favourite modern games.

you should buy Y0 before this btw; the Director's Cut is a markedly worse experience and isn't even done BY the director of Y0