And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/). It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.

Some beautiful background artwork and narration for your enjoyment; www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwM...

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

This is so fucking cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zozE...

This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this. What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.

a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

Oh very immediately deleting my account and data from intuit/turbotax ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-sup...

You should definitely not put your TAX INFORMATION into an LLM.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Another silver lining to self-hosting is none of my services (like music streaming) go down when cloudlfare or aws east-1 go down :P

It really should be easy for a video game studio CEO to have faith in their team, which has been making games very successfully with real human artists until now. Looking at your own success and deciding to "wait out the courts" on using LLM theft is wild behavior and so disrespectful to your devs

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

i spoke to the folks behind the project to bring concord back to life about why they're doing it

As a reminder, there is no legislative backing to this. Exact change is still required. It's just that everyone will be struggling to find enough pennies to do it correctly. And we'll all have to muddle through haphazardly.

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

“Travelers and anyone else who was at the airport’s terminals A and B between 8:50 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health”

I feel like devs and CEOs need to accept that a consequence of using gen AI is that a lot of people won’t like it. That’s just the case as it is and the risks you take

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him And they should, given this is his fault.

Not a single senate Democrat should be politically safe from this day forward. Not one

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

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Genuinely, stop giving FNAF promo. He still gets paid from it all. It's his IP. Y'all talk about dropping HP but can't drop FNAF?

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

I don't drink coffee so not crossing this picket line won't be difficult for me, but the rest of you should probably be prepared to caffeinate in an alternate fashion

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

i appreciate the call out on JKR, just want to add that the problem isn't just that she's transphobic and has made transphobic remarks publicly - she has confirmed that she uses the money from HP to give to organizations that take material actions to see trans genocide carried out in the UK.

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

With October coming to a close things really escallated quickly. We now know of so many games industry layoff waves in 2025 that we're only one short of matching 2024, and we have two months still to go.

Exciting news, everyone! As Conjured Ink nears its first beta, we'd like to share with you our roadmap of updates for the next two quarters. These quality of life and system changes will help pave the way for what we hope to become: a home for your incredible works! Thank you!

I love Thompson's response (though I recommend turning this crap off as I have done) but whenever someone brings up the slop machine or calls it a revolution as Colbert does here, replying with "oh, the thing that convinces kids to kill themselves" is also an appropriate response.

yeah so. Conjured is working to become an actual co-op, and that involves funding. VC and other such investment money is out of the question. That means the main option is the support of folks like you who believe in the vision and the possibility of having a real alternative system for creatives.

get in everybody let's unfuck google drive by shooting gemini drive.google.com/drive/u/0/se... (if you're signed into google this goes right to settings. may go without saying, but if you're not already signed in and see a login please don't enter a password into a link you click on social media 😂)

idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple

When developers get the lion's share of a video game's profits and not executives and shareholders, then we can talk about raising the price of games. But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.

what's in the video

Everyone who worked on a video game needs to be in the credits: aftermath.site/video-game-cre...

Microsoft are so bad at marketing man. What do you MEAN a new double fine game is out and this is the first I've heard of it

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

stating the obvious but if the democrats damaged the white house to build a gaudy oligarch dance room (in the middle of a government shutdown hurting people's livelihoods, no less) it would be a two month relentless news cycle this story won't survive past Tuesday afternoon

This is the longest I've spent on any single project in my life! Please remind your friends that Isopod is coming out tomorrow!

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