Okay, for my trip to Japan I had the silly idea to try going to every station on a single train line. I picked the Abukuma Kyūkō line entirely arbitrarily, and now I'm here in Fukushima to start. The goal is to take a photo outside every station.

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

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we sneaking in to kill the shogun boys

I feel like we undervalue—well, probably not *hate,* which is having its moment in the sun in global politics—but *haterism* as a project. Haterism is the only tool available to people who want to engage seriously with “AI.” There is no compromise path. We can submit, or we can be haters.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

this is quintessential tourist shit but they have like 9 different ramen restaurants in this place so I think I might be in heaven

Something I'm finding super interesting about Tokyo is that the balance of technology to people seems very different. Sure a lot of restaurants have you order food with a machine, but everywhere you go there's a guy in a cute little uniform who's job it is to direct traffic or something.

I don't think this brand was designed by native English speakers

happy to say I was the biggest nerd on the flight

🫧 VALERIE 🫧 A 2D platforming adventure with bubbles, cats and forests. It's not made in a fancy engine, but I hope people find it charming. 👩‍👧 A story from two perspectives 🫧 Fluid platforming with bubbles, bouncing, boosting and slopes ✨ Cozy, light-hearted sprinkle of humour 😼 Cat #PitchYaGame

Once upon a desert sandy As through winds the trav'ling man he Spied the face of Ozymandy Lying, simply lying there Suddenly there was some writing Pon the plinth that he was sighting That the sand and time were blighting Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

The story of a game dev's most loyal asset... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #ValerieGame

New tag? 🤔

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

Our first episode of Dracula: 2004 is out now! Jonathan Harker, solicitor, arrives in Romania, listens to a voicemail from Mina, records his travel log, and meets his employer’s new client: Count Dracula. playlist.megaphone.fm?e=FAFO106879...

It's happening!! #ValerieGame #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev Find out more ⬇️ store.steampowered.com/app/3591070/...

Spoilers for Silksong Finally getting to the Citadel and seeing that it’s such a capitalistic hellhole that you have to pay to rent each use of a bench is a good use of narrative through game design

feeling like a hacker because I bought a custom domain name for my little podcast transcript project mbscripts.com

I’ve had a big surge of new people on here, so hi! I’m Delilah Byrne, an illustrator and Costumer from London. I make fantasy and historical work, all inspired by my Irish heritage and things I love.

omg the cogwork dancers is my favourite Skong boss fight. It's so beautiful and sad, but also so fun as a fight.

It's all holistic: Hornet's whole gameplay loop is much, much more aggressive in both directions. More enemies do 2 damage, but she heals 3 in the time it takes the Knight to heal 1.

the curse is broken!

Really the problem with the Silksong economy is that it's too easy to optimise the fun out of it. Just pick a bench with enemies in the next room and farm them until you have enough for whatever you want.

Wait... Moorwing was supposed to be difficult?

how to talk to short people

What a fab time at London Podcast Festival today, seeing amazing shows/people such as @camlannpod.bsky.social, @gabrielurbina.com and co for the Wolf 359 reunion, @atomcrowley.bsky.social and @woodenovercoats.bsky.social. It was so lovely to see everyone and talk about our favourite thing: podcasts!

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

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Teatime #206 has FINISHED! Noops wins his first ever Teatime in a Ganondorf-filled round robin! Rivals ends in a perfect three-way tie between all three entrants! VODs are one the DAT Team Twitch and YouTube channels. See you next week for Teatime #207! #WeAreMugs

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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some people said it took too long, but I for one think we should celebrate that they now allow non-men to be map men

not so much development hell as development heaven

2 minute countdown!

absolutely beautiful. I'm watching my sister (hi @fairyfinn.bsky.social) play this game at the moment and it's the closest thing to experiencing it all over again.

Here's a zoomer-friendly video about Valerie's bubbly platforming gameplay! Wishlist on Steam 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3568960/... #indiegame | #indiedev | #gamedev

Gonna start a list of evidence that the cost of generative AI is too high for any uses it might have. As I find articles I'll post them as a reply to this thread.

found some myself; www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-data-cen...

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre. #affordablehousingUK www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

Whether you like the sound of killing vampires to the tune of Toxic, hot nonbinary cowboys or train nerds with MySpace accounts, we've got you covered.

This fantastic poster for Dracula: 2004 was designed by Victor Jackson. Love vampires? Love 90s and 00s classics like The Mummy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Then you're going to love Dracula: 2004, a Y2K audio drama that takes Bram Stoker's famous gothic novel Dracula and works in some emo magic.

If LLMs had been invented 20 years ago we'd still be trying to get them to speak fluent XML instead of just inventing JSON, TOML, or YAML

People would rather use LLM black boxes to unpredictably unreliably spew boilerplate than design cleanly expressive programming languages which do not require such boilerplate.

@trashfuture.bsky.social they came! Gotta start practicing my explanation for the uncles one lol

the lift in my building should be more like super smash bros ultimate and let me buffer inputs. deeply annoying to have it ignore me pressing the close doors button because the doors are still opening. it should also be more like smash ultimate in that we're allowed to fight to the death in there

lets fucking go @deltavery.bsky.social (the game is peak btw 😌) deltavery.itch.io/one-week-to-...