Why can't "station wagons" be a job?

I couldn't find the original post by @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social but hard agree with this point. This was my message in my GDC song in 2023: "Without a soul and heart can a machine really make art? Or have we set the bar so low we can't tell the two apart?"

People reporting that the #videogames industry is having enormous success and laying people off anyway really need to learn the difference between revenue and profit.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

Check out the Kickstarter for my new short film 😁. THE TURNERS is an animated short film about a couple of retired outlaws returning to a life they left in the past, rebuilding love. We appreciate you supporting Indie Animation! Check the 🔥 cast we have as well! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fra...

The real reason I'm not at #GDC this year is is that my "I'M NOT HIRING" and "DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT AI" T-shirts didn't show up soon enough. Have fun, kids!

If you charge money for a sticker, the back should be cut and peel off easily. Cheaply made stickers are fine but if I have to use my thumbnail to promote your company on my guitar case, it should be free.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Here is the 2025 bingo card. Not a very joyous one again.

Reading about flops and shutdowns, have people just moved on from AAA outside the forever #videogames? And if so, do you think it's because the competition for attention got better, the offerings got creatively stale or the cash grabs became too obvious? #gamedev #gamers

My Linux journey is going the way Windows people would expect it to go. I installed Linux Mint on two machines. They work. Whatever the substitute for "click an .exe" is has 6 steps that don't work. I've been stuck in multiple, endless loops. This feels like the smug IT guy of operating systems.

I'm going to need to see a lot publicly outed, elite pedophiles go to jail for life before any government official says one more fucking word about "age verification."

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

If you care about elections @taniel.bsky.social is an invaluable follow. Hopefully he'll be reporting a lot of good news tomorrow.

I'm slightly tired... #IndieGameDev

If any 2d animators are out there looking for some immediate paid work, I’ve got something short and fun for you on a live-action short film about kids with disabilities in a hospital. DM me with your reel/work if you’re interested.

Here's a business idea: make a Linux Distro called "BINDOWS 7." Make the user experience EXACTLY like Windows 7, with Linux under the hood. Don't force the user to make any more decisions than Windows 7 did. Charge a one-time $200 a copy like Windows did for 30 years.

I'm setting up a spare PC with Linux because I'm so tired of Windows bloat/spyware. Following a guide that suggests Mint as "easy to adopt from Windows." Step One: "which version of Mint do you want?" 😑 Why tf would I know that? I just want Windows 7. #OpenSource drives me fn crazy.

As a station wagon owner who just drove over 2000 miles in a sedan, I'd like to reiterate that trunks are bullshit.

You don't have to be in Oklahoma long before the whole "red dirt" thing makes sense.

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Hey gang! Are there any Melbourne/Victoria-based 3D modellers looking for short contract work right now? Summerfall is currently on the lookout for contractors to do hard-surface environment work for a new prototype, like furniture and all that. 🔨🪑 Send through portfolios! 🙂 Cheers!

So, what's the Signal version of Discord?

I am from Seattle so I guess I hope they win

This is the 3rd or 4th time I've uninstalled this fucking AI malware.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Late-Stage Silicon Valley: 1. Come up with some broad new alpha-stage tech 2. Invent non-problems for the tech to “fix” 3. Show investors a fake demo to sell them on promises of cutting human labor 4. Shove the untested tech into places consumers don’t want it 5. A few fatalities 🤷‍♂️ 6. Profit?

Frequent travel is a good way to expose how dumb "smart things" really are. Languages switch the moment you cross a border, online orders try to hijack to your old address. It's all so delicate.

The enshittification continues. Using Facebook from a PC, I can no longer message people until I install their app. "For security!"

Whenever you're feeling down about your life, remember that the richest man in the world is a ***total fucking loser.***

Reminder here’s some adobe alternatives, Because FUCK ADOBE….

In case you missed yesterday, Notepad++ auto-update mechanism was hacked and was delivering backdoored versions for a couple months. Tons of devs use this, uninstall completely what you have, search for the sus files mentioned in article and only download from official site

for anyone who hasn't heard of photopea it's nearly feature for feature photoshop in browser, free if you don't mind ads on the side, efficient enough it's even usable in a smartphone browser for making trash meme edits. I stopped recommending GIMP when I saw it bounced so many people into photoshop

Ok, timeline cleanser. Show me your teen celebrity crushes in gifs.

I know this is an editor a lot of #gamedev uses :/

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Fun thing about getting older and visiting friends with dogs is finding new long, scraggly hairs on you and praying that they are not attached.

Sitting in my friend's studio as he mixes @latienie.bsky.social and I singing "One Keyframe at a time" which we wrote in 2019, I'm noticing a lot of hints about the unsustainability of AAA we wrote about years before the whole thing started to buckle.

I wasn't on the "Aronofsky sucks" train until a few hours ago but choo choo. This is trash. Like, is there a hack TikToker with Nano Banana who happens to share the same name with the guy who made "Requiem of a Dream?" Or did Google just pay enough to cover any reputation, integrity or legacy?

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

I'm convinced the "Stop being mean to my AI tech" is a very thinly veiled "You peasants are too fucking stupid to understand the value of AI, and if you would just shut up and listen to what I'm telling you, you would adopt my tech and become depenent on AI the way I have. Stop being mean to me!"

Dudes Rock

Hey NRA, are you good with this? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

As I travel from freezing Berlin to incoming snowpocalypse North Carolina, I dream of California and the Mediterranean and think how many people in the world don't realize it is possible to live in places that entirely skip the misery of winter. The only ice I want is the ice in my cocktails.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our tech society." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...