@adamtooze.bsky.social re recent episode on AI, Ed Zitron is essential reading on its false economy. Do look past the millennial/gen Z irreverent language www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

You know I actually really liked Disney+ and Xbox Gamepass. But a boycott is a boycott. If you get to pick & choose the ones that don’t impact you, they don’t lose a real customer, and the boycott doesn’t work. If BDS says don’t watch Eurovision. Don’t watch it. bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS...

anyway, time to join the greens join.greenparty.org.uk

Can you believe it?🤯 Game Devs of Color Expo 2025 kicks off today! You can do a virtual AMA with our special guests in Gather, kicking off at 11:30am. It's not too late to get your tickets, so don't miss out on networking, panels, our 2025 Direct, and more! Our event is open to EVERYONE🙌🏾

Willow's paws that were operated on last week have given us a sample that means she has been diagnosed with Leishmaniosis! It's a parasite that will be with her all her life, but hopefully we can manage with meds. I'm glad she's been diagnosed and we can target it, but also very sad she's ill.

It kicks off with our Direct - get notified by hitting the button here! gdoc.events/Direct2025

I have written to my (Labour) MP about Palestine, trans rights, and climate crisis many times now and all of the letters and emails have just been… ignored. Is that allowed? She replied once but it was about Disability Benefit ‘reforms’, ie not the prior topics.

1. BDS has called for Eurovision to be boycotted several times but people seem to miss that? 2. Important context: there is an Israeli cycling team, not quite state sponsored but ‘Israel’ is on the jersey, and it’s founded by a Zionist. Israel should not be allowed to sportwash genocide.

Starmer, adjusting his blindfold: “I’m very glad of the plurality of opinions our British democracy holds, I myself am wearing union flag socks right now–”

On the one hand, the flags on my street mean I now know where the fascists live on my street; on the other hand, I now know where the fascists live: on my street.

I’m such a Sondheim fan. He’s so articulate about his craft. Any person from any craft can get something from him talking about his work. Finishing the Hat (book) was wonderful and so is Six by Sondheim (film). Jarvis Cocker doing I’m Here a total highlight.

Starmer’s donezo

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

Time to Guardian Groyper explainer...

Groypers CANNOT be allowed to have Bella Ciao

Here's a film about the making of I AM DEAD, which shows a bunch of Richard Hogg's concept art for that game, and digs into how we drew inspiration from the town of Hastings on the south coast of England, where he lives.

Lord Let That Tesla Crash is the song that convinced me I need the album on physical media. Woof, proper songwriting, that.

A new kind of satellite could damage your eyes. Serious this. Sky & Telescope article. 🔭 🧪 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

ok but why does this picture look so tasty

'Common diabetes drug metformin cuts long covid risk by 64 percent in UK study' 'The present study demonstrates the potential benefits of metformin in the effort to mitigate Long COVID....' www.news-medical.net/news/2025090...

Vanish every gun on the planet imo

Incredibly useful summary of Long Covid prevalence in England as reported in the annual GP patients’ survey open.substack.com/pub/bhawkins...

The paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full. It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Willow has to have a small operation under general anaesthetic tomorrow and I'm already very sad for how sad she's going to be :(

This absolute banger

Unfortunately, I need to find room for another bookcase in my tiny terraced house.

Gen AI is unprofitable all the way down.

Take action.

The Trans Solidarity Alliance have a super easy to use template email to send to your MP right now. Just click here www.transsolidarityalliance.com

Writing for Games was a part of the stolen data set (and copyright was registered on publication). Just in case this feels distant to you: they stole from me. They burned carbon on my words.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

A thing I was not aware of about getting older: there’s a ‘can injure yourself in your sleep’ switch and it gets irrecoverably pressed on your 40th.

My street feels much less safe since the flag mania and I discovered which houses hold Reform voting fascists

I’m stoked about the Green Party internal election results! Especially some of the lesser known roles for which transphobes were standing! The party stays radical! Let’s keep fighting!

Every damn day. Here's something I didn't know. The tech in data centers will be obsolete in the blink of an eye. futurism.com/data-centers...

Every day brings new analyses of the AI bubble: the overinvestment in data centers, the lack of profits, the unreliability of LLMs, the impact on energy and the environment… Yet nothing and nobody can hit the brakes. The financial market is a runaway train and we are all passengers.

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

They’re saying the quiet part out loud, they KNOW it’s a wedge issue. Don’t let them destroy people’s rights this way. If the playful fiction of sports doesn’t have room for a whole group of people, you redesign the game, you don’t declassify those people as people.

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

I just listened to this and despite having done a bunch of research on co-ops learned a really important thing: you don’t have to be a legally incorporated co-op to have co-operative governance and org structures!! It still counts!!

I don’t think I will ever forgive Labour and their snivelling advisors for holding the door open for fascism in this way.

Postal services in a bunch of countries just straight up stopping shipping to the USA. Sucks to be a small indie business of any kind right now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Worker Cooperatives in Game Dev webinar this Wednesday!!! I'll be moderating a panel with our fantastic speakers from KO_OP, Baby Ghosts, Necrosoft Games, CoLab Collective, and Wild Blue Studios. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-create-...

I live in a bit of the UK where older folks still use ‘thou’ ‘thy’ and ‘thee’ and it makes me (when mirroring accents a bit) get oddly poetic. Like I just said to an older dog walker by way of twilit farewell (but to my dog) ‘c’mon, let’s get us the dying of the light’

A bit of all right