I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

Every live service game is a single lottery ticket, sold to investors, that costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and many years of labour to print

I enabled the new version of the budget section on OpenCollective for @conjured.ink and I really dig this. It's really nice to do our finances out in the open, and I'm really proud that even with our limited finances, our priority has been to fund creatives first. opencollective.com/conjured-ink

Nobody should be allowed to ask me work questions on slack before nine, especially not if you “@“ me, ESPECIALLY NOT IF THERE ARE MULTIPLE IN ONE MESSAGE AND THEY’RE BOTH “Did you do this thing you were meant to do, but I can see that you didn’t so I’m just going to publicly shame you about it”

Sooo necessary!!👏🏾 @alexhanna.bsky.social, @schock.cc, Veronyka Gimenes, Dia Kayyali + Elijah MacKinnon🤌🏾

motion to abolish "thought leadership" along with its beloved ChatGPT and co

Finally someone is saying that more impacts youth wellbeing than phones I always say that young people will rebel very soon when they discover the phone bans and age verification didn’t stop their data being taken

"It is easier for a trans woman to imagine herself a frankensteined agglomeration of machinery and flesh that a corporation has invested too much money in as equipment to let die, than to imagine another human showing her kindness and care for her wellbeing."

‘others taking care of you’ so far-fetched to trans women we spin crazy sci-fi scenarios to make it seem plausible

In monstrous uk, it is your right to hate any minority and express it

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men. This will be used to abuse.

Surprise #MozFest panel -- we're having a session on the main stage called "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" at 12:15 PM CET, right after @xychelsea.tv's talk. Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself. www.mozillafestival.org/en/

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

The Funko Pop economy is dying repost to make it die faster

I really hope that it gets on some school curriculum lists for literature in the next few years, I can’t think of a better bit of fiction to capture the sentiment of the last five years.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Grateful to say: I've returned to Blackbird Interactive for the next step of Hardspace! Shipbreaker is about the place of labor in our society. I think it's important to make media that examine that, and possibly imagines a better future. Plus, blowing stuff up might be cathartic for all of us....

The problem with “AI Art” discourse is that you have to define what art is, which is a famously terrible thing to have to do, whatever you’re definition, you’re going to leave something on the table as something you see as being ok for AI to create, which, just, no.

exhuming mary wollstonecraft shelley to take her to task for her failures of feminism

RIP James Watson, co-discoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notes

We have taken products off the market for being far less dangerous. We also have a clear signal that all the money we’re dumping into AI could be better spent addressing a serious mental health crisis.

Four is my beautiful column, and to the extent that I would call games writing “important” this is that. My interview with Remy Siu about Sunset Visitor, 1000xResist, and the pandemic:

I realized today it’s been 5 years since I started freelance writing! Here are my 5 current favorite pieces I’ve written to celebrate. One, my retrospective on Pyre from when I wrote at Paste Games (now endless mode)

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Pluribus is pretty rad. Slight 1000xResist vibes if the keepers were... a bit more social lol

Never hide behind a ghost during snowball matches. They're terrible shields #art

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

Community is great and all, but we shouldn’t need to rely on community to be affirmed, we should be able to engage with society at large and be normalised, we deserve to thrive, I get the dark forest method, and it’s great if it works…

Did you enjoy Blue Prince? Do you feel like being a genuine hero? Iggy, one of the lead playtesters for Blue Prince, needs a kidney. Reposting for reach is a great way to help - or, could that be you? Who knows what magic the internet is capable of ✨ Let's try to help connect the dots here!

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

spotify is prime boycott material because not only are they completely nonessential but the service they offer (primarily music) is better approached any other way, not only is cutting them out of your life is easy, but it means supporting artists and having more control over your library

real sign of the times that an oil fund has to suspend its ethics rules to hold tech company stocks

Vince Gilligan is basically just making his take on the last two episodes of EVA and oh god it’s good.

1st up on Queer As…a podcast is Wiradjuri poet, writer, filmmaker, amazing queer and genius thinker, Jazz Money! queer-as.org/a-podcast/ja...

People might think “Andy can be a real arsehole about AI” but I’m not being enough of an arsehole about it. The hatred runs deep, specifically because of stuff like this.

there aren't actually a lot of kinds of tech I think clearly merit a blanket ban. But facial recognition and LLMs are on the list. (I am not asking to be persuaded. please do not attempt it)

There is some smart analysis in the UK and US Guardians on Mamdani but here we get takes from guys who spend their careers trying to elect our version of Cuomo.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

square trying to cut its QA and loc teams to the bone for a great AI pivot is absolutely crazy your entire thing is prestiege narrative jrpgs distributed worldwide

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

a four year old who hates homework: