In addition to being great factual reporting, this does a really good job of disambiguating all the things that get hustled in under the header of "AI," and the various sociotechnical and historical points at which that term has been used to mean those different things.

My latest:

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*bewilderedly* Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone? *with growing ire* It has to be made, like bread?? *shaking with indignation* Remade all the time??? Made new?!

it just occurred to me that for the first time in 25 years, the marathon story page is updating with new lore in real time

Kai Ryssdal, your demeanor has been judged insufficiently morose for the times. You must undergo the American Public Media mandated training HR 201 titled 'The Great Sickness That Is Mirrored Inside and Out'

In 2031 I will accidentally go viral for a dance that is just me sandwalking out of rhythm to stymie the prediction markets that have monetized my every step. It will have 1,500,000,000 views on trilobi.te

since we’re talking about Hugo nominations: I don’t think Expedition 33 needs help to make it onto the ballots (but try it if you haven’t), but I want to suggest two indie detective games with a fantasy/supernatural bent that you can finish in a few hours: Type Help (free!) & Seance of Blake Manor

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

Possession (Żuławski, 1981) is nine-tenths of the law

Wile E. Coyote possesses the technical virtuosity to shape the world, but lacks the wisdom to know that he must be reshaped with it

yooo, #1 new release in game programming!

they got me

dream gig

Magic can be counterintuitive. Summoning a white rabbit is trivial, the "hello world" of thaumaturgy. Summoning a black rabbit is unsolved

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

Huh, Meredith's post made me realize that I'm so unconsciously cynical of GDC and events at its scale that I didn't even consider they might be welcoming to kids

Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past

In your time on this earth you will chance upon works of art. And for some, you'll conclude with desperate rationale that they are the mere capstones of creative lineages unbeknown to you. The alternative explanation—that someone invented them from whole cloth—your ego as an artist will not permit

fuckin shoutout to @apthomson.bsky.social for using his grand prize speech for this www.twitch.tv/gdcfestivalo...

Winner for Excellence in Narrative – Perfect Tides: Station to Station | Developer – Three Bees | Publisher - Three Bees #IGF2026

Hey y'all! I'm the community/marketing manager at Kitfox Games. I yell about cool games like Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Streets of Fortuna, Ostranauts, Thousand Hells (and more!) #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

I'll be skulking around GDC on a lite schedule so if you wanna say hi make it a quest to come find me

Why are the Beach Boys so invested in getting me to surf? What's going on there?

The secret to a balanced dev team is combining someone who doesn't play videogames because they don't like videogames and someone who does play videogames because they don't like videogames

“Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences” is a genuinely stunning statement given current events both at home and abroad

[inside an NoA conference room]: "Sarah you can't out and ask if the whole polycule is playing this freak ass game. Rephrase"

More wok i did for Where the Water Tastes like Wine. 2015-2018

If you do this near me I'm joining the phone call. And I'm going to pretend to be Kendall Roy

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6! Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future. PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6! s.team/a/3350750

NED STARK: I looked for you on the Trident. SER GEROLD: we weren't there lmao NED STARK: When King's Landing fell, Ser Jaime slew your king with a golden sword, and I wondered where you were. SER ARTHUR DAYNE: haha

This is in 2 hours!

This of course means there were people betting on the likelihood of an Iran strike *without* inside knowledge. aka the biggest marks on planet Earth

What if we "bundled" a bunch of polymarket bets into some kind of investment instrument....

🙅🙅 "pre-emptive strikes" 🙅🙅 "reckless pursuit of regime change" 👉👉 "murderous nihilist god-fantasy that threatens all life on Earth and must be met as such"

they should invent a language where the words cannot be freely combined

The Secretary of "War" tweeting about the "sanctimonious rhetoric of 'effective altruism'" is giving me vertigo

on Monday morning we try to infect the brains of more Switch users and pull them into the fever dream of a 1980s Unix lab at UC Santa Cruz

𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱

Is there a ttrpg rulebook that's structured as the Torah+Talmud?

hey this is legitimately terrifying and if you're not paying attention to this you need to be right now

Chinese gamer banter is on a level we can't even hope to compete with

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

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Even after eons pass. "Strange tubes" under a starry sky #CavesOfQud #pixelart #fanart #pixel_dailies #foldingchair

Gavin Newsom & the New York Times are doggedly working to strip rights and human recognition from transfolk, while insisting anyone who *doesn't* share their obsession is obsessed with "pronouns". Trust no one who claims to oppose Trump while taking delight in bullying the same people Trump bullies.

Yeah hi I'll have a burrito con carne but please don't make it

This was such a joyful and thought-provoking discussion. I need to be airdropped into a room of medievalists more often