PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Mina the Hollower is good

Rockstar management fired 30+ people to try to prevent this and still failed.

“Uh-oh, Lenny … it’s the slimelord.”

Actual single-player triple-a games. New Michael Brough games. Unaffordable hardware. Videogames are so back.

If you have never played a Michael Brough game I strongly encourage you to do so.

This kind of shit talking only works when you can walk the walk to back it up and Tim Sweeney just fired 1000 people because his infinite money printer isn't growing as fast as he wants it to.

oh yeah and this is important: before you do anything else, arguably before you even finish reading this, i personally believe you should drop what you’re doing and go buy 868-BACK, an instant classic videogame full of thrills and brilliant jokes, now available store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

An aside, but I've been thinking a lot about how every previous television I've bought in my life was because I could afford a better and bigger television, but the next one I buy will be because my current one is actually a shitty Android computer that will one day just decide to stop working.

Average Australian indie dev

At last, as of today our new book is officially available in the US as well!

If you just woke up from a coma and saw this headline from @news.abc.net.au, you’d never guess which of these counties was blockading the other without justification.

At last, as of today our new book is officially available in the US as well!

Just for public awareness that if you are still using the extensively enshittified Doodle for your availability polls, please swap over to when2meet.

"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art

What's the best explainer of the whole Disco Elysium and ZA/UM saga that won't require me to watch a video?

#OtD 24 May 1955 In our earliest entry: workers at Nintendo went on hunger strike to try to prevent factories being shut down and moved to another city! https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/1955-05-nintendo-workers-hunger-strike-to-stop-factory-relocation

You could write a cool kind of media history where different IP characters appearing in Fortnite etc. is a continuation and industrialisation of a much older practice of modders putting different characters in commercial games over 20 years ago.

Deeply disrespectful to the entire Australian cultural sector that the Office of the Arts can't be bothered actually reading all the submissions people are working very hard on for the National Cultural Policy, and instead will be asking genAI for a summary. www.arts.gov.au/have-your-sa...

illustration, login, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/logi...

fanart (1992) archive.org/details/nfor...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Making slight changes to tax settings (especially half-assed tinkering by grandfathering things) is not going to resolve our housing crisis. The market will not adequately create or distribute the things we need to survive.

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Disgusting and abhorrent attack on academic freedom. Add it to the pile of evidence that Labor are just as conservative and destructive as the Liberal party for this country.

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

It's not the intended point but the "Could AI bring investors back" story here nicely captures how late 2010s game industry growth was driven by investors thinking games was a good place to buy lottery tickets, and the crash by them no longer thinking that. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/could-ai-b...

The best reviewed game of the year is on the BDS list bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

I wrote a post earlier today that got a heap of reposts and zero quote-posts, which means I crafted the perfect joke.

This really is tremendous leadership from Freeplay, and the kind of thing that has been glaringly missing from the games sector. This stuff is really important, so games people, do not let this moment go to waste.

Do you love spreadsheets but wish they simply didn't work? Well good news, here at Microsoft we have created Power BI and we will be selling it to your employer for an absurd amount of money.

Scientists anticipate we will hit the Intellectual Property Singularity by approximately 2032, at which point the one content available to the masses will be a single grey cube owned by Disney.

This Labor government has kept in place the Liberal’s uni fee hikes for four years now, driving the cost of arts degrees above fifty thousand dollars and fuelling inequality. The JRG now belongs to Albanese.

The conclusions are bang on. Academic writing and reviewing seems to be getting worse, and AI is not really helping anyone get their work out. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

Labor good now

That's right

In 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates

When you think about it, really we ALL paid the ransom together ☺️ (with the data and IP Instructure scraped from our units and students) www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

In 5 years GenAI will either be dead or normal. Either way, every university that has invested extensively in rebranding around GenAI will have to invest even more extensively to unhitch itself from an idea that is going to stop being sexy very quickly.

University manager being paid over $1 million dollars a year: "In a constrained budgetary environment...."

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I get the 'discourse' complaints but it's actually really nice to see people actually blogging about a game and then politely discussing their disagreements about that game and those blogs on social media, just like the old days.

I am getting back in the swing after a very busy year (so far) that has stolen a lot of my writing time, and for some reason I played all of MIXTAPE today and then wrote 2500 words about in a flurry. I didn't care for the game, but it's beyond the music to me. ckunzelman.com/2026/05/10/o...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: It turns out the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus was in the database of books we illegally used to train our AI model.

(havent played the game, can tell at a glance I would hate it but that wont stop me from doing discourse) generally yes but imo undermined by the character stating explicitly that she tapes mtv when she's not home so she can see what they play