this is your "I should post about this more often" reminder that I made a freakin' short doc this year and I would love for more people to SEE IT youtu.be/nLsQjV35y_U
Kids are fixing NYC in Minecraft: Battle of the Boroughs | Full Documentary
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this is what we're restructuring the economy around btw
Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 6d agoThank you Mr. Orangutan
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Every day a new reminder that the most amoral grifters and scammiest companies lap this slop up
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.lol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:
Oh man, there are so many cool looking games I hadn't seen in here that I'm now morally obligated to buy. We need this list for tech, too.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
I’ve been Poinpy’ing all week and aside from being super fun, it has one of the most beautiful endings I can remember. So good.
Ojiro Fumoto@moppin.bsky.social · 2w agoPOINPY IS BACK! 🎉 And now it's FREE! No ads, no paid unlocks, just the full game. There's a tip option if you feel like it 😉 Available NOW on iOS and Android!
Going to graphic design school so I could screen print band posters didn't prepare me to become a Labor Warrior in the Automation Wars
Blood dripping from my ears as I calculate how many thousands of dollars goes to an anonymous landlord and C*n Ed*son in order to stay in New York for another year
Here's me, the genius clinging to my job for the health insurance while the stress shaves years off my life
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
The local YMCA has a wall of beautiful children’s art dedicated to remembering the 2010s, a tactical weapon deployed against me personally
This article has made “leaving my apartment” and “walking around in public” impossible to do without going insane
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3w agoThank you everyone who sent me horrible AI generated flyers from around the world at my request. I was fully overwhelmed with hundreds and hundreds of these. These are the worst I saw. The hall of shame. Please enjoy and/or numb your brain: www.404media.co/these-are-th...
James Dolan doing lawfare against reporting he didn’t like. Jalen Brunson making an appearance on the Saudi-backed, Trump-aligned wrestling show. Knicks are going 0-82 next season.
Has OpenAI, the company that only exists because they've gotten away with stealing all intellectual property in human history, stolen Apple's intellectual property? Strap in, because this complicated question could take years to litigate.
Going to France once and becoming annoyingly, culturally French isn't limited to kids studying abroad. Like me, you too can do it at 40. I'll be blockading a highway with a mountain of burning farm equipment if anyone asks me to travailler aujourd'hui. It's a holiday, boss.
I will never forget the day Soulframe became the first video game to introduce fishing. I was there.
A year ago I turned to @doomquasar.bsky.social and said “I kind of want to try @warframe.com…?” and now we’re somehow in CANADA (!) at TENNOCON (!!) creating CONTENT (!!!)
I promise your friends will still call you if you delete Instagram. You’ll stop keeping up though stories and have more meaningful conversations. You don’t need to be there.
WIRED@wired.com · 4w agoAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...
Two years of Duolingo means I’m basically French, so. I think it’s our year. Our boys look great.
Can we finally acknowledge that we're in an honest-to-god class war and start treating our politicians, bosses, companies, and celebrities accordingly? Endless waves of layoffs and ballooning prices justified by AI spend that nobody wants can't possibly be sustainable. Everything is dogshit now, man
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.Xbox will lay off 3200 workers and cut four studios loose aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-j...
I learned a ton about an industry I thought I already understood with Paris’s last book and I can’t wait to do the same here.
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last mo.HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com
