👇 In reference to that SDCC Avatar Aang slide everyone is talking about. It was a page from an artbook, and the reference to Chat GPT was likely injected by the person who put the book together. Actual artists like Kat who worked on the film have no idea why it says that.

Kat Tsai@chuwenjie.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have no clue why it was on that slide or who put it there, and every member of the crew I worked with is 100% against AI. Every aspect of the animation is handcrafted by real artists and I hope that people don’t use this slide as a reason to detract from how much love and labor went into the film.

I wanted to follow-up on this with several thoughtful articles and video essays I encountered in my search. These all felt encouraging to me in that they helped me feel *sane* in a landscape often dominated by hype marketing.

alexis@alexiskaegi.com · 3w ago

Doing a bit of research on what AI writing lacks (reasoning, meaning). I distinctly remember reading a great thread from an editor on this subject, and the impact it has on their work. Does anyone remember that or know where I could find it? My search is coming up empty.

Doing a bit of research on what AI writing lacks (reasoning, meaning). I distinctly remember reading a great thread from an editor on this subject, and the impact it has on their work. Does anyone remember that or know where I could find it? My search is coming up empty.

Doing a bit of research on what AI writing lacks (reasoning, meaning). I distinctly remember reading a great thread from an editor on this subject, and the impact it has on their work. Does anyone remember that or know where I could find it? My search is coming up empty.

microsoft's plan, Lay Off Everybody Who Makes Games & Then Find 1 Billion People Per Day To Play The Games They Aren't Making... it's bold. i will give them that

watching plot seeds I planted over a year ago come to fruition... 😏😏😏

Little Girl's Evil Grin

ALT: Little Girl's Evil Grin

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my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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I love only playing two video games and playing them a lot

Costco changed their chocolate covered almonds recipe, which is an unforced error of catastrophic proportions for this household…… I may be in the market for a new chocolate snack 😔

Okay, so this is massive and we're terrified. Partnering with @play.breakthrought1d.org in the fight against diabetes, the ENTIRE inkle catalogue is on Humble Bundle right now for $20 -- including TR-49, all four novels, both Overboard! games, 80 Days, all four parts of Sorcery! ... everything.

The Complete Inkle Library

Adventure awaits in these beloved classics and new favorite games from Inkle! Get them at the price of your choice and support Breakthrough T1D!

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If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

I am not exaggerating when I say that a quarter of the sources about how "AI" harms workers in our research come from Harvard Business Review. It's gotten very bad when the management professors flag it!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Kenichi Nakaya

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

Our team has been working hard on Red Rain, the story of a mother raising her daughter in a decimated yet beautiful post-apocalyptic landscape. To celebrate moms everywhere, we're excited to announce that our demo will be out Mother's Day weekend! ❤️

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

License 😭

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3mo ago

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

It's Friday night baby

It’s so important to engage with other art forms as a game dev. This is a medium heavily influenced by ones older than it, for better and for worse. A lot of your favorite horror games have roots in amazing movies. And read! Please read! There are folks who think that this isn’t relevant. It is!

Dosa Divas, our cooking themed turn-based RPG is out now on Steam, Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox S|X Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. outerloopgames.com/dosa

A Chicago coyote kicks back (while another one saunters past)

i don't believe in posting through it or centering my Diaspora Feelings over what my family and friends are living through in real time so i will refrain from expanding this into a whole thread of angst. please donate to mutual aid efforts in lebanon www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

Lebanon Emergency Relief

Arabic, Dutch, French, and Spanish below:

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🧵Congress 202-224-3121 Find your Senators www.senate.gov Find your Rep www.house.gov "I'm [NAME] from [PLACE, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge the Senator/Rep to contact Adm. Correll & remind him that he has the same legal obligation as any soldier to refuse an illegal order from this Commander in Chief."

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

I finished David Archuleta’s memoir, immediately listened to his latest album, and oh my GOD he is simply radiating pure queer joy!! I am so happy for him!!!

Afro Index has finally launched! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, good for artists, animators, writers, and anyone want to learn more about Black hair! Check it out at afroindex.org 💛✨ #digitalart

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

So grateful to have had Eka as our group mentor!! I had such an amazing time at ANV and felt like I grew a ton in that one day alone. I will definitely be submitting that talk for next year… so here’s hoping I can get even more people pumped to create middle aged heroines 😌

Eka | Dosa Divas@ekanaut.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Got to be a mentor at Amplyfying New Voices at GDC. They all had to do a 5 minute talk and @alexiskaegi.bsky.social was about the need for stories and adventure about older women. I’m still thinking about it. Her research, the slides, so much love put into it. I want it to be a talk at GDC.

who else on this standby list just trying to get back to Seattle from GDC 🥲