“There are a number of anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data poisoning projects that I’ve just kind of… hoarded links for. There’s so much! The importance is to highlight that there’s constructive work being done to push back against abuse of tech.”

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

Sharing to remind myself to read this later.

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

“There are a number of anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data poisoning projects that I’ve just kind of… hoarded links for. There’s so much! The importance is to highlight that there’s constructive work being done to push back against abuse of tech.”

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools)

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One of my favourite parts of this piece is getting to go through some of the real technical shit — and how much folks enjoyed how interested I was in the technical shit. There's some really cool technical shit in The Frighteners, guys.

NEW: For @indiewire.com, I spoke to Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Jamie Selkirk and *many* more for an oral history of The Frighteners as it turns 30. Specifically, how the commercial flop drove innovation at Wētā, paved the way for The Lord of the Rings, and was just a whole lot of fun to make.

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Peter Jackson and more reflect on 'The Frighteners,' their first Hollywood film, and the growth of Wētā for its 30th anniversary. Oral history.

Normalize post-capitalist futures! There are so many issues worth discussing - even after we overcome capitalism. So many unrelated but crucial ideologies we need to figure out to productively reclaim our future. Anyway, here's the full intro for "a permanent echo" #indiedev #indiegames #cyberpunk

volumetric fog makes everything better 🤓 #GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 2d ago

screenshots of the environment i've been building for one of the levels... did fog cards, local fog, lots of moss and grass... and trees :D it's supposed to look spooky. still lots to do on it tho. lol nature is so much harder than human made spaces (like rooms or cities) #GameDev

Very late to the party but "she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died" is great

Great post about opposing LLMs by wielding tech tools. Sabotage scrapers or contaminate data stolen for training. And keep creating things for the indie web!

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

volumetric fog makes everything better 🤓 #GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 2d ago

screenshots of the environment i've been building for one of the levels... did fog cards, local fog, lots of moss and grass... and trees :D it's supposed to look spooky. still lots to do on it tho. lol nature is so much harder than human made spaces (like rooms or cities) #GameDev

screenshots of the environment i've been building for one of the levels... did fog cards, local fog, lots of moss and grass... and trees :D it's supposed to look spooky. still lots to do on it tho. lol nature is so much harder than human made spaces (like rooms or cities) #GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 2w ago

the game i'm currently working on, with friend belamessex.com ,is called "Lutz Do It! Possessed Skates" and the tagline is "It's an ice day, and these skates will sleigh all day" An online multiplayer game where each player possesses a skate! some screenshots of what we have so far...

Classrooms didn't work. Distros did. Need to manage our own data again. Need to unashamedly steal. Not even to rip or remix. They are burning libraries. We need to lock it down, back it up, send it over the wire. Steal it before they raze it. You're right, THIS is OUR world. Hack the planet.

“It’s worth understanding that our digital world is fundamentally democratic by design. Anyone has the power to learn, break, hack, and create tools that break predatory technology or tech trends. The only thing stopping anyone is knowledge that it’s possible.”

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

I think we need embrace hacking culture and the joy of writing hand-crafted code as a fight against capitalism it’s time to kill those corpo-creeps dreams and poison the ghost in their machines

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

Yea it's super frustrating all over. Our game sometimes gets downvoted for "AI" even though it was released years ago before we could have possibly made anything with what was out at the time.

A lot of this post mirrors my observations about how the justified danger of hyperscale LLMs can very easily turn into a knee-jerk witch hunt against things that never had anything to do with AI, but are now having to defend themselves. If my work was accused of it, how could I prove the contrary?

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

“It’s worth understanding that our digital world is fundamentally democratic by design. Anyone has the power to learn, break, hack, and create tools that break predatory technology or tech trends. The only thing stopping anyone is knowledge that it’s possible.”

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools)

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i learned the hard way that you have to screenshot as much as possible because people will change the narrative later to, once again, call you crazy. if you constantly create proof of what’s going on then it’s harder to do that to you.

i told the truth. www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu... if there was an investigation i would have cooperated, i was under contract, … the constant random lies these people make up while calling me a liar. it’s video game music. nostalgia doesn’t justify sexual assault.

GuildWars fans seem pretty stupid if they forget they got ripped off by Jeremy Soule and Direct Song and the class action lawsuit THEY pushed for. Now they're making stuff up to attack and harass survivors when those who spoke out had nothing to do with his departure from GuildWars.

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i told the truth. www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu... if there was an investigation i would have cooperated, i was under contract, … the constant random lies these people make up while calling me a liar. it’s video game music. nostalgia doesn’t justify sexual assault.

“i know he’s a rapist but i like his music anyway. sexual assault allegations are complicated. i wasn’t there so…” 🙃 ok you’re still an apologist. (i’m putting screenshots here because it makes context more real)

i told the truth www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu...

“Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place)

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late to the party, but i learned that you can bake heightmap data in blender and use that for your landscape heightmap so you actually... don't need complicated terrain heightmap tools to make something cool... 😮

looks like i’m in my “make indie games, travel the world, give talks” stage of gamedev 😌 feeling very dream come true 💝💃

I've been thinking on this topic for a while now. (RIP @pastegames.bsky.social)

What Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Says about the Current State of Game Preservation

What Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Says about the Current State of Game Preservation

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"this gate is locked from the other side..." The Hacking skill can fix that. Hack computers to extract Data, then spend it at a keypad to perform insane skips and sequence breaks.

every time you post to social media you must defeat the two voices that live inside your head: 👿 the social justice warrior hell bent on misunderstanding you. 👹 the annoying harasser altright guy. if you manage to mentally damage control every conversational angle based on the two, then you’re safe.