Bram Bos

@brambosofficial.bsky.social

Automotive UX designer by day, drumcomputer tinkerer by night. That Hammerhead guy. Designer with a compiler. Avoids AI when it can be helped. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦

As a lifelong gaming enthusiast, I simply can’t fathom what’s going on in the gaming world today. These destructive waves of layoffs are insane. I want a thriving industry. Can’t we just have that without the predatory late-stage capitalist shareholder nonsense?

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last mo.

“Most, if not all,” of Id Software’s coders, 60-70 Obsidian developers, and more veteran developers have reportedly been laid off from Microsoft as the scale of this week’s big Xbox cuts becomes clearer. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-la...

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

Americans still insisting to me that attack helicopters are a normal & fine way to mark the start of a football match. The fact that this has been so normalised that people cannot see how weird it is is part of the problem. Healthy democracies don‘t mark the start of a kickabout with gunships.

Using genAI really shows how little we appreciate OTHERs. It allows someone to be average in fields they know very little about. The mistake is thinking this is a good thing. Pure Dunning-Kruger. This is a critique of us, not genAI.

Pigeon meme with text "Am I an expert now?"

Flying back from Japan to Europe I had the pleasure of traveling the northern route, passing over the Arctic, the Bering Strait and Greenland. Which made for some breathtaking vistas.

Views of the arctic icefields in northern Greenland

Love the the Artemis crew. Four extraordinary humans: brilliant, disciplined, and deeply mission-driven. What stands out even more than their intelligence is their character. Kindness. Positivity. Humility. Empathy. The future of space exploration shouldn’t just be bold, it should be human. 🚀✨👇

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Dear “content creators”, stop making me sit through minutes of video rambling when a paragraph of concise text could have told me the same thing in 3 seconds. Today’s internet is not respectful of my time.